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Supplement INCBEASfl IN EXPORTS TO LARGER UNDER THE DINGLEY THAN THE WILSON LAW. CORVALLIS GAZETTE. PACTS AND FIUUBES. DEMOCRATS ' AFRAID OF.; THEIR PLATFORM WHAT THE FARMERS LOST BY ; FREE TRADE. ' Enormom Decrease la the Value of Agricultural Product In Conse quence of a Free Trade Administra tion and Free Coinage Agitation. - Official Eecords' Show It. , If is shown by official '.reports, prepared by the officials of President Cleveland's last administration, that the' decreased consumption of wheat 311,886,196 bushels, and the decreased consumption of corn, 2,945,529,870 bushels total de creased consumption of 3,257,416,072 bushels of wheat and com in. the United . States during those four years; In this article is given the' "total production of wheat and corn in the United States each year for five years, the total value of each year's crop, and the decreased farm value of each year's crop compared 'writh 1892 when the wheat crop of the United States was larger than in any of the'other years named and the world's wheat crop as large as the average of the years since 1892as proved by the following 'figures taken from page 293 of the "Statistical Abstract " of the United States, 1896," which was prepared under the direction of Secretary Carlisle; as proved by rhe'le't ter therein submitting the -report to the House of Representatives except the fig ures on wheat: and corn' crops of 1896 which have been obtained from page-Soft of the "Year Book pf the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture,"- wvhicb,..w.as. pre pared by Secretary J. Sterling. .Morton, who is one of-the most extreme free trad ers in the nation: .-"., " Loss on wheat crops ' .'." Wheat crops. ;' Decrease.- Tear. Total bu. Total value. from.1892. 1802 .515.949.000 $322,111,881' . 1893 .306.131.725 213.171.381 H08.010.500 184 ..,460.267,'416 225,002,025 96,209,850 1805 .467,102,947 237,938,998 84,172,883 1S96 .. .427.6S4.346 310,602,539 11,509,342 - Total decrease "hi vaTne of United Btates' wheat crop daring the '-- - past four years Jt$300,&32,581 Farm loss on corn, crops -. - ' ' Corn" crops. ' : ' Decrease. Tear. Total bu. Total value. ' from 1S92. 1892 .1,628,404.000 $642,146,630 1893 .1:619,496.131 ' 591,625,627 50,521,003 1894 .1,212,770,052 554,719,162 87,427,443 1 .2,151,138.-5S0 5U7.509.106 74,637.524 1896 .2,283.875,165 491,006,967 151.139,603 :'- c -' ' Total decrease In value of United past four years . .?363,725,658 Add total farm loss on wheat dur- ' ing the lour years 800.832,239 Total loss on Wheat and corn. $664,553,239 It will be noticed that tile loss in the value of the wheat crops, of the United States during the past four' years 300, 832,581 -wfaa near)y one-third of the; total value of the crops for the f oar years;'when compared with the value "of the wheat crop in 1892! If will also be noticedr that the total decreased farm vaue of the, corn crops of the past four years aggregated $ 363,725,608 a total loss of $664,558,239 on the farm values of the wheat and corn crops of the United States during the past four years compared with the farm. alue .of those crops in 1892!. Remember that it is the "farm" value of the grains that is quoted from the official tables. If figure' on the expert value of wheat and corn for .the years named the loss on the wheat and corn for the years named the loss on the wheat and cota crops is nearly double that . for the "farm" loss for it is 'over a bill-' ' Ion dollars. Losses on Oats and Hay. The following official statistics give the losses of the farmers of the United States on their oats and hay crops for the years named, in consequence of the decreased home consumption during 'the four years of free trade government and free silver agitation: ' Loss on oats Oats crop. Decrease. Tear. Total bu. Total value, from 1892. 1892 ...661,035,000 $209,253,611 1893 .. .638.854.850 187,576,092 $21,677,519 1894 .. .662,036,928 214.816.920 5,563,309 1895 ...S24.443.537 163,655,063 45,598,543 1896 .. .707,346,404 132,485.008 . 76,768,578 $144,044 640 Increased value of corn crop In . ' " 1894, deducted from decreased Value of the other years named. 5,563.309 Total net loss o noats crops of the four years $138,481,331 Loss on hay crops,. , . . 5 Hay crop's;- Decrease. Tear. Total tons. Value. from 1893. 1893.... 65.766.158 $570,882,872 1894 ....64,874.408 468.578,321 $102,304,551 1895 ....47,078,541 393.185,615 177.C97.257 1896 50,282,158 388,145,614 182,737,258 $462,739,060 ... 