The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-10-22


bad and the audience Kissed and
hooted. but he sat still. Finally. one
or the audience went To him and
asked him what he thought 81 the
play and why he didn't join with them
in the Missing. You don't Tx this
play do you? lie said. No | don't
like IL any better than you do, bur
l am here on a pass and ! think / Viii
go out and pay for a ticket and then
| Will come in and Join you. 50, |
think the president is in the same fix.
Tariff Promises.
And on the tariff question. Well.
my friends, when | strike the tarin,
| feel like | have met an old friend.
l have been talking tariff twenty
seven years this summer and the
older j have grown the more con
WINGED | have been that there Is no
protection against the high tariff that
we have today under the present con
ditions. | have watched their argu-
ments for tariff. Today they can't de-
fend the tariff, they simply say II
must be reformed. Secretary Taft SAYS
1t must not be reformed until after
the election. Well. there are just two
Ways to reform the tariff. one is Just
DtIpft the titCliolt ana the OtnGr Is
just AFTER the election They can't do
/. before the election beau 60 II viii
inteti,re with victory. nnl They ant
DO II after an election because II
would repudiate u victory. 50 YOU see
the promises % reform go for no.
thing when you ncor Republicans
talking about reform OF tn. tarim svs-
tenn. This reminds nne % n story T
heard in Mississippi Nv good wife
gets The good Ftorias AMI she g',..s
them TO me. When we We're In Miss
issippi last fall a man at our table
told her this story. she Drought IL to
my attention. and dunk X q Il good
illustration Of the promises by the
Republicans of tariff reform. He
said there was an old cOlored man
who married a wife and nc thought
that she was extravaganza. she was
spending too mach; one day she want
ed a dollar the mex DAY she wanted
fifty cents: and the ncxr dav it was
twenty-five cents. And than she wants
another dollar. and another fifty cents
n another quarter all the time. II"
said he couldn't stand for It and nv
friend asks him what does she do with
all the money. He said i hair't gin her
any yit' ! am afraid our tarin re-
form by the Republicans Will be this
way. They VIII always be talking
about II, but will never give us any
reform. This reminds me also of a
little boy on arithmetic class. The
teacher asked him If his father gave
his mother 81 one day; 81 the next
day and SO the next day, what would
she have? He said, oh, my ma
would have q fit They continue to
promise, but do not perform. It con-
tinues TO cloud up but it does not rain,
as some ones remark expresses II
Their promises of tariff reform sound
like a young fellow who went on the
stage. soon afterwards. he came
back md ono gf hi-. frjapiu agkaF hf,y,
if he made q hit. Well ne said.
that depends on what kind Of a hit
YOU mean His friend said, well.
mean did they call on YOU between
the curtain Well he SAID. they did
one time, when afellow in the audience
dared me to come out before the audi
ence again We never expect to have
the tari frcformed by the Republi-
They say they are going 10
lower the tariff on oOlen goods. \
manufacture comes up and says. no.
you can't reduce the tariff on these
goods. Then they say they will re-
duce the tariff on shoes and Il shoe
MANUFACTURED comes up and says. no
you can't reduce the tariff on shoes
and he brings up the compary's rec
ords and shows how much the com
contributed TO the campaign
And now they have allowed
some to nave special privileges in the
fortunes they should
Think OF it, the idea II limiting for
tunes.
ON Swollen Fortunes.
Mr.. Bryan ridicuIed a policv that
would wait TO snatch something aawv
from wrath at the graveyard The
better plan would be u but no nrnit
on fortunes except the standard Of
and fairness.
Beyeridge's Limit"
Senator Beverage made a speach
IN Indiana not long ago in which ne
declared that ii might be necessa ~
to limit individual fortunes. but ne
the limit at 800. 100000 much
more than the most Of us viii ayer
Do you know what
100. 100000 means The president "a
PAD q 1alary Of $4,000 a wear and
thlnk 1t IS worth this much. ue +
would have to serve ten years u make
; DO O9V. lie would have 10 serve
twenty years to make SI.0D0.GOG a. ~
would have to serve 100 times taant
to make 500. 00g.O 4 rail
ROAD president sometimes makes
100000 a year He would have -
ieTEe nifty years to make $4,000 oo0
pr ne would have To have twentv lives
70 live long enough 70 make II stoo
100000. Yet there is one nan
n d lifetime has been able to &c.,
nulate a fortune estimated AZ ne
nan s~50o,oo0.000. That means thar
income is enough -
100, 900 school ~acper
"ho earn ordinary salaries. These
are akin our cbiIdro-
,ften at a sacrifice. They helm IN form
hat character uDon which we mt.t
lepend IN our declining years. No rnan
las secured 500. 000.00o in his If
honestly. There are many who