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- J RISES WHEAT WHY WHILE SILVER FALLS Supplement LIARS M AY? FIGURE, BUT FIGURES WON'T LIE. ' CORVALLIS GAZETTE. J.-R1DAY OCTOBER SO, 181M5 WHY BUSINESS SUSPENDED. Jk Bit of History Which Will Interest Eirr) Vorklnfmia Workingmen who are wondering why , V. nAHlAn .V. , - . i uc rca ul me wuuu v me linnisii- iug so lttl pmeolelmyatne B-f-' agsaisa ins so little employment and paying such -low wages will, perhaps, be interested in the following table which shows the val ue of certain lines of manufactured goods .imported Into the United States during the first year of the Wilson law, com jiared with the quotations in the last year of the McKinley law.- It will be seen that In every case the importations increased enormously, and when it is re membered that all of these goods are of -ii class that can be manufactured freely .in the United Stales, it will not be sur prising that the factories of this country iiave been compelled to close down or reduce the wages paid to their employes. A comparison of the first calendar year under the Wilson law is made with die last fiscal year of the McKinley law, the purpose being to place .side by side the importations of the two complete official years which most nearly touch the date at which the Wilson law went into ef fect: ; SET BBS Ss i ARTICLES. Manufactures of cotton $ Earthen and china ware. . CHass and glass ware Iron and steel man ufactures. . . v -. Leather. Gloves Silk manufactures. Textile manufac tures. Tobacco and manu factures Woolen goods. 29,115,801 10,524,608 7,529,895 25,055,250 7.745.002 8,045.61)9 31,658,6! $ 18,805,741 .879,437 5.216,810, 20.470.685 4.508.38(1 4.907,815 24,811,773 27,734,300 19,360,761 17.352,668 57,494.863 13.159.572 19,391.850 Total. $222,257,112 $137,552,781 It will be seen that the total importa tion of these ten classes of articles alone in the first calendar year under the Wil son law, were nearly one hundred mil lion dollars more than in the last fiscal year under the McKinley law. This means nearly one hundred million dollars sent out of the United States to pay for. eign workingmen. while American work men are thus left without employment .and without earnings. Had "these hun dred million dollars been distributed among the American workingmen in stead of going to those of foreign coun tries, the situation in the United States would be vastly different to-day. THE FREE RIOT PLANK. The attempt which is made in some quarters to make it appear that what we call the "anarchist plank" of the Chicago platform is but a fresh expression of the traditional Democratic view of "states' rights" will not work. That plank had its origin solely in the brain of Governor Altgeld a brain fired with resentment at the suppression of the anarchist rising in Chicago at the time of the great railroad strike. To that anarchistic demonstration Governor Altgeld had lent all the aid which the avowed sympathy of an official in power could possibly afford. He had calmly witnessed the seizure of railroad and other property by the mob.' He had beheld the .flames mounting skyward from burning warehouses and railroad trains, fired by miscreants who sought to reproduce at Chicago the horrors of the Paris commune, with no effective step taken to arrest the evil-doers. The entire railway system of the country, passing through Illinois, was blockaded with ' wrecked and stalled trains, but this rec reant governor, anxious only to curry fa vor with the mob, refused to use the pow er confided to his hands and set the wheels of commerce when once in motion. ' Everywhere the anarchistic mob, though no longer supported by the better element ' of the striking railroad employes, seemed to rejoice in Altgeld's countenance, as it pursued its course of destruction. j But in stopping the passage of the Unit-! ed btates mails and in interfering with m-ter-state commerce, the rfharchists quickly found that they had gone too far farther even than Altgeld could sustain them. The supreme power of the nation was in voked. The injunctions oi the courts asaiuai me nutcis were euiurceu, at me 5 President's 'order, by lines of gleaming bayonets, and the "boys in blue," regard- . less of Altgeld's remonstrances, quickly set the trains in motion again, backed the frightened but now reassured municipal ities in the restoration of law and order, and sent the anarchists, with their red flag, cowering to their dens before the tri umphant unfolding of the stars and stripes. .. Governor Altgeld -has never repented of his cowardice and disloyalty on that occa sion, but he has nevertheless felt the sting of popular condemnation and re buke; and has longed for a "vindication." In the Chicago Popocratic convention, controlled by a multitude of crazy dema gogues and visionaries over whom he had a strange hypnotic influence, he found his opportunity: and the "anarchist plank" was adopted as an endorsement of his course at the time !of the Chicago N " riots and as a condemnation of President Cleveland's course in suppressing these anarchistic orgies. Thus, out of the blighted, rotten log of Altgeldian communism not out of any historic Democratic tree y&a a plank which a contemporary nas 11 denomin- cratic platform sawed. Its adoption was hailed by all the unruly elements of so ciety with delight. All th$se who fancy they see a prospective gain in the break ing up of the established order of things, xehn wnnr tn rpiin where thev have not cfiwn QTtrl fatten nn chnt nthpr-a hflvo ..