The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1894-04-20
REPUBLICAN TIMES.
Enemies of the Farmer.


To the Editor of the Bio SANDY
NAws; see that "Peregriner has
dedicated to Coal Blast nigh unto
1.-TWO columns of-what Well, ]
will let his readers determine
Such argument gives intelligent
readers the miseries. He says he
is still whistling." Well | guess
that is true. Byron says Men
whistle for want of Thought" /
do not wonder at the commoner
putting in so much time at this in
rocent amusement, One would
naturally infer that this correspon-
dent belonged to a Disorganlzed
/ Liver Association, and if he had
capped these two columns with the
advice of-use Ayers Pills." it
would have been more in line
Such argument vi have no more
effect upon a reading public than
would a mosquito on bulls horn.
He reminds me of a preacher /
heard once who thought no one
would be saved except by his doc
trine. On his way TO church he
picked up a chestnut-bur which by
the laws of nature had been pretty
we'll opened. He applied other
doctrines to the thistles, inner coat
ings, &c, and the tree our church
doctrine to the kernel with its de-
licious meat. | will now snow you
the true state Of our doctrine, says
he Placing the nut in his mouth
the worm-meal flew in a cloud. With
a look Of disappointment and sur
prise he exclaimed why brethren
il is rotten" That is Just the truth
Of the Republican managers.
Why, fifty years ago Mr.. Evans,
the Wing Senator from Maine, dis
cussing the tariff told us exactly |
what would happen. He used
these words: 1T will embarrass
the government, rob the consumer,
and finally defeat the end c. the
very men who projected it for their
own profit. The -evulsion will at
last come upon the manufacturer,
after it has destroyed the farmer
and planter, by the same unerring
Jaw that dries up the stream, after
the fountain has been exhausted"
My reader, do you want anything
palmer? How can the manufacturer
expect to sell goods to 3 people
whom they have impoverished un-
til they have nothing to pay with.
The farmers and iabors of this
country are the consumers. They
are the ones who wear out and eat
up the goods manufactured in this
country, How then can the manu-
facturers expect TO sell goods to a
people who, through their schem,
ing and intrigue, have robbed us oil
all we had.
The Republican party is wholly
responsible for the present hard
times. And these hard times too,
you'd have found Mr.. Harrison in
the White House had it not been
for the enormous amount of foreign
money that had been brought to
this country and put into the south
ern and western booms. The Re
publican party can truly thank the
south for the Unprecedented boom
they furnish this country. 1t saved
them from having to nurse their
offspring. Don't allow yourself to
conclude that we will have "boom-
ing" times soon. That cannot be.
Ii is not in the order of things?
1t will come somewhat as it left US
by degrees. The farmers have
spent twenty years of hard work
for no profit. We are not in as
good fix as we were the year John
Sherman had passed his infamous
act demonetizing silver. | think
this was, though, in 1873.
We may look for better state OF
finances to reach US soon. II is
to be hoped the Infant industries"
Of this country can survive off the
Wilson tariff, as they prospered
10 1889 on a tax of 50. No pow
er Of government is so important
as the taxing power-none more
despotic. No slave trader ever bore
with an iron heel more severely
than the protected manufacturer of
this country have trodden upon the
farmers. Why, my friend Oak
] Smith, who It is said, cast into the
Atlantic ocean ship load Of Afri-
can slaves, was not more Of a bar
barian than have these protected
fellows been. COAL BLAST.