Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-02

! support the bill
W. because it offers an
appropriate legal
the peoples food In the process of
taxation it Identifies fraud and es-
corts notorious swindle into the light
OF day. You have read the pre-
cept of Scripture which eXhorts
You to take no thought of what We shall
eat or what We shall drink or where
withal We shall be clothed. That Scrip
ture will need a new Interpretation un-
less we can in some way manage to
rescue the food and drink and clothing
OF the people of the United States from
the hands of the counterfeiters. AS
the case now stands, neither the clothes
ON our backs nor the food on our tables
nor the common weapons for lighting
thirst between meals have escaped sus-
pfcion. In this carnival of deceit the
rich and the poor alike suffer. under
take to say that this world in which we
live will not go on permanently under
system like that. 1t will not go on
forever buying coffee grains delicateiy
nodded out of blue mud. 1t will not go
on buying tea that has been generously
commingled with the dried leaves OF
the forest. 1t will not go on drinking
wine that has been manufactured in
cellar without the Intervention of
grapes, nor those other and more pene
trating beverages that have entered
into partnership with such fatal as
sortment of explosive chemicals as to
greatly facilitate the descent OF orr
fellow citizens. as the old negro preach
er expressed it, down the fabricated
sleeps to the opaque prufundity of dam
nation.
I do not say that all the manufac-
turers in the present stage of the in
dustry are guilty of fraud. l will not
even go so far as to say that all the
wholesalers habitually perpetrate
fraud. But do say that the evidence
is sufficient to show that the business
itself is fraud, and for one am here
for the purpose of looking little to the
rights of the man who orders Iowa
full cream cheese" and is furnished by
the wholesale dealer with a spurious
and inferior article. am here looking
to the rights Of the citizens of this
country who go into a store for the pur-
pose of buying cheese and take home
with them an Objectionable admixture
of SKINNED milk and soap grease. l
am speaking here for the victims of the
American clearinghouse system who
eat cheese for the purpose of promoting
the digestion of pie, and then have to
take another pie in order to secure the
digestion of the cheese. The American
dairymen understand this question
thoroughly. Every profound student of
human affairs teaches us that agricul-
ture is the basis of civilization itself,
and that nc. possible prosperity can ex-
list in this world under conditions that
do not yield to the cultivators of the
soil fair return. So that il a new
business, begotten in the laboratory of
the chemist, by false pretenses, threat
ems to narrow the opportunities of the
American farm by occupying it's mar
ket place at home or by destroying it's
reputation abroad. as my friend from
Minnesota indicated, and the law comes
In and levies tax on that new BUSH
ness, 1t does not alarm me that the tax
may operate in some measure, at least
to promote the welfare of the most
ancient and honorable occupation Of
the human race.
One-half the American people live
OH the farm; and nearly all the rest Of
them that are worth mentioning were
born there. The general welfare tn
provide for which our institutions we're
established. requires that the food-pro-
ducing millions should be secure in
their pursuits; nor should any adroit
imposition, however backed by money.
be allowed to take from the farm anv
portion of its legitimate earnings, Give
the American cow a fair chance. She
has been the faithful servant of man
She landed with our ancestors at plv-
mouth Rock; and, tied behind the old
weather-beaten emigrant wagon. she
has marched, with the household goods
OF the pioneers who have taken possess
sion OF this country. from ocean to
ocean. She has increased and multi
Piled and replenished the earth. until
today the industries which she has
made possible contribute annually to
the wealth Of the world more money
than the great combinations of modern
capital-more than iron and steel, more
than lumber and coal. more than cot
ton and wheat. more than all the looms
OF New England, more than all the mys-
terious riches of gold and Of silver.
Black Iangshana
notice in the Farmers Review some
inquiry as to the value of Black Isnp.