133.841,331 Add loss on oats crops Total four years,' loss on oats and hay ...... i $601,220,397 Th official reports on the oats crops for the years 1892 to 1895 were obtained from page 294 of the "Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1896;" and the oats crop of 1896 from page 567 of the "Year Book of the U. S. Department of Agri culture, 1896:" . The official hay crop sta tistics were obtained from page 571 of the "Year Book U. S. Department of Agri culture, 1896," which states-that no offi cial estimates were made on the hay crops for the years 1889 to 1892 inclusive. If the statistics for 1892 had been collected the total loss on the hay crops would un doubtedly have been largely increased by comparison with the total value of 1S92. Losses on Farm Animals, " The farmers' enormous losses on the , value of their farm animals during the four years of free' trade government and free silver coinage agitation ending March 4, 1897, are proved by the following fig ures taken from pages 574, 575, 570 and 677 of the "Year Book of the U. S. De partment of Agriculture, 1897," prepared under the direction of Secretary J. Sterl ing Morton, who was the free trade Secret tary of Agriculture during President Cleveland's last term: Loss on farm animals- Decrease from Jan. 1, 1893. Tear. Total value. Ian 1 1S09 tl ADS .Wfi KS1 Jan. 1, 1894 $2,170,816,754 $312,689,927 Jan. 1, lSi .... 1,819,446,306 664,060,375 Jan. 1, 1896 1,727,926,084 755,580,507 Jan. 1, 1897 .... 1.655,414,612 828,092,0ii9 Total loss on farm animals dug rln the four free trade years .$2,560,422,968 The largest tin plate mill in the world is to be erected at Newcastle, Pa. See, didn't somebody predict just a few years ago that no amount of protective encour agement would make it possible to manu facture tin plate successfully in America? Treasury officials now have no doubt that the Dingley law will produce ample revenues after it gets fairly at work:'" The earnings of its second month exceeded those of the second month of the Wilson law, and are steadily growing. , Secretary Wilson says the beet sugar manufactories in the United States- will be quadrupled in number in the a next year. Is this due to "famine abroad"? Of ours tbe TDingley law must "not be credited with it. -: Prof. ' Wilso'li is so busy with his new 'duties that he hasn't had time to explain why farm products and prices of labor in creasSed, as 'sodn as the Dingley law went into operation. . ' ' ' The Democratic New York Journal says that "gold is on its way to New York and the tide of domestic manufacturing inter ests rises higher each day. The railroads are bioe&ed pp.: wath the crush of business all along, the line," . '5 It will be noticed, that the totaflbss an the'value of tBe farm animals of the Unit ed States du'rinr&e years 1893, 19'4", 1895 and 1896 reached the enormous ag gregate of $2,560,422,96S! That Uf the Ions, in the value -of farm animals .alone during the past four years. ,vThese are vitally.lmportant facts' to the farmers of the nation, and they are only another link in the chain of official proofs prepared by free trade "officials that the farmers" of the United .States lost over five billions" of dollars by the decrensed consumption and decreased values of their crops during the four years of free trade government and f tee stiver agitation. The readers should constantly remember thit the statistics given here are not "Register lies,' but 'are taken from the official re ports of the free trade Secretary of the Treasury and the free trade Secretary of Agriculture of President Cleveland's last' administration. Des Moines Register. Mc Kin ley and 25-Cent Wbeatt C The' free' ail verities last year made sun dry bold 'statements about a contracted currency ; that there was pot enough mon ey hf the country 'With 'which to do busi ness, and that the only way out of it was by the adoption of the free and unlimited coinage-scheme." Thia would fix things up all right, but unless adopted, many terri ble things would happen; wheat would drop to 25 cents .a bushel, mortgages would be foreclosed, men could find no employment,-and a general gloom would settle over the country, such as had never been seen beore. It will be remembered, however, that the free coinage proposition was not adopted by the voters of the coun try, and yet in spite of this fact the circu lation of the country within a year ins increased nearly $100,000,000 wheat has gone up to the dollar mark, mortgages are being rapidly paid off, men are employed everywhere, and the only gloom observa ble in the country comes from the fac tory smoke. ' Our Farmers Will Profit. Estimates made by the Government sta-. tisticians of the United States' and Aus-' tra-Hungary place the deficiency in the world's wheat supply for this year at 202, 000,000 bushels. The total crop of last year fell 130,000,000 bushels short of the average, so the net deficiency of the two years aggregates 332,000,000,'. "or more than one-sixth of a normal year's supply. This is sufficient to account for the ad vance in prices, when taken in connection with the fact that the consuming popula tion is constantly increasing! Reports from the wheat exporting countries of the Southern Hemisphere promise a good average yield from the next harvest, but .the outlook for next year's American win ter wheat is bad enough to more than bal