What The Tariff Is Doing For Our Farmers

WHAT THE TARIFF IS DOING FOR OUR FARMERS.

Emigration from the United States to Canada is attaining proportions which justify surprise. Investigation shows that within our boundaries we have chiefly tenant farmers who can never hope to own their farms. Why cannot our tenant farmers hope to become owners of their farms? Ask our tariff.

To enrich privileged classes of our manufacturers the republican party has impoverished our farmers in dull times and diminished their profits in prosperous times. Although land is the chief source of wealth, the republican party has defied the farmers in a spurious theory of "protection" and accumulated special legislation to enrich manufacturers at the expense of the farmers. 

Were the tariff yoke removed from the neck of the American farmer he would not be a mere tenant. Land under a foreign monarch would offer no attraction to him or his children.

-Chicago Chronicle.

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Jones estimates that since the foundation of the government there has been spent in fighting, subduing and controlling the Indians the enormous sum of $845,275,290, and in educating his children $240,000,000. The commissioner has abolished what is known as the "ration system," and hereafter he declares that the red man must work. This is unquestionably a move in the right direction. Money spent on the so-called ration system has been largely wasted and it is high time the system was abolished. The red man should be made to work. Work will prove just as beneficial to him as to the white man. He is to be dealt with now as an individual and not as a tribe. He is to be taught self-reliance and self-respect and made self-sustaining. This would seem to be a wise departure.

Postmaster General Payne made the suggestion of a two-cent international postage rate. This proposition has now been endorsed by the postmaster general of Great Britain.