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tunna mxim-kat. ifrmn immiirration: that
l Til' IIM II 11 II' f;llll i!v !M-wi..i-!ini.l the lands valuable,
pM'iii'vutii to tin uitfMH oi ;
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the ihtfli tl
it County. .v':nt' ami Nittiiui.
I'liMiKli'iil every WimIim'wIiiv lit
Hi hum. jitu ura ( umt v. . I
.j. I'.sPAiMionj. i:iiT(.K
.IOIIN SAVIIJ.IAMS.rriii.iKHK
iNfiiscmiTtox Uatks.
1 copy year
1 " ( inoiitliK
$1
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1 " :i moiitiis
AllVKHTIMXIl Uatks.
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1 ; " ifMitell lis that a ni!ipr()Te,rivei('J,rn(ic( liarsa million on i
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1 " 1 v,,"r 14 4 !
1 coliunn 1 week..
1 " 1 month
1 " n
ii " !!..!..!!!!!jf"i7 H(i;
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1 year "u i
For iiitennedidt" nit's loni-s-'
j.on.l wiih the Kdi tor. !
! lun iintwi'u .i mmis n lino. :
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cuuscri uon iniinniM in .in-,
vAN( i-.iii)'l advcitirnieius
Me on ili'iiiaiM
A FARMER- YIF.W CF IT.
f.ol. Putnam, in Pelford's
Magazine for .Inly, K -v .J S ii:f(r:iiMt ion. jthat this protM-tix-e tariff: took home her three chil-'be. After the people at home
I am a farmer, the son of a j n ,)Me 1 read, for example, j that the Hon. Lentherlungs ' dren. After that, when my i have consumed our products
farmer, and the father of far- l.tory taught us that ! was a xvhooping up was thejdaughter-in-laxvdied,Iadopt-; to their utmost capacity,
mer. I have been all my!..,, agrii-ultural jieoiile was ; vampire that xvas sucking 1 ed her two. So 1 haven fain-; there remains a heavy sur
';ivs sc'ratcliin.n-a poor man's ! ,:)!;iiy e(:-i;-u red. In anoth-j the '.ife-blo-xl out of us. Pn-! ily. I could not afford it, plus that has to find its ma r-b-i"'v
ii. u ( lioi t to make a j s;nv if stMt 'd that slax--j der pretence of laying a tax but thrre was nothing else ket abroad or rot on our
livmg of! my farm. I am . ,i! v ;ni. s"rhlom xvere only j to support the government, I to do. Now, the cost of do- j hands. This market abroad
r. - .
HXtV
years of ae. My Virtti ,
is bent, mv
hands aard. .
ami my eyes dim. I own a
hundred ami sixty acre's of
as rich, well watered and
x' oo'Vd land as there is in
Ohio. 1 say 1 ha ve worked
hard to make a living I have
done something more I
have raised ami. in a xvay
educated three sons and oium
dti lighter. I suppose 1 could J t;v0 resistance,
hnx-e made the living, a poor j learned all this from the
sort of living, for myself and j books sent me by my son.
family out of the farm, but j j learned more, and that was
this attempt to school my I that in Europe the lowest
boys has left me very poor. form ()f pauper labor, so
Fortunately. I kept out of nin(.1 talked nix iC , wasthat
debt, so that what! have lj()f tj1(J f;1i-m-lab(aer. Why,
have; and if I xvere younger j t1H x,.jrro slaves xVere better
and had less rheumatisni. I j off i,ef)re the xvar than these
could yet get a miserable li v-1 ,.Veatures. They are housed
ing by farming. I eomd not c;1tle,xvorkedlike mules,
do this and koepnptlif place. txw f,Hl like dogs. In the
It has got to go. xvlieat-groxving regions of
Now, while this is my his- (be Iialtic, for example, the
tory as a farmer, that of my j;mn-hnnd gets eighteen dol-
peiglilior .Morton is (jiute ln-,
feient. He sold out to the
Horinish Dutch, went to our
county-seat, and put his
money in a National bank.
He is now living in xvhat, to
me, appears a palace; and it
certainly is compared to my
. poor house. Morton drixres
an elegant carriage, and is
accounted a xvealthy man.
