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it. The servant in the United States 
sends home her savings to help sup- 
port the family and it is sure to find 
its way into the safe of the mer- 
chant class. This is as it should be. 
On the other hand, the fisherman 
catches a quintal of cod or herring, 
the Gloucester packer cures that 
quintal at home, and the St. John’s 
merchant loses his profit of 80 
cents and upward, and more, for 
the independent fishermen, with 
money in their pockets, are not 
obliged to pay the tariff of the mer- 
chant and can trade where they 
will. The difference between cash 
price and credit price is large. Thus 
the merchant loses two good profits. 
This is as it should not be. 
This is the’third side of the fish- 
ing-treaty question. A clear-head- 
ed independent fisherman, master 
of his own “fore an’ after” expressed 
himself to the writer as follows: 
“De fish is de makin’ an’ de cussin’ 
of Terra Nova. The makin’ on it, 
fur we knows nothin’ else but jest 
fish: de cussin’ on it fur the mer- 
chants mostly has a monopoly. It’s 
no so bad now as it were. Huh! I 
mind de time us Was all no better 
an slaves. Now a few on we are 
thinkin’ and a doin’ fur ourselves. 
I tell you what, those was bad, bad 
times an’ these is bad times. They'll 
be more better when the people 
rule an’ no let theirsels be bound to 
them merchants. 
“Ye see b’y, its this way. We 
smell o’ fish all de 12 month roun’ 
and all most o’ us knows 1s fish. 
They say as how dis is a free coun- 
try but dere ain’t no freedom when 
one man can hire hisself out in 
your States and get good money 
and another can’t hire hisself out to 
fish o’ the States schooner for a lit- 
tle spell o’ the summer, get his pay 
to spend as he likes and have his 
winter wi’ the old woman and the 
childer. 
“What us needs is larnin. Many 
on us can’t read nor write. We 
needs to be shown how to get some- 
what out o’ the sile, as is reason, 
and not expect all the wages o’ the 
sea. I spects the sea understands 
this fur some times she uses we 
pretty rough an’ no pays the toil. 
You have schools and larn ye b’ys 
how to rise fruit and pertaties. An’ 
us had some one fur a sample, 
(meaning example), in prunin’ an’ 
growin’ we'd rise more. 
“T mind years since, one o’ them 
farmer school chaps from the States, 
took a cruise wi’ me on me bot an’ 
we talked this over atween the 
haulin’ o’ the trap an’ the curin’. It 
all sounded sense-like to me. I 
never scratched me sile til’ then an’ 
ee Se seme 
PoPuULAR 
From Manchester 
EXCURSION 
OSTON 
Wednesday, October 23, 1907 
VIA 
Boston and Maine R. R. 
ROUND 
TRIP 
Tickets good going on RegularTrains 
Visit the Great Food Fair at Mechanics’ 
75 cts 
Building 
all the stock I had was a few 
worthless huskies (half-breed Es- 
kimo dogs). Ye see this ganzy, 
(sweater), this were spun in me 
kitchen, It’s all lamb’s wool, raised 
on me own sheep. Now we-keeps 
four cows an’ a harse. Our harse is 
no like the American harse, more 
like a pony. We has plenty of 
strawberries, wild plums an’ fine 
gooseberries, an’ we has one apple 
tree. It’s a fine tree an’ us rises 
good apples on it. Us rised the tree 
from a seed in a crock. An’ we sot 
it in the yard an’ it grew an’ took 
root like a man. An’ now us has a 
good garden. Yes, b’y, de fish is 
de makin’ an’ de cussin’ on us.” 
“Since you have become So pros- 
perous, why do not your neighbors 
fish for themselves and till their 
garden? Can they not see that your 
method is better?” 
“T tell ye, it’s hard to break *way 
from them merchants when ye chil- 
len’s cryin’ fur bread an’ de fish has 
been poor or ye lost yer luck. So 
dey stays with the merchant an’ 
know that he will send round a wee 
bit bag o’ flour an’ some molasses 
and wait the next season for pay on 
the shore.” 
“You say you are going to give 
up fishing and enjoy yourself the 
remainder of your days, and that 
you have acquired a little money so 
you will not have to worry. How 
would you like to come to the States 
and possibly have an automobile, 
uncle?” 
“Huh! I sooner ride me harse. 
An’ as fur goin’ to the States I am 
goin’ down to see if it’s true what all 
ye fellers tell us about fem. But I'll 
be back to me house, me cows an’ 
me garden. De old rocks and de 
sea, they call me ev'ry mornin’ an’ 
could no live wi’out ’em. I tell ye 
Have your si 
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FOR THE FALL 
Before I close my 
store for the season 
H. STATLAND 
Kimball Block, - - Manchester, Mass. 
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us were borned fishermen an’ most 
0’ us will die fishermen, but that 
farmer chap were right, just the 
same, when he said as how we 
would fare better did us scratch the 
sile a little.” 
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