Morning journal and courier., 1892-09-13
COMMUNICATIONS.

Another Word for Expert Sanderson.
To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER.
The sugar coated land sugar all the way
througb) pill with which the Sunday Reg
lister tries to counteract the effect of the
Mckinley tonic is like the usual democrat
ic bombast. Nearly if not quite all of
their arguments! consist of contradictions,
leaving the effective and successful meas
ures and administration to their more able
and experienced opponents. To have
opened the battery of our good-natured
contemporary, the Register, by the asser-
ton that the growers of tobacco in Connec-
ticut were getting higher prices for the
leaf in its cured state, owing to the McKin-
ley bill. shows how sensitive is the spot
touched, and still no contradiction ap-
pears.
An attempt is made to inveigh the whole
question of protection and free trade by
this one assertion. If 30 it can readily
the poor mans chew, which question ap-
parently troubled the Register.
1t is we'll for the success of this usually
good paper that it does not have to COM
pete with coolie labor and Hades climate
in order to sell its paper. Otherwise it
might desire some of the same beverage
that Lincoln concluded WAS no detriment
to Grants success in winning battles.
Few if any claim that whatever revenue
the government needs should not be OBJ
tanned from tariff upon 1uxuries, and
cigars are classed as such. No one should
claim that the fact of higher price for
one of the articles entering into the manu-
facture of finished cigars necessarily in
creased the price of it to the consumer.
On that it proved the assertion that the
Mckinley bill had raised the price of
necessities. Either conclusion would be
equally absurd.
The effectiveness of the present tariff in
stimulating the New England tobacco
growers to increase their acreage is appar-
emit to all who are posted in regard to past
and present conditions. AS to "raising
prices,' which seems to be the special
point of attack upon my statement,
would say it has in this case proved a
blessing that even the Weekly Register
| cannot DuC receive Some D6neuG IrOm II
the circulation Is wide enough. Tobacco
raisers have been enabled to pay their bills
more promptly since the law has had its
effect. In one township over sixty thous
and dollars in mortgages have been liqui
dated during the past year.
1t has raised the price and demand fol
labor in the towns growing tobacco the
most extensively, and the more that is
grown the better will be the demand fol
labor in various forms, thereby trans
ferring to our own countrymen what be
longs to them, instead of making few i'm
porting houses establishing transient agent.
in this country the more wealthy. The
reaction upon this industry would be dis
astrous should these wiseheads get into
power and tinker this portion of the tariff
land tits whispered they would not disturb
iD.
Farmers as a class are the most law
abiding and patient citizens we have
Theoretical ideas based upon "has beens'
and "to bes" find no lodgment in the
mind of prosperous man possessing keer
natural sagacity; they are as immovabl'
as Gibraltar when they have what prove
| benefit to themselves and those the,
care for. The farmers are gradually get
ting organized into social and literary or
ders that are of immense benefit to them
selves and the community in general. I
behooves any political party that desire
their support to listen to their demand