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PLAINDEALER SUPPLEHENT, September 24th, 1806. Supplement The MoKinley Law Checked Im portation and Qavo a. Home Market, EFFECT OF iTHE WILSON BILL. The Canadian Farmer Has Protection but the American Farmer Has None. There is no reason why Canada, Mexi co, China, or any other country should supply the United States with a single SK. Canada does not buy n single egg from us, and there is no reason why we should buy from her. When we do, the American farmer loses the benefit of iart of lits natural market. The purpose of this article is to show ly a few figures the benefit which the American farmer derived from the Me Kitiley law; not merely liecauso the law siopeinl imports from other countries, but liecauso under that law he received an average of 15 cents a dozen for his -gS all the year around. I'nder the jiivserit Wilson-Uorman bill, he hardly averages Ji cents a dozen; and the jieople could lietter afford to pay 15 cents a dozen in 1SII2, than they can 5 cents a dozen Jn lSSnJ. From ISi-t lo 1S2X1. there was no tariff upon ess. The Canadian farmer could send his eggs across the line from Maine lo California. Mexico. China. France. Germany ami other countries supplied us with 15.5t0,0iXI dozens of cgs. an nually, on the average. We iid every year to the foreign farmer ou this small product alone, at 15 cents a dozen. ?i fcOO.OiiO. This imiortaticn of over 1, OOU.OuO dozen a month or 50,000 dozen a day was felt, in the way of competition, by our fanners chiefly in the largo cities. 'Kariners, can set the 1h-i prices for eggs and their products in the large cities: but when New York. Philadelphia, Bos ton. Buffalo. Cleveland. Chicago. San Francisco ami many other markets are supplied with eggs, shipped at cheap Tales of transportation by water, how can the fanner exiect to compete who lias to ship hi ecss by rail? The following statement shows imor tations of egg, by countries, the year be fore the McKinley tariff went into effect, for the year endinc June ,"!0. lssil: Importations of w. by countries Jolyl, to Jntie 3). Ismi. Countries. Doien-. Value. -Auslria-llnnrary Jlelclmu China llemaark France Grrmin; 'inland Jjjva Sootla. 7t fnn.wlct l.fc. 21MG1 llU.TCi 74.10, 140. 73.3iV, 4.U14, 4.10U! 23.223 6.423 ( 1 '"1 . . ,( n.ito S3 SCS) .New I'rlnre Rdwanl I -lan.1; 3.t37.222! 4N1.C00 1.SW4.020 7 SO 2.U7- r 2LX TO l.'. Quebec. Ontario, Itoba Terrltsrv. JtrliNh Colanibfa lions Kon; 3taly Japan Mexico Kctherland. . . . . Cuba Turkey in Africa iiaa-l ' ii.7a.4 .( I7S l.V-'lt'l 12.4isi -M. 1.V7 ). 1U.WB Total ?15.31S.sX;ri4 Is.t'7 The next table baw the points at waleh these ess were received: J.UKK1UA TOUTS OF ENTRY FOK EROS. Porta. I Dozen. , Value. Aroostook. Maine Itaasnr. Maine Hath. Malse. Jloston and Charles Joe. Uin Tlnffalo Creek." N." Cap Vincent. N. Y Caamptaln. X. Y Corpus Chritl. Texas. . Cnyahnsa. O Kctrolf, Mich CJene-ee. N. Y Gloucester, Ma Huron. Jllrh. JCry West. KU ilarblehead. Mas .New Iximl.in. ("una . . . New York. X. Y ."lasara. X. Y Oawesatcbie. X. Y iH Wego. X. Y J'aso ilrt Norte. Texa anil Sew Mexlcn 3 "iau ma c tI ti r. Maine. ltlladrlpbU. i" Iort land and KalnMHMB. Maine J'ortsmonth, X. 11 JTov!lriw. It. I lnxet Saowl. Wash . . . Fa I'm ami loverly. Maw Kandnnky. O Kan KrancUcn. Cal U.si t.fT;, X' oi T.f.B' 11.777' 1..VR, t.T 316' .TtriW, 1.412JB! sr. J70.I.I 1.37 4 oljtlt 104 l.tis 1M J4 H1..V.-1 1..VV. i.i:iiy . . . ......! I .Sli it;il tcr. 4.1MJ 73 i37i. W.1.H l- IS lUtrtil 7.7M VIS Hnprlor. Mleh. ... Vermsat 'Vraldoifuroeb. Jle. i.ia 2.070l S77.f 7 i I "Wlllamrtte, Or 'All othrr rutom ill- 10, ur. u trlcts . .i 1.2T.' Total.. l.JMS.4U.2.41.l7i' It ixhiM evnlently lie iniiossib1e for ianners titty miles in the interior of any of the state Ixtnlerins n the t'reat Iakrs. to (iiihMi- with egss shipssl l.y water from anailu. The McKiid.-y tariff imputed a duty of cents a floren on ess-. This law went into effect OctoK-r 1. 