The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-05
n FARMER Talks TO
FARMERS.
The "One.Suspender" Supporters
OF Existing Conditions, Scare.
Crows in the Corn.FieId,
VOTE FOR THE VERY MEN WHO
ARE REDUCING THEM To
SERFDOM.
A Powerful Letter-Let Every One
Read and Then Hand to His
Old-Party Neighbour.

What mournful sight it is and
what volumes it speaks regarding the
intelligence of the average Republi-
can voter Gf he be farmer) when we
view him, Shaving his life away, with
back bowed over, and callOused hands,
half clad and half shod, one suspender
holding up pair of tattered and
patched overalls, an old slouch hat
Tapping over his eyes as he patiently
faces the cold northwest wind, while
he guides his plow to prepare the
ground for crop Of Ascent wheat. -
cent oats, 15-cent barley and 7-cent
potatoes; only ceasing his toll long
enough to hurry TO the polls and vote
for protection or high tariff that in
creases the price of every shred of
clothing he wears, including the
slouch hat and prison made COW hide
brogans that shelter his bigoted head
and sockless feet.
He the least protected of all Gods
people, voting to increase the price of
every thing he buys and lower the
price of everything he sells, while the
solid gold-bug, who made the old
BlOuch hat, and the contractor whose
convict workman made his cOw-hide
shoes, live like kings in elegant man
sions, spending part Of their wealth
in visiting Europe each year, hunting
for princes or dukes who can be
bought to serve a limited time as huS-
bands for their daughters.
A.ndin the mean time the banker
l>o ,l, Ii
bugs, and shout themselves hoarse
CRYING "honest money! "sound cur
rency," "a dollar with hundred
cents in it., "a dollar that is good in
Europe. These gentlemen sit in
their soft padded chairs in elegant
Offices, waiting for this one-suspender,
ragged patriot to bring in his 45-cent
wheat, 12-cent oats, and 7-cent pota
toes, and with the proceeds Of their
sale pay him the 10 to % cents for the
few paper or silver dollars he loaned
him years ago, and in receipt for
which he signed cut-throat chattle-
mortgage or trust-oeed payable IN
GOLD!!!
II anything is left him after the
protection rake off and usuary rob-
berry he has just submitted to, he
wendS his way to the corner grocery
lars good in Europe, ,and pays him > Or
Is cts pound for piece of salt pork,
which is part Of the same that the
Armour trust (every member a gold
Dug,) bought from him at cents a
pound, because they knew he was
compelled to sell the last pig he has
on his farm in order to get money to
pay his taxes.
Then he buys kerosene paying 5 to s
cents more than it is worth, which
goes to Mr.. Rockefeller, who is also a
millionaire gold-bug, protection
i>t, who stands at the head Of the
strongest monopoly in the world. He
has purchased nearly all the oil wells
in the United States, and plugged up
One-half of them, in order to control
the supply. and cOnse quently force
the price to cents higher, while lie
tells our poor, ragged, sockless patriot
that the increase an price IS caused by the
limited supply" ana tue one-suspender
patriot believes all that ''rot" about
''limited supply" and kisses the hand
that strikes down the price of his
wheat to 45 cents and then robs him
of part Of that.
He plods his weary way home and
by the light of his monopoly kerosene
reads his Republican paper, which is
published and owned by tine Rockefel-
lers and ArmOurS; and Of course he
reads therein the grandly worded edi-
torialS, written by hired servants of
these monopoly protectionists. and
honest money advocates, which eX-
plain to his entire satisfaction how
bOunteOusly he is protected" in his
advocaton, and how poor and helpless
he would be without ''protectlon,"
what a poverty stricken Wle-ch he
would be if the advocates of silver or
greenbackS were to succeed in reStOr-
ing silver to the money basis it Occu-
pied when he was getting Sl5O for h,
wheat, SO cents for his oats, and :
cents for his barley. And showing,
too how absolutely necessary it is for
him to vote for money that is "good
in Europe and how the PopIlists
would ruin the country if it were not
for the PATRIOTIC and intelligent
voters who stand by the Grand Old
Party!
While he is toastng his frozen
feet by the heat OF a monopoly coal
fire. and running these Rockefeller
Armour and ROthSchild begotten
ideas through his bigoted salt-pork-
fed brain, his children are studying
their lessons from trus ust-manufac-
turer's school books, for which he paid
four times what they were worth be-
cause they were published and con-
trolled ny the Book trust, (every mem
Der OF which is Il god-bug protection
isD. and because Of the protection he
voled should be placed on said scnool
books.
If he has dollar left after the
wholesale robbery to which his devo-
tjo,, to his party has Il u plainly sub
iected him to, he deposits it in Ma