The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-04-26

marks his last resting place
In a great agricultural country like
ours. where lands are as rich and pro-
ductive as the sun ever SHOWN upon,
home wners ought to be ON the in
crease but they are not. Over thirty
three per cent of the farmers today
in h United States are tenants; and
the ratio Of farm tenants is rapidly
increasing, while in h great cities,
rle proportion of tenants to home
owners. is appalling. N~inety-four
of every hundred families in New
York city are enant Is IL any o
der that there are so few home own
ers, when the wages paid the r
nary day laborer. is barely enough to
supply the ordinary necessities OF
life? What an awful calamity IL
would be to these poor laboring peo-
pie, should the blessings of the high
tariff he taken from them. Wages
at once would go away down. and the
four per cent in New York City who
own humble homes. would lose them.
There Is but one honest way to
raise the necessary money to support
ths general government. and that is
by direct taxation, just as We raise
money to support the several state
governments. In this way, the bur
den of the citizen would be measured
by his financial ability to bear 81.
The tarih doe not touch the rich
mans boarded gold,-his money in
the bank.-his stocks, bonds mort
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its oppressive hand more heavily up
on the necessities of the poor. than
1t does upon the Injuries of the rich.
II is the mother of trusts the breed
err of anarchy. strikes. riots. bribery
and graft. II creates political cow-
ards. boodiers and deceivers of the
people. and e all his under the
hypocrirical and misleading cry of
Protection"
Away with this whole system. And
every other system. that robs the ma
nv. to enrich the few.
To show how ludicrous and unjust
the Payne-Aldrich bill is, it Is only
necessary 10 refer to a few of it's pro
visions. Here they are: Tariff on
the rich mans sugar, 81 per cent
Now the O man doesn' care much
about sugar, but he is passionately
fond of acorns. and therefore, a mag.
unanimous Congress allows his acorns
to come in free. Rich women's dress
goods 100 per cent. Poor women's
stuffed birds free. Rich women's
wooden shawis loo per cent. Poor wo-
mems diamonds in the rough free.
Thread for the rich, 100 per cent. AS.
n fnffAo fn- tho rOnr Fwnn TIofC Tor
the rich. e6 per cent. Ashes for the
poor free. Tariff on the rich mans
bacon, 4 cents per pound. Fish skins
for he poor. free. Rich mans v
ais. so per cent. Now IL there Is any
thing on earth, more Than all else,
that the poor man yearns for IL is
'dragoon's blood. hence IL enters our
ports free. Rich mans jack knives.
10 per cent. Now the poor ma can
get along without a jack knife. but he
can't live without turtle soup, there
fore Tor his special benefit turtles are
admitted free of duty. Bibles to make
Christians. rs pei cent. Cat gut to
make fiddle strings, free.
Now. some people are just narrow
enough to intimate that free trade in
q gut is a discrimination against our
home grown cats. but IL Is not. Ours
are aristocratic cats. They don't as
socdate with iowdown foreign cats.
Our cats are musical cats. They are
fed On canary birds, and after the
poor mans days work Is over. as a
section hand ON the railroad M s1.Asl
per day. they take delight n sitting
ON the back yard fence and singing
mllabys to him as he sweetly sleeps
and dreams of the high wage he re
ceives. by reason of the blessed tariff
which was made expressly to protect
the laboring nan We would like to
know how our oneresxnen voted ON
the Holy Bible and bowling cat
We are told that everything has
gone up In price under this beautiful
tariff system. we guess that is 90.
I'm Tact we know that the wages OF our