The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-01-23
REDFIELD AND rHE TARIFF.
To The Ardmoreite.

attention and deservedly, present
ing so plainly as they do, most
forcibly the Democratic policy as
adopted in the Wilson bill when
the democrats were i'll full power
in the executive and legislative de-
partments. But his illustration of
the working of the tariff on poor
Jim Huckaby made me wonder If
the tariff was the cause of all his
woes. In the judges article he
says DustOn the cash dealer sold
Jim suit of clothes for 81 90; be-
fore he gets out man at the door
collects $7.72 additional as gov
ernment tax. My idea is simply
this: that Jim bought the suit at
cash price and tried to sneak
past DustOn's credit man who said
hold up you bought those goods
for cash, but as we have to charge
them to you we will add on So. ~
and take a mortgage on your wag-
on and horses and if you then dis
pose of them we will put you in
the penitentiary. So | am led to
conclusion that the man in blue
was Dustons credit man and not a
revenue officer. The business suit
| wear cost me $3.50 at MOntgOm-
cry. Ward and Co.'S, store. | feel
sorry for that firm only realizing
! the difference between $7.72 and
s.. 80 viz: $1.18. A few days ago
| ordered from some old samples IA
dress suit. priced ata$l6.O0; in re-
ply they wrote me that since the
Mckinley bill had taken the place
of the Wilson bill, which my friend
Furman so ardently advocates,
they had to add 30 cents on, making
the suit SIG 80. That is, under
Judge Furman 5 idea the govern
ment had to borrow Sc, 100000 and
they required me to pay % cents
on this suit. OF course like Hucka-
by | was angry, | felt that it was
no fault of mine that such a party
was in power that would saddle
such an enormous debt on our peO-
pie. But | am DEPRESSING | did
not intend to discuss the tariff but
my sympathies for poor Jim were
aroused and | will add a little his
tory of his short remaining life.
After trying the credit system he
got so mad he could not find time
to attend to his little farm and so
spent it attending free silver demo-
cratic pOpuliSt meetings, cussing
the government until his tongue
was paralyzed and finally his life
was over and his friends sat at the
wake and burned the oil that great
Democrat Rockefeller furnished at
a profit of 300 per cent and on
which there is 10 tax and fur
nished the jug which poor Jim
left them, the coffin trust hit him
for $15 and which Bro Purvine
would have been glad to have fur
nished him for 50. 75, thed the un-
dertaker with his $40 hearse and
the cemetery for the grave $40
more and alas poor Mrs. H. has
had to pay $50 for his final dispOs-
al. which could have been fur
nished i'll the old way for 81 or So.
SO | am led to the conclusion that
Huckaby's troubles arose first from
the credit system and second, ty-
rannical and INSCRIPTIONS trusts
and not from the tariff he had to
pay.
Per contra, Jim Huckaby, Jr.
warned by his fathers sad fate,
married at twenty-three, rented a
little farm, diversified his crops,
and industry and frugal living
and paying cash or doing without
was soon able to buy the farm,
and by voting the republican tick
ct help enact a law whereby over
one million idle men found renum-
erative employment and enabled
him to sell his farm products at
greatly enhanced values and he so
lived peaceful cOntented life, and
was ready to receive the final mes
sage, Well done, good and faith
tul servant; come up higher"
Addenda. | believe as a general
rule people who write for papers
have some personal end in view
and so | will fess" up. If Mo-
ran Scott ever gets off the nest"
and Col. TraSk don't out run me
will get the post Office and | be-
lieve if the territory ever comes in
and BledsOe GOn't out run Judge
Furman he Will get the Governor 5
office and | am sure we could fill
said offices to the satisfaction of
ourselves if not to the people.
DAVID REDFIELD.
To the Public.
Dating from January l, 1898,