1SIX). Dur- inr the year endinc dune "Ml. l.sjm. we iniirt-d nearly 1 M J . M ilozen esc- l-s than in the year previous, when then was no protection: The iiniMirtation of cess steadily de rea.sl until the reial ot the .vieKinley law m l.NM, so that instead of nearly I tl.f at n . M Ji.zeu ess ls-ins bnincht into this muntry. as lu r. tofore. in 1SH w iunorttsl .S.(HMNHI dozen; 4.0l.(iKl in lStll-'.H!; :t.( Ml. in lS!i': l.T.-ji.irii in lMCM. Ity KH nearly $'SWt had Isen taken frmu the foreisu shipT. whi h now went into tin' pockets of the Aiiiencan farmer. The followius table shows tin- iniHirtn tions of ess since lJvSTt: Annual Imixirtatliiu uf foreisn rsss. 11- Yfir endlns Jhii 30. Iozhii. Value. llW a ISM llW, a ikm: a iss7 a l.VA a 1W b 1K h 1-41 h IMS! h IW ir..'J71i.lS.'f2.7.VM Il;.4s7.-.1i L'.i!77.tnn lli.liits.l.Vt .47ii.172 in,ir.cu-s3 2.173. IM .i:i.!i.;.o.i 1.-..UI2.K.11 i:..iilS.wi!i, LMls.ilTii ir..0TJ.7lit 2.071.H12 S.233.IX3 4.1VS.IW1 .V-I'.h) 3.SIi.SI2 :aiM5i7 UIKH 1.7I:.ISH c IKl. ; 2.7UII.41I ICI.MI :c.t,i:i:s a Tinier 1 ree Traile. h I'rulecttsI, October IS, lSJKl, at T. cents per dozi-ii. cfSorman Tariff. Purine the Inst year of the McKinley tariff the only escs we boucht were from Canada, and from China for the Chi nese. We boucht none whatever from Kiiropenn countries, as before. Kven at f cents a dozen the tariff would not be any too hich. It simply made a differ ence to the countries across the Ocean, or jilnn s in Canada, far from the shippinc points. What does all this talk about slxtoen to ono mean? It means that free coinage of silver will ruin business and close the If the McKinley law hhd been let alone, the American fanner in lS!5-( would bo supplyius nearly every epc in the American market. The farmer's wife would have felt encourased to in- j crease her stock of ultry. on which i she dejH-nded for pin money to clothe herself and her children. When the McKinley law was repealed and the tar iff on esss reduced from 5 cents to H cents a dozen, importation increased l.OOO.OuO dozen in one year, at an in creased price of $lli",000. tnles the American fanner can set- it to lie his in terest to vote for McKinley and the restoration of a proper duty on csss, the Canadian and other forvizn fanners will soon asain ship u 10,u"H.OfK dozen a year and the price of domestic escs will continue to decline, as they have done for the lat two years. OucMlou. Why Should lleiuormt Lesi latr In faior of the Canadian calmt the American Karuirr? The American farmer could not sell escs in t anana. even u tney nan no tariff on American escs. Then- are only a few large eitie- there, and they are near to the Canadian cheap farms. The half-a-dozen -mall markets in Canada have a total jwpnlation only omwiuarter j as larse as that of the city of Xew York. A few election districts in the city of j New York, or in l'niladelphia. or in , Cuicaco. afford a better market for j American esss than the whole of Call; ada. Yet Canada imjios- a duty of 5 cents a dozen on our escs. while we itn- Com a duty of only 3 ccnt a dozen on ' er cec. ! The Canadian have protection, bnt , under the Wilton bill we haTc not. I A Pointer for Farmers. T .n....,l.nr Attn inat.nro fhst lltfirS particularly upon this nmstion that came to me today as I sat here, arid that was this: My father enme trom tne ,cw Knctand stat- un this prairie in 1S.TT. He told me thi instancv once: That after sowins a crop of wheat by hand, ciittins it with the cradle, bindinc it with the rake, and ttin-shinc it witn tne nan ,1... ti..r I,., mit if iirwiri n 1'ilon awl drove it to this city of Milwaukee. ninety-ix miles away, and -old it here for 4t conts a bti-liel. This was in the 5K and -liver then was an ounce. V-.... .JI ll,.i .ilntr liln Ilk ..Vfllnin to Tilll how it was that in the early TD wh.mt was 4t. i-cnt a IMl-hei. ami silver an oum-e. if the price of -ilver always carrier with it the price- of wheat. And when he hems and haws, say to him: "It is not only connnou u nni, mn ,U, ....rikmiulitT' rmi v.il.1 till witll Ilia, ,,n, ........