- earned; all those who want to substitute " the ipse dixit of the mob for the processes Of the courts; all elements of unrest ev-4-ry where, find their chief Incentive to . .: i - ,v. ji. v . : .... . tn ." that plank. For Bryan declares he' en dorses "every word of it." The triumph of a candidate standing on that platform would embolden every anarchist to crawl out of his lair; and on the first occasion we might behold the scenes of the Chica go riot re-enacted all over the land, with no President in power daring to UDhold the .majesty, of the law. . Bryan tells the farmers that the price of wheat of silver that the gold standard forced down the wheat could not rise till silver rose ; but the cold been sinking and wheat rising. McKinley to the Wool Growers. . Major McKinley made a telling speech yesterday to the wool growers of Ohio. It elicited enthusiastic ap plause, and the sturdy wool growers went home with unbounded confi dence in William McKinley as the great champion of the people's cause, and with a'n increased determination to place him in the executive chair, where he can do the most good for the people and the nation. William McKinley has established a permanent reputation for effective campaign oratory. His set speeches have always ranked high for excel lence in both matter and manner, but be has shown himself in this cam paign capable of a versatility and fa cility of popular - eloquence .. rarely equaled and never surpassed. While covering a wide field of discussion, taking up in turn every phase of the difficult and complicated issues now before the country, he has employed a style of utterance and- argument of such transparent simplicity as to en gage the attention and enlist the sym pathies and convictions of his hearers. His opponents have not been able to find a single flaw in his armor. He is clad in the impenetrable steel of an honest cause and a noble purpose. This was especially exemplified in his eloquent -and effective speech of yesterday. The assembled . farmers "will not soon forget these 'ringing words: "It was said that if we opened up this country to the free use of the wool of the world the farmers would be bene fited. It was done, and with what benefit you know better than I can tell you. Now they tell you that more free silver is the panacea for all your ills. And you have the same money in circulation now that you had four years ago; but your wool-growers have not got as much of it as you had then. As free wool degraded your industry, so free silver will degrade your mon ey. You have already been fleeced by loss on your flocks, and you don't pro pose to be fleeced further by loss .on your money." , . There Is a volume of meaning In these few plain but pointed references to the relation of free trade and free silver to the welfare of the farmer. The wool growers of the country can not forget that they have lost about $4.000,000 since the repeal of the Mc Kinley tariff. N. Y. Mail and Express. Ulman on Liberty, I am the owner of the pitchfork, and I want you all to understand That when I open up my mouth From North to South, Or East to West Whichever suits me best You'd better heed The screed That I Let fly! Down with the courts, I say! What good are courts and judges any way, Hey? Courts are only for the rich And sich Old-fashioned-fools as think that we Can all have liberty And still Not be allowed to kill And burn and smash And thrash WTien other people fail to do As we, ' -t The free I mean the crowd that sides with me Direct them to! Throttle the judges! That is my creed! Stab justice In the back, and let 'er bleed! Hurrah for the day when every one That's on our side may carry a gun, And shoot Down every darned galoot That don't agree With me! " . That's my laeee : Of liberty. Seer Cleveland Leader. ONE DAY AT CANTON Continued from First Page. others from Rock Island and Moline, 111., and Davenport. Ia. Maj. McKinley said: "Yon come from three states of the mightiest government of earth. You come representing diverse occupations and varied employments, but you come with' a single mission; you come with a common purpose, and that purpose is to manifest your devotion to the great prin ciples of the Republican party and your determination to see that those princi ples shall triumph on the 3d day of No vember. "Yon