The Yellow
Jacket
Published Bi-Weekly.
R. DON LAWS, EDITOR and PROPR
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w n asKmg a good deal of you, isn't
en asis. sometmng or us.
h 1S aii tat the sesimogrdph which re
cords the movements of earthoiialrAc i Rn
arranged that ten rlproAa rnViio
collapse, and that the fFriscb earthquake J
Zr "rees -ancl lone point. This
was a trifle less severe than what struck
l?em0-CraC part last 4ection. The
machine in that instance indicated and
recorded total collapse: A?d U may be
Still Joined to ThfeIdol& r;
- It might be set. down as an invarmble
maxim that it :is st natnirai for IDemd
cratr to denounce' the: tariff . as it is. ior
sparks to fly upwards. . He Vbeen .at it sa
long and never heard anything else from
the leaders of his own party that he don t
seem to know; any better. But - John
Sharpe Williams brake out in somewhat
a new fashion the other day in the House
when he declared that "Protection is
rank Socialism, rank agrarianism and
rank communism." It is hard to, tell
what Leader ! Williams .was driving at
in this statement, but it is accepted that
he meant that free tariff is preferable to
protection.! Suppose we refresh our
minds with a little review of tariff mat
ter. It is campaign year and you don't
want the Democrats tor be tiring tneir
bomb-shells of Williams ' rot into -your
camp yvithout something to reply with; .
Which party has proven itself the
friend of free! labor, and which party has
itself its enemy? The Democratic
nlatforms of to-day endorse and affirm
ali, previous platforms, and all previous
Democratic plattorms antagomzea tne
Republican doctrine of protection, and
favored a tariff for revenue only. The
question of protection or free trade is
therefore as much an issue now as it was
in 1896, when the voters swept from the
earth the 'revenue reformers," who had
brought so much .disaster upon the coun
try. ; . . .
The advantages of a policy of protec
tion to home industry have been dis
cussed and re-discussed for more than
half . a century. It is not necessary to
thresh over this old straw but one home
ly illustration may be permitted.
Take two cotton shirts alike m
weight, texture and finish offered "for
sale at the same price. One was made m
Manchester, New Hampshire, and the
other was made in Manchester, England.
The American shirt was made by opera
tives who live in comfortable cottages,
who eat meat three times a day, who wear
broadcloth coats, and whose wives are
habited in silk gowns -on Sundays," who
live comfortable lives, who are, in a word,
independent, self-respecting American
citizens. The English shirt was made by
operatives who live in tenement houses,
who eat meat but once a week, whose
clothing is coarse, whose children are un
educated, who are ignorant and abject,
and have no voice in the government of
the country in which they live.
When the English manufactured shirt
reaches our shores, the Republican party,
in the shape of a custom-house officer, says
to the importer, "Before this garment,
made with cheap labor, shall enter here
to compete with a similar garment made
by well-paid American workers, you must
pay a duty upon it equivalent to the dif
ference between the wages paid to cotton
spinners and weavers in England, and the
vages paid to cotton spinners and
weavers in the United. States." This im
port duty is levied primarily for the pur
pose of supporting the government of the
IJnited States, and incidentally to keep
up the wages of American laborers to the
standard of 1 American life. You don't
like to pay this duty, eh? You don't like
to pay thirty cents duty in order to get
your sixty-cent shirt into the American
market? Well, that is -what the folly of
George the "Third and Lord North, 132
years ago, will cost you now. Thirty
cents is the expense to you of the Ameri
can Declaration of Independence. If
Washington J had surrendered 4 to Corn
wallis instead of Cornwallis to Washing
ton it might, have been different.' And
other things might have .been different.
The seat of government might have been
moved to this side of the Atlantic; the
British Islands might have been outlying
territory, Edward the Seventh might have
been crowned at St. Louis and Mayor
Dunne might have been Duke of Chi-
makerJ and' a:f ond tandfrdaucnt father;
hia; 'discris6late, ,widow has take a. new
partner, 'fand.' the business t
offering land dtQVPeoble whrf tt-hi
Movwauu appealing to noonlo 4.
r-' They Dare Not Be Honest. -
iWaj-lani of he Appeal to" Reason,"
wiggling and squirming to answer our
charges against him seeks all sorts of dis-.
honest methods. C Hear him in his-wail : .
bottle ! Shamen you, WaylandVOu
so dtslionest that you have lost contmi
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Protection to 'American industry was
the great Whig doctrine when Henry
Clay was alive. It is Republican doctrine
now, and it is. opposed by the Democrats
just because 'it is Republican doctrine.
