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Show RAPACITY OF THE FARMER. It is raro that a man engngedin the running of plows and reaping of jjH fields can figure a not return of msny jl thousands for his year's work. If he tl has paid all expenses, kept up -his rl property and added reasonable im- )i provomonts. he Is in an oxceptlonM H class If he has cleared $5r000 in cnsli at the end of twelve months. Should. he reckon In a salary for himsoif, jjH tho profit would bo correspondingly H reduced. Working farmers arc not found among plutocrats. The vast ma- H Jorlty of agriculturists have but a H moderate Income, and they certainly lBl earn H. Why they should hnro been Hfl selected as the starting point to LH break down a protective tariff isnot H easily comprehended. All Republican , national platforms have advocated their protection. No Republican ma- jorlty m cither 'branch of consrAW'has fH ovor (ailed to voto for tho raaJnten- JH flnce of such protection. In the prea- H ent congressr era in- tho last, a "major- l Ity of Republicans has stood'by the. JH historical tariff principle of thony. iH In 1897 the Republican party 't4- gamed control of all trn.ncnesofth . flH government nnd retained It until 1 March -Tth InsL Within this -period H of nearly fourteen years" farming In lll this country advanced vrith unpaxal- JH lelcd'xtrldofl The value of'faraucrops iH m the "United States whs $400.000000 M in 1597aad S9,000,000,000dn IMOc'Thls H great stream of solid woolth was.,dte- -.H trlbotea among- tho farxoorejof hM the H states. Thoy received good-'prfcee for H tborr produots and) tha value of their bH landa largely Increased. Vvtero their H profits oxccaslroT Nq onowtn cay fH bo who fairly wWg3Mttii-remfK;ana H counts tho labor cod: onorgr demand- I 'ijH eL The high OOflt of" Dvtnrf cannot jjH bo charged to oxtravagsu profits for liH fermore. Thoy bsvo, prospered. Bhace nH 1S97, but what thoy novo p&xpbd has il frono into millions oC"pok. They . lH are 'nob rolling' In Avealtb: Ty. any ll meonH, Tho Domocratio free-trade il raid upon them Ja a ffbrton perform- -jH oncov SL Should GZohe-DemocraL ll |