ance the good promise of Australia and Argentina. On the -whole, the outlook is for no better supply next year than this, including India. Pittsburg Dispatch. : Another Evidence. An evidence of the improvement in bus iness since the people of the country -de cided in favor of protection and sound money is found in figures in the recent re port of the Interstate Commerce Commis sion. They show that the freight tonnage for the year just ended is the largest in the history of the railways of the country, and is no less than seventy million tons in excess of the preceding year. The gross earnings of the railroads of the country for the year were nearly $75,000, 000 greater than those of the preceding year. CAN'T MAKE TIN. CAN'T WE? Old 'Free-. Trade Arjfurtfetit Knocked ... ".. J - into a 'Cocked? Hat.' Everybody remembers how ' the free traders scoffed at the idea of making tin plate in thi8 'cwuntry,-:adVhow long they denied that it was being,ma,de:at all. Now we are making tin plate enough toupaly. our own markets ahciinip some abroad, and jwe are, making it .bet t!r and cheaper than the Welshmen did. ,. London Hard ware of .Sept. 16 says, referring to the Welsh maker's: "It Is not their fault if the American -works brand" he in all their appointments, turn out plates a .littie cheaper, than the- Welsh mills. 'Besides, the Americans get their 'tin bars cheaper. ; Of course, the. Ipsa of the A men- can'-trade" is a great .."msastjer but.-ifc-came in the natural order' of things, 'aaid. must bg.aceepted i patieirtfyt"t''l,Here never was ciple,. or..a pla:ne; J L4.)9Hsrat5ori of '.'t: effectiveness, -than jthfi iestofcliehnVeni -: of it. 1 : ' i . " i , . , - . a me.uii piute riuusupr.Oin ttus ,couirLry, uiiu app"reeia.tiori of that fact,ws one reason why the' free traders fpiight it so nialigt Iignantly. Louisville CJtotnme'rcial...-. " ' Compares the ..Two; Jaws. The American. -.Economist -contains an' instructive comparison between the first two moptljs of iheWilson tariff and the Dingley tariff: The" figures how that dur ing the first month fot its "bfiieration, Sep tember, 1894, the Wilson1" Bill yielded a revenue of$22,621,223 anddUring the sec ond month.$19,139,240. The Dingley bill, produced $19,023,615 during the first month of its operation and $21,933,098 during the second. The point of contrast is that while the Wilson bill showed a large falling off in the second month the Dingley bill shows a large gam and $2, 793,858 more tha-n the total revenue re ceived during the second njonth of the Wilson bill. From another rpt51nt of view, covering expenditures as well as receipts, the .deficit during the first month of the Dingley bill was nearly $7,000,000 greater than during, the first month of the Wilson bill,' while in the second jnonth of the Dingley bill'the deficit was over $10,000, 000 less than in the second "month of the Wilson bill. The Wilson bill deficit grew as the hill got older and. continued to in crease,, while the" Dingley bill deficit was $1,000,000' less in" the second month than in'the first, showing the superiority of the Dingley . bill as.-a producer of revenue, whHe aa a producer of prosperity there is no room for comparison. The Wilson bill destroyed prosperity while .'tlie Dingley bill is restoring it. ' ; ' Ali Eminent Man's' Views. . .' People who are railing agaihst the Unit ed States courts and their methpds would do well to read what retiring Justice Field said of .that highest' of all-Jjnited States tribunals, the Supreme Court; after more than-thirty years' opportunity to observe the 'court,.7 In his letter announcing his retirement, he said, "As I look back over the more than a third, of it eentury that I have sat" on this bench, I am more and more impressed with, the immeasurable importance (of this court. . Now. and then w?'"hear it spoken of as .an -aristocratic feature of a republican government, but it-is the -most; democratic of- all. It car ries neither the purse nor the sword, but it assesses. the power of declaring the law, and in that is found the safeguard which keeps the whole mighty fabric of the government -from rushing to destruc tion. This negative power, the power of resistance, is the only .safety-. of a popu lar government." .. :,-'' .. -.Trade Revival Not Threatened. - . The same sort of reaction which has occurred in the stock market in the past two weeks took place in the latter part of 1879, , the year of gold resumption, and many persons predicted then, as they do now, that the "boom has burst." The very same Influence which caused the re action then causes it now wild specula tion. Prices went up too fast at the be ginning of the trade revival then, as they have done in the past few months. Busi ness expansion was not checked in the slightest degree, however, by the tempo rary drop in stocks in 1879, nor is it in 1S97. St Louis Globe-Democrat. ' Their Case Hopeless. :i Senator Gorman's offer to. surrender the Democratic