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HEDVESniY OCTOHKR SX. 1SSMI.
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WHY BUSINESS SUSPENDED.
A Bltof History Wh'.ch Will Interest Er ry
WorklDcnun.
Workingmen who are wondering why
the factories of the country are furnish
ing so Itti pmeolelmyatne B-i-' agsaisa
tag 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
THired wirh the nuotations in the last
year of the McKinley law. It .will be J
seen tnat in every case the importations
. increased enormously, and when it is re
membered that all of these goods are of
. a class that can be manufactured freely
In the United States, it will not be sur
prising that the factories of this country
nave 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 the
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- i
feet: , i
---5
ARTICLES.
: -i
1-2.
Manufacture!)
cotton. ...
of
$ 20.113,891
$ 18.SG5.T41
Earthen and china
ware
Glass and glass
ware.
Iron and steel man
ufactures. Leather.
Gloves.
Silk manufactures.
Textile manufac
tures Tobacco and manu
factures. Woolen goods
10,524.608 G.S79,437
7.529.895 5.21G.S16
25.055.250 2O.470.0Sfl
7.745.002 4.50S.33O
8.045.0U9 4.907.S15
31,058,000 24,S11,77.
27,734,300 19,360,701
17.352,003 13.159.572
57.41H.8t53 19.391.S50
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
eon 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.
sim wnrkinffmen. while American work- I
.M thn loft without omninvment I
art 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
tall the "anarchist plank" of the Chicago
platform is but a fresh expression of the
traditional
xfjiiocranc view oi states i
rights" will not work. That plank had
its origin solely in the brain of Governor
-AJtgeld 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 (he 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-1
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
jmrsued its course of destruction.
But In stopping the passage of the Unit-
a Mates mails and in interfering with inter-state
commerce, the anarchists 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 of the courts
against the rioters were enforced, at the
1 "resident's order, by lines of gleaming
hayouets, and the '"boys In blue," regard
less of Altgeld's remonstrances, quickly
pet 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 $he tri
umphant unfolding of the stars and
stripes.
Governor Altgeld has never repented of
11s 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 conventiort.
controlled by a multitude of crazy dema- j
gogues and visionaries over whom he had j
a strange hypnotic influence, he found !
Lis opportunity: and the "anarchist!
plank" was adopted as an endorsement !
of his course at the time of the Chicago i
riots and as a condemnation of President !
Cleveland's course in suppressing these J
anarchistic orgies.
Thus, out of the blighted, rotten log of
Altgeldian communism not out of any
bistoric Democratic tree was a plank
which a contemporary nas well denomin
ated the "free riot plank" of the Popo-
Taric platform sawed. Its adoption was
hailed by all the unruly elements of so
ciety with delight. All those who fancy
they see a prospective gain in the break-;
ing up of the established order of things, I
who want to reap where they have not
sown, and fatten on what others have
earned; all those who want to substitute
the ipse dixit of the mob for the processes
of the courts; all elements of unrest ev
erywhere, find their chief incentive to
working for the Chicago nominees in 1
that plank. For Bryan declares he en-!
Worses "every word of it." The triumph
of a candidate standing on that platform
would embolden every anarchist to crawl j
out of his lair: and on the first occasion
we might behold the scenes of the Chica-1
go riot re-enacted all over the land, with j
ro President iu power daring to uphold
,lhe majesty of the law,- j
I
Hryan tells the farmers that the price of wheat
ot silver; that the gold standard forced down the
,t risft till silver rose: but the cold
been sinking and wheat rising.
McKinley to the Wool Growers.
Malor McKinley made a tellin;
l"
of Ohio. It encited enthusiastic ap
plauje, and tne tur wool g rowers
VetlL lltJllir. nilu umnnuiucu iiijjr
l dence in William ' McKinley as the
i great champion of the people's cause,
i and with an 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
i campaign .oratory. His set speeches
have always ranked high for excel-
lence in both matter and manner, but
lie nas snown niinsen m mis 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 cquse and a noble purjose.
