New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-18
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PICE rs A CONSOLER.
Rice solve, the problem We congratulate
our ingenious and versatile contemporary, Inc
New-Yorl World" on It's discovery. Lat TALL
our contemporary was very much eNc.t d over
the very dreadful way everything was going
under Republican administration. Two or
three times week it danced mp and down IN
a peck measure in the most excited WAY, say
ing in double leads under scare heads to the
laboring mcn-who were camorng for 1t at
all the ncwsstands and reading 1t with eyes
wide open and ears fapping-that at the rate
things were then going the labOrng man would
presently be taxed away out INTO the nowhere
and there wouldn't he enough OF HIM lett To
lay for the beer of walking delegate The
! laboting man read it and believed il. That
is to say. according to ON cont 'mpolarN the-
orv Of causes, it was what The Norld' ioid
the laboring man was the matter that made
/ the laborng man rise up III great numbers
and with considerable emphasis do what nc
did last November. He said he could moi and
would not stand il. He had been groanlnS
under tyranny The tyranny started thirty
two YEAS ago, when party came into power
whose single thought was that every man
]
| labor at his own price. The party grew IN
power and in tyranny, and with it grew each
wear the price that every man put upon his own
/ llbo-. And last year " The World" made the
disclosure T. all the llborlng men VINO read 1t
/ that through ii, these lclrN they had been de-
/ cciv,d that though they were earning three,
/ five and eight dollars where they had been
earning one before. they had been all the time
+ taxed hc,ond endurance. And 1.-THE World'
sid {, the labrrng men: Rise up and turn
/ ihi, party out and free ,our>clyc, from this
dreadful burden # TAXATION
They rose up They turned the party out.
| Great numbers Of people said =" Ill hi some
u oulc gave very costly dinners, and addressed
/ T. them Give, quite eloquent congratulations,
/ while the laboring men looked in at the win
| dow, or held the horses outside. 1t was APP
rar,ntly the beginning of new epoch. Scho!-
/ arlv persons said -. Carl >churz took that
view of il. 80 did David A. Wells and Ed
| ward At',in on and the vvaciouS Young pro>i-
/ dent OF Brown University. -rmc OF the most
! eminent persons in the country. who mad
/ familiarzcd themselves with the labonnG
classes by employing them and reading about
| them without ever dllutlng their knowledge
! If the subject by contac; CT conversation with
| them were of the opinion that the defeat OF
this dreadful party that had been taxing the
/ laboring man for thirty 1.-TWO years, until he
! was getting three dollars a day where he was
| only getting one before, was great triumph
! for the cause of labor The enthusiasm over
! il lasted long enough + carry off several large
and successful dinner paitics at from $50 to
SD n plate. II was great triumph of the
laboring man 1t promised TO relieve him from
taxation.
But presently the whole country began to
think And then the whole country began g
say 4: It's all very linc but. on the whole, the
new epoch i, - rckli>h that we will take in
SAIL The country has been taking in sail
( ever since the new epoch began. The consc
oucncc is that the laboring man is finding him
! self in large numbers cut down in wages. lin
tied in houiS thrown out of employ mcnt, in
short brought face f. face with starvation and
distress. lie tuInS To the newspaper that
cgged him on to the action by which he was
10 relieve himself from taxation and better
him elf. What do he find? Why. lat sat
urday he found this newspaper urging III
double leads one of the great leaders of the
party he has helped drive out of power to
" lay aside pa san>hip' and come to the re-
lief of "A distressed country with sound and
disinterc,ed advice lie found it on Morday
asking the eminent statesman whom last fall
il was implJring him to vote against as
bad and dangerous mln Il d. the same thing
give the country hS counsel and leadership
And on Tuesday, what? Why, on Tuesday
The VOL" gave the lahorng man who fol-
lowed its advice last fall, to get rid of taxa
ton he never felt and in following il has fallen
out of work and become poor. a stirring article
on "R,c as a Dict" Rice, "The World"
SAYS. has fallen from 81 - 21-2 cents
per pound. 1t says: 1.-THE rice growers are
irving t. increase the consumption and they
should be encouraged" Then it tells how
nutritious it is how it sustains The system
without heating the blood and how people
would be healthier and possibly Weather
if they would adopt it more generally as
part of their daily diet"
So this then, is the end of it, The laborng
man has risen up and relieved himself of
taxation he knew nothing of until these philan-
thropstS told him about it and worked him
up to a white heat over it. and now. he being
ont OF work, or reduced in wages 10 Il point
where rice at > 12 cents pound seems a
luxury, the phlanthropist says, chccrily " Buy
rice old fellow it's cheap. It's good in pud-
dingS. and 1t makes an excellent dish Simpl,
boiled with salt and butter or milk added
Buy rice old boy. and thank God that by the
ole,tion of Grover Clcvollnd and Democratic
Congress yon are going to be relieved of the
tyranny Of taXatiOn.' Well. it seems little