The Corvallis gazette., October 22, 1897, Supplement, Image 5

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CORVALLIS GAZETTE.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1897.
THE MODERN FARMER. -
His Lot la Improving Faster than
That of Other Men.
The old-time farmer's boy was not seri
ously to blame for striking out for the
city. His pathway of life was not strewn
with roses, nor were his days a succession
of joyous picnics. He was compelled to
rise early in the morning, long before the
lark had ceased from slumber, and bring
the cows from the dewy pasture. He was
expected, before he had a chance to sat
isfy his morning hunger, to "pail" six
cows; be kicked over at least once; feed
and groom four horses, and carry food
and drink to at least twenty-five head of
open-faced swine.
In the summer he was expected to hold
the handles of a bull tongue plow and
tramp adown the rows of corn until long
after the chickens had gone to their night
ly rest. In the fall, when the old horse
power threshing machine came around, he
stood at the tail end and forked away the
straw, while ragweed dust filled his lungs
and clogged the pores of his skin. In the
winter he was sent out to pick stones from
the rocky field, and as he picked, fresh
tones sprang up like dragons' teeth to
take the place of those he had gathered.
He had no time to read, and mighty little
for rest. It isn't any wonder he got tired
of the business and struck out for the city.
Now it different. The farmer no longer
comes to town in his road wagon, sitting
on a two-inch plank laid across the top of
the wagon, but he rides in his surrey, his
horses arrayed in silver-mounted harness.
He sits in a carriage seat to plow his
ground, and after his day's work is done
takes a walk for exercise. The old-fashioned
horse-killing and man-destroying
threshing machine has given way to a
modern invention run by steam, automat
ically fed, which stacks its own straw,
and measures, weighs and loads the grain,
while the farmer, seated in the comforta
ble shade, may watch the operation. His
hay is stacked by machinery, and baled
by machinery. His water is pumped by
machinery. His stock will soon be fed
by machinery. He is beginning to put in
telephones and order his grocer.es over the
wire.
The time is near at hand when, instead
of being the slave of toil, the farmer will
be the man of leisure as well as the man
of capital.
. When that time comes it will be found
that the ambition of young men will lie
in the direction of becoming landed coun
try gentlemen instead of hard-driven,
overworked and smothered-for-air resi
dents of the cities.
Silver Issue Dead.
From all reliable sources it appears that
the much advertised 16-to-l camp meet
ing In Springfield, Ohio, was a most con
spicuous failure. . The Cincinnati Enquir
er keeps up the semblance of a large at
tendance and great enthusiasm, but the
facts gathered by other correspondents
show that it was a failure that will dam
age the 16-to-l fad. Even Mr. Bryan
could not be induced to go to help draw a
:- crowd. Most of the other orators for sil
ver were' conspicuous- by their absentee.
Kx-Kepresentative Towne of Minnesota,
silver Republican, was present, but he had
nowhere else to go.' Gen. Warner was
present, but as the head of the silver mine
owners' lobby at Washington he is under
pay and must put in an appearance. The
unfortunate Democratic candidate for
Governor was advertised to appear, but
he is not an orator. Ten cents admission
was asked in order to meet the expenses,
but the collections for admissions are not
half the expenses. The correspondent of
the Pittsburg Dispatch writes that "a
wonderful change has been made locally
In politics by the failure of the silver camp
meeting," and that "local Democrats are
outspoken in declaring that there was
only one way to account for the slim at
tendance, and that is that the silver issue
Is dead." Indianapolis Journal. .
A. Weak Comparison.
In his Iola spech Mr. Bryan revived
his two piles of wheat. Suppose, he said,
in effect, that if all the wheat in the world
Is collected in two piles, and that one of
the piles is burned, will not the other pile
be doubled in value? The same, he says,
is true of money. In 1873 (here is the
"crime" again) tk,e Republican , party,
burned one of the two piles of money,
that is the white pile. Therefore, the re
maining pile, the gold, has doubled in
value. The farmers who heard the speech
must have smiled. It was possible to talk
such nonsense last year, not this year.
In the first place, the Republican party
did not burn one-half of the money in the
country. That statement is just a plain
misstatement. In 1873 our circulation
was only $751,881,809; in 1806 it was $1.