and not because it is unjust or unwise doc
trine. - :' " .' - ;
Protection is a policy vunder. which this
nation grew and prospered from 1860 to
1892, when it suffered from its temporary
abandonment. It is our business life. It
is the foundation of our. hope of continued
growth and progress, and strange it is that
such Democrats as J ohn Sharpe Williams,
who-ought to know better, will continue
to stand up and denounce protection and
demand that it give, way Jto a policy of
tariff for revenue only. Somebody once'
said that the Universalist creed was ob
noxious to the Calvanists because it took
away from it their last nope of everlast
ing; damnation:; -'If you force a Democrat
to abandon his objections 'to protection
you remove the staff that supports his der
dining politics.;; Even when events coni
pel him to keep his views in favor of free
trade in the; background his platform de
clarations still resemble the inspription on
the tomb-stone of the Prftn rliT nVi . tt
lies the body, of Jean Ba Blanche. h
ianj 4aectionate husband and expert glove
'Tie Yellow Jacket is smaller than the
Appeal, and is printed" every two weeks,
ana its pntc i tciiw juai, v..
Appeal is only 25 . cents a year to those
who send in the subs. If there .is a graft
in a weekly paper at 25 cents a year, what
must thercvbe in a semi-monthly less than
the same size at 30 cents a year?" ;
Now that is what Way land gives h is
frenzied readers. That is what he thinks
an honest: answer to our charge that his
publication house is a graft that he is a
grafter, and that he has enriched himself
by gulling the weak-minded,, the imbecile
and insane of the land. Why isn't Way
land honest in his controversy ? Because
he doesn't want, to be honest in anything.
The Appeal to Reason is a graft pure
and simple and sells in bundles , to the
free-lovers and indolent, Who want to stop
work, at 25 cents a year Way land says
sg and theri he says if that is graft what
must be bur graft when we charge '30
cents a year and only print 'if every other
week. Wayland knew that that would be
a clincher to his readers wKo never see
the Yellow Jacket. He knew tliat his
weak-minded anarchical friends would
applaud him for saying that for turning
a point so neatly. But Wayland 's natural
ly dishonest methods wouldn't let hhnjtell
the truth. He forgot to tell his readers
that The Yellow Jacket' was one paper in
the United States that does not accept ad
vertisements that it turns down, annual
ly, thousands and tens of thousands of
dollars which it could get for the quack
ads., the spectacle ads. and the fraudulent
ads. which Wayland. runs m his Appeal to
Reason and that with the advertisement
rake-off enjoyed by the Appeal, Wayland
an-
Still There.
:,. Wayland hi hk Appeal to Ronton
swermg our charge. that he was a Jackass
bays uiat iias true that he was onec i
jackass. All naturalists are agreed tint
once a jackass always a jackass. Tim
uxc uiivi ccti am uumisiaKable eviden
that Wayland never got over it.
CO
T 1 Seriously Answered. '
In his Appeal, Wayland asks The Yellow-
Jacket this question :
So far as. the Socialists bcin a silK
lot, why don't your great intellect moot
hthem in debate!"
That is a fair question and we shall en
deavor to answer it fairly. The Socialists
who have been out on the platform, are
for the most part men wearing celluloid
collars; murdering the King's Lnglish,
insisting that all men who have inoiiev
are thieves, and that a capitalist is a foe
to society. Wayland is a business man.
A. keen, cunning, scheming business man.
He started his Coming Nation and ran it
until the men he. buncoed wanted him to
practice what he preached to let all share
in common his printing office and his sub
scription list and then he pulled out. IIo
left liis TJtopian dream and hiked, lie
qnit Ruskin, that ideal colony that he was
C.A
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Go
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could print his Wail of Discontent! and
send it free and still make money ff -the
post-office would accept a freergift paper.