-- .- -. silver. sitton: and tell him that for the for years i ii.lnic in IN.i cotton in tne citv of New York averaced only 7 cents '. ...i . .,..1 flint f.ir tli. fntir rmlrs U lflllf... ...... .... eudins in l-'l the same eltis. averncis! S cents a .IIIMl. I ell Him to ejnain that to vou. That was when we had free coiiiasc ami silver wa then an oihm-v. He aniiot explain it. That one illustration, my friend-, utterly b tnys tin- whole -diver heresy. Con-cn-'niHii Fowler of New Jersey. What Stewart Tlioiijcht In IKIM. Senator Stewart of Nevada made a -hi-c1i in Concrf-s February 11. 1J"4. in which he -aid: ct evcr.l"!y know what a dollar is worth. The farmer- will then know- how to measure the difference in price lie tweeli his wheat in Illinois and the wheat in l.iveriH-fl. The wheat will 1m- meas iinsl lyr the -ame standard cold in Illinois a- it is in I.iverMHil and any man can licure it up. Hut now it is a mys lerv. the whole subject of tinance i- a mvstery. and what do we ur every dnyV Ye -s- tho-c wIhi devote their attention to it uiakinc larce fortunes out of this mystery. . , Let H- d" a- all the (icople of the world have Im-cii doiiic from the besinninc uiea-nre our values by sold, adopt the standard that all tun unders.and. and set rid of this mystery. Mr. l.ociin u hat does the senator want'? Mr. Stewart I want the standanl cold, and no (miier money not rcdi-cnied in cold, no pajier money the value of which is not asivrtnintsl. no jsiper money that will organize a cold board to speculate with it. Who pays for this cold board? Who pays the-e immense fortunes'; How is it that millions and millions can be rolled up annually there? Did anybody ever ciilculate who paid for it? It comes out of the producers. How do these men eit? Hy the latitude which oiir ilepret iateil currency gives to specu iation and liothins el-e. Fcr-ons who are speculating in your depreciated currency are making the money, and they will continue to make it so "lone as you have n depreciated cur rency. if the farmers would set rich they hnve cot to become skilled in this lluctunt ins currency and make corners and man ipulate the market, and if they do that they r:iimnt farm. (Congressional Ilcc ord forty-third Congress, first session, ol. p. lo'JJ.) Payment of Debts in Debased Cur rency Means Practically Repudiation. A NEBRASKA FARMER ANSWERED i Fallacy of What is Considered the Strongest Free Trade Argument. The followinc letter is one of many that are daily received by the Times Herald. It is siijKiox-d to contaiti the stronsest Ixw silver argument that con be addresed to the farmer, ami it is ueL by ihe fris- silver orator -with im mense assurance of its sticwss: Lincoln. Neb . Auc. 3. To the Kdltor: My laml 1 enrtiiulM-red by a niortcace of j IU. Iiayable in lawfol money Notemlier ' 1. l-i7 I niu-t pjy this debt with the j products or my rami. I nuer oruinary cir cumstances I will lie able to ral-e 1IXO bubels of wheat next year If there Is no chance In our ananelal system, t hi wheat, at Zi cent- per bushel, will pay half the debt. When the valne of a -liver dollar Is reduced to ."'! cents by free coinage a bushel of wheat, without any chance In lis value, will be worth a .VM-ent dollar. With free coinase of sliver I shall, there fore, be able to nay the entire debt with the lft bnhel of wheat. The burden of rylns a debt of lis has doubled since bornmed the inonev I have obered the laws of my country nnder the cold standard and -hall obey tbem under a silver standanl. The opponent- of fn-e coinase of -IHer are appeafln; lo the laborer-, the creditors and pulley holders to tmitect their own iier ronal Interest-. If I sbonld fall to look on: for tnv own- Interests who will do so for me? I there any reason why 1 should not tote for Ihe fn-e ami unlimited coinase of silver? Very repect fully. J. W. Itlnser. The answer is not far to seek. When tin- farmer borrowed the money it was the isUivaUTt of $!