506,631,026. Instead of burning one-half
of the money in circulation, the Republi
can party doubled the circulation, while,
during the same time, the population fell
far short of doubling itself. The money
in the country in 1873 was only. $18 per
capita; it was nearly $33 in 1896. In the
face of these facts, what becomes of the
charge that the Republican party has
burned one of the two piles of -money?
Isn't it ridiculous? Iowa State Register.
Tbe Hogansville Affair.
It is said the attempted assassination
of Isaiah H. Loftin, the colored postmas
ter of Hogansville, Ga., will be made the
basis of an immediate and vigorous pros
ecution of all who are connected with the
affair. This much is due to the enforce
ment of law, but in addition the admin
istration should take a firm stand against
the movement to boycott colored office
holders in the South. It is" not likely there
will be many such appointments, but
wherever they are. made the incumbents
should have ample protection. The Gov
ernment should not allow itself to be co
erced or dictated to in the smallest matter
by any party, faction or class of men, and
if any community attempts to draw the
color line against a postmaster otherwise
Qualified it should be made to understand
that the Constitution and laws of the
United States are supreme in every part
of the national domain. -
The Price of Cotton Ties.
A dispatch from Charlotte, N. C, states
that an Illinois manufacturing company
offers to furnish the regular flat cotton tie
at 70 cents per bundle at wholesale in
carload lots, or at 75 cents at retail, and
that several carloads have already been
ordered for that immediate section. The
dispatch goes on to say that last year the
price was $1.50 per bundle at retail and
$1.35 at wholesale. Then the Wilson-
Gorman law was tn force and cotton ties
were on the free list, but the price was
$1.35 per bundle at wholesale. This year
we have the Dingley bill and a protective
tariff on cotton ties and they are offered
at 70 cents a bundle at wholesale. These
facts do not seem to work in with the
Cleveland parrot cry that "the tariff is a
tax." These facts, too, are of themselves
a sufficient refutation of the other free
trade falsehood scattered so broadly and
so constantly, that a protective tariff fos
ters trusts. Last year, under free trade,
there was a cotton tie trust; this year, un
der a protective tariff, the trust is broken.
An Object Lesson.
The financial situation in the Southern
Republic presents an object lesson which
should not be lost upon our friends, the
free silver lunatics. Advices from the
City of Mexico, in the words of a recent
arrival from that unhappy place, paint "a
gloomy picture of the future." A young
Californian who has resided there for
three or four years, and who has held a
conspicuous position in a large business
concern, states that the decline in the
price of silver has practically driven him
out of business. He says that everything
has gone up threefold except wages. Ow
ing to the tremendous discount on that
metal working people are now scarcely
able to earn sufficient to procure the nec
essaries of life.
All branches of business are paralyzed
and Americans are leaving the country in
droves. Merchants who have outstanding
accounts and who are compelled to collect
them in silver are being put to a tremen
dous loss. When this young man left
Mexico it took $2.50 to buy $1 in ex
change, a condition which has practically
destroyed the importing business, and
which is gradually crippling the Govern
ment; for as imports decline the revenues
of the republic are obliterated.
The evolution of a free silver basis in
Mexico substantiate everything alleged
by the opponents of Mr. Bryan in the last
presidential campaign in this country. It
was then said that wages were the last to
go up, and that currency inflation of every
kind was injurious to the masses. This
is always the fact. Capital takes care of
itself, but labor is always the victim of
prevailing circumstances. . Yet it is a
strange coincidence that of the several
millions of people who voted for William
J. Bryan, probably 75 per cent were men
who, had bis financial theories been put
into effect, would have suffered the most.
In Mexico the masses are not responsi
ble for the financial crisis. The Gov
ernment maintains its silver basis with
out consulting them. But in the United
States, had the free coinage of silver been
adopted, the people . themselves would
have wrought their own ruin. No reason
ing man can contemplate the possible re
sults of the presidential campaign of 1S96
without a shiver. Bryan was defeated,
after all, by a narrow plurality. Had he
succeeded and had his demagogy and
crude theories been put into the form of
laws, fifty years of good government and
prosperity would not have wiped out the
damage he would have inflicted upon the
nation.