come because, as your spokes men have so well said, you are interested in the welfare- and prosperity of the country you love, which you 'believe will be best subserved by a Republican vic tory at the eusning election, now. only R little more than three weeks away. You have come been use you believe in a pro tective tariff. You believe in that great American policy established at the be ginning of the government of the United States, which hnd the approval of nearly all the early statesmen of the country and of the first President of the United States, George Washington; a policy that has been pursued for more than half the lifetime of the republic, and during all the period that it prevailed we enjoyed the highest prosperity in every enter prise and undertaking of American peo ple. You have 'come here because you arein favor of the supremacy of the law anil because yon mean to maintain a government by law and under the law. You are here because you believe in pub lic and private honesty, and because, you do not propose that any part of the pub lic debt of this country shall be repudi ated in whole or in part. "You are here to declare that, every rbligation of this government is as sa .red as its flag, and that obligation shall be kept and performed. You are here because you want no depreciating or fluc tuating currency with which to do your business. You are here because you be lieve in an 'honest dollar for an honest government and for an honest man. You do not want a dollar that is worth less than 100 cents, for you were taught in your childhood in these great states that an honest dollar had 100 cents in it. "My fellow citizens, the Republican party is an inspiration and an education. I wish every man in this country might rend the first platform that the Repub lican party ever made as a national party in 185H in the city of Philadelphia. I wish that every young man might read it, and I wish that every old Repub lican might look np the old record nnd recall it. It reads today more like an inspired prophecy than the declaration of a political organization. It declared for the unity of the states and the indis solubility of the American Union. It declared for free homes, for free lands, for free speech, and it declared for a protective tariff. It decreed that the two oceans should be united by rail, the At lantic and the Pacific, and every prom ise that this great platform made has been kept. How glorious is Republican triumph. There is not a page of Repub lican history that has been written in the last thirty-three years that any lover of humanity, any lover of liberty, any patriot wonld strike from the pages of American history today: not one. You can trust the Republican party, for be hind it is the great conservative force of the country; behind it this year, as in the days of the war, is the great patri otic heart of the country. "Democrats and Republicans "'alike, I thank you, my fellow citizens, for this call. This is not a party campaign; it is a patriotic campaign. It is not a campaign for men: it is a campaign for our country. I thank you a thousand times for the long journey yon have made that you might testify your devo tion to Republican principles. I bid you go back home and say to all the people that Ohio, this splendid old state of my birth, wHl give to these great doctrines of the Republican party an unprecedent ed majority this year. CLEVELAND AND ST. LOUIS. Fla" to the Nominee and a Floral Trib ute to Mrs. McKinley. -The next crowd occupied all the avail able space around the little reviewing stand. It was composed of commercial traveling men from Cleveland and St. Louis. They presented Gov. McKinley I Jceeps pace with the price price 'of wheat, and that facts are' that silver has . New York Press. with a handsome banner and a beauti ful floral emblem for Mrs. McKinley. The flag was presented by a 12-year-old lad in behalf of the children of St. Louis, while the traveling men were introduced as an organization largely composed of Democrats but determined to vote for McKinley and sound money. . Mr. Mc Kinley's response was as follows: "I can turn either way this year and find Republicans. (Great laughter and applause.) It is appropriate and in no sense embarrassing to me to speak joint ly to the people of Missouri and Ohio. (Applause.) There is one thing glorious about our campaign this year it is na tional in character and represents the best hopes and aspirations of the Ameri can people everywhere. You are all commercial travelers, and whether from Missouri or from Ohio, you have had similar experiences. You leave your sample cases at home now. If I should talk a. little longer and more directly, my fellow citizens of Ohio, to my friends from Missouri, it is because I more fre quently have an opportunity to talk to you than I have to them. (Great cheer ing on part of the Ohioans.) I love my old state (here three cheere ' for