( in cold. It was the same a- if he. had received it all in cold piis-es. He could have tm.l It flint w-nc if he so desinsl. Per haps he did. for many such lonus have I Ihtii made. hen lie exs'iultst it tie sot $l'l in cold )siiialent. He i.robably impnivtsl his farm to that client or boucht -lock or machinery. In whatever way he u-tsl it. unless he burned it up or squandered it. he got value m-vivetj. The Imrrowing ami lending wa- a busi ness tran-action and the liorrower used the money to promote his buincs interest-. At no time -ince that mortCHSe was executed, for few mortgages run over live year- without renewal, would a thoii-aiid bushel- of wheat have paid it. Slipnose we had borrowed the money from a neichliriiis farmer more pros-iierou- than he. That ncichhor would probably have to earry something like two thousand lm-hets of u le-at to town, -ell it for : thoil-and dollar-, get the money ami hand it over to hi friend. There have lieen ill the past thon-ands of -tu-h transHi t'miis. In fact, in every farming community there are a few farmers, more thrifty and of lietter business tjual iiicntioiis than the others, who always have money to leud out of their savings. They get the money from the products of t'heir farms, but they are not loaning tho-e products. They are loaning the money, and since lTi it has gold or it's equivalent. Why should they not have the mi me kind of money in re !! mellt? Is it any wonder that the advocates of iinliniitcd'freo coinage are charged with dishonesty and that silver is callisl dis- li t money, when by the imssage of a law a thousand ."Jt-cent dollars will be siiliicient to discharge a debt of a thou sand ItKi-cent dollars? Such a law auioiiuts to the repudiation of one-half the debt obligations of all the debtors in the foiled States. When Mr. Itiuger in the above letter says. 'The burden of paying a debt of S1IHN) has doubled since I borrowed the tnoncv." he must reniomlicr. if he is stilt ing what is true, that the burden" is not alone upon him. but upon every other business ninn v ho has lmrnflvod money. Merchants and manufacturers fitd the same stress of the hard times as the farmers do. It i- not because they bor rowed gold and have to lepay gold that the burden i- greater, but that their earnings and a-scts have not turned out as they hoped and cpc-ted. Competi tion and overproduction have affected tlie whole world, but repudiation is not the proper cure for it. Honesty is the best policy as a policy merely, without reference to its moral quality for tint ums as well as for iiitli- -workshops so that when there is a viduals. A man who has repudiated his debts is never trusted acain and is re carded with contempt by all his neigh bors. And so is a nation. A free-coinace law is repudiation, and that it is umler-UHMl in that .sense is in licatisl by such letters as the above. Kor if under free coinage the silver dol lar is to appreciate to the value of a cold dollar how will the fanner set more of them for his tliou-nnd bushels of wheat? How can he pay his debt any easier than he can now? No. it is repudiation the silver men want, and repudiation is dishonor. Chi caso Times-Herald. VALUES DECREASED. I'rirea of Llie Stock I'nder Republican and Democratic ltule. When we resumed -cle pay ment In 1ST!) onr dAuiestP animals. bres. mules, cat tle. heep and swine were valned at J 1.415,42X002 Durlnc the ennins six years. until the ehi-tlnn ot Mr. Cleveland In 1S54. the values ' iBcreased to 2.407,.024 : A sain during six years of Republican rule of J1.022.443.S2 i .Dunns ihe en-nlng foHr years until Ihe elei-tlou of Mr. Harrison In 1SX-, alnes de creased from 2.407.JJVS.P2I To 2.440.W3.41S A loss during four year of , Democratic rule of 5S.S2T...V J During the ensuing four years, until the -econd election of ; Mr. Cleveland In ls'-rj, values asaln Increa-eil from 2.4O0.04X41S ! To 2.4il,7.V..t2i-i ( A sain during four years of Republican rule of ri2.712.2M) Dnrtng the last two years, nnder the second adminis tration of Mr. Cleveland, and under pn-!Hed and accom- fill-hetl free trade and sweep ng tariff n-dnctlons. values again decreased fnm ll-JCtl. 2.4St.50o.CSl To the comparaihelv In-Ignl-flcaat total of l.MSi.44'sWiti Showing the enormous loss In Two years of Democratic rule of tH,OX.37.