Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-11
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FLETCHER doant seem to think So" said the
man. "le holds Duet thet Dellas Is a liar"
:.Au to further. his own ends" laughed
Buckthorn. 'You mon are surely too intelii-
CONT to be fooled by these manufacturers, who
hope. by keeping your wages at this ridicu-
lously low figure. TO become millionaires.
Fletcher's object is to get all he can out OF you
for besgarly pittancs. He spends more on a
horse every year than he does on one OF his
Workmen."
colonel Ogilvie." said Jenkins, "you are
an Englishman and scholar. an can tell mo
Englishmen hold that it is . tax on US poor
men, don't your
Certainly It Is q tax" responded Ogllvie,
promptly. "Everything you men wear and
use Is taxed, for you really pay the duty at the
Custom House. You do not suppose we
|anough to do 1t? We intend to get 1t out OF
sou consumers every time. Your trifin.
protective tariff affects US very little, but it
lays heavy burden on every American eth
ion"
..We're derned fools, then, not to keep to
Jour own market, manufacture it all here, and
leave your tarnal foreign trash alone" said
the far ner, squirting tobacco Juice 50 near
Colons! Oailvie's polished boot TINT that gen-
Itleman involuntartly drew back step.
suppostn'. " said jenkins. I've do not get
enough factories agoin in this country 10
lclothe all our own people, run our own rail-
roads an make everything We want for our
lselves, an don't want your foreign goods
hen say We put en- good still tariff to keep
am out, an only let them things in free as we
can't raise or make ourselves, would you call
that tariff a tax7'
"Why, can't you SEQ. my good man." an
|swered O:ilyie, 'that you poor workmen would
have to pay just the same. Mr. Fletcher, for
instance, cannot make anything in his factory
las che .p az it can be nude abroad, and II. you
hS1vy MI n ,ot1 hat Ma uyo |rn
other words, you are taxed to the amount OF
the difference between his price and the for
|eign price. and II is SO on all manufactured
articles. You pay more for yoEr coat, hat and
shoes here than you would in any other coun.
try In the worlds
.'Is materials, like coal, iro: an other
things, much harder to git at here than in En-.
gland?" asked Jenkins.
mo. think not, replied Osilvie.
Then why is the manufactured article SO
much dearer here2"
why, men like Fletcher pay more for labor
and ask outrageous prices for things" said
A light came into Jenkins's eyes.
"Oh, that's 1t, is 1t, It Is the price he pays7
Then TO have things cheap here. labor must
to the price Of them foreign laborers. i
guess I'll VOC for high wages, Sir, an let
the cheap English clothes 20 r.
The farmer laughed uproariously.
''Thet's it. Jenk, an If ye git good wages,
IT will all come around 10 timei Them big
men at Washington amt so fer wrong, arter
all. They go: to hev revynue to run thet
ere col darn d Government of thelrn, an ii
they do mt take It ouet of them foreigners
DE- dowtiss. why the farmers an factory men
an help along We'd think We Was taxed
then. guess. By 60 b but / believe Fiet-
cher's right. an. a tarlf chat gives you big
wages TO- buy with, an, me market here at
home aims a taxi How can It be- Yhsn
things is cheaper than they was ten years
ago whoa they come in mos free7 Tell en-
10 explain thet.s
As nobody explained, and Col Ogilvis and
Lemuel Bucktkorn left, the meeting at the
corner store b-oke up without further con-
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