The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1911-03-17
THE FARMERS
UNION DEPARTMENT
(By NJ. A. Drinkard)
Remarks at Random

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our Government alienated the
people, Has it not operated Sc.
riously against the industrial and
wealth producing classesl When
it charters thousands of National
Banks and loans them money at
per cent, and allows them TO
charge the industrial and bust
ness interests of the country
enormous and ruinous rates Of in
terest, how can it claim the heart
allegiance of its citizensl When
it makes it possible for few Of
its citizens-the wealthy few, to
invest in its bonds and thereby
eIude the tax collector while the
multitudinous many have TO con
tribute their full share to the sup
port Of the government how can
we expect anything butdiscon-
tent among the peoplel We have
trusts and trusts, but the great
est of all these is the money trust
the National Banking system
of the Government. But the peo-
pie are beginning to think
If labors toiled as hard and as
industrially in its own cause as
it labors for the good of capital.
this world would undergo mar
velous change
Abraham Lincoln once said ::
81 am here to make myself the
best intellectual, moral and physi-
cal being possible. To do it, am
entitled to generous food, gener-
Gus clothing and comfortable
shelter, and if any person or set
of persons lays upon me burden
whereby ! am required to use
more than reasonable effort to
feed. clothe and shelter myself,
the person or set Of persons so
unreasonably burdening me is an
enemy to God and my murderer.
Unreasonable burdens are impos-
ed upon the wealth producers to-
day. and their lives and energies
embodied their products are abb
solutely at the pleasure and used
for the profit of the spectators.
Capitalism is manufacturing the
muscle, blood and brain of the
workers into wealth without rem
dering any adequate return.
Spectators traffic in the lives of
the toilers without a thought Of
the equities involved.
The cotton Spectator fails to
see in the feecy staple Of the
south the wan faces of the little
wights forced from the school
doors into the cotton patches
there to toll in the morning ma
| laria and under the twilight dews
thus blending a part of their lit
| tie lives in every bale produced
| But they are there, however. This
economic cannibalism must be
stopped. 1t is not only dishonest
but inhuman.
Reciprocity and the Farmer
President Taft S reciprocity
agreement with Canada puts the
cbestnuts of the tariff barons in
the fire and they would like TO
use the American farmer TO rake
them out. We have been known
to do such favors
As a matter of fact the protec-
ton that the farmer gets from the
tariff doesn { now and never has
amounted to tinkerS dam.
/ When the present duties were put
ON agricultural products, the
farmers were worked. They We're
told the tariff of - cents a huShel
on wheat was added TO protect
them against the competition OF
the Canadian wheat growers.
They were told that the northern
millers were privileged 10 bring
i'm wheat from Canada, grind IT
into -four. export the -four and
get a rebate of % per cent on the
/ duties paid on the wheat. That
is about the extent of the protee-
ton the farmer gets out of the
tariff while buying in the over
protected market of the manutac-
turer.
In his Tariff History Of the
United States. Prof Taussig
SAYS Of the tariff bin Of 1883,
'The duties on agricultural pro
I ducts were left unchanged in or
| der to maintain the fiction that
/ the agricultural population Sc
cured through them a share of the
benefits of protection.
Wheat belt farmers have little
or nothing TO lose from recipro-
city with Canada, probably much
TO gain. That country furnishes
a great big market for American
goods What the Canadians buy