-. Cheap Dollars. Everything is thenp or dear according to what we have to jiay for it. Sugar is cheap at Ti cent- a pound, but would be dear at 111 cent-. A cheap dollar, therefore, is one that the merchant buys with less good lhan he would have to give for a dearer dol lar. If a merchant now gives twenty tMiunds of sugar for a dollar, and the dol lar which he gets i- a iNxi-eut dollar: and if the LlKl-cent dollar is a dishonest dollar and ought to W replaced by a 1( ceut dollar, worth only half as inu.-h: in that case, the merchant will give t lily half as much sugar for the cheaper dol lar a he now gives for the dishonest JtKK-ent dollar. That is clear, is It not? This' is precisely what "cheap money" means. Is this what the farmer and the work iugmati really want? Apply this illustration to Inlsir. if you please. The workiusuinn buy- dollars with labor. Does he want a cheap dol lar, for which the merchant will give only ten imiiinls of ugar? Or does he want a 21M-i-ent dollar, for which the merchant will give twenty iHiunds of sugar? Cheap dollars would cut hi wages in half. He-urely does not want that. "Oh. no." -ay- the workingmau. "that is not w-hat I want: but. if dollar- were heap. I would get twice a- many ot them for a day's work." Would you. indeed? Not on your life. Free and unlimited coinage of silver, at the ratio of lit to I. is simply a scheme to nsluce your wages without your know ing it or having au excuse for striking. What good would it do you to get twice a- many dollars for a .lay's work if .f2 would buy no more sugar, and no more of anything oNe. than SI will now buy? Besides, if prices go up. under free coinage, a- they will we admit that doe- not tin workingiiiaii know that the first thing to go u i will be rents, the next thing will le food and clothing, and the last thing will Ik- labor? I'nder fns coinage, instead ef being better off. the workingmau would be worse off than lie is now. Think this over, and see what it all un-ans to you mid to your little family. Springtield i III.) Journal. A (Jiie-tion fur Farmers. If the volume of silver money controls price-, as the free coiners would have us believe thn it does, so that the more silver coin there is in circulation, tho higher is the price of wheat, and the less silver coin there is in circulation, the lower the .irice of wlleat: then will some farmer, who believes in the free coinage of silver at Hi to 1. answer the question: How did it happen that wheat was lower in price in lSlM lhan ever before, while the amount of coined silver in the world was greater than ever before? Illinois State Journal. job for ono man there will be sixteen Arithmatic for Wheat Growera Which Neglects Tax and In terest Considerations. A FREE SILVER MATHEMATICIAN. Silver Accountants Concede Double Expense in Mexico and As sume Equal Profits. Warren. Minn.. Ang. t. To the Editor: I enclose comparative slips circulateil by au advocate of free silver, which subject I would like your opinion on. Ir. of course, is intended to catch the fanner who raises wheat, and deductions' of this kind have had their influence in this dis trict, which is largely wheat growing. I would like the going wages in Mexico and the rates of interest in countries on silver basis as compared with the gold standanl countries. L. Iimberson. The first slip professes to show ;he net profit to a farmerof raising bushels of wheat in the Fnited States: .VnTti hn-hel-. at U cents per bushel. . .J2.