If there are any free silver lunatics in
this country who still believe that it is
safe to adopt free coinage of silver with
out the consent of any other nation, they
should be sent to Mexico and compelled
there to study the frightful results of .a
depreciated currency upon the welfare of
the common people. San Francisco Post.
Free Coinage of Freight Cars.
The free silver leaders have contended
that what is needed is an increase in the
volume of money; but that does not seem
to be the trouble just at present. What is
needed is an increase in the volume of
freight cars. The Chicago, Milwaukee
and St. Paul road is trying to borrow five
thousand cars from some of the Southern
roads to enable it to handle the traffic
offered to it. Unless it is able to get the
cars it will have to lose considerable busi
ness. At present it is using all the cars
available and is unable tokeep up with
the demand from all points on its lines.
The situation is becoming serious, not
only with the St. Paul, but with the
Northwestern, the Burlington, Rock Isl
and, Atchison and all the other Western
and Northwestern roads. They are sim
ply unable to handle the traffic ordered.
All the roads report that not only are they
deluged with grain traffic, but west-bound
merchandise is offered in great volume. .
What is needed then is a little more free
coinage of freight cars. Kalamazoo Tele
graph. Have a New Opportunity.
Democratic orators who last year were
trying to convince the public that the
clique of financiers in Europe whom they
vaguely denominated "money power"
were responsible for the adoption of the
gold standard by all the intelligent na
tions of the earth, will now have an op
portunity to make .an equally interesting
and. equally reasonable assertion by
charging up to the gold power the failure
of -the crops all over the world. It is
just as reasonable to charge the destruc
tion of Argentine crops by grasshoppers
to the money power as it is to assume that
the money power could influence the leg
islation of a great nation on that most
important question of its policy, the cur
rency. Wheat to Bring Golden Dollars.
While our wheat production is very
large this year, our home consumption is
increasing with returning prosperity and
we will have to hold the major part of it
for our own people. It is estimated that
we will have in the neighborhood of 200,
000,000 bushels for export, which means
not far from 200,000,000 golden dollars to
be distributed among the farmers.
Absurdity' Is Made Clear.
The recent statements of Statistician
Mulhall, in which he shows that the prai
rie States are the most prosperous spot
upon the face of the earth, make clear the
absurdity of the effort which was made
by the silver orators last year to induce
the people of that section to adopt cheap
money as a basis of further prosperity.
Threats Not Carried Out.
It is not observed that the countries
which were making that terrific protest
against our new. tariff three months ago
are putting any of their implied threats
into execution. They know now what
they knew then, that the balance of trade
was in their favor, and that they could
not . afford to carry out any of their
threats.
Had to Have an Issue.
People who are surprised that the three
anti-Iiepublican conventions in Nebraska
decided to again advocate free silver
should remember that they had to hsre
something for an issue. Of course the
Democratic tariff theory was too unpopu
lar to trot out again, as also the other di
lapidated fads of the Democracy.
BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING.
THE Bureau of Engraving and Printing, situated at the corner of B and Fourteenth streets southwest, is 200 feet
long, 135 feet wide and constructed of pressed brick, fireproof throughout, only doors and window frames being
of wood. The north facade facing the city comprises a basement and three stories surmounted by an artistic cornice,
broken by three pavilions at the northeast rising into a .belfry tower 130 feet high. The south facade overlooking the Po
tomac river is broken by several chimneys of architectural designs. The west carries off the fumes of the hardening rooms
and is built of massive walls to resist the action of the fumes of the acids used in hardening the plates. The elevator
towers are of beautiful designs. The stack from the boiler rooms in the rear is 100 feet high. The plate vault containing
all the engraved plates of the Government is guarded day and night by trusted watchmen. All greenbacks, silver cer
tificates and bonds issued direct by the Government are printed here.
SOUTHERNS CONTROL.
Cringing Northern ' Mudsills Not In
Management of the Party.
Senator Jones of Arkansas, the boss of
the Democratic party, appears to be a
ready letter writer. He recently sent one
to the Democratic State Committee of
New York, in which he declared it would
fee "impolitic" to indorse the Chicago plat
form. But he has written other letters.
