The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-12-05
TIE FREE LIST.

Our republican contemporaries boast
that the Mckinley tariff places more
articles on the free list than did the
Mills bill which they opposed with so
much fervor and go little knowledge of
its merits. This list, which they con
tend is such a blessed boon to the poor
man, but which they never publish, is q
thing of beauty if not a JOY forever. 1t
is arranged in alphabetical order and the
very first article named is acorns. As all
know the poor man cant get along very
well without his acorns they are un-
hcsitatingly classed among the boons.
Ground acorns. howcvery, are fairfield,
but it is supposed the poor man denies
himself the luxury OF ground ones and
takes his whole. Then comes blue clay.
What would The wOrkingman with Il
large family do without blue clay: His
children must have it to mako mud pies
on street corners. Thanks to Mckinley
it is on the free list. Human hair the
raw material is also untaXcd. Here is
another boon to the hard listed son OF
toll Tor which he is ever grcatful to Mr..
Mckinley. Human hair enters largely
boarding houses and as the poor day
laborcr, who often ]patroniZcs them. can
tell when u change of cooks has been
made by the color Of the hair in his bis
cults and butter and thus saved time
and breath In making inquiries, he rises
up from the table and calls Mckinley
blessed.
Siaa} Grass is on tn free list. What a
boom 10 the observation-disclosures of this
day and generation. When they turn
Themselves out 70 grass they may rejoice
that sieal is not fairfield, And so docs
lie corjagc and binder twinc trust 70.
juicc that it is not taxed, for il gets the
grass free and is protected on the manu-
featured article. Horse hair is On the
free list. That is a boon which all ap-
prcciatr in the spring time when ore
takes his gentle Annie out for a drive
behind an %uncurricd animal. Then the
air is full Of free hair. No thanks to Mr..
Mckinley. .AnG then there is sand.
DO not start. dear reader. for sand IS
truly on the free list. sand is wanted
every day in the year aud every hour IN
the day. II takes a heap Of ''sand' in Il
man to support the Mckinley tariff.
That gentleman knew it and 50 he put it
the free list. And free sand is
wanted by the sugar trust to put in free
Alb, what a boon is free sand.
Mr.. Mckinley, in the bigncss Of his
heart, didn't stop at free sand. His
bowels Of compassion y%carncd for the
poor and 50 he put CUTS on the free list.
There is Il boon for the cayilling TO chew
Enough they gam the whole worlG
what protitcth it them if they lose that
article in the free list. Considerable Nc
Unreasonable cavaliers! These
are by no means all the necessarics Mr..
Mckinley transferred to the free list.
Among them are found hcesway, pumice
'ipllt. tdllltt.lpll loOlSs tbbutNp Et'lllS.
chickory root, tar and turpcntine, un-
medicated waters. potash. caustic. ali
y%arine. divi divi, cobalt. human teeth.
shotgun barrels and crude opium. The
is worked up into the saiable ar
tic!e by our northern neighbors and
struggled into this country. Everyone
can see what a blessing is the free list to
the laboring men of the country. With
ibis free list in sight they should not
yrumble when they are merely taxed on
their hats and caps, and coats and pants
and boots and shoes and underwear. and
On their knives and forks and plates and
and saucers and tin pans
and tin vessels of all kinds. and on their
and Coal and salt, and blankets.
window glass. glassware, iron. steel and
al kinds of farming implements. For
ion't they get common blue clay, and
lorsc hair. and sisal grass. and CUTS, and
human hair and teeth, and sand and
many other like necessities of life FREQ Of
luty: Certainly. and the poor man is
made to cXclaim: God bless Mckinley
for his wonderfully and ~fearfully con
free list.
TANED 70 DEATH.