$no Kxpen-es ...Sl.UiO Freight Ml Interest 21 "1 Taxes 40 2.0IO Assumed net proMt to American fanner 7(M The second slip makes a similar state ment of the assumed profits of raising r bushels of wheat in Mexico: bushel-, at $1.12 per bushel ST..CIX) Kxpen-e J2.KXI Freight Sou Interest 2l Taxes 40 .-..OKI Aswned net profit to Mexican fanner f2.."sai Reduced to gold 1.2M1 As this as-umisi profit would Ik- iu silver and the wheat would have to lie sold iqion the gold standard, this skillful accoiiutaut reduces this to gold, making the net profit to the Mexican farmer Slli !-4i. But to produce this n-snlt this accommodating ai coiintaut. while con ceding that tlie exMiisf of raising the wheal would lie twice as many silver dollars as in the United States, as sumes that the profit on it would lie the same uiiuiIht of silver dollars as in the United State-. A a matter of fact the fn'ight rates in Mexico are higher ex pressed in the gold standard than in the United States, but assuming that they are the same, the American railroad com panies, as oon as they cross the Ismler. requiro twice as many Mexican dollars to pay a given freight rate a- they re quiro of American dollars on American territory. s1( that the freight rate in Mex-i.-o would lie Mt instead of SS00. as our fn-e silver accountant states it. Moreover, inten-st rates are higher ill Meiit than in the United States, if paid in Mexican silver dollars, and miin over the interest would have lo be paid on twi.-e tin ni'mbcr of silver dollars bor rowed by the American farmer, so that even sirqiosing the rates of interest to be the same, the amount of interest would In- double, raising it from SDO to S4IHI. Moreover, the siiiv:ileut of .-MO taxes paid by the American farmer would lie SSlI in Mexican dollar-, so that the account of the Mexican farmer, thus corrected, would stand as follows: ruHMI bushels at $1.12 per bushel J.1.rti0 Kvponse 2.00O Kn-lglit l.CJi Interest 4i Taxes so 4.US) SI. ."20 Reducing this lo gold, as iii the original statement, the net profit of the Mexican fanner would Is sjia). exactly what that of the American farmer' would be. This is a fnir .specimen of the illusory and deceptive statements put forth by free silver men to deceive American farmers. Bryan a Creenliat-ker. Mr. Bryan is not so much a silverite as he is a sroenbacker. He said, on the lloor of tlie House of I.epresentutives in Washington. June 5, IS!M: "The issue of money by the govern ment directly to the people gives us a safer currency Ithan national bank bills) and saves to the people as a whole the profit arising from its issue. When a bank issues money, you must pay the market rate of interest to get it: but when the government issues money, the people save the interest, if the money is nfterward called in: and they save the principal also, if the money is kept in cir culation." He asserted that greenbacks "can be men out of work applying for it. nsed to pay the expenses of the govern ment." The tariff on some of the neces saries of life might be reduced, and the deficit made up by an issue of money." Or. if this is not deemed advisable, "gor ernment paper can be issued to pay for special improvements; harbors can be deepened and rivers improved in this way." He introduced a bill to issue STO.OOO.OOO of United States treasury note. with which to inaugurate the con struction of the Nicaragua canaL He further suggested that "we can use any available coin on hand to take np ma tured bondd and replace the coin so used with paper money. ' He introduced an other bill providing in this wav for the payment of the $2T.II0.