The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-11-02
FOURTH FOURTH EDITION
"Wby Farming Does Not Pay Under
TariT Robbery, ETC." ....

"why Farming Does Not Pay Under
Tarir Robbery. Etc"
A farmer writes: On this 12O-acre
farm, In theyear 1891 ,deplorable crops,
only $3.50 bushels OF wheat. market val
Tie 30 cents per bushel, s'332.l0; only
1900 bushels of corn. IS cents per bush
el, 41l5; sold 3 tons surplus hay. SIS
per ton, 4l20; dairy products from II
cows, Sl0a9; ID calves, $3.50 each.
SlO5 %; l6 pairs small pigs. $50 so: SO
bushels of apples, $50. 80; 9T5 bushels
potntoes, average price, 81 cents, S5.07,
No wonder hard times and NEW
election deal CUISINES, See, see. How We
Farmers Sigh and moan for the good
old golden period lamented for by
speaker and candidate AdlaI, OF from
1910 to 1860 to return again ! Hear.
hear he says: "Give us peace and
cheap l0bor again." even should IL
compel our cities and centres ofmanu-
featuring population to dispense
peaceably and 20 scattering over our
wide and vacant domain not already
given away to the foreign homestead
er, and scratch the soil for a living like
an average man.
Yes" shut up our useless and trust
capital mills, factories. shoDs and we
Americans will not needlstatlunary en-
glncs. There arc not many shoals
between our shores and father Eng
land, the brine Is healthy and the sail.
ing good. Cotton was king, corn is
now, provided the juice Is not extract
ed. Ii we Democrats welcome you
foreigners you do not offer us far
mers cheap labor TINT can he utilized
here; the cheapness Is given on the
other side and we Columbian Demo.
Gratis can only get 1t in the made fab
RIGS and commodities and wares itself,
as knives and forks, iron, tin. carpets,
cottons, wOolens, etc. Only ting bloat.
cd manufacturer aud trusts and Buch
lgnoble folks. try and fail to make
them in America. ...-..
Why, sir. even the colored people
want as big wages as us fellows. Now.
we Democrats nrB free traders In the
main, and now say we had better i'm
port them from our cousins and kin
as in anti-bellum times, and hard over
our gold coin in exchange;lt will make
New York city rich, you know. We
farmers agree to take state bank mon
ey for our corn and hogs. We can
pack the raw-cat shin.plaster money
away in our stockings to pay for our
mechanical repairs on our bursting
barns as OF old, at 871a cents per day
in summer from sun to sun, and no
work and no labor strikes liz the win.
ter; glorious Democracy. "Hurrah,
who can't see it,
Then the farmers will get rich and
nearly everybody will DO farmers.
Farm labolers will be got as OF olden
time from $500 to $500 per month,
and harvest wages extra, and de-
coctlon from the brown jug to
strengthen the Democratic bone for
the work Of the time temporarily, like
the slaveholders' lash, at that time
fitting equal With the wildcat indl.
vidual issue of money. so misnamed;
1t only Injuries the other fellow and
the poorer, the fellow, the bigger the
shame. Glorious New York, we Demo-
cratic constituencies need thy excee d.
ing and amiable wisdom.
We do not want to DO duped by the
downright abolition Republicans,
who fostered years ago greenbacks
and tho Homestead act. when they
knew us farmers wanted more land
soon to grow oak timber OH for New
York to build a Democratic navy with.
Then we will have the peace we farm
ers need, and We can do rs they did In
the old patriarch Jobs time. III we
want plough, carpet watch or stone.
well give sheep and hogs for them. 1T
is slow, but 1t is sure and safe. No
manufacturers for US; 1t Is to new
Glorious Democracy. ..
You know we Democratic farmers re-
pudiate everything that has n Repub-
lican handle; them "Greelyltes call
uS obstructlrniSts, repudlatlonists
and Cobden's tories at this time. be-
cause we spurned greenbacks and de :
ciared coercion was unconstitutional.
We Democrats opposed soldiers pay,
Emancipation Proclamation, Home-
stead act, pensions, taritf, fertilization
bill, etc. We are honest In this, when
this nation is guided by the pious
wisdom Of our big Democratic sages.
Only give us your ballot now for our
rag-baby shlnplasters and every old
! liner Democrat that wants our old an
te.deluyian laws passed and enforced.
We and Dave Hill promise and 1t shall
be done.
Then we can feed our corn to our
hogs and eat the hogs and send the
| head and tail to Europe, as we will
have no need for manufacturing
towns. Neither will we have home
market for our milk. potatoes, eggs
| and butter. What huge amount Of
work it will save. Bright Idea, 1t will
give us time to unrayel the mysteries
OF the Golden Club it is SO purely
English and SO genteel
Our candidate. ii. Greedy. snid the
grass can grow In the streeta of our
cities ii manufacturing industries stop
and keep stopped, and 1t did grow, and
the COWS and goats found pasture In
| 1S56.57. II was very handy but you
know we Democrats always have to
| 'swear" that volume of work and
| great enterprises don't protect labor
and we will have to stick 20 1t. Think
of the pure and sweet rest those 1000
| idle men had In one square in New
York in 1851 Great Is New York,
the Babylon OF our Democracy.
Yorklyn, Oct. a5 1892. T. W. 4.