The white paper used by Wayland, and
that is the big expense, is pafei for by the
quack advertisements in his dangerous
sheet. In the issue in which he confesses
that he was once a jackass there is an ad
vertisement which reads:
"You can make THREE HUNDRED to
FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS A MONTH
in the real estate business," and then the
ad. goes on to tell how. A great big ad
vertisement in a Socialistic paper telling
Socialists who are opposed to individual
ownership, , that they can make three to
five hundred dollars a month selling real
estate and yet Wayland advocates" that
it is wrong- everlastingly WRONG for
individuals to own real estate and yet
the blubbering gentleman who' confesses-
that he was once a jackass and. pleads
guilty to our arraignment, is actually of
fering farms to people who will get Iiini
subscribers for his quack advertising
sheet. , : '
However, back to our proposition :
Wayland makes his money on advertise
ments and job work and other grafts
and then - has the nerve to compare the
business proposition of our paper wdiich
TAKES NO ADVERTISEMENTS, butde-
penas entirely on suDScnptions ior its sup
port, and wants the chattering imbeciles,
xo . wuiub ilk ment aud of course you are inconsisfonc
louowmg .w uppiauanim ior answering AU cf you flre. Look at Debbs, the l.ibu-
sists that all property should' be, held in
common and yet his Appeal to Reason is
making him enough money so that he is
out buying real estate for his own use,
vi i": ic i-jti Lie
iiuu is iiimseii. a capitalist. ny nut iess
up. You know you have "money a great
deal of money and you never made it be
fore you deserted the Republican party
the party that first gave you resyJect abili
ty. You sneaked off from that and started
your Ruskin colony and your Coming Na
tion. You saw that you couldn't quite
hog all that game and you again sneaked
out left your second god, as it were, and
are now whooping it vp, pulling the legs
of the idiots, imbeciles, loafers and anar
chists to swell, a subscription list so that
you can buy income property andx explain
your conduct b3r regretting that you have
to do it. Aren't you getting ready,. Way
land, to be fired again. Don't you know
that the suckers are not going to con
tinue to put Hp to read your lurid rot
about hanging men in Idaho and your self
contradieted statement that private own
ership "is wrong when you are lining
5roiir pockets and investing in real estate,
while advising your comrades not to do
it that it is a crime?
Now the reason tliat men of brains !
not meet your Socialists in, debate is sim
ply because you are all absolutely incon
sistent. Old man Wilshire howls against
capital, and tries in the same breath to
sell stock in his magazine that will pay
three times the legal rate of interest. i u
come along and howl about private own-.
ership of land and -say it is a ernne.;aiui
take the money vou extort from the iecnio
minded and invest it in INCOME PRO-
PPfR.TV nrnnrrlinrT in vrmr OW11 state-
us so adroitly.
For shame, Wayland U You knew you
were doing a dishonest and a dirty trick
when you made that comparison. Is it
not true that you are: in the free spectacle
business, and are you not this moment en
joying a rake-off oh the philanthropist
who wants to send recipes for preserving
fruit, and is calling upon your army of
suckers to send 21 cents in stamps to pay
for the bottle, the fruit and the mailing?
That advertisement ought to damn any
man who claims to be self -respecting
but Wayland takes 'em you bet he takes
em, and he also takes the good monev of
the crowd of imbeciles, idiots, lunatics and
anarchists numbered . on his lone: list of
subscribers. The fruit ad. that Wayland
runs has the nerve to say that the adver
tiser made ' ' 121 dollars last week. ' ' and
Way lahd wants his horde of discontents
to put up 21 cents in stamps and send it
along to New York to pay for the bottle.
It is as though Wayland would want. you
to send him a lock of your hair iust be
fore he mailed, you a sample lot of bun
dlesand called on you, with big type,
to hurry up and raise him steen more
thousand of subscribers so that Ke could
buy1 some more land more income pro
perty, as he called it. With him it is acam
the Coming Nation coming his way- and
no Ruskin colony to collapge on hk hands
He said that Tennessee trick" of his -went
up because it was private ownersh in
twxu. : c .-iw uuying aimseu lancT and
lous and beautiful. Look at him all hi
-long and useless life. Always howling
against capital and yet dependent on in.,
hand-outs of labor that-he excites to pay
for his existence. -Why, why do not great
intellects meet the Socialistic spcll-bind-en
with, his celluloid collar and his soiled
linen?. Why not go to a mad-house and
ask to see the gentleman in the : padded
cell, and offer to'-reason something witli
him? Because, Wayland, intellect would
not appeal to your following aud hon
esty does not appeal to you. "You arc skin
ning the rural roosters, the grinning idiots
who Want something for nothing, and as
a grafter you are a success.
. Hello, Old Comrades !
We are sending out a few copies of llitf
issue of the Yellow Jacket to the ad
dresses of those who were on our list a
few years ago, but for some cause or other
have failed to renew. Boys, we invite you
to join oiir ccrew of readers again.
are still firing it at 'em; and have been
ever since you dropped' out of our ranKs.
We , are tr-ing to make improvements on
the Yellow Jacket from time to time, ami
it will inspire us to do more than ever to
have you enHsYagain. Place three dimes,
inalettcr and direct it to us and we U put
you on our rolTfor another year, and gnc
you -something warm, : and wortn .
money many times over. .
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