Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1894-08-17
OBITUARY.


drop tear to his memory.
So young. SO teuder, so inexperienced,
he yet dared to beard the wild man of
the woods in his den, and now
''Lowly he lies and humble"
Better far had he toyed with the can
of gay and festive. dynamite, tried the
edge of a buzzsaw in motion. or blown
snuff up the nose of \ grizzly.
AS you follow him to his last resting
place. take warning, oh my brothers.
But
"Hark from the tombs doleful sound"
Investigating. we find the corpse OBJ
jects to being screwed down with nails
raxede 80 per cent. And as binding
twine, bolts or rivets are in the same
boat. we concluded to try the grindstone
treatment prescribed by the Sage of
Jessie, with the result that the
corps is able to ind,te the following
open letter to the Hon. w. T. McCul-
lOch:
DEAR SIR,
In replying to yonr effusion of July
goth, we must beg your indulgence on
two points. First, for rot answering it
sooner. But, as it caught us in the
midst of rushing harvest that took
sixteen hours of the day, we think you
will agree that it would be asking too
much of Il dude, to put in any extra
hours in mental exertion. Second,
that in answering, we do not attempt
to follow the thread of your argument,
lest in doing so we and our readers be.
come inextricably lost. Taking your
indulgence for granted, we take up your
charge that we did not read your article
honestly, and say, that we not only
read it carefully, but that in attempt.
ing to fathom its syntaX and prosody,
Not only that, but we heard it discussed
in store and Office by some of our best
educated citizens, and not one af them
but what interpreted it as we did. And,
lest you should reiterate your statement
that all republicans are blanks, we will
further add that of all your followers
whom we have questioned, not one of
them took it but what you meant that
sugar IS taxed S2 per cent. Your neigh
bor being the very one who told us we
were off in denying it. Now if you still
have any lingering doubts Oh the sub
iect, we refer you to the editor of the
Valley City Times, who, in commenting
on your reply to the Rustler oeing
printed verbatim ct literat,m. advises
you to get some Oh to edit your articles
10 the partisan press. Satisfied? Hoping
SO we will turn to your reply.
1t is with pleasure that we shake
l nv1ye,
We are always glad to meet old &C.
time you have used that same expression
nor are we the only one to whom you
have applied it. You remind us of
some dealers on the Bowery who can
| tit the same coat on all kinds and con.
ditions Of men, and assure them that it
fits ''yust like de paper OH de vali."
Now let US see if we have means to
upset your comparison. If you will
kindly turn to the Courier of Adams
time, you will find that we have ex.
pressed ourselves in favor OF a tariff
that-allowing for the difference in
wages between this country and other
countries, approaches as near free trade
as possible, nor have we changed our
mind. 1you will ask the chairman of
the committee OH resolutions of the re.
publican convention of four years ago,
he can tell you~ that we expressed q
hope that they had not endorsed the
Mckinley bill, although our apprehen-
sions were for its political not financial
results. We do not claim, nor have we
ever claimed. that the farmer receives
very much direct benefit from the
tariff. His benefit, like his tax, is in.
direct. The farmers may be the bone
and sinew of the nation, but the manu-
facturers are the brain and treasury.
Seek to destroy capital or the factories,
and we are almost the first to feel the
blow. While the abuses of capital
should be curtailed, we would no more
think of destroying or crippling it, than
we would of killing the goose that laid
the golden egg. Te give you an extent
of our manufacturing industry, let me
tell you that IN 1875 cities, there ls in.
vested capital to the sum of 81 500, ,444,-
$500. That it pays in yearly wages
nearly one half of this enormous sum.
Figure what this amounts to in the
whole country and you will have one
item of what protection to American
industries has done for this country.
Its direct benefit to us we will leave to
another time, only stopping to say that
our remarks on your possessions were
not intended to insinuate the benefits of
a protective tariff, they were simply an
epitome of the many opinions we have
heard of the ungratefulness of a man,
who, coming to this country with his
eyes open, prospecting as you have done,
should do nothing but abuse its institu-
tions, and continually howl calamity.
We are not aware that we are on
goldbug basis. We believe in the use of
silver under certain conditions. And to
use the words :of Col. Plummer. "we
want every paper dollar to be able to
stand on its hind legs and say with Job,
I know that my Rcdeemer liveth.'"
But not till you can informs US that
Haaes has frozen over, can we tell you
as to the time of our probable convsr.
sion to fiatism.
New before saying goodbye to your
''cuckoo," let us see If in attempting to
pull the mote out Of our eye, you
failed to notice the 10x10 beam in your
own. 1t is not many years since we
heard you dubbed the crankiest kind of
free trade democrat. We remember
when you had no more use for Majors
and his party than we had. Yet no
ooonor Iid fLo All;oooo o~Io.n> a.