The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-05

the idea that the dissatisfied and complain
| ing farmer is not simply ignorant and mis-
/ guided, but dishonest. He cannot see how
/ any honest farmer can be kicker. This
state of mind of the governor is deplorabla.
For we know as a matter of fact that
| there are thousands and thousands of
! farmers throughout the state as honest
as ever lived. not only Populists but Re
| publicans and Democrats WELL that
| now and have been for years complain
/ Ing of legislation, state and national.
against their interest and for the benefit of
! railroads and manufacturers. Even the
| Republican state platforms for many years
! past voices the complaint of the farmer.
! But the various acts passed ostenSibly to
! remedy the ills of the farmer generally
contained some "woodchuck'' that defeat
! ed the relief sought and rule added
| some further tax his products. Take
/ our grain and warehouse legislation, for
| instance. Enacted to secure to the farm
| er free and fair market for his grain
and fair transportation rates. What has
| been the result? A gigantic elevator and
| transportation monopoly that lists prices
and throttles competition everywhere, and
| the farmer pays for his own shackles. Os-
! tensibly designed to protect the farmer
| it really protects the elevator fraternity
| from robbng one another, at the farmers
| expense, and by means of the grades and
| railroad rebating, to monopolise the whole
| traffic. Intelligent farmers of all parties
uHueIStdHu tHlS from experience. IL the
grain and warehouse legisla ton of this
state is sample of the friendly special
legsla ton for the farmer by the Repub-
| lican party, then the farmer may well
pray to be delivered from friendly egisla-
ton. 1t is with this with the protective
tariff. The object, aim and underlying
principal may be all right. But in formu-
latlng the law and executing it the cor
poration lobbyist and legislator manages
to smuggle in some innocent looking clause
that enables a corporation administration
to interpret it-contrary it may be to the
int antiOn of its authorize the injury of
the very class it was designed to benefit
and to enhance the evil it was intended to
remedy. Thus the object of a protective
tariff is good wages for the laborer and
prosperity for the farmer. Now, leaving
| as immaterial how the question, whether
a protective tariff properly formulated and
honestly executed, would answer the above
object, the undeniabe fact stares us in the
face that it does not promote the welfare
of the laborer and the farmer, but that it
does promote and uphold trusts and mo-
nopolies. Practical men do not so much
as ask what was the object of this or that
law, as what has it done? is doing? 1t
will not help Gov. Nelson to say that this
and that law was passed to benefit
the farmer if it failed to do So or in
Jured him. Facts. governor; facts, COVER
nor! We care nothing about the real or
pretended object of certain law. We
iooh " It's tHtCt III pIdCtlCt. Ii tnat Is
evil, away with it. We do not deny that
the Republican party has pretended to
legislate for the farmers; that is why we
have stood in the ranks so long. But
the morse! farmers got, sweet indeed
to our palate, sugar-coated it was with
great premises, is very bitter our
stomachs. We have woke up to the fact
that the medicine which the G. o. p. has
been giving us to preserve us in health
and cure us of any current disease has
been not only unnecessary, but positively
injurious, and that unless get rid of it
1t will kill us. They say that his excel
lency, the governor as the doctor-in-chief
at the G. o. p. medicine box, understands
that his farmer patients are not malg-
nants. but sick from overdoses of farmer
leg1slation. designed for their benefit. Let
him understand that many of his old and
best friends, however much they may re-
spect him as a man, have lost faith in him
as a political doctor. Let him understand
that it is uphill business to convince a
man with cancer in his stomach that he
is not sick. Let him understand that
every time a doctor makes light or fun at
very sick man, that doctor makes an
implacable enemy to himself Let him
understand that sick man is apt to be
morose cranky and critical and an over
bearing behavior of his medical attendant
is not calculated to soothe him.
1 will give the governor another eaii.ter
in the doctor business. Every patient has
some Ito hing permanent symptoms on