Nor is my condition that of
Tom Shipiy, also a neighbor,
who sold to the Dutch, lb'
went to Middleburg, and
bought a store He is not
so rich as Morton, but he
has done well. 1 knoxv throe
others, in our county, who
got out of farming into some
other business, and all to
their oxvn advantage. There
never was. I can understand
how it looked as if xve xvere
getting rich, w lien j t llirry pfT mit n(i tbis whilo ; . t.onilvmv tod nK,
land, bought at fl.23 evy other sort of property J lmvZ
acro from the government, ! has been on the rise. During- Jnat tu' 1
unnnaA tJ th tiij,.. i the war. and shortlv nfter. I : 'ars. 1 wenty-fi ve . dollars
LVVUII.1'1 111' IV 1 "I 11, 11111 111 1 1
1
ty, and then xvont on bounc
ing up till it reached a lmn
dred. But this increased val -
no did not come from xvhat
xve raised on the lands, but
hooni:. watatcja county, x.
j.(. thirty year turn value
. .. . .
liiiM liHfii rifts inr. I reinetn-
ber when thiK land of mine
: was held cheap at a hundred: Tin most significant part
'dollars. Now I cannot wll of it is that, wtiilo the ngri-
H'ir ,i .ill 'cultural interest goes dovn.
11 ill (111 . '
Wli.-.n our fon-iTessman.
l the Hon. Lveuruus Leather-'
lnns,was amon? . can-'
k-iWMlii.r fur ii return to Con-
1 irresK, he whm fond of mi; vin-x'
' thnt the agricultural inlerest ,
was the great solid interest
Vr V"l!
tariff wiih the Koumof nil
the profit the farmer made
l-'iout of hU products. .Most :
.. .l.t .iU r nciiihUors took that !
in, aiul trieil to live on it. 1
. . .. . . i
didn't. I have a son. a law- j
...... Cleveland.' who has !
iiei)ed me. from time to time, !
. . ' . ;
'when I rot into a worse!
.... , i
i.Mva-iP'aeh than usual, and he
Ins elso sent niosome books, ;
that I manage to !-":d at in-
tervals. mostly Sunday.; '
and at night, and hax'e got
fi..i. lw.ii .i !- il i i lunfiil :
ji . tin. .in iiliil 'i u. mi
nnssihlo ;niifi.- the tilbrs of 1
i,. soil. This came, the au-!
thor said, from the lack of
combination, or even associ- i1Tuch of this levy for private! be comfortable, but decent j they talk about tnkinglabor
a1 ion. among the oppressed. ! pockets 1 was paying. To ! enough to attend the com- j ers from farmingand putting
Scattered xvidely ;.art. in
rural districts.- there could
j be little assor-Tiition. or of
'that interchange of intelli
i yence and svmpatv, xvhich
the foundations of
eiTec-
jars n s;eepskin oat at
the end of the year. If xvego
to India, xve find the agricul
turist works for six cents a
day, lives on rice, and wears
nothing but a cotton shirt.
In Egypt the farm-laborers
are sla ves, held down to their
xvretehed existence by En
glish, French and Gorman
bond-holders.
Now, it, struck n.o one day (.nst lup-fortv tlol;U.s; th(M111.
that xve farmers had been j nmissarv t.lx is fom.toendol
saved from this conditicm j liirstniv a
only by the government r i ua ,.na
j lamS) thftt. kppt us fro.n be -
mg crowns down. i no n j jn Jron aU(number,the
came the thought, that when ; lj0flt Uno mm of fls 11(,.)r a?
these lands are all taken up,iIran calculate, txvolve dol
us xvill soon be thecase, xvhat j ,a
will bo our condition? I have! ' Four voarH 8inoe i bought
observed how, within the ; ft biml I paid, in instal
last twonty-five years, agri-. , .0 04,- n(1.,mt u.lin
cultural values have shrunk '
. - - - . -, - - -
1 1 1 ...1. J. i
I solo lav wueai at a (ioaar
i and a hi lfbushel. I sold my
crop at sixtT r1"ts.
Next harx'ost it xvill bo fiftv.
: Mv wool, pork. corn, and all
' tumbled, not quit so badly
'but very
y nearly. At -tliii"H'Vi'ity-f1v' wont in ji int!t
i long will it U le- to the company, and fifty to
rate how
ioif l mn vorhmg mr eign-
. ! ..:...
TtH'ii uouar u i-.u jiiiu iinh i
sheepskin coat? i
the country is prosperous,
nud all other interests o up
in value. Here is my county,
for exannl fairlv shhtirled i
over with mortptp-s. In all '
the lieavv investments of the1
entire county there is not a ;
hundred dollars profit. Mr.rlrpvr two r iu theVowcut and thrash
!n less investment cvh'.v year.
He and others like him. not j
farmers, h.avo the country's ;
niosncritv ia thrir breeches'
'pockets.
