The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1893-08-24
PhiNEAS PhiNOOUT.
Writes to Know If Anyone Knows
Where "Tariff and Others is
Now At.'
HARDSCRABBLE DEESTRIk !
CRAB TREE UNION. Mo !


same is my wife but I've got into ritin
sometimes to the printin papers.
,lste send letters to my old friend. Riley
). Hall. thru the Watchman down hear
haint here no more. and | heerd that
the little fellcr what printed hit was
with You, and | thought he mite tell
YOU about me It's Otfal hot. | bet
I've spilled as many as , pamlefe fans
jest yankin EN- Of Sundays.
| live down here in Saline county
near Phlneas crean. me and my old
woman. and I've been DimOkrat all
my life most. and jest now theres "a
heep Of things that puzzle me. I've
ritten lot of letters to Riley Hall. but
he's got SO bizzy since he gov to cOngris
that he's plumb forgotten me and don't
never anscr me no more.
What's bOthern me just now is
where in the Sam Patch that tariff
and others is at" My old woman says
she thinks hits lost and haint got ''con-
fdence" ennif to hOllar for help. Any
how all last year Mister Heard and
Riley Hall and that little feller Vest,
and hole raft of other good Dime
down, their face, looked like an year
old boys in cherry time and their eyes
bured out like door knobs tcllin Of
the "rObber tariff that the ra kally
Rebublikans had saddlcd OFF on us innO-
cent grangcrs and mechanics. and they
told us how they'd knock tariff and
monopolies if we'd turn the raskcls out
and put them in. That the money
question was II SECONDARY thing. Well
since the election haint hecrd nothin
about that tariff except that hits got
lost in tishin cXcursun near i'uzZards 5
Ba, and now. BY Granney, people halnt
IL talkin about nutin but money. and
Mr.. Cleveland has called cOngris to
meet in extra seshun to fix up the
money question only.
How did it happin that the sekond-
ary question of last fall is first in the
race this fall, and where is the tariff:
My old woman tells me thet She read
thet In IL printin paper the other day
thct one DimOkrnt congressman had
said thet hit was Il going to take good
years for the Dimekrats to tx up the
tariff question nice and quiet SO Us not
to bust biZness. She thinks that busted
farmers and labrin men out of jobs has
SO badly craked bizness now. that the
Dimckrats had better sale in on the
tariff if they want to create asensatlon.
As there haint likely to be nothin left
in ! wears to bll,t--banks or nothin else.
not even merry-go-round.
Now. Mister Editur. Id like to ask
some good brother Dimekrat To eggs
plain to me sort a gently like, where
we're all at anyhow" Last fall We
heerd our speakers cusS the Re!ubik-
ans, call them raskels and thieves and
wantek to get EN- out OF Otis SO the
Dimekrats could reform things. |
want some Dimekrat that is posted to
tell me why. now that the raskel Re
puoiknns Is out. Mister Cleveland and
Mister Carlisle Keeps follorin' up the
'Republikan raskels'" plan Of redeemin
silver sertiiikates with the gold money.
espc.hully when gold is SO skaee in the
treasury Why do they pay out this
gold and then Talk about borrowin
more gold from the same fellern they
les, paid it >. and offer =" give them a
| bond or mortgage on the laber OF this
here land as security:
That's the way them ''raskels done
-haint we Dinckrats got no better
plan?
Can't our fellers see that banks keen
| on Il Dustin: biZneeS men keep ON
"A goiE over 10 aSsinees. prices OF
wheat keeps on going lower. mortgages
keeps on u goin straight up: lahnr PRICES
! keep on goin down. and hundreds
more Of poor workin men are set!n out
of Jobs ever day. Jest think of The
hungry idle in Colorado: No fellel
that works knows how close he Is t
the dead line tell you Mr.. Editur
/ when haf to go huugre that way. III
want to spend most of my time sympa
| ,hizin with my stommik. and wheE
! he has Il stand their own misery ano
! helpleSsly watch the sufferins> of
hungry wife and kM: ligEt there !
rayin hell starts IN him that means
bread or blood.
/ Some Dimekrats tell ME that the
country jest lacks contidense.
Starvin' lht'rnig men who haint go
no jobs stick their bOGy hands int.
their pan>i> pockets and tele powerful
full of confidence that they hahn go
no money. Some Of EN- are almos
hungry enuff to relish mele of tn,