Show ELI PERKINS ON COTTON show alio southerner how to stake icil kiel I 1 am delighted to seo ono protective tariff newspaper boino oot ot the great ot texas lattio leaven may leaven this entire loaf it tho ideas ot the miner had prevailed in texas your great would bavo taken bales 0 cotton out ot tho crop and put worth of sugar in its place it would havo put cotton up to 8 coats whore it belongs and bales of cotton would havo brought than your present OOOO and yon would have the besides sugar was marching up the brazos and nil over southern texas now it is eido tracked that town that goes on to the next town to trade will bo poor and that nation that goes off to another nation to trade will bo poor the selling nation will bavo our money and the buying nation will havo the empty boxes it is good policy to keep tho money bamo bomo and the goods home it is poor policy to send cotton after german sugar the sugar bounty cost tho bation a year but it was all in the nation when tho government paya 12 to the people it ie in circulation it is not lost any than when you give 3 to your difo lets see what n 25 per cent reduction in the tariff is doing tarco years ago according to the census reports our american wages amounted to nino billions a year they have been 25 per cent two and a quarter billion dollars is being taken out of tho pockets of abo laboring men avory year this Is what Is making bard times in this country this is what is taking the froth and bead and tang and aroma off our old prosperity our silk pottery tin and worsted cloth factories are paralyzed or the men aro working at 40 per cont reduction of wages tho democratic tari ff bill has not elevated us toward prosperity and heaven but it has dragged labor from 23 to 40 per cent nearer poverty than it was before german belgian and austrian cheap labor goods anro now piling into new york and tho importer Is flourishing again whilo tho manufacturer weeps and his men go hungry tho nation Is sad I 1 cannot make the goopio laugh eli in texas miner |