The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-10-02


pound. the increased cost per can il
only small fraction o. cent
Now. when the farmers Of DutcheS>.
Orange and Putnam counties. N. y.
(wherc ere located tho factories Of the
New York Condensed Milk Coz. heard
that this tariff bill had been passed
they took an all-ronnd hand shake.
After congrntulating themselves and
Mckinley they hurried home. looking
twenty years younger. 70 tell their
wives that better days were coming;
they would soon be able 90 stop the
accumulation Of interest II not TO pay
on part Of their heavy mortgages
They had no doubts on this point. for
they had been taught n have implicit
confidence in protective tariff; and
besides they had heard the condensed
milk manufacturers say that II thsy
had cheap sugar and Tin they could not
only pay the farmer more for milk. but
could sell their products In all the mar
kets Of the world With cheap sugar
and greatly increased protection on
condensed milk (which tSe manufact
urcrs helped 20 secure for the benefit
Of their employees and the farmers).
what might not the farmers now ex.
pect?
For several months the farmer
worked hard and whistled boistcrously.
Then one day. Of sudden. a change
came over his countenance. He had
received the schedule OF prices to be
paid for milk at the factories for the
next year, and instead Of being higher
than old prices they were lower than
any he could remember. averaging
only three cents per quart for the
winter and two and a-half cents for the
summer months Just what caused
the hitch in the tariff he has not as
yet fully understood. but from that
day 10 this life has been a burden to
him. His walk has lost its broyacy
and his whistle its tune; and. worst Of
all, his confidence in al things human
has been greatly shaken. lie sits dis
couraged on the wood pile. between
milking times pining for the Farmers'
Alliance, or some other organization.
that will make laws for somebody else
besides the capitalist
You tell him that perhaps this par
ticu.ar feature OF the Mckinley tariff
was not intended for him. but for the
benefit Of the employees in the factory
or to cheaper the cost Of condensed
milk 70 the wagc-earners, the children
rnd the sick. NO." he saws '-the
blamed thing does not even do that.
Wages are the same in the factory Us
they have been. and instead OF con-
densed milk being cheaper il has gone
up. ifanything- Then you try to con-
sole him by saying that perhaps the
manufacturers were losing money be-
fore and that they would soon have
gone out Of business II the tariff had
not been shaped just so This does not
touch sympathetic chord. but only
stirs up the farmers spleen. III Won
were not stranger in these parts. : he
says Il would call yon . fool when
you talk like that ANY body here
aoouts. with eyes and ears. knows them
borden fellows have made money like
dirt. DO ron think they would have
enlarged their old factories and put up
new ones in Illinois II they had been
losing money? No. stranger. you must
guess again Bu'. maybe. / can give
you tip on the subject itlooks to ma
nightly like them fellows are just as
willing 10 bleed Us farmers as any body
else is ! begin 70 suspect that The
interest they pretended 10 take in pay
ing Us more for our milk was all bun
combe. Anyhow. now that they save
enough on sugar and milk TO make two
c-nts more profit on each pound can.
they hare concluded to leave the extra
profit in their own pockets; IL feels com.
Portable there ! suppose. Bnt gee
,shililse rs. how they must make money
Why that one factory over there uses
80. 900 quarts Of milk : day and makes
1000 one-pound cans Of milk: a. two
cents q pound they make SAD day
more profit than they use 70 make
Why that's more than I can clear in
whole year with good crops and no bad
luck Ard shouldn't wonder bit II.
since the new duty will prevent tho
people from getting milk in other coun.
tries, the two big companies in this
country have talked matters over and
sort o concluded 70 get all they can for
their canned milk and pay us as little
- they please for new milk hut that
wssa slick scheme Of theirs 20 get more
duty 20 that they can buy and sell q
their own prices Everybody Is after
money. and ! wouldn't trust nobody.
II knew what 70 do with my family
would let this old farm slide. and never
think Of paying interest on more mort
gage than the whole business land
barns, cows. doxs and ALL Il WORTH