The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1896-01-02
pRorEcrIox AND The FARMER.


$1,000 "a. FL 4 i1' y n
R~soiutions which Furnisn : rscbIsn -
High Tsrifstev.
Abraham Lincoln's pitky declaration
that you cannot fool all the people al
the time" Is commended to the protcc
tive tnrif league with the substitution
OF the farmers for the people. IL !,
possible that the league has alread,
made the discovery. Its officers arc
wrestling just at present with set oil
resolutions which are well calculated
to convey TO the dulIest minds the idea
limited at.
The resolutions referred to were
adopted by the ntate grange Of Califor.
MIA. at its last annual meeting, held al
MERGED. during the first days OF Octo.
Der. The grange, as our readers do
not need TO be told. Is composed VI
farmers and apparently they belong 60
the level-headed class of tillers of the
soil. Their action certainly shows
that they do not intend to take for
granted. as some of their brother farm.
ers at the east do. that the protection.
lists are their friends simply because
they claim to be. The preambles and
resolutions. however, will best explain
tho attitude Of the California farmer
Here they are:
s Whereas. report 1922 house OF repre-
sentatives. SD congress. third session.
page 10. contains the following:
First. The American protective tariff
league requested Brother David Lubin. oi
Sacramento, Cal, to contribute 10 the fund
m n ~ "a ~ "a Ian,
Second. A contribution OF $1,000 was
handed to the president OF the bank OF -
o. Mills g. CO., with instructions to paw
sa.te to league provided a committee OF
five. impartially selected, would decide (alt
that the present system OF protection by
tariff on imports Is just and equitable to
tn J. producers Ut agricultural staples as
long as there is a surplus OF these to OK,
port: tbl Or that a bounty on exports OF
agricultural staples would be unjust or In.
equitable as long as there Is protective
tariff on imports. And. #a Ill e. RI Il
Whereas, the naid league refused TO
submit to the above offer; and, whereas
on September 4,of this year. 1000 farmers
gathered at the Interstate harvest home
meeting, at Marysville, Mo-, did submit
the issue OF principle In the above PROPOSE.
ton to Hon. William Mckinley, OF Ohio, 10
which no reply was made: and, III
Whereas, the American Protective Tari.t
exponent Of protection, therefore be It
Resolved, by the state grange Of Cali
fornia at Its annual session held at MERGED.
that we respectfully request said tarifi
league to forward to the secretary Of this
state grange. replies to the following ques.
lions: 5<5.1 s. ,<#1 A. = -. II ~. I. -. <@s.J4
First Is the present system OF protec.
ton by tariff on imports, just and equitable
to the producers OF agricultural staples as
long as there Is a surplus OF these to ex,
port? r. %:l1#Es
Second. WIN a bounty on the exports
Of agricultural staples be unjust or In
equitable as long as there Ii protective
tariff on imports7 w a. "..-.E
Resolved, that copy Of this preamDie
and resolutions be at once mailed to the
president and secretary Of the Americana
Protective Tariff league at No. l35 West 23d |
street. New York city" 5,r @{l"EE 4
The answer of the Protective Tariff |
league will be awaited with lively in.
crest, not only by the state grange OIL
California and the 1000 farmers OF ME-.
souri--who asked the same question oi
from whom they have mol
ret heard-but by all thoughtful citi.l
ems of the republic who are Interested
n the subject as good citizens must be.
+ the league can answer in good faith
hat the tariff benefits the farmer md
an show wherein, ii can render not
,nly the farmer, but the entire com.
nunity, q great service. IL it cannot
10 answer, it ought to have frankness
nd honesty enough to say o.-Detroit
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