For instance, one was produced yester
day in which he urged an entirely differ
ent policy from that he advocated on
Wednesday. The letter in question was
written to James O'Brien, formerly sheriff
of New York, and in it Mr. Jones said:
I sincerely hope that genuine and loyal
Democrats get control of the organization
in your State. It occurs to me that It would
be wise for a State convention to be assem
bled next fall for the purpose of making the
one nomination needed aud to organize the
machinery of the party; but of course I have
no connection with your State organization
and don't know just what would be proper
for me to say or do In that couuection, or
whether I should say anything at all.
The result of this veering around is
that the Bryanites are incensed with
Jones and are saying ugly things about
him. Nevertheless Jones is the boss of
the party, and feels that it is within his
province to go around with the wind and
generally do as he pleases. For Jones is
from the South, and the South is in the
Democratic saddle, and as faithful and
subservient creatures of the South, the
Democrats of New York obey his orders.
As "The Journal" repeatedly has declar
ed, we are going to see history repeat
itself, and find the Democracy of the
North again the pliable, submissive, cring
ing tool of the South. In his speech at the
fair grounds recently, Senator Tillman de
clared that this condition of affairs must
be brought about, and the dexterous speed
shown by the Democratic State Com
mittee in obeying Mr. Jones instructions
proves that the Democracy of New York,
in spite of the decadence of national lead
ers, is prepared to resume its old position,
and to come at the beck and call of the
South. Albany Journal.
Not Controlled by Silver.
Russia's exports of grain, according to
the latest advices, have amounted to only
about 65 per cent this year of those of
1896, the total of all kinds of grain
amounting to 143,000,000 bushels during
the first eight months of the present year.
When there is added to this fact the ex
treme shortage in the crops of this year,
it is apparent that Russia will do little if
any exporting and supplying the markets
of the world, to which India, Australia
and Argentina will contribute little, if
anything, thus leaving the United States
the chief food supply of those sections
which have to go outside their own terri
tory for grain. This accounts for the ad
vance in the price of wheat, and sustains
the claim of the Republicans in the last
fall campaign that the prices of wheat de
pend upon supply and demand, and are
not controlled by or related to the use of
silver.
Straws from the Pos office.
The records of the New York postoffice
show that nearly ten thousand more do
mestic money orders were paid at the
general office in the first two weeks of
August this, year than in the same time
last year. These money orders have,
without doubt, in most cases been sent
to pay for goods ordered from New York
merchants by persons living elsewhere.
This means that nearly ten thousand peo
ple who were not buying goods from New
York dealers in August last year are buy
ing this year. Straws show which way
the wind blows, and this is one of the
straws which mark the coming of what
promises to be a hurricane which will
sweep the, country i into such prosperity
as will give the devoted band of free
traders bad dreams for many a day.
Why They're Paying Mortgages..
It seems now that it is the poor farmers
who are being "intimidated." Last fall
the Popocrats assumed that the working
men were professing friendship for the
Republicans because they feared dismissal
if they did not, but the election showed
that there was no foundation for this as
sertion. Now Mr. Bryan says it is last
year's threat of foreclosure that is lead
ing the farmers to pay off their mortgages.
Failures Have Decrease!.
Business failures in the United States:
Second week September, 1897 .169
Second week September, 1896 315
Second weekSeptember, 1895 218
Second week September, 1S94 ...218
Second week September, 1893. 346
Hauling Down the Silver Flag.
More than local significance attaches to
the refusal of the Democratic State Com
mittee of New York to revive the free
silver coinage issue for use in the ap-
proaching State campaign. Despite the
air of ingenuousness given to the commit
tee's discovery that it was clearly with
out authority to write a party platform,
its f ailure to express last Wednesday even
the smallest opinion on public questions
bears all the earmarks of deliberate and
studied policy. Moreover, the plausible
excuses for dodging a reaffirmation of the
Chicago platform so obligingly furnished
to Senator Murphy by Chairman Jones of
the Democratic National Committee fail
wholly to obscure the main fact that the
Democratic organization in the foremost
State of the Union practically hauled
down the silver flag when, by a policy of
inaction and silence, it committed itself
to conducting a State campaign on lines
which virtually ignore the declarations ac
cepted a year ago as Democratic faith by
the national convention at Chicago. . .
