The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-08
HIS EYES OPENED.

An Honest Farmers con-
versation with His
| Wife.
In which 1t is Mutually Under
stood
THAT THEY HAVE BEEN WRONG.
And They Agree to Turn ever A New
Leaf in the Future.
"Taint no use" says Raymond
Griggs, and we say saint no use
for the pubs Of this county to under
take to thuse life into corpse 1t
wont, it cant thuse
Three grand efforts have been
made 10 this county in the very cita-
del OF the deluded to stir the dry
bones, of the sleepers, but no re-
Spouse. They didn't come couldn't
come. Brother Bart was sent out to
,rhisper to all the nations TO come to
the greatest republican rally and love
feast ever witnessed in old Monon-
gala, followed by Improvement Com
pany Grant declaring he be Odd
if it wasn't going to be daisy.
But the honest pub said he had
been fooled in that way too often be-
fore, and if he esssyed to go his wife
would say:
Don't John. Don't you see we
are being ruined, that our farm is
being mortgaged all over because it
costs us too much to live. That pro-
tective tariff of our party is a hmm
bug and delusion, John, as sure as
you live. 1t protects the rich man
ufacturers but it impoverishes us
consumers.
"Why look here at my new calico
dress paid s cents yard for in
wheat; and that General Sheridan
who spoke the other day at Morgan
town told US republicans that such
calico could be manufactured here
in America at four cents yard with
profit, and in England for even less,
and that our congress, to prevent the
foreigners from bringing in their
calico and such like here and com
peting with our manufacturers and
selling this calico at four cents a
yard to our people; passed that in
famors Mckinley tariff bill, putting
tariff duty of four cents a yard on
calico, so that foreigners could not
sell their calico here under 8 cents a
yard This enabled our American
manufacturers to put up their own
calico to s cents yard also. That
they could sell at 4 cents yard and
make profit, is, am told true.
Now John that Irishman opened
my eyes and / see it all plain and as
clear as daylight, and the democrats
are right as sure as we live.
"And there is that suit of clothes
you wear 1t cost you twenty dollars
and you paid for it too in wheat, at
70 cents a bushel-nearly thirty
bushels of wheat John-and that
suit is shoddy and could have been
sold, John, at half that twenty dol
lars, and dear at that. But that suit
is less than half suit and the rest
tariff, John, that it is. And that
isn't all. The rich manufacturer
takes that $40 out of our pocket and
puts it into his own. We have been
fooled long enough John, and it
must be stopped.
"Why John / wonder we have not
seen this long ago. Surely nothing
but our prejudice against the demo-
cratic party could have so blinded
our judgment against our own best
interests. But you say we are not
alone fooled in this way, but SO many
of our neighbors are alike blinded.
John. did it ever occur to you
that your father and mine were dem
ocrats, and lived and died democrats.
They were honest and good men.
can remember when our neighbors
were nearly all democrats. And
they say that Thomas Jefferson.
James Madison, James Monroe, An
drew jackson and James X. Polk
were each and all democrats and be-
loved Presidents of these United
States, and we read about the rapid
growth and prosperity of this coun.
try during their administrations
and then John, honestly, what was
wrong with Grover Clevelands AID.
ministration?
didn't he leave surplus of one
hundred millions of dollars in the
treasury and hasn't Ben. Harrison s
administration in less than four
years spent all that surplus and are
now badly in debtp Look at it as
an honest unbiased man.
"Why, John, did it never occur to
you to ask yourself why Mckinley
did not give you and every farmer a
tariff of fifty or one hundred her cent
on what we raise and sell as well
as on all we buy and consume. We
are Americans too.
"Why is it that we shall be COM
PEELED to pay almost double prices
for all we buy and consume and get
but half price for what we raise and
sell?
'sIs it any wonder then that the
rich manufacturer is getting richer
rapidly and the poor laborer poorer
as rapidly?
"But John, our republican speak
ers and papers try to delude us by
telling us that this high Mckinley
tariff is intended to increase the
price of labor and reduce the price
of goods. This l have studied out
and find that it is not true, nor can
it be true. Wages have not been in
creased, but reduced; nor have the
prices of manufactured goods been
reduced, but on the contrary they
have been increased.
"If wages entering into the make
up Of these goods were increased,
John, every unbiased mind must see
that the making of the goods must
cost more and the seller must sell
them to the consumer for more than
if it cost less to make them. So we
must see that if the manufacturer is
by this Mckinley bill enabled to
realize twice as much as his goods
cost him, and the price of labor is
not correspondingly increased, the
poor laborer is hugely cheated and
wronged by having to pay out twice
as much in the support of his family
as he ought to do.
"And that is just the way of it
and we shOuld min with tho demo