.. . !
When one talks of j
American boom, he
the great
lneniis Carne 'ie. Vandei bilt. :
Jav (build, and boomers of
' ... .. i
that sort. I hex holt all i
nr prosperity
This condition of things
put i.ie to looking round, to
se if I could find
the cause
lot' the condition.
I made a ;
.1: .in.. ...! t r.nni.l'
vr i ifiit ii.il. iiMiuii
thnse emnuii-r devils had laid
: tnv to smaioct themselves.
I u-as curious to know how
this end I got the tariff, and
went to studying. It is no
easy matter, but it can be
done by any farmer.
Now, to begin xvith, my
house, a frame one, may be
valued at eight hundred dol
lars. This, if I were building,
would be the .price; but xvhen
I had deducted the protective
tax on lumber, glass,' shin
gles, hardware, and paint.
1 found the real cost of my
hom-' was only five hundred
dollars. Hen1 is a dead loss
to me of three hundred dol
lars. 1 had paid three hundred
dollars to the Carnegie set to
keep up their palaces and
tally-hos at home and in
Scotland.
My stable, nlso a frame one.
cost me four hundred dollars.
Calculating as before, I found
the same proportion held
good, and I am skinned to
keep up the protectionists to
the tune of one hundred and
fifty dollars another loss to
mo of that amount.
I hax o a pair of old xvork-
1 Iwirxes The harness on these
i ty tas is.
- j llirrii it, mmi ni -tv
i i i.;.-, ..Tin
; .... 1
u'.iiif f.i n A i-APtl iMH in riini
."i'L iw nuniii.-iuif,,
when t.h agent sold one he
; Wrtfl allowed twenty-five dol
lars. Of the remaining hun-
dred" a ml twenty-five dollars.
c. wkdxksdav. juu
ui'- i m-i i mumms.
1 1 i- i lit-1 1 1 1 ii 1 1 1 . iiifii-
1 Ins isiuelicginniiig. Thf'to
nothing n farmer piwhns-
(es that docs tiot pay toll to
these protectionists. take
' my two horses to the black-
...
smith's to . j ,lmd. for ex-
simple. The blacksmith
chaws me, fur 11 arouml
shoeing, one doilarand t wen-'
ty cnts. Of this, forty n-uts
is retained for protvtion.
o have a new roof on a Mied
uan.is 01 .ur. t arneie ami
u-h, to keep up palaces in i
Scotland and at home. Mr. ;
I'.laine says protection is u
Hetiublicau principle, and
must be Mistained. He was
rolling along over English
. . . ...
was i.
pikes, behind four hloodd
horses, and sitt ing by Mr.
.. . . . ...
Carnegie. rrohahlv. u i ,
Probably, if I
werrt fjxed that way. I would
:s - e beauties in the system.
P.ut, you see, 1 am on
th.
side that sees only the swm-
dl".
W1n.li inv iVmii'litiir iliiwl I
i n i. in. iiitiiivt .ti-i, .
i thimr. shoeinr. and furnish-,
; ina1 hats for these little folks,
; so that they may not only
I nam schools, makes up no
i small item. I calculate that
the five cost me. in money
expended at the stores in;
Middleburg, some two hun-:
drod dollars. Of this a hun-
dred and sexenty-fix-e go on
the backs of my poor chil-
dron, and twenty-fix-e into to pay native farmers; and
the pockets of the protec-; get them they do. These mi
tionists. jnersand manufacturers, af-
All the purchases made by I ter squeezing all they can out
us farmers are at the village,
where a year's credit is giv
en. When our crops come iu
wo deliver our grain at the
railroad depot, and getting
chocks for same, go round
and settle that is, so far- as
the money from our products
enables us to do so. Every
year the sum that remains
unnaid eroxvs larger. We
have then to hassle round,
sell wool, sell hogs, sell any
thing to make up this differ
ence. The xvorst of all are
the township, county, and
State taxes. These have to
be paid, and txvo-third. yes,
throe-fourths of the mortga
ges on farms originate in
these.
Now, if I could have the
two hundred and odd dollars
extorted from my poor little
farm of one hundred and six
ty acres, could about make
hotheads moot. And xvhat
an infernal outrage it is that
I, aud other farmers like my
self, should have this extor
tion fastened on us, for xvhich
we get absolutely nothing
in return!