'PROVIDED" AND "IF."
Stand in the Way of that SiT-er and
Bank of Bngland Story.
What the Bank of England proposes to
do about silver was formally and authori
tatively stated yesterday at the semi-an-'
nual meeting of the bank by the Governor,
who read a letter he had written to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, stating, in
substance, that the bank was prepared to
do what it was permitted to do by the
bank act of 1S44j that is, to carry one
fifth of the reserve against its; notes in
silver, provided, however, that the French
mint is again opened to the free coinage
of silver "and that the price at which sil
ver is procurable and salable is satisfac
tory." The Governor went on to say that
the bank had bought no silver, and all that
it had agreed to "was to do what is per
missible under the act of 1S44, on the con
ditions he stated. This is some slight en
couragement to bimetallists, but not
enough to excite them. Louisville Com
mercial. The Silver Blissionaries.
' Senators Cannon and Pettigrew are in
Japan, where they propose to interview
the emperor on the silver question. Pos
sibly they think the emperor has not heard
of the f all in silver, or if he has, that he
will be unable to resist their wonderful
eloquence, and so will immediately coun
termand all orders looking to the estab
lishment of the gold standard in his do
minions. "
The manner in which these silver apos
tles are wandering around the world seek
ing to gain some support would be pitiful
if it were not for the fact most jf them
are greatly interested in mining and are
seeking to foist a depreciated metal upon
the world, in order that they may profit
personally. .
Pettigrew and Mantle.
Nobody has called attention to' any great
anxiety on tbe part of the public to know
the result of the interview of senators
Pettigrew and Mantle with the Mikado of
Japan on the true cause of the demoneti
zation of silver. The fact is, everybody
except Pettigrew and Mantle understood
all about it before they left, or if they did.
not they could easily have learned it by an
examination of the official report of the
director of our mint, which shows that the
Japanese silver yen,, which in 18S7 was
worth 75.3 cents, had, by July, 1897,
dropped to 47.8, while the gold yen had
not changed a particle, the prices of 1S88
and 1897 being precisely the same, 99.7.
Iowa Democracy and Gov. Boies.
The Democratic party in Iowa is not
content to lose the alliance of 'the other
anti-Republicans of the State, but by its
latest move it has ostracized the Boies
element. The venerable "Uncle Horace'
saw fit to advocate the adoption of the
commercial ratio between gold and silver,
and base free coinage thereon, instead of
16 to 1. He insisted upon it. There
upon the leaders ordered him to the rear.
He is no longer allowed to go to and fro
up and down the State preaching the gos
pel of free coinage at 36 to 1. Chicago
Inter Ocean. -
Making Oar Own Tin Plate.
The free trade theorists are not hunting
up just now their assertions made when
the McKinley law was enacted, that no
amount of protection would enable the
United States to make its own tin plate.
Not only is the bulk of our tin plate now
being manufactured at home as a result
of that protection thus given, but our
manufacturers of that article are actually
invading foreign markets'.
Sick of His Own Medicine.
The Ohio -man-afraid-of-his-platform is
now presenting a curious spectacle. Two
months ago be crammed free silver, and
free silver only, down the throat of the
Democratic party, and now he is as sick
of the dose as were the other people.. But
he can't get rid of it now. He has made
his bed, he must lie in it.
BRYAN REVERSES HIMSELF.
Impertinence and Effrontery that
Would Shame a Street Fakir.
A year ago W. J. Bryan was traveling
back and forth across the American con
tinent declaring that the law of supply
and demand had nothing whatever to do
with the prices of American products, and
that the only hope for advancement out of
the condition of industrial prostration was
through the free and unlimited coinage of
silver. Now he is campaigning among the
same people with the unreserved declara
tion that government policies, legislation
financial systems, etc., have nothing what
ever to do with the price of products, but
that they are governed solely by the law
of supply and demand.
It would not be so bad if Mr. Bryan re
mained content with reversing himself.
