The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-08-11
Tariff. Our party supports that, you under

and"
FLETCHER doaut seem to think So" said the
man. "Re holds Duet tibet Dellas is liar"
"All to further his own ends" laughed
Buckthorn. 'You men are surely too intel!i-
gent to be fooled by these manufacturers, who
nope. by Keeping your wages at this ridicu-
lously low figure, 10 become millionaires.
Fletcher's object is to get all he can out OF you
work men,"
."Colonel Ogilvie." said Jenkins. you are
an Englishman and scholar an can tell mo
just what is meant by this tariff talk. You
Engllshmen hold that it is tax on US poor
men, don't your"
Certainly it is a tax" responded Ogilvie,
promptly "Everything you men wear and
use is taxed, for you really pay the duty at tn"
Custom House. You do not suppose we
81 ough to do it? We intend to get it out of
lou consumers every time. Your trifiins
protective tariff affects US very little, but it
lays heavy burden on every American citi-
zen."
"Were derned fools, then, not to keep 10
our own market manufacture it all here, and
leave your tarnal foreign trash alone" said
the farmer, squirting tobacco Juice so near
Colonel Ogilvie's polished boot that that gen.
ileman Involuntary drew back step.
'Supposin'," said Jenkins, Eve do not get
enough factories agoin in this country to
roads an make everything We want for our
selves, an don't want your foreign goods !;
hen say We put en- a good stiff tariff to kee
am out, an only let them things In free as we
can't raise or make ourselves, would you call
that tariff u tax?'
"Why. can't you see. my good man." an
swered OSilvie, "that you poor workmen wouli
have to pay just the same. Mr.. Fletcher, for
Instance, cannot make anything in his factory
Is che as it can be made abroad, and If you
buy OF him you must pay what he asks. or, in
other words, you are taxed 10 the aE.ount of
the difference between his price and the for
eiyn price, and it is so on all manufactured
articles. You pay more for your coat, hat and
shoes here than you would i'll any other coun.
try in the world.''
ais materials, like coal, iron an other
things, much harder to git at hero than in En-
gland" asked Jenkins.
NO, 1 think not" replied Oeilvie.
"Then why is the manufac ured article so
CHI dearer here?'
"Why, men like Fletcher pay more for lab r
and ask outrageous prices for things" said
Ogilvie.
A light came into Jenkinss eyes.
son, that's It, is 1t, it is the price he pays?
Then to have things cheap here, labor must
be cheap, an' US mon would be ground down
to the price of them foreign laborers. Il
guess I'll VOC for high wages, sir, an lot
the cheap English clothes gop'
the farmer laughed uproariously.
"rh"t's if. Jenk, an il ye git good wages.
ye'll buy OF us, an we'll buy of Fletcher an
it will all come around in timel Them big
men at Washington an't so fer wrong, arter
all They got to h-v revynue to run thet
ere gol darn~d Government OF the1rn, an ii
they do MT take it out of them Foreigners
in dewties, why the farmers an factory men
ill hev to put their hands in their pockets
an help along. We'd think We was taxed
then, l guess. By gosh ! but l believe Flet-
cher's right, an, a tariff that gives you big
wages to buy with. an me market here al
home, amt a taxi How can 1t be when
things, is cheaper than they was ten years
ago when they come in mos f,ee7 Toll EN-
10 explain thet."
AS nobody explained and Col. Oeilvie and
Lemuel Buckthorn lett the meeting at the
corner store broke up without further con-
troversy.