Ohio were given at the suggestion of one of the Missourians), the state of my birth. I love the public spirit and splendid en ergy of the people of our city on the lake; and I have always liked Missouri and nothing has occurred this summer in St. Louis to make me change my mind. (Tremendous. cheering and waving of hats.) "I welcome yon all here to .my home' and city. . I welcome the commercial travelers of St. Louis, the citizens of Missouri, and I welcome the sound money club of St. Louis, which is com posed of men of all political parties, who stand this year for the honor of the gov ernment and the integrity of our financial system. We are all citizens of a com mon country. This year, as in all the years of the future. I trust we have no North, no South, no East, no West, but union and union forever. (Great cheer ing.) We have but one flag. too. like the one brought to me by my yonng friend from Missouri. (Maj. McKinley here exhib ited a small flag, which was followed by tremendous cheering.)' It is the flag we all love, and which we mean to transmit to future generations, unsullied and stain less." Touchstone of Confidence Needed. "Missouri, like Ohio, needs protection, sound money and public confidence. -Yon iiave a hundred and fifteen counties in your state, and I understand that there is not a single county that does not pro duce zinc, iron, coal or lend beneath its soil. (Cries of "That's right.") What you want is the touchstone of confi dence, which will bring business activity and send every miner with his pick to dig out from the bowels of the earth those treasures of wealth. (Applause.) "We want in this- country a tariff policy which will supply the government with sufficient revenue and protect every workingman. Why. Missouri, away back in the days of Thomas Benton, was called the bullion state. Has she deteri orated since then? (Cries of "No, no!") Will the great commercial city of St. Louis, with its intricate and delicate threads of trade and commerce, vote for a policy or for a party that will destroy confidence, unsettle values, impair the city's welfare, and produce panics of unprecedented severity? (Lond cries of "Never!") I do not believe it will. (A voice: "We will give you 30,000 major ity in St. Louis," followed by great ap plause.) A friend from Missouri savs that Missouri will give our ticket 30,000 majority. (Cries of "No! St. Louis will give vou 30,000 majority.") What an swer will Ohio make to that? (Cries of "150,000.") Ohio answers 150.000. Tre mendous cheering.) Thirty thousand in Missouri is a greater majority than 150, 000 in Ohio. (Cheers.) "This year patriotism is above party. Men love their country more than thev love their old political associations. Men this year would rather break with their party than break up their business. (Tre mendous cheering.) I cannot imagine anything that could happen to strengthen the American union more than to have the men of the South and the men of the North come together and jointly ad minister the government. (Applause.) Let your verdict this year be for hon est money, public security, national tran quility, a protective tariff, and recipro city (Tremendous cheering and cries of "We -will vote right.") And above all, let there sound forth a verdict for this Nation of law and order and its en thronement in every corner of the repub lic. I thank you all, and bid you good afternoon." (Great cheering and tiree cheers for McKinley.) Great Natural Demand for the Cereal, but. the White Metal Is a Drug on the Market. - While silver for weeks has been drop ping . practically without interruption from about 70 cents an ounce to less than 65 cents, wheat has been shooting up as if it had wings. . " It is peculiarly interesting at this time, when Mr. Bryan and the other soon-to-be-snuffed-out lights of the free-silver heresy have been cramming a variety of pleasing fictions down the throats of farmers.' to call attention to the practical ly simultaneous rise in wheat and drop Mr sil ver. Probably the free-silver folk will say in regard to the remarkable rise in n'heat about 11 cents a bushel in a month: "What did we tell you? It's as clear as daylight; everybody knows that free sil ver will succeed, hence they are buying wheat now, as it will go to a dollar at least after Mr. Bryan's election. That's why Europe is buying such quantities of wheat." .. Won't Work Both Ways. If this is the free-silver argument for tne advance m wneat, why is it that Eu rope is not buying silver at 644 cents an ounce if Mr. Bryan's election will raise its price to $1.2S)? - Mr. Bryan's contention hns been that it was impossible for wheat to rise as long as the gold standard prevailed. Mr. Bryan knew as well as any of us that he was lying when he said that. What does he say- about- it now. His silence on the subject is most expansive. Possi bly he is racking his brains to account for it, and it is probable