leadership in Maryland provided the 'Baltimore Sun supports its party in the State and legislative cam paign, la the Democracy' flag of distress to thatState. ' Gdririan ie a candidate for reselecfion .t-o the Senate, and the Legis lature chosen this year will-elect his suc cessor. -A few -weeks, ago Gorman an nounced that 4e- was- not seeking another term. ..That was the first confession . of weakness on the part of the Maryland Democratic managers, fqr. Gorman s can .didacv. as both democrats Hjnd ReDubli- cans well know, will take away thousands of votesf.from theDemocratie Stare and legislative tickets. Gorman's conditional offer now to abandon the leadership of his party and cut loose his official connec tion with it means that he and the other managers believe that the party's chances in. the campaign are hopeless.r St;' Louis Globe-Democrat. ; Dingley Law.Uoinjf Splendidly.' A-good deal has been said in the Demo cratic newspapers, .and . more particular ly in the mugwump . f ree,trade papers, about' the failure of thevDingiey bill to produce Sufficient' revenue. They were -not willing to wait until the bill had been fairly tried and until the stock of import ed .goods Jiad- been- exhausted, but began as .soon as the bill went into effect to com plain .that it .was not a revenue getter. They utterly ignored' the fact that iri'-an- ticipation of it the country had been flood ed with imported goods and that conse quently importations-fell off as soon as thesnew tow went into effect; . . The Wilson law was declared on its face to be a revenue getter purely, and its-advocates asserted that it -was a tariff for revenue only.? It-iwetnt into effect-in September, 1894. In its first month the receipts were $22,621,229.. In October, the second month; the receipts were $19,liJ9, 240. TheT total receipts' for the first two months were $41,760,469. The Dingley bill was in operation two months on the 1st .of October. In - August the receipts were $19,023,615, and in September $21, 933,096, the total for the first two. months of the new law being $40,95G,713, or less than a million below the receipts of the first :two months of the Wilson law. Here is. another way of putting it. In the first month of the Wilson law the de ficiency was $7,705,790; in the second month $13,573,800; the total deficiency in .the first two months being $21,275,690. Under the Dingley bill hi the first month the deficiency was $14,504,432 and in the second month, September last, $3,435,718; the total for the two months being $18, 000,150,, therefore the deficiency in the first two. months -under the Wilson law was over $3,000,000 greater than in the first two months of , the present law. Put ting these results in tabular form we fur nish the following statistics: First twft months: -' . . Wilson Dingley .. ' ' Bill. ' Bill. Expenditures -. ..$63,036,059 $58,956,863 Receipts ....... 41,760,469 . 40,956,713 Deficiency . i:. .'$21,275,590 $18,000,150 Unduly Exercised. Henry Watterson, the Louisville philos opher, has been viewing with alarm again. He sees evidences that the French, revolu tion is to be revived . very soon on the American-stage with Altgeid,' Tillman and Henry. George cast as Robespierre, Dan ton and Marat respectively. As a mat ter of fact, there . was never- less danger than now that we are. near to. a conflict with the forces of disorganization. , The American-people are : better fed," .better housed,, better clothed, better educated, and more contented than any other people in the world, and if they should conclude that any political or social .changes are necessary or promising .they will make them peaceably through" "the ballot box. Mr. Watterson ' should cheer up and. re turn for -a season to those mild Swiss wines. Ex. .' " Probably, aa Oversight. About the only wild vagary that the Chicago platform did not indorse and adopt was the single land tax, and it looks now as if that might go in the next na tional Democratic platform. The truth isTthere is not much else left for the par ty. The tariff question is settled for many years to come, free silver will never figure in. another national election, "gov ernment by injunction" is too thin for a national issue, so what is the poor old Democracy to "do? John G. Shanklin, Democratic national .committeeman from this State, has been a pronounced advo cate of the single land tax for years, and a few days ago he said to an interviewer: "Wert I in New York I should support Henry George because he is' the only ex ponent among the candidates for Mayor of the principles decided at the Chicago Convention, absolute loyalty to which is the test of true' Democracy." Henry George cares more foT the single land tax than he does for the entire Chicago plat form, Mr. Shanklin knows this, and when the time comes he and Henry George will both be found working to 'get a single- land-tax plank,, in the . democratic plat form. Indianapolis Journal.. - - - Populists Dr ipping It. . The Populist party is rapidly abandon ing the free silver proposition. The To- peka, Kan., Advocate, a recognized offi cial organ of the Populist party, to a re-' cent editoriali saysThe' principal differ ence between the orthodox Populist and the Republicans and, Democrats on the money question consists in.