The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1910-09-02
BURROWS SHOULD
BE ERE.NOM|NATED
Stands for that Which is to
Best Interests of Whole
People of State.
CONDITIONS ARE ANAL LyzEO
By One Who Knows Whereof he
Speaks. Voters Should Make
No Mistake


No Mistake.
During the past few years certain
newspapers and magazines have been
wagng a vigorous warfare against the
"high cost of living. Through cartoons,
epgrams and editorials, these pubica-
tions have assaied our manufacturing
industries, and the agricultural inter
ests under the high sounding phrase of
the "Food Trust
The prices of breadstuffs, butter,
eggs, pork, beef, potatoes and fruit have
been bitterly denounced as "outrageous"
as "iuequltsble and unjust; as "oppres-
| i've, "unwarranted' and "unpre ce-
dented". That is to say, the fact that
the financial condition of the farmers
is growing better, that they are finding
it easier to properly educate their child
rem and provide for their families the
comforts and convenlences of life, is
being held up before the people as be-
ing national calamity.
We are being informed that these outra-
geous, these niquitous and unjust prl ces
for farm crops and manufactured pro-
ducts have besn made possible by the
existing tariff laws and we are informed
by tue same newspapers and magazines
that another "substantIal revision down
ward" of our tariff schedules is needed
so as to "materially cheaper the cost of
| living" Do the farmers desire this
policy carried out, and will it be
to their advantage to have il done?
The New York Herald says in this
connection: "The entire business struc-
tu.e of our country rests upon two foun-
dation stones, namely, high prices for
the products of the soil and high wages
to American workmen wherewith to pur-
chase these products "You cannot
have both high wages and low tariff. y
Without high prices for labor, high
prices for fruits, vegetables, dairy pro-
duets and bread -stuffs are impossible.
From '8S to 92 this same cry against
| high prices was raised. A president
and congress was elected, pledged to
revision downward, that should
mate rally lower the prices of commodi-
| ties and thus cheaper the cost of liv-
ing." These promises were kept to the
manufactured products. With the fall
of prices came the lowering of wages.
! With cheap labor came a lessened con
sumption of farm products and down
went the prices of the farmers crops
/ For instance, the average annual con-
sumption of wheat in the United States
during Harrisou's administration, was
> .hola - 1rin
! Cleveland's administration it was AZ
/ bushels OF wheat per head; that is to
say, the low prices and hard times
caused by the last substantial revision
downward experienced by our people,
lessened the consumption of wheat in
this country 10 four years, over three
hundred millions of bushels What
became of this vast amount of wheat,
which we should have eaten, but didn't
1t flooded an already we'll supplied Eu.
ropean market and caused the lowest
prices there that had been seen for
over fifty years. AS the price dropped
in Europe, it necessarily fell in the
United States, and in the third year OF
Clevelands administration, the best
wheat sold 10 Michigan markets as low
as 40 cents a bushel. Down went the
price OF every other farp product; as
prices fell, the value of the farmers
acres fell, and 90 saw US with empty
pockets, clamoring for free silver, for a
high tariff anything to raise prices.
and lift'us from the slough OF fiCancial
despond. Soup houses we're established
in the cities and Coxy's army of the IN.
employed marched on Washington.
The propaganda of '92 is being re-
peated today. In Michigan, the men
and the publications laboring for a
further revision downward of the tar
iff," and lower prices for farm crops
and manufacturing products, are op-
posing Senator Burrows and advocating
the nomination of his opponent Where
are you my farmer friendY Are you
with those shouting for lower prices
for lower wages, for decreasing volume
of business and harder timesY Exper
ence has shown US that all those thin g:
90 together. Or, are you supporting
the man who says TO Us ali: Il shall
never cast a vote that will cripple
single American industry, or lesse2 the
wages of single American laborer.
1t is worth while for US to remembe
that the newspapers and magazines la
boring for the defeat of Senator Bur
rows are doing so, not because they dis
like the man, but because they ar
/ against what be stands for. These pub
, lications sell for fixed price, their ad
, vertisng space sells for a fixed price