Beventy cent wlieat is the fruit of repu...

Beventy cent wlieat is the fruit of republlcan protectlon. Our high tarlff shuts American wheat out of forelgn markets.- Lansing Journal. That's splendid sense, that is. A tariff on wheat mported into this country shuts our product out of the eastern markets, does it? Any child ought to know better. Tbe running of railroads into Asia and the opening tip of that great country, bringlDg its grain into the European market in competition with oure, is what causes the depression in wheat. Take off the tariff on wheat and open up our markets to free trade with these countries and then see where the price of wheat will go to! Let our farmers attempt to raise wheat In competition with the farmers of India, who consider a shilling a day high wages for the harvest field, and see where they wlll land! The Journal doesn't appear to know what it is talking about, or else desires to ruin the farmers because the republicans have nomlnated one of their number for governor. But such trash as the above is the catchpenny style of argument all the free traders indulge in. Free trade for America means starvation for America's laboring classes every time. It cannot mean anything else, for it opcns our doors to all goods made or products grown by European, Indian or Chinese pauper labor. That's what It means, dcny it if you can. 'Who is Robinson, anyway 1 " asks the Detroit Free Press. The next congressman f rom the lst congressional district, my dear.