Wo are' told of a home
market. We have heard of
that home market for twenty-five
years, buthax'e never
seen it. Small wonder ! fur of
all the people taken, they tell
us, from agricultural pur
suits, there is not one eats
more or less than he did be-
iss.
t'ohv And as for h-ssouiiig j
1 1 number of producers, the;
cangniuoii noni r.urt'"pwii
m tlir tnn for
in unit' iiicii mm in iiiiuii
taken out. It is an oM sort j
of protection that, protects
labor against 1 1 labor in j
Europe, but not from the
thousand on thotisamls
pouring in upon our nhoresi
every year.
The home market don
work. It costs
me riH it fit mm i
m . (is it : tUM s J
rin this Jo-:
any other farnu
-ahty, one dollar to plant, j
,nto ,,,,, Rnmary .!ie
bushel of wlieat. T he home
market, u the thing isi cull-
ed, gave me last harvest six-
ty cents n bushel. Thiscom-
ing harvest I exjH'ct fifty
. . . .
Cents for this is the rate of
decline; and all lny other
iiroducts suffer thesameloss.
.... . ....
1 ius sort ot tiling never oe-
-nrred with the foreign mar-
kets.
This, howe-er, is all fudge.
There is no more home mar-
kei now than there v;'is fltf.V
vt:i ra i ovi' niiil tlnii-o i-jin'r
. i'i."i ...... ...... ......
fixes the price at home, so
, that no law of Contrress can
lessen or add one cent. Ulien
; them at other pursuits, they
don't help us, for these same
j consumers xvere consumers
before. As for lessoning the
number of producers, as 1
have said, these people get
pauper labor from Eueope
for less than thevxvouIdhax'P
of us by law, proceed to
squeeze labor; and they do
that by draxving on the pau
pei labor of Europe I am
but a short distance, as the
crow flies, from the Hocking
Valley cool-mines. I saw the
I native Americans driven out
I by Welsh and Irish. These
j in turn xvere crowded out by
; poles. Bohemians and Ital
inns. These in turn, as they
object to being starx'ed to
death, are being threatened
by Negroes: and xxo xvould
have Chinese did not the law
forbid. So far as 1 can find
out, the poorest-paid laborer
in the United States is the
protected laborer. Mining
work never was skilled labor,
and, oxving to the improve
ments in machinery, manu
facturing has ceased to be of
that sort. Even a girl or a
child can stand by and regu
late the machine.
I said the protected labor
was the poorest paid. 1 must
qualify that. There is vory
little difference between that
and farm labor. At the rate
wo have been sinking in the
last txventy-five years, in the
next twent-tive xxe shall see
farm labor little better than
the old serfdom of Russia.
Wo are coining to the eigb-
toon dollars a yoar ana tp;
sheopsKih coat. And as e j
right honorable orbeial pro-1
tectionists address us now.i
continued on ith page,
NO, JJ
J, J , Coffey & BfOi
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llnmww & Koln LmiUih-j
( ! ? 1 1?S
1 '' 1 J , f 1 , '
I ni-tilht liiiiliu iiliil f AMbi hwj
I'm turv JemiM iukI ('aMiinerM;
The most exteiiHivi" liiip of
! Medicines & Drugs
kf,f in I,Kn,, fl'"!
r4MnlM,ni Kvrtipofllvpni.lio
pl.it,, Simmon' jv.t Itmla
'. " '" V01" H l?,vr
M,wii!n-. ItrownV Iron Ltittfri
rown Iron LUtferHi
Dr. ('. C. Kike's Ijvver, IVm'ut-.intiti
anil Neitnilgju Cure find Vrtrloti
other nieli'inei too mimeroiiR t
IMelitioil.
All of 1 lif ubox'e will Ik hoM
CHEAP
l'OH
We iM'lieve otir fHcilitieH nre
suc.li as to enaMe us to sell good
LOW
OR
EE
than any other merchant in the
COUNTY, As we
PAY CASH FOB OUR
GOODS
and get a discount of from 2 to
Gier cent.
We pay no clerk hire or. house
rent and can give our customers
closer figures than many others.
We take in exchange for goods
Butter
Kggs,
Wax,
Wool,
Grain,
(reusing,
Honey,
Feathers,
Chickens, .
Hay,
Hides &.C.
We Also Deal In Live
We hax'e in conuetion with our
othpr business a
HOTEL, STABLES
TANNERY
xv here we promise to give satis
faction to those who give .u
their patronage.
f ur Hotel is
Headquarters for Drum
mers and the Traveling
PUBLIC.
As a Summer resort
the Climate is ua
surpased ia the
STATS
, , 11'
ie by t::z State Board of
Education at LIST f-kice
T. J. ConeV SlBlO
i Jane 7. 188. ly.