Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-09-19
PUGK'S CARTOON, THE AMERICAN
FARMER.

The whole tariff question so far as it
affects the farmer is graphically sum-
married. in Pack of August Is. The
cartoon is entitled 1.-THE American
Farmer-Where he has to sell, and
where he has to buy"
On one side of the picture the farmer
is offering his products, corn, wheat,
pork, beef, etc.-in the free trade
markets of Europe. He has to com
pete there with Russian, Australian
and South American farmers. 1t is
the open competition of this market
which determines not only the prices
which he obtains for imported prod
ucts, but also the prices of the greater
part of the same products sold at home.
He completes with the cheapest farm
labor in the world. He has no special
privileges. His share of the protection
in the Mckinley bill was bogus
On the other side OF the picture the
farmer is making purchases of cloth
ing, implements, furniture etc. He is
not in the free and open markets of
the world where all manufacturers are
patronage. He is restricted to Nc
Kinley's Home Market" and high
prices. Everything is marked up
according to the tariff duty placed
upon it and to the firmness of the trust
which regulates production and prices
OF this particular product. Mckinley
put no sawdust in the protection which
he gave to the trusts and manufactur-
ers. They do not hesitate to charge
the poor and deluded farmer so per
cent. more than he would have to pay
for his goods in the same market in
which he sells his products. His IN oney
goes only two thirds as far with ''pro-
lection" as it woodland will without
it.
This is all there is to the tariff ques-
ton for the farmer. He has been
fooled and buncoed in voting for this
gigantic fraud, but he is getting his
eyes open and unless Lincoln was mis-
taken when he said you can't fool all
of the people all of the time" there
will be some surprises for Mckinley in
the returns from next November's
elections in the country districts of the
West and North.
ACCIDENT TO REV. }. J. LAFFERTY,
D. D.-A correspondent of the Char
lottesyille Progress, dated Crozet, Sep
TENDER 18th, says
"Dr. j. j. Lafferty, wife and daugh-
ter and Miss Steals came near meeting
with a serious accident on Sunday
night. The front axle of the vehicle
in which they were returning from
church broke, throwing the occupants
under the heels of the horses. DIR.
Lafferty and his wife and Mrs. Steals
were painfully bruised"
POPULIST cANDIDATEs.-On last
Thursday the Populist convention at
Blackstone nominated Col. J. Thos.
Goode for Congress in the 4th district
On the same day at Pulaski the Pop
ulists nominated Haven b. Howe, of
Pulaski, as their candidate for Con-
gress in the 9th district. AS there were
but few delegates present, this nomi
nation was made subject to the ap-
prevail of the Executive Committee of
the party. Mr.. Howe accepted. He is
farmer and was formerly a Demo
cratic member of the Legislature.
A CASE FOR THE BRITISH COMMIT
TEE.-On last Thursday an act occur
red at Akron, Ohio, which it would be
we'll for the Ida Wells British investi-
CATION committee to consider.
On that morning, two negro men, af-
ter making white woman cook and
give them a meal, outraged her, set fire
to her house, and left her bound and
unconscious, to perish in the flames.
That committee should invetigate
cases in the North and West as well as
the South.