The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-06-17

Office early in the evening. Ho said
many things of radical nature, and
they were things he would not want
the business interests of the country to
get hold OF, for fear that there would
not pc tho same unanimity in endors-
ing him for nomination as there seems
to have been lately. If this isn't say
ing things on che stump that he does
not say OIL it, what would you call it7
II this isn't approaching the game of
the fakir who sells soap from the tail
gate OF q wagon, name it7 That sort
OF work has neither the color nor the
trick of politicastro. If this be lese
majestic, make the most of it.
since the return of the President to
his little cheese-box Office he has had
several interviews with his Postmaster
General and he has told him to "get
on the lid" and let the stink come out.
The latter is going to obey him by
getting out OF town and allowing his
is we'll known that Mr. Payne suffers
with acute indigestion and his stomach
ls not strong enough to stand this thing
any longer. Those of us who are COM
PEELED to live in close proximity to Che
rottcnness and corruption emanating
from the PostOtllce Department do not
blame him. The Investigation goes
CiNNCIJ PU III JS bulU, DuU ID ro-
marked here that after all the replies
to Mr. TullOch's charges arc boiled
down to the last analysis, the only way
IN which they have refuted anything
ne has charged has been by calling him
"anOtler.'
1t is q noteworthy fact to be borne in
mind that all the rcplics to Mr.. Tul-
loch's charges. have been given to tho
public with the exception OF the reply
of Mr.. Bristow, the Fourth Assistant
POSTMASTER General. The reason, it IS
believed here, is because MIR. Bristow
has corroborated Mr.. TulIoch's charges
IN almost every important particular
1t will take Democratic spade to get
to the bottom Of this muck heap.
The American Society of Equity Of
indianapolis has issued bulletin to
manding an increase in the price of
wheat. arguing that the minimum
price of wheat should be 81 bushel
and urging the farmers not to sell for
less than 81. The Society was organ
lzed year ago, with that city as
national headquarters. to maintain
higher. prices for farm products by CO.
operation Of the farmers of the coun-
try, and this is the first formal demand
for increase. in prices. The bulletin
reasons that because of the low visible
supply of wheat and the high cost of
production, owing to high prices for
most other commodities, 81 at Chi
cago Is only an equitable price fOrwheat.
1t may be heresy. but / would like
to suggest to the Equity Society that
there is another and easier and q more
certain way for the farmers to accom-
plish the result aimed at, and it does
not involve the risk and almost certain
failure Of attempting to initiate the
manufacturing trusts. In the first
place the price of whent is fixed in
Liverpool and not in Chicago, and il
we ceased entirely to export tho
chances arc that the price in Chicago
too many farmers and they are too
widely scattered to form trust, and
even If they were not they are not pro-
tected by the tariff rates, as are the
manufacturers. The latter can n:et
together, form trust and force the
prices as high as the tariff wall at any
time they choose. The farmers can do
no such thing. The manufacturers
nave thus forced up the prices that tho
farmer must pay for manufactured
goods an ! erage of abont 40 per cent.
since the Dingley tariff bill became
law The. prices of many articles,
such as barb wire, wire nails, tin plate.
window glass, etc, have been forced
up 100, 200 or 300 per cent. in our mar
kets. though sold at very low prices to
foreigners.
II tariff duties on trust products were
taken off, manufactured goods which
now sell for 81 wonld sell for 60 cents.
The farmer could then buy as much
with his bushsl of wheat selling at rs
cente in Chicago as he would get If he
could force the price OF wheat up to 81
while paying the present high trust
prices Tor HE R0Qda.
It I; entirely feasible iior. the far
mers, by voting for no tariff on trust
goods, to reduce the cost of what they
haSe, to buy. 1t is not at all feasible
Tor them to get together long enough
to artiticially raise the price Of wheat
9olor 40 per cent. The farmers are the
backbone Of proteGtion in this county,
although, as o leading publicah->the
late Ben ButtetworthSsaid In 1890:
"The manufacturers and the trusts get
the protection and the profits Of the
tariff; the farmer gets the husks and
the humbug." How much longer will
the farmer continue to buy republican
gold bricks3 Charles A. Edwards.
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