But with an impertinence and effrontery
that would make a patent medicine fakir
ashamed of himself he proceeds to reverse
all of the American people who did not
agree with his highpopalorum theory of a
year ago. Everywhere and upon all oc-
cations the Republicans insisted during
the campaign of 1896 that the price of
products was governed by the law of sup
ply and demand. - Now Mr. Bryan is striv
ing to make it appear that the Republi
cans have abandoned their contention of
a year ago and are claiming .that the ad
vance. ill the price of vcheat and corn is
solely due to Republican legislation and
not to the operations of the law of supply
and demand. This is false and Mr. Bryan
knows it is false. Because he has come
over on to Republican ground is no rea
son why he should seek to drive the Re
publicans on to Populist ground which he
has abandoned. Kansas City Journal.
Trusts and Free Trade.
Under protection, when business thrives
and confidence reigns, men do not wait
long to compete with, and break down, a
trust which charges exorbitant prices
Under free trade, when business is para
lyzed and confidence blasted, men do not
put their money into new enterprises, and
consequently those who are already estab
lished id any business have things all
their own way with what business is left
to them. They have no fear of competing
rivals to kill their trade when the demand
is light. The cotton tie trust acted on this
knowledge, and the result was $1.35 per
bundle for ties which they are willing to
sell to-day for 70 cents per bundle. It is
time for the free traders to drop their
cry that a protective tariff fosters trusts;
not because the facts are against them
that is never any reason for a free trader
to drop a charge but because the facts
arc getting too well known to let the lie
go longer undetected by the people at
large.
A Marked Contrast. '
What a marked contrast exists between
conditions in the United States to-day and
those of the corresponding period of Presi
dent Cleveland's last term. Four years
ago, with a low tariff staring the manu
facturers of the country in the face, busi
ness was going to everlasting smash,
banks breaking, railroads going into the
hands of receivers, factories closing, and
workingmen thrown out of employment
by th hundreds of thousands. Now hun
dreds of thousands of workingmen are
finding additional employment, railroads
are ordering thousands of new cars to
meet the demand upon them for trans
portation of manufactures, mechandise
and grain, the banks report larger deposits
and larger clearings than in many years,
and instead of silent factories, there are
clouds of snioke and the hum of busy
wheels everywhere.
The Shipping Question.
Shipping is the one industry that Eug-r
land protects; shipping is the one indus
try that the United States does not pro
tect. Last year the total tonnage of new
vessels launched by Great Britain was
over a million tons; the total tonnage of
new vessels launched by the United States
was less than one-fifth of that of Great
Britain. No wonder England is mistress
of the seas. It certainly is high time for
us to take a lesson from England and to
protect our merchant marine, and so dis
pute with England her control of the
carrying trade of the world, as we are
already beginning to dispute her suprem
acy in the markets of the world in the
sale of manufactured products.
Protection in the South.
The growth of protective sentiment in
the South, shown by the election of Sen
ator McLaurin in South Carolina, is no
surprise to those who have studied the
situation in that section. The New York
Sun, whose editors scan the political hori
zon pretty closely, in a recent article
points out the growth of Republicanism
in that section, and says it is to be an im
portant field for the party in future. -
ONLY A MINUTE.
It Doesn't Take Long to Bead these
Snap-Shots.
Advices from Mexico show that states
men there are urging steps looking to the
adoption of the gold standard.
Mr. Bryan is so busy studying Spanish
that he has not had time to explain the
advance in the price of wheat.
Ex-Candidate Bryan, in an article in the
New York World, says: "Those who
favored free coinage may be wrong." Can.
it be possible, Mr. Bryan?
The advance in the price of wool and
sheep will soon bring back to the farmers
the 75 million dollars loss in the value of
sheep which befell them under the Wilson
law.
The more the coal strike is studied the
more apparent it becomes that the reduc
tion in coal tariff by the Wilson law is
responsible for the low wages which caus
ed it.
If anybody croaks about the light re
ceipts in the first month of the Dingley
law, remind him of the enormous importa
tions of the months which preceded its en
actment. Did Mr. Bryan demand that $1,500 he
is to get for his Ohio speech in "gold coin
of present standard weight and fineness"?
That is the habit of his masters; why not
Bryan, too?
