Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1891-03-27

70 boil her cloth in, and coffee mill in>
stead of crushing it with a bottle. etc.
All through the house, among good
many thousands Of families; it would
enable working man to live in de-
cent location of the city, and maintain
and thus save doctor
bills, etc. Some of our great agitators
on high tariff, is among the greatly
class who will grind the working man
down to 81 a day, while they, theme
selves would never keep up an exist
ance with less than $40 to $50 per day,
and consequently am free to say that
if our statesmen would put one eye on
the abused working men, and the other
eye. on the trusts the greedy monopolist,
the blood sucking money lender. our
outrageous railroad companies and cons
trive some means by which the profits
would little more evenly be DIVIDED,
the whole country would be better off.
and just leave the tariff alone, but this
will not be remedicd until the farmers
aud knights of labor unite and turn
things upside down, and not until then
will there be any change in the condi-
ton of affairs.
1t may seem rather radical on the
part of the farmer to want free trade,
but he is driven to this by the so called
protection, because it is not protecting
the farmer, and rs far as the wage
worker Is concerned, on the other
hand, the wages could not be much
lower than it is under the present sys-
tenn. The farmer don't get paid enough
for their product, to be satisfied with
the prices of goods they have to buy, it
seems to the farmer that there is some-
thing wrodg somewhere. when tho
American manufacturer can sell his
manufactured goods in England or
Canada cheaper than we can buy it for
right to home. All these mixed views
of the tariff question is evidence enough
that the present tariff system would be
Il protection to American industry. but
SO long us our statesmen cannot con.
trive some way to protect the Iaborer,
machanic and farmer from being VIC
timizcd by these trusts and monopoly
in our own homes, but constantly keep
grinding the poor, and forever crowd.
ing the laborcr and farmer in to the
corner, there will be no other way than
to strike for free trade and break loose,
and us we have but
very little prospects of ever being re-
lieved of our bondage from eur foe, by
the aid of our statesmen, or any other
men, say let us ail pull down the
present protection and have free trade,
II will perhaps wipe out of existence
these defying powers of monopoly, and
gives us a chance to see Lhow it will
benefit us. If wages in our country
drops very low. the laborer from
foreign countries will then stay home
and IL will give us farmers some satis-
faction. A trial of free trade would
convince us all, and as for the poor, we
will have them with us always-high
or low tariff. Again we will look at
another point, nothing like having q
fair view at all sides. The most Of our
strikes in this country is caused by ro-
duction of wages, the high tariffs get-
ting partly blamed for that too, be-
cause the manufacturer feels safe be-
hind the "bulwarks" thc high tariff to
cut wages, but how is it across the big
waters? We hear of strikes there too.
caused by reduction of wages, and we
hear of failure over there also. there is
no tariff to blame there, so there is
something wrong somewhere. The
laboring class is not so selfish as to
make their employer pay more wages
than their Just due. but the cause is
greediness of the rich employer, who
is getting SO powerful in our land that
they cannot only cut wages, but put
q corner on their goods they manufac-
ture, SO is way beyond the reach OF
the poor, ITO illustrate" let me repeat
Rev. Dewitt Talmage's words IN his
'SAAuOh i W. ~. ANOW pIitCLlCdl TcllX.
ion will yet rectify all this. 1t will %
to those hypocritical professors of re-
ligion who gotta corner on corn and
and wheat in Chicago and New York
sending prices up and up until they are
beyond the reach of the poor, keeping
their breadstuff in their own hands, or
controlling them until the prices 90
up and up. they were after a while
ready to sell and they sold out, making
themselves millionaires in one or two
years, trying to fix the matter up with
the Lord by building a church or uni-
versity OF a hospital, deluding them-
selves with the idea that the Lord would
be SO pleased with the gift he would for
get the swinCle. Now as such man
may not have any liturgy in which to
say his prayers, 1 will compose for him
one which he practically is making:
.'Oh Lord, we, by getting corner in
breadstuff, swindled the people of the
United States out of S1O,OOO,OOO and
made suffering all up and down tho
land, and would like to compromise
this matter with thee. Thou knowest
it was scaly job, but then it was
smart. Now here we compromise it.
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