-the fact that he believes paper money of the right sort is as good as gold or silver, and does not need o-be-fedeemed in either metal. He knows that the fiat or the law written on the coin (one dollar) is its commission and gives it its legal value, and he cares nothing about the value of bullion. There is no more room in the bimetallic theory for the fiat idea than there is in the monometallic theory." "Money Powef" Again. '" 'Is' it that tetrible "money power" that is. destroying the crops all over the world for the purpose of giving American farm ers higher..prices and thus showing' them the falsity of the wheat-and-silver theory? There is just as much sense in assuming that the money power could control the wind and weather and grasshoppers and other causes of foreign grain shortages as it was to assume last fall that a hand ful of financiers located in some mysterious-; secret- chamber in London or else where could control the legislation of the greatest and most intelligent nations of the world in behalf of the gold standard, as was asserted from day to day and week to week during the entire campaign of 1896. - - Another Slump. Another fall in silver is recorded from the financial centers in this country and Europe. During the closing week in Sep tember the price of . silver - bars dropped from 57 cents per ounce to 54 cents, in New York. A money metal which would fluctuate Zy per cent in value in a single week can scarcely commend itself to the average voter as a safe one for adoption by a single nation with, at. least the co operation of other countries to sustain its value. -i Bryanism Free Trade Free Ruin. If Louise 'Michel should come to this country to preach the gospel of anarchy she -would probably begin by avowing her allegiance to; Bryanism, . free trade and f ree ruin . and wind up by denouncing Marls' Hanna and the Dingley tariff. Grand "Rapids Herald. Political Bird Shot. . Reports from the farming regions show that the corn is shocked. So are the free silver advocates who note its advance in value. ' . " . Those dark clouds that hang over every manufacturing town nowdays are not of a dangerous character, except to the ca lamity howlers. The Bank of England is becoming alarmed at the outflow of gold from its coffers to this country, and. various meas ures are being attempted to stop it. But it still continues to come; The Democratic newspapers are bewail ing the fact that the deficit of the second month of the Dingley law was over three million dollars ($3,000,000). They prob ably did not notice that the deficit of the Becond month of the Wilson law was over $13,000,000. "Mr. Hanna is the owner of a mine in Michigan. It is the only one in Michigan where the miners own their own homes. In this mine they are getting better pay than at any other mine in the State." Statement by A. W. Wright, ex-Member Board Knights of Labor. The Philadelphia Record says that the Dingley law comes thundering down the line in the second month of its operation with a deficit of three and a half million dollars. What a noise there must, have been in the second month of the Wilson law, when the deficit was thirteen and a half million! Argentine Retaliation Seems to Ba a Bluff Popularity of the Department of.Asriunltnre Interesting Experi ments for the Benefit of Farmers. - .... .- -. t- Gratifying Outlook. Special Washington coi-jipondence: ' There appears to be no jcheek to"onf exports of American" manufactures under the new tariff law. The treasury figures for August, the first full month under the new law, show the largest exports of do mestic merchandise of any August in th history of the country. They were $79, 490,264, as against $66,689,931 for Au gust of last year, aond this ;in the face of the contention of the free traders that the exportation of American manufactures was greatly facilitated by low tariff. -For the first eight - months of the year 1897 the exports were over $61,000,000 in ex cess of those of the first eight months of 1896, so that the treasury officials are pre dicting that the exports of thia year will far exceed those of last year, which itself was a record breaker in the matter of ex ports. Our first month's trade under. the' present tariff with Europe gave a balance of upwards of $40,000,000 in our favor. The following table shows tke balance of trade with the several continents: Exports to. Imports from. Europe ...$50,000,000 $20,000,000 North America. . 11,000,000 5,000,000 South America. . 2,500,000 6,500,000 Asiatic ..: 3,000,000 5,000,000 Oceanica ...... . 2,000,000 r '3,000,000 Africa ..