Show ARE AKE OUR F FARMERS IDIOTS rS P Fifty per cent of our our population are re tillers of the ground When our contemporaries of the press presS' in their comments upon the silver sil question and nd the tariff address addresS' the farmers they tiey assume that those who are engaged in agricultural pursuits are credulous fools The advance in inthe inthe the lie price pric of wheat is a attributed to tolie lie enactment of the tariff law aw It is also claim claimed d th that t this this' advance i in the price of wheat is aI a complete refutation of the argument made by hy the advocates of bimetal- bimetal bimetallism bimetallism ism that the the advance advance in the price of wheat heat and other necessaries of life ife were impossible under the te single gold jold standard They exultingly ask the advocates of bimetallism who have claimed that the disfranchisement ran chisem nt of silver sil-er caused a shrinking shrink shrink- ing ng in the commercial value of property pro perty erty to account for the th better prices price of farm products It is an an imper- imper inece deserving a severe rebuke fo foi tor the he advocates advocates of of a protective ariff arif to o assure their farmer readers tha that they hey are indebted to the new tariff law aw for or or the better price of ot their staple pr products duct Every candid peron person person per per- son on knows that wheat growers an art realiZing better prices for tor their grain graft because of the partial failure of the thi crop in foreign countries where usually there is a surplus Our Oui supply is above average average The claim that the new new tariff schedules dules doles has anything to do with giving letter better tt r. r prices price for fo farm atm products pr is s sc I V i I rr rI r I I J supremely absurd that every f farmer who has has- any intelligence will wm feel fee feci insulted by by- the attempt to imp impose upon his credulity JI J I t The I 1 he he- protectionists have have- pret pretended that the the- duties on farm products are ar ai aitoo too tow low and that justice to to- our far farmers tar mers demanded that they should b braised be raised high enough to shield them the from ruinous competition with the th th cheaper labor of the old world orld T 7 Tu carry out the deception the Dingle Dingle law y increases the tax tae upon st st p r farm product products beyond all former forme precedent B By the Wilson bill I duties upon wheat corn cord cornmeal buckwheat oats oats c was fas 20 p pe pet cent ad valorem To placate th the t complaining farmer and make hin hint believe that the Republican party was vas his his- friend and an 1 protector the they changed hanged the rate on corn from Irom 2 20 per per cent to fifteen cents a bushel which is nearly too per ce cent t. t ben benefaction What a magnificent 1 While manufacturers manufacturers' of all aU k kind lad had the shield of protection thrown them encouraging the org or g n of more than one hundred rusts trusts it was was- but reasonable that tha hey they should pretend to tp do something for or our poorly paid and lily illy protect ed d farmers To show how the new p v. v law aw will secure the home market to 1 tillers of the soil soil- soiL am and prevent their being deluged by the s' s of cheap labor we will given give 1 h an n example ex or two There were imported last y year ar worth of corn This will benefit a million to the extent of 51 50 a year under the ingley Dingley tariff 1 The importations pi pl f cornmeal last year paid a duty ol of taxed in the 10 xo 20 Oats were Wilson ilson bill 20 p per r cent to 15 05 c cents per er bushel The increased duty on oats ats will be a year on the entire importation 1 I The duty on heat the he last year brought into into i the lie Federal Treasury To still stil further protect the tarn farmers ers the Dingley Dingy Ding Ding- ley ly y bill furnish for distribution ution I Ia a year ear car Oh Oil what what a shame a-shame I 1 What a a false fals pretence I What an insult to 10 an a in- in n- n farmer farmed Not a bushel more would be im- im iwi- iwi rn J 44 4 ported if these staples had been been laced on the free list The Th farr farmer er r gats its ets no protection and is is' compelled t to 0 pay a tariff tax upon ever every arti article l F Fe he e purchases t a aTo To add insult to injury the gold ti bugs are earnestly laboring labori K to t con ont conk i vince the farmer that he i it ii ft for or the advance in to the th price of his ni pis I breadstuffs to the adoption of th the ih single ingle gold standard They claim that nal the increased price of wheat is isa a complete complete- refutation of the ment of Bryan and his supporters supporter that hat the disfranchisement of silver shrinks the commercial value of o oland land and and the products of labor They know they the lie he and expect to o plain off their falsehoods upon an ignorant an credulous people Unfortunately Unfortunately Un Un- fortunately there are arc tens of thou thousand i sands sand who clamor for tor a return of c pro prosperity who are appeased by by- tent ten 1 relief If from any any- cause wheat brings bring a better price they are I Iare content content to let things things- drift There are re thousands thousandS' of workingmen out olit of o employment who ho complain of hard hardtimes hardtimes times mes to day who if they get work are satisfied with the to o morrow situation We hope and believe that hat the farmers will see seq how V they have have been lave been misled |