The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-01
n FARMER TALKS TO
FARMERS.
The "One.Suspender" Supporters
of Existing Conditions, Scare
crows in the COrn.Field
VOTE FOR THE VERY MEN WHO ARE
REDUCING THEM TO SERFDOM,
A Powerful Letter-Let Every One
Old.Party Neighbour.
Republished by general request. I

What ,mournful sight it is and
what yolC .les it speaks regarding the
intelligence of the average Republi-
can voter Gf he be a 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 Accent wheat. 70
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
slouch 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 limited time as hus-
bands for their daughters.
And in the mean time the banker
and the note-shaver, who are gold
nd Chn 1,nr Wa hoe 0rcn
crying "honest money" ''sound cur
rency," "a dollar with hundred
cents in it,, "a dollar that is good il
Europe. these gentlemen sit in
their soft padded chairs ia elegant
Offices, waiting for this One-suspender,
ragged patriot to bring in his 45-cent
wheat, 12-cent oats, and 7-cent peta-
toes, and with the proceeds af their
sale pay him the 10 to 25 cents tor the
few paper or silver dollars he loaned
him years ago, and in receipt for
which he signed cut-throat chattle-
mortgage or trust-deed payable IN
GoLD!!
If 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
man who is usually an advocate of dol
lars good in Europe, and pays him II or
is cts pound for piece of salt pork,
which is part Of the same that the
Armour trust (every member gold
bug,) bought from him at cents q
pound, because they knew ha 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 to s
cents more than it is worth, which
NJ 20 hN ic ole
millionaire gold-bug, high-protection-
lSt, 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
bne-half Of them. in order to control
the supply, and conseQ Quently force
the price 5 to s cents higher, while lie
tellS our poor, ragged, sockless patriot
"that the increase in price is caused by the
limited supply" and the one-suspender
patriot believes all that ''rot" about
'limited supply" and kisses the hand
that strikes down the price of his
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 the 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
advocation, and how poor and helpless
he would be without "protectiOn."
what a poverty stricken wretch 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 81. 80 for his
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 Populists
would ruin the country il it were not
tor the patriotic and intelligent
voters who stand by the Grand Old
Party!
While he is toasting his frozen
feet by the heat Of monopoly coal
fire, and running these Rookie feller
Armour and Rothschild begotten
ideas through his bigoted salt-pork-
fed brain, his children are studying
their lessons from trust-manufac-
turer's school books, for which ne paid
four times what they were worth be-
cause they were published and con-
trolled by the Book trust, (every mem
ber of which is gold-bug protection
ist), and because Of the protection he
voted should be placed on said school
books.
II he has a dollar left after the
whaleSale rDbber TO which his devO-