-.v. 1,000,000 ' 250,000 ,. The present indications are that ex ports of this . character wili amount to nearly $300,000,000 for 1897, as against a little over $250,000,000 ' for 1896 and $200,000,000 for 1895. Although to this time the exports of manufactured articles have held up wonderfully,, it is thought here by close observers more than likely that this exportation will. fall off to some' extent in view of the fact that American manufacturers are running overtime to supply goods for the American market. The Argentine Case. Considerable more comment has been, causedover the'report of the Argentine re taliation against our tariff than the case warrants or than the reports received here would indicate. It is stated that Ar gentina intends to impose extraordinarily high duties on all goods' export sd' from the United,. States -to that country. This ac tion would emanate from a desire to re taliate for the duties, placedpn hides and wools by the Dingley law. But it is easily shown that-the people and merchants of Argentine would lose moreby the opera tion than they would gain -or even cause this country to lose. Despite the com plaints from Argentine, our first month's business with South America'' under -the Dingley law resulted in a balance of trade in their favor of over $4,000,000, or about $50,000,000 a year, and our trade during the past year has been about.three to one .In favor of Argentina; Our trade w;ia. South America has been-aptly said to be very much like a jug handle all on" one side. The official figures of our dealings with the principal South American coun tries for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897, shows that We imported from them about $101,000,000 worth . of their pro ducts, admitting over 98 per cent of that entirely free of duty, and that they bought from us only about $30,000,000 worth of our products and imposed duties on near-. ly all of it, and in some cases extremely high duties. The President -of the Argen tine Republic has recommended retalia tion against this' country for curtailing . privileges heretofore accorded that coun try, in common, with other countries, far greater than, any privileges we have en joyed from them, but it is. not- probab'e that the Argentine Congress will take de cisive steps -when the true relations of the two countries are shown by the discussion which will ensue in that body. - v- . Secretary Wilson has arranged with the Postoffice Department to allow farmers to use Government franks for sending their samples of sugar beets to the department and to the experiment stations for analy sis. This relieves the farmer of any ex pense in the matter and will enable him to determine whether his soil is adapted to the growth of the sugar beet. : There is no department of the admin istration -more popular or doing better work than that of Secretary Wilson. He has been making interesting experiments with reference to good roads; he has been working to get in an increased and profit able market abroad for our butter; he is working upon the introduction of foreign seed likely to be beneficial to our farmers; be is doing good work looking to the pres ervation of our American forests and a hundred other things which the Agricul tural Department can do for the benefit of the farmer of the present day and the benefit of which his children will reap in years to come. GEORGE MELVILLE. What About Corn, Pork and Wool? How do the free silver and free trade theorists who are charging up the advance in wheat to the shortage abroad account for the advance in all other farm products, corn, rye, beef, pork, wool, cattle, horses, sheep, hops, tobacco and potatoes? The fact is that it is due to the increased con sumption at home. People who earn little economize in eating; those whose earn ings are increased spend far more for food and get that of a better quality. When the working people of the United States are employed at good wages they buy more food and clothing than when un employed or working for half pay. It is a protective tariff that does the business. They AVonl-I Ruin Us. It is a pity that this country should be so completely sft the mercy of the "gold power" of England. Gold has been pour ed into the United States, at San Fran cisco, New York and all the great ports, until our gold circulation is fifty million more than it was a year ago, while the total increase in circulation is nearly a hundred mKlion. There really seems to be no way to stop these schemers in the old countries from flooding us with their gold and sweeping away the underpinning of the Chicago and other free coinage planks. - Wheat Wi l Keep Up. European crop reports confirm' the es timated shortages that have been made from time to time and give assurance that the foreign demand will keep the prices of American breodstuffs np to the . point about which they have fluctuated for the past few weeks. 1 he property of the American farmer is not a myth in on of the word- Omaha ISee.