The farmers are too busy to listen to
free silver speeches now. That species of
pastime may do for free trade times like
those of the past three years, but not un
der protection.
It now takes two ounces of fine silver
to pay for a bushel of wheat. One year
ago one ounce of silver was equivalent in.
the markets of the world to just about one
bushel of wheat.
"Comrade McKinley" was -cordially
greeted by the old soldiers at Buffalo. He
is the first President who served in the
ranks as a private soldier and will proba
bly be the only one.
Why don't Professor Debs and his as
sociates call on the framers of the Wil
son law to help out the miners? It was
clearly the reduction of the tariff that
caused the reduction in the miners' wages.
Oh, by the way, have the Ohio and Iowa
and Maryland and Kentucky and Ne
braska and New Jersey and New York
Democrats forgotten about the tariff?
They seem to be strangely silent on the
subject.
Advices from abroad show that the for
eign rye crop is as badly off as the wheat
crop, and as rye is largely used for bread
in European countries, this development
indicates a still greater demand for Amer
ican wheat.
The calamity shriekers of last year have
not told the farmers yet how it is that
wool and wheat have advanced 50 per
cent in price since their shrieKs of last
year while silver has meantime industri
ously fallen 25 per cent.
The British goldbugs again have the
American farmer by the thront, This time
it is in the shape of 450,000 English sov
ereigns, or over $2,000,000 coming into
San Francisco from Australia in ex
change for American wheat.
With an increase of 50 per cent in the
value of wheat in the past year, and a fall
of 25 per cent in the value of silver mean
time, the gentlemen who were exploiting
the wheat and silver theory last year are
now seeking for new occupation.
Professor Wilson does not seem to ,be
much in demand as a campaign orator
among the Democrats this year. His
name is a little too suggestive of the re
cent bitter experiences of the working
men and farmers of this country.
The old Democratic "gag" about in
creased prices under the new tariff law is
not being heard this time the reason is
that the average Democrat knows tfmt
protests against protection are not longer
popular with the people of this country.
One remarkable development of the
opening months of the new tariff law is
the general gratification with which it is
accepted irrespective of party. Even the
Democrats are omitting the usual talk
about increase in prices under the new
law.
"Because it is my deliberate judgment
that the prosperity of America is mainly
due to its system of protective laws, I
urge that Germany has now reached the
point where it is necessary to imitate the
tariff system of the United Sta.ea."
Bismarck.
With several shiploads of gold coming
in at the western ports from Klondike,
others from Australia, and many more
coming in at the East, in payment for
their golden grain, the farmers are not
spending much time listening to free silver
speeches this fall.
That little group of despairing states
men who sailed for Japan some weeks
ago in search of the true facts with refer
ence to the demonetization of silver by
that country have not yet favored the
people of the United States with the re
sult of their investigation.
The continual fall in the value of silver
is causing great distress among the labor
ing people of Mexico. The dollar in which
they are paid is now worth only 40 cents,
and they get only about half as many of
them for a given amount of work as do
workingmen in the United States.
The calamity orators are in trouble
again. Ihe recent statement of the con
dition of the national banks of the United
States shows the individnnl deposits to be
the largest in their history, amounting to
the enormous sum of $1,770,480,536. If
this is McKinley calamity, let's have more
of it. '
'Blessed is the country whose soldiers
fight for it and are willing to give the best
they have, the best that any man has.
their own lives, to preserve it, because
they love it. Such an army the United '
States has always commanded in all her
history." President McKinley at Buf
falo. Get Good Money for Wheat.
The farmers are uow getting just two
and a half times as much for wheat as Mr,,
Bryan and his followers promised them if
they adopted free coinage. They prom
ised $1 per bushel for wheat in silver dol
lars, and admitted that they didn't know
what the silver coins would be worth.
They are now worth 40 cents under free
coinage, while the farmers are getting two
and a half times that in good American
100-eent dollars. Exchange,
Not a Sale Money Metal.
. fall cf 20 per cent in value in n money
metal in ten mouths would seem to war
rant the belief that it is not very safe as
a money metal. Yet that is just the fall
inthe value of silver since last November.
It was worth 65V& cents per ounce in New
York on Nov. 3, 1896, and is worth only
51 cents to-day.