The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-22
COUNTY TICKET.
AND WHAT ABOUT MEATp

Have Won ever thought of :n.s? You
will remember that ,pne Of the advant-
AGES claimed for protection was that IL
establishing factories It enabled more
mon 10 ,,,nsuune more produces IL you
are a Populist you Will remember 10
have good natureNly gaffawed at this.
Do you remember how ridiculous the
PonuIist officers orators made this claim
appear to you? Don't you, Popuiist
remember TO have figured 1t out that Ia
boring men in the east still continued
10 eat whether they were employed or
not9 Don't YOU remember Of having
mentally made the point to'yourself that
they weren't starving?
Now, are you quite so sure that tnere
is not something in the idea of labor's
table after all? Isn't there a faint glim-
mer of distrust in tue midst OF your Pop
ulist beliefs that perhaps after all, there
may be just a slight amount OF reason ID
this claim for protection. Hasn't 1t
seemed to grow suddenly plausible, IN
the last four months, that the difference
in the laboring mans supper table with
protection from the labOring mans Ia
bic without protection, does accrue TO
the advantage of the farmer?
Isn't it Jqlst poisoning on your mind
that when you used to guffaw at the
PopuIist speechmaking, that perhaps
YOU were wrong? Hasn't it begun to
insist itself gently on your understand
ing that 100 men at work all day VIII
eat a great deal more, a vast deal more,
than 100 men who have been idle all
day? Hasn't it begun TO creep into
your belief that if 100 employed men eat
more of your products than 100 idle
men do, that 100000 or 100000 en-
pIoyed men must eat a world more thon
5.OOO,O 900 unemployed? And haven you
commenced TO think thatithat difference
must have its little effect on the market
for farm products?
Isn't it appalling to your reason that
the busy man, home from a factory,
where he has earned money, is better
customer for you than the man from
a vain search for work, porer than ever?
But the man who had no work, did
not starve to death. No, he did not.
But what did he eat? He ate the cheap
est food in the smallest quantities.
Does the employed laborer eat? He
does. What? Bread. And what does
he put upon that? Butter. And what
does he put upon that? Jelly. Does he
have meat for supper? He does. Did
the idle man? Rarely. Does he have
potatoes for supper? He does. Did the
unemployed man? Once in while.
Was there any waste from the idle
mans table? He saved the last crumb.
Is there a waste from the employed
mans table? From what prosperous
mans table is there not a waste?
Do you think that the man employed
is as close a buyer as the man unem-
ployed? Is he as careful with his
money? But you do not sell to him.
But you sell to somebody else who sells
TO him And if that man who sells to
him is pushed 70 a close margin by
small sales, does he not turn back on
you and push you TO close margins by
small purchases?
After ali, then, and after all your Pop
ulist beliefs which have been dear to
you, don't you believe that the guffaw
over the benefit TO agriculture of en-
ployed eaters, which you allowd TO es-
cape from your lips was mistake?
Hasn't the fact that the labOring man
of the east are getting employment have
something TO do with your prosperity
out on your Kansas farm today? Oh,
the famine in India? Yes, there can be
no disputing that the high price of
wheat is due partly to a shortage there
and in other foreign countries.
But meat is high, isn't it? And what
made that high? The famine in India.
The spring calf year ago sold for IS
and SO Today he is selling for S12 and
SIS. What about that? What about
meat?