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time to time as are advisable? I am
willing the jury shall be polled on that
proposition. So say we all. It also
declares in favor of any modification
OF tariff schedules that may be requir-
ed to prevent their affording shelter
10 monopoly. And, again we all say
Aye, sir to the proposition. There
may be quite radical difference of
opinion as to the truth of the implied
admission that the protective tariff
does afford shelter to monopoly, but
there would be no difference of opin-
lon about removing it if it did afford
such shelter.
AssaiIs the Butchers.
"A few days ago the butchers, in
convention assembled, declared in ia
vor OF abolishing the tariff on cattle
and meat to the end that this supposed
shelter for the alleged meat trust
might be removed; but am disposed
10 think the good farmers of my state
would vote quite unanimously against
such an experiment. BY the trend of
the speeches made at the butchers
convention, discover sentiment well
nlgh universally expressed there that
meat is being monopolized by the
great packers. But 1 happen to have
a tenant out in Iowa who has a fine
Duncn or cattle, on which no packer
holdS a lien of any kind, and he writes
me that he is willing to sell them to
butchers if they will pay as much as
the packers offer. I am quite sure
the people would as soon buy this
meat OF the butchers as of the pack
ers. Thus there is afforded a spIen-
did opportunity for any one to make
all Kinds Of money if he will but give
the farmer as much money for his
DeeVeS and give the people as much
peer for their money. Suppose we
take the tariff off beef and then suppose
the herds of cattle from Mexico and
South America are brought in by the
hundred thousand. They will find their
way 10 the stock yards and the butch
ers VIII be compelled to bid against
the packers then as now. No. The
removal Of the tariff on live stock and
meat would not restore the butchers
TO business. 1t might ruin the farm
ers. but the packers could stand it.
Tor nothing less than organized capital
could enter the import meat business
with packing houses in foreign coun-
tries, refrigerating ships and other ex-
penSlVe equipment. / happen to know
that at least one, and 1 understand
two OF the big packing houses, have
nad men looking into the South Amer
lean Held for more than two years.
Inc farmer, as 1t is, has ample rea-
son to be apprehensive.
have taken occasion to look this
matter up since reading these reso-
lutions and think can afford reason
Tor the present price of meat other
than the protective tariff. 1 find that
there were received at the stock yards
IN Chicago, in the one month of july.
1902, sixty-f1ve thousand less beeyes
and one hundred and seventy thousand
less hogs than in the same month one
year ago. That means 1000 less ami
mails per day. The 90 road alone,
during the entire month brought from
the Southwest, where the corn cron
was failure last year, 1000 less fat
steers per day this year than last.
Let no one understand this to be
defense of the packers or an extenu-
alton of their offenses. A suit is now
pending against them and if the allie
cations of the petition are sustained
(and that seems probably they are 60
ing to have trouble, and it will take
very much more acute form than it
would to say to the farmers of the
United States that their industry shall
be opened to competition from the I'M
limited ranges of South America.
Methods of Senior Armour.
''The senior Phil Armour told me
that he got rich, while young man.
by watching the iron and coal miners.
He said: Whenever these men were
at work I used to pack every ham
could get my hands on, and my old
partner would say, Phil, you will break
us up. l would answer, No, those fell
lows are working. But when the coal
and iron workers were idle, | used
to sell everything I could dispose Of
The secret of American prosperity,
gentlemen, can be couched in four
Words-'They are working now And
They means verybody-farmer and
artisan, mechanic and merchant, the
man at the forge and the man in the
held-and they are all Independent.
Away back in 1916, Daniel Webster.
IN the course of three-days speech
against the most unfortunate bill
which repealed the protective tariff
T1ppecanoe, uttered this maxim:
When there is work for the hands
there will be bread for the teeth So
/ appeal to you gentlemen to see to
1t that the next congress is Republican
by a large majority-so large that |
there shall be ample courage to do |
that which is deemed wisest and best. |
Then let those representatives of the
people from the manufacturing dis |
tricts of New England, from the coal |
regions of Pennsylvania, Indiana and |
Ohio, and the producing regions |
OF Michigan, and the iron-producing |
districts of Ohio and Pennsylvania: |
the agricultural districts of the Mid /
die West; the stock ranges of the |
states and territories: and |
the fruit and lumber districts of the |
Pacific coast, get together, and If they |
can agree upon one or dozen items; |
in the present tariff schedule that can |
be reduced, let it be done, and done |
without three months Of acrimonious |
debate. Certainly no man will con- /
tract for the construction of any great |
building while congress is considering |
a bill that has for it's object the cheap |
ening of iron and steel and granite |
and marble and glass and lumber. No |
factory will lay in very large supply |
Of material pending a three months |
debate on a bill proposing a reduction
Of the tariff on hides and WOOL When |
was boy, we could always tell when |
the old miller was picking his burrs. |
because the mill was shut down. |
anticipate there will be found those |
who will not favor shutting down the |
mills while we are turning out as good l
! quality of flour as at present; espe-
cially If 1t Is likely to take very long |
TO reDair conditions