he may get off something equally illuminating as his ex planation of the gold import movement. The fact is, this advance in wheat, wholly due as it is to natural causes, is a stunning blow to the free silver fallacy. It i& useless to tell the farmer that he cannot get more for bis wheat while we remain on n polrt atmtilnml when he is receiving 10 cents a bushel more for it than he was a mouth ago. Considering that this has been one of the stock arguments of the free silver ites. it is well to point out again and agr.in just why wheat has advanced. It is all summed up in this: The crops here and abroad have been short, the total decrease for the world, according to ALADDIN'S LAMP OUTDONE., Increase in Value of Wheat, Corn and Oats Alone Estimated at $175,000,000. I Oct. 13. I Sept. 12. Wheat, Dec., bus. Corn, Dee., bus. . Oats, Dec, bns. .. Rye. Dee., bus . . . Barley .malting.. Flax, No. 1, bus.. Clover. 100 lbs... Pork, bbl Lard, per 100 lbs. Ribs, per 100 lbs. Butter, lb. Eggs, doz. ...... Cheese, lb Potatoes, bns ... Beans, bus. ..... Beans, bus. Hides, lb 1 .70 .25 - .19H .13 . .21 .16 .33 .32 .65 5.00 6.57 . 3.60 3.27 .15 .13 m -W .30 .82 .85 .08 .3 .36 .76 . 8.25 8.50 4.82 .30 .15 .08 ..0Sl .18 m .24 1 .07 .18 .09 .09V4I Americans are in the midst of a mar velous era. Several hundred million dol lars have been added to the value of American products in the last ninety days. The magic of Aladdin is tame by the side of the sober truth of modern tide. The wildest dreams of the epos ties of fiat ism pale into insignificance in comparison with the simple fact of to day. Nature is making money for Americans faster than any printing press could do it. The rise in the prices of the products of. American farms means the beginuing.of a prosperity that needs only the success of the honest dol lar at the November election to guaran tee its permanence. Most of the chief farm products chare in the advanced prices. Most of these commodities are being exported in enor mous quantities, and in exchange Amer ica will get European gold. No one can say truly hoy much has been added to the wealth of Americans by the rise; but a few figures will give the reader an ink ling of the mighty force at work for American weal. Corn has risen 5 eents a bushel, wheat 14 cents and )ats 4 cents. Competent grain men estimate that those, advances have added to the value of the holdings in this country on the three cereals alone the following enormous sums: Corn . Wheat. Oats .. $100,000,000 50,000,000 25.000.000 REPUBLIC AX CAMPAIGN POTPOUM 1806. (Tune " Here's to Good Old Wine, Drink Her Down.") We want an honest dollar, so we do. We want an honest dollar, so we do. We want an honest dollar and for it we will holler. If wo have to burst our collar Now will you? - Free sllver'll never do, don't you see, -Free silver'll never do, Jon't you see, Free silver'll never do, only for a shabby A repudiating crew So they be. Protection is our cry, so It is, . Protection is our cry, so It is. ,h ' , (k Protection is our cry, and we 11 shoot It loud and high,. For election it is nigh So it Is. - We're after Bryan's scalp, so we be, ; We're after Bryan's scalp, we be, We're iafter Bryan's scalp, and we 11 make him whine and yelp After Populistic help Don't you see? Now, Sewall be is sad, down In Maine, Now, Sewall he is sad, down in Maine, Now! Sewall he 1b sad, and Watson he Is mad, , And it makes us awful glad Out of Maine. We'll Vote for honest money, so we will. We'll vote for honest money, so we will. We'll vote for honest money not for Ne braska's sonney. But McKinley and Hobart So we will. Judge F. J. Hamilton. ' Sturgeon Bay. Wis. BRYAN'S GREAT SILVER TRUST. Conspiracy of Multi-Millionaire Min Owners to Bob the American People. New York World (Dem.): The World showed yesterday that some of the mines produced silver at a cost of only 38 cents an ounce. The cost in other mines ranges-upward to about 60 cents an foreign trade estimates, from last year crop being more than 100,000,000 bnsh els. Last year the total crop was mat than 535,000,000. This year Thtma estimates it at 435,000,000. The Mia loss has been outside this country. f that the demand for our wheat aDraajl " has been exceptionally heavy. Bra street's reports total exports of whMt and flour for last week at 4,215,794 Han ds (the largest since September, 18BS), against 3,930.466 the week before anC 2,613,866 in the corresponding week ktft year. -- Here is an increase over last yT of 1.601,928. bushels. In the montk T September we exported 1.511.727 busk-" els; in September. 