The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-15
WHEN 1T WILL COME.
DEPRESSION WILL END WHEN
DEMOCRACY is ROUTED.
ff tho Farmers and Working men Are
Alive to Their Own Beat Interests the
Next Congress VIII Settle tho Question
of Hard Times.
Restore the Mckinley Law.


The Dolgeville N. W Herald has
received from one OF its readers a let
ter, INC osing his Inscription for an
other year, in which he W. ties:
L. Is harder TO get tuese 81 1 send you
than IL MAS to get ten two years ago am
u farmer aud out OF debt. and believe my
case Is "a fair sample OF all the farmers
throug hout the great State OF New York
all property on he shrink Please tell US
when The end will come
We cannot, Of course, name the ex-
act date when the prevailing depres-
sion will end, says the editof In reply,
but it Is safe to say that it vii asst
until the farmers and workingmen re-
store to power the party that Is
pledged to protect their respective in
dustr.es. 1t will not end with the en-
a ent of the tariff bill now pending
in the United States Senate, that is
sure, althou n the Democratic organs
persist in declaring that the Wilson
oorhees German atrCcity Is framed
in the interests of farmers and
workin ymen. Let us see how it
will benefit the farmers. In the first
place, it will save. American farmers
the trouble of raising sheep for wool.
They can kill of their hocks and send
them to market TO b. sold as mutton.
The proceeds thus derived can be lad
away for future emergencies. This, it
will b. seen, will 81 the farmers
more leisure. In the second place,
American farmers will have no further
occasion TO ia Sc hay. Hay being on
the free list, Canadian farmers, with
the cheap labor of Canada, will be
able to supply all their needs. This
will give our far m ,rs still more leisure.
Eggs, milk, butter and cheese being
on the free list, why shou d the Ameri-
can farmers worry about raising chick
ems and COWS or making LARRY products,
when the Canadian farmers are not
only willing, but eager to take all that
labor ard worry off their hands!
Ire bill, on the whole, will enable
Canadian farmers u flood our markets
with the produce that formerly consti-
tutei the basis of the prosperity Of
our own husbandmen. Tne Canadian
farmers will be very busy, while ours
will have nothing TO do. Then when
the American farmers have spent all
the mouey &C Iuired from the sale of
their sheep, they can mortgage their
farms to the Canadians and still live in
idlenes, }; only the is the inevitable
foreclosure in prospect. AS the Ameri-
can farmers Will not be abe to COM
pete with the Canadians, where will
they obtain money with which to buy
clothing, books and other comforts and
luxurie5! We are sorry to say the bill
does 1t provide for that. 1t simply
seeks to give them leisure. The Can
adams may be willing to send over
their secondhand clothing and books.
They ought to be when we mako them
81 nf hnl a.lYa 10
much for the farmers.
We think that the workingmen
know that the bill seeks to give them
a plenty of leisure so. When the
factories and mills shut down again,
because they cannot compete with the
cheap products of European manu-
facturer5, our w,rxingmen will have
time to hang around street corners
and discuss the prosperity they form
erly enjoyed under the Republican
policy of protection. The bill will
pace on our market English made
clothing that can be bought very
cheaply. But where will the work
ingman get money with which to buy
even the very cheap clothing if he has
no work? Unfortunately, the bill
makes no provision for that. 1t SIM
ply provides that in America the work
ing people shall revel in leisure and
poverty, while in Europe the wage
earners must slave night and day for a
pauper's pittance.
The end of diversity will come when
the principle of protection again pre-
walls when the American husu andman
raises the wool used by Am rican man
ufacturers in making clothing for
American workingmen; when the
products of the soil are sold to Ameri-
can consumers, and when our own home
markets are closed to the products of
foreign cheap labor. Our corr espon1-
ent can Judge As to how soon this de-
voutly to be desired contamination can
be reached. A new Congress IS to be
elected next fall, and If the farmers
and workingmen are alive TO their own
best interests, the next Congress will
be one whose first act will be to restore
the Mckinley law, under which they
formerly prospered so abundantly.