The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01

but now it is s'Bunco." From the above
startling statement it would appear that
the earth had wabbled slightly in wan
dering around in the universe and had
located US so that we will produce all
the tropical fruits, sugar, coffee, rubber
and spices while Spanish-America will
raise wheat, corn, oats, rye, pork and a
little HI occasionally. And this has all
been done solely in the interest of the
mill owners of America in. order that
they may get their agricultural products
cheap. What a great pity that the
American farmer finds himself burdened
with large surplus Of bananas instead
of wheat. and like surplus of sugar in
stead of corn, and coffee instead of oats,
how easy it would be for HIM to supply
the mill owner instead of allowing his
South American competitor to do it.
But if the Kansas farmer don't know any
better than to raise bananas and coffee
he will simply have to suffer the conse-
quences. Mr.. Editor, the above quota
tions are fair sample of the rot with
which the Intelligence of the
| farmers in the country is insulted.
But they are tame compared with lot
| of stuff that follows these headlines in
| lengthy discussions on the tariff-com-
pairing the tariff of 1888 to a chilling
frost it says: 1.-THE tariff of 1890 was
not intended to furnish an additional
market for another barrel of flour or
another pound of pork. Itwas intended
to cut off those they already had. 1t
was simply the one or two additional de-
grees of frost necessary to drive 2, 600, 900
American farmers from their land into
the poor house." Horrible! Some of our
Kansas farmers will have to sell their
wheat, corn, oats and stock at a sacrifice
in order to be ready for the grand rush
TO the poor houses at the appointed
time. Again, we are told: ''The pro-
tected manufacturer is earring the war
into your corn fields. Manufacturing as
cheaply as the foreigner, having no duty
to pay on foreign farm products-for you
are not protected on anything except,
perhaps, wool, although you think you
are-he is selling his mill products
abroad for foreign farm products and
underselling you in your own markets.
In the east the manufacturing people
are told thpt they can't manufacture as
cheaply as the foreigner unless he has
free raw material, but in the west for
the purpose of helping to construct a
obd pCHuOuo IACy Lllc pCOpAO dI0 IO1O bLldI
manufacturing is done as cheaply here
as the foreigners can manufacture. But
what the fellow means by giving cur
rency to such palpable falsehood as the
statement that the farmer is not protect
ed at all is beyord the comprehension of
anyone.
Under Schedule G" in the Mckinley
bill, will be found the list of the agricul-
tural products on which duty must be
paid when imported, and 1t is SO high now
that importation of agricultural products
will be almost wholly stopped.
But this anaTchistic sheet caps the eli
max when its suggests the remedy for
the farmers ills. it says: "There is only
one way of salvation for the farmers "a
short, sharp and bloody one, beside which
the French revolution was child's play"
ESThis stuff is being industriously circu-
lated all over the country by men who
claim to be intelligent. Every intelligent
voter should compare this thing with (
common sense facts as they see them !
every day, and by the contrast see Just |
to what depths of contemplate infamy
some men will go in their attempts to |
destroy everything that is American and |
put in its stead everything that is foreign. |
If the American mill-owner is robbing |
us now, in the name Of God and common |
sense what was the foreign manufac- |
turer doing only a few yeare ago when we |
were paying him two, three and in many
four times what we now pay |
for our manufactures. Was that |
robbery, or was it kleptomania and |
was it eXcusable because it was English, |
YOU know" The American citizen who
IAN read this rank free-trade rot in this
sheet that we have quoted from, and has
little enough sense to believe it, is unfit
TO exercise the right of suffrage.
1t bears all the earmarks Of the New
7 ork importers, and it would not be
if they inspired the whole
hing. There would be some excuse for
his diabolical diatribe and some excuse
'or insulting the intelligence of the
American people by asking them to read
t, If these horrible pictures of misery
md distress had any foundation in fact
But to stand up before farmer who has
'aised enough wheat alone, this year of
grace 1891, to pay for his farm at good
'ound price per acre, and tell him that
,wing to the 'robber tariff" his domicile
or the future would be the county poor
house, is a feat that will make PETERS
vhiskers and Jerry Simpson turn green
With envy. They will denounce it as an
.ttempt to usurp their prerogatives as
he champion brace of blowhard5 of the
nineteenth century. IS"
August 90, 1891