1895, 10,113,887, am increase of 5,397,830 bushels. This wi2 explain to everyone except chuckle-headed idiots why wheat has risen. "" 'No Manipulation. There has been no maninnlation a beat it. in fact, the speculators have positively dazed at the advance, other thing which has indirectly wheat rise' is the fact that the e demand has - been so heavy it has ' been found impossible lav send all that was required. All t$a treignt room on European steamer Mav been engaged up to January. - The explanation of the decline in eflve is as easily accounted for as the ria kk wheat. Soon after Bryan's nnmmatiaa the free-silver shouters kicked np anaa a rumpus that specnlators both here im abroad thought there was some ifunaa of his success, and silver advanced aav speculative buying to about 70 centa at ounce. It was not long, however, bef oae -the holders became convinced that Bvy an's chances of success were hopeleaa. and they at once began to get rid of their loads. Consequently, as more mam more holders of silver saw that tkey had paid a good price for a white ele phant, and sickened of their bargaia. the price of silver gradually sank untX today it is quoted at 64 cents an ounce This is considerably lower than It wit early last summer, when it was thouaai improbable that the Democratic pattv would come out flat-footed for the free' coinage of silver. The day will come when Mr. Bryam and his ilk Will learn that natural caaatat alone govern the prices of all products.' New York Press. Appreciation on Other Products. To these must be added an aggregated! appreciation of many millions on othw commodities. Pork, for instance, has ad vanced from its low point by $1.85 a ba cel, and ribs have advanced nearly ft cent a pound. Lard has gone np loan than $4 a tierce. liye has been afl vanced nearly 10 cents a bushel, flaxseed 15 cents and barley 8 cents. Cloventead has scored an increase of $3.25 per hun dred weight . . The yearly sales of butter and egg ex ceed in cash value all the other prodaetf of the farm. Butter has advanced 2f per cent, and eggs 45 per cent. Tk price of cheese has risen 25 -to 30 pas cent White beans are 45 to 50 pa cent higher. Most of these product ara in active demand in Europe. They arc policing across the sea in such stream that there is not shipping enough ta move them promptly. Eyen Australia) and India are sending for the good thing of the. American farm. The seas ara covered with regular liners and altk tramp steamers flocking to America shores for the rich freightage. Orchards Fall In line. But this list does not exhaust the names of the staples that have scored sensational gains. The American or chard is coming in for a share of the good times. To the list may be added California dried fruits, such as raisins, prunes, apricots and peaches, which have gained from 15 to 50 per cent, and are still going up. Canned goods, such aa tomatoes, corn and peas, now an impor tant part of the world's food supply, have shown material improvement ia prices. The average man may be blind to the Import of higher prices, because of limited information. A slight ad vance in the value of one or-two article iu which he may have a personal inter est may have little significance,, and when there is such a general rise as i now going on it requires a compre hensive survey of the situation to grasp the vastness of the addition to the value of the products of the farmec Chicago Times-Herald. ounce. ' As this silver is worth in the market 66 to 67 cents an ounce the mar gin of profit is easily seen to be a very heavy one 10 to 20 per cent. Moreover, some of the mines represent no actual investment whatever. Count ing "water" and all, the Elkhorn mm has a nominal capital of only $1,000,000. It has paid dividends amounting to $1, 212,000. The Granite Mountain is nomi nally capitalized at $10,000,000. It ha already returned in dividends to it stockholders $12,120,000. Other mine show enormous profits on investment that are largely fictitious. Yet the multi-millionaires who own these properties coolly ask the people 01 the country to pay them incalculable mil lions of additional profit by coining eack 66 cents' worth of their product inta $1.29 worth of legal tender money. They ask the country thus almost ex actly to double to them the market price of a product already so profitable that it pays them millions every year to produce it. So far as they are concerned free coin age would do precisely this. It. would enable them to pay a dollar of wages or debt with 51 cents' worth of silver. How far the process would enhance the general value of the silver dollar no mag can know. But this much is clear: Every penny of the advance, be it much or little, must be paid out of the peo ple's earnings, while every penny of t.h difference between the new price' of sil ver and its mint price will rearesent se much of robbery from creditors and toll ers. In brief, this great silver trust is a conspiracy among a hundred or so multi millionaire mine-owners to rob the pub lic and to levy a tribute upon the wage of everyone who works. -- . Is there any conceivable reason whj any workingman, any savings bank de positor, any holder of a life insurance policy, or any other honest man should. vote for this ring's programme? EIGHT.