()0 outstanding '1 per cent, bonds. He did not stop even at that point, but gravely proposed that government paper should lie issued in the place of national bank notes, as they are retired." His theory of the ultimata redemDtion of government obligations, as stated by himself, was that the larger the issue of treasury notes, the smaller will be the "coin" reserve required with which to meet them. By "coin" he ex plained that he meant both gold and sil ver, wilfully ignoring the disparity in in trinsic value between the gold and silver dollar. And this is the financier and states man for whom honest and sensible men are asked to cast their votes, next No vember! Bryan Shown to be Uncertain. Thero is abundant proof that Mr. Bryan is an insincere isilitician and an unreliable adviser of the people. He was a bolter in ISSKt and in that year, too. he made a sjioech in which he de clanil that the exchangeable value of a dollar depended on something- beside a congressional edict. When Frank Irvine wai running on the Democratic ticke fop-' judgj of the Supn-me court of Nebraska Mr. Bryan siipiorted a Populist. J'n reply to a let ter from Mr. Irvine, calling Mr. Bryan's attention to his unexpected position, the present candidate for President on the Democratic ticketwrote a statement of his roasons for liolting which contained the followius cool remarks and assur ance of persoual and pecnliar esteem for the Democratic candidate: I regret that our people choe for slaughter o deserving a man. They ought to have selected some one of the numer ous Democrats who are responsible for the falling off of the Democratic vote. I have sioken to you thus frankly and confidentially, because 1 feel that you deserve a better fate than the one which I fear awaits you this fall. During the extraonlinary session of Congress of 1J-JC5. called by President Cleveland. Mr. Bryan made a speech in which he declarod that: While the government can say that a given weight of gold or silver shall consti tute a dollar and Invest that dollar with legal tender qnalltles. it cannot tlx the purchasing power of the dol lar. That must depend upon the ' law of supply and demand. ' If the number of dollars increases more rapidly thjn the need of dol lar as ft did after the gold discover ies of is';) the exchangeable value of each dollar will fall and prices rise. Thus it appears that Mr. Bryan knew what the exchangeable value of a dol lar depended on. Hi change of tune, therefore, is not liecause conditions have chanced, but becaue he shifts his prin ciples with the varying olitical breezes, and that he is willing to do anything for otpce. In the spring of 1S',2 Bryan declared in a snecch made by him on the tariff question that the fall of prices must Ik attributed To the inventive geuins that h.s inii!ti:iietl a thousand times, iu many instances, the strength of a single arm anil enabled Us to do today with one man what tlfty men conhl not do fifty year ago. That I what brought the price down In this country' ami eNe w here. At tins time another change has come over the spirit of his white house dream. He and his fellow Populists ascribe the fall in the prices of commod ities o the fall in the price of silver. Mr. Bryan and his associate declare that "the crime of 1ST:?." which the New has shown to have been no crime at all. lias pulled everything down with it. How can the people believe a man who thus stultifies himself and puts h't.i self on both sides of vital questions, while, at the same time, he proves un true to his party associates? Buffalo New s. The Irishman anil the Potato Bag. Mr. Tenney's story at Madison of the Irishman who swallowed a potato bug and then a dose of Paris gnn'ti. in the hope of killing the bug. is very pat to the political situation. The American workingmau swallowed free trade in 1S'.C and now. to cure the misery which he has suffered ever since, the Popu.ist quack doctor i trying to induce him to swallow an unlimited dose of free silver. But if the workiugiuan takes it. he will find, when it is too late, that the cure U worse than the disease.