Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1894-08-03
Reply to '@H."
EDITOR COURIER.

Noticing the pretended reply OF your
Helena correspondent, H., upon ex-
tracts taken from my reply to the
Cogswell Rustler, does not reply to
'Alne or sentence IN the entire article.
1t was Misrepresentation. evasion and
deception written Us a slur, and l had
written a reply at the time, but seldom
Meddling with men, or other things, who
mind there own business, or until at
tackled, and not wishing to tresspass
upon your columns, it was withheld.
But noticing in last issue ofthe COURIER
that H. follows up the attack, attempt
Ing to confirm his fermer evasion,
deception and. false statements, l now
trust you will accord me the privilege
Of replying for correction. H. SAYS.
i'ff we understand the English Ian
Euage, this means that the price of nails
TO us is increased 80 per cent by the
tariff, does it not. Nails retail in Coop
vrstown at cents pound. Is there
I farmer in Griggs county who is
chump enough to believe that they
rould be sold for cent pound, under
free trade" Now l doubt if there is
nnother farmer in Griggs county dishon-
est enough, and chump enough, to miss
rsnd the article, as H, has done, as
there is not Il line, or sentence, in the
article, referring to the nails The writes
uf, and H. might as we'll have been
writing about Maud S. on the race
track for a reply. The article referred
to screw nails only, and during the
largest portion of the past thirty years
We have paid the tariff on screw nails
whether domestic or foreign, American
manufacturers in the early days of our
high tariff paying English exporters
eighty thousand dollars to stay off our
Markets, so they would have the entire
monopoly which reaps the plunder. H..
simply added the nail part himself, and
asks if there is farmer in Griggs
county chump enough to believe it.
doubt if there is, or believe much else
lle says, for when he attempts to de-
celve you in one thing, will he not in
ali, as he reserves not the right to exer-
else his own brains. Combinations,
trusts and goldbugs furnishing the
brains. there is no hope of his learning.
Ac simply does the cuckoo act. When
they say high protective tariff, cuckoo
like he reiterates; when they say free
trade, cuckoo like free trade must go;
and when it's demonetize silver, cuckoo
like silver must go, and when they say
Tree coinage of silver, TO catch suckers.
then you will hear the cuckoo as he cap
be caught with the smallest kind of a
mtnncw; aud when the goldbug or
Lombard and Wall street, says gold
basis, then you have heard the cuckoo.
II. says, when wire nails were first
Introduced they were on the free list
and retailed at 40 cents a pound, under
protection they were gradually reduced
lutll today they sell for less in New
York City than they could be laid down
there for from any country in the world,
sree of duty" If true. why does H.
Want a protective tariff for the c, cation
Of trusts and combines in league with
Hades to devour the substance of the
) people, and this going back Is to 81
years to make comparison with today
IL An exact counterpart, and no better
argument. than should l say a few
Years ago you could not buy one bushel
Of wheat in Griggs county for IS per
bushel, under protection it has been
gradually reduced till good wheat has
sold for 80 to 40 cents per bushei; and
.she tariff had just as much, nay but
: more to do with reducing the price of
wheat, than nails. H. says, Eighty
per cent on wool and clothes, is that
fair, when the Mckinley bill levies from
70 per cent on the grade of woolens the
farmer and working man are apt to
Wear, up to 80 per cent on the very
finest grades, made up into s75 suits
Tor dudes.'' Now it is my turn to ask,
ID 1t fair for H. to attempt to deceive
and mislead: For it is evident that H.
Knew no more about the tariff or the
Mckinley bill than Sioux Indian, or he
never would have exposed his ignorance
But there is a disease called egotism,
which runs IN some families, and this
may be a case of 1t If SO it Is incurable.
II H. had read the article honestly and
correctly he would have seen that il
Was based on tariff laws of 1887 or 8,
she laws our people have lived under
more than one quarter of a century,
and had H. known anything about the
tariff he would have known, that the
higher the grade of goods the
lower the tariff, as the rich were
always looked after by his party. And
what about the poor man and laborer.
Ali the lower the grade of goods, the
higher the tariff, and in the eminent
dead, J. Gould, the peer be Id.
And if H. will turn to page 100 of the
Mckinley tariff laws Of 1890 to 1898. he