This was especially exemplified In
his eloquent and effective speech ol
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 oi
the world the farmers would be bene
fited. It was done, and with whal
benefit you know better than I can
tell you. Now they tell you that more
free silver is the panacea for all youi
ills. And you have the same money ii
circulation now that you had four yean1
.rtinti k uerinise you nam no mirpnuTinjr or nut.-
ago; but your wool-growers have noij tllatiu currenoy -itu which to do your
got as much of it as you had then business. You are here because vou be
As free wool degraded your industry, lieve iu an honest dollar for an honest
so free silver will degrade your nion j government and for an honest man. You
ey. You have already been fleeced bji do not want a dollar that is worth less
loss on your flocks, and you don't pro' tIlan 100 ''outs, for you were taught in
pose to be fleeced further by loss oi! T0U,r childhood in these great states that
:.... mnnov " i an honest dollar had 100 cents in it.
jour money. . j My f(,,low pit.pg, the Republican
There is a volume of meaning to; nartv is an inspiration and an education.
these few plain but pointed referencei
to the relation of free trade and fret'
silver to the welfare of the farmer.
The wool growers of the country can
not forget that they have lost about
f4.000,000 since the repeal of the Mc
Kinley tariff. X. Y. Mail aud Express.
Tillman on Libert?
I am the owner of the pitchfork, and
I want you all to understand
That when I open up my mouth
From Xorth 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 aud judges any
ft'ay.
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
When other people fail to do
As we.
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 ideee ,
Of liberty,
See! Cleveland Leader.
ONE DAY AT CANTON
Continued from Firtt PaK.
others from Rock Island and Molinc, 111.,
and Davenport. Ia. .Maj. McKinley snitl:
"You couie from three states of the
mightiest government of earth. You
come representing diverse occupations
and varied eiiiiilo.vineiits. but you come
with a single mission; you come wnu u
common purpose, anil 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. "You 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 ensuing election, now only a
little more thau three weeks away. You
have come because 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 had 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
tiie period that it prevailed we enjoyed
the nighest prosperity in every enter
prise and undertaking of American peo
ple. You have come here because you
are in favor of the supremacy of the
law and because you mean to maintain
n government by law and under the law.
You are here because yon believe in pub
lic and private honesty, aud because you
do not propose that any part of the pub
lic debt of this country shall be repudi
ated in whole o in part.
"Y'ou are here to declare that every
obligation of this government is as sa
cred as its flag, and that obligation shall
,e Kepl aml l"ormeu. ion are .ere
I wish every man in this country might
rend the first platform that the Repub-
lican party ever made as a national oarty
in ISiHS in the city of Philadelphia. I
wish that every young man might read
it. and I wish that every old Repub
lican might look up the oid record and
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, j
ior tree speecn. aim it declared jor
a
protective tariff. It decreed that the two
oceans should he united by rail, the At
lantic and the 1 aeihc. 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 lilierty. auy
patriot would strike from the pages of
American history today: not one. You
enn 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 you have
made that yon might testify your devo
tion to Republican principles. I bid you
go bark home and say to all the people
that Ohio, this splendid old state of my
birth, will give to these great doctrines
of the Republican party an unprecedent
ed maioritv this year.
CLEVELAND AND ST. LOUIS.
Flas 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
keeps 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 fur Mrs. McKinley.
The flag was presented by n 12-year-old
lad in bchalt ol Hie children ot ht. l.ouis.
while the traveling men were introduced
as nn organization largely composed of
Democrats but determined to vote for
McKinley and sound money. Mr. M
Kiniey'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 .Missouri:! nsi. 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 lias occurred tnis summer
in St. Louis to make me change my
mind. (Iremeudous 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 an- all citizens of a com
mon country. This year, ns in all the
years of the future. I trust we have no
Xorth, no South, no East, no West, but
union aud union forever. (Great cheer
ing.) We have hut one flag. too. like the one
brought to me by my young friend from
Missouri. (Maj. McKinley here exhib
ited a small flag, which was followed by
tremendous cheering.) It is the flag we
nil 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
nave a hundred and hi teen counties in
your state, and I understand that there
is not a single county that does not pro
duce zinc, iron, coal or lead beneath its
soil. iCries 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 noliov
which will supply the government with
sufficient
revenue and protect everv
worKiugman. ny. .Missouri, away
back iu 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? (Loud 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 "Xo! St. Louis will
give you 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 they
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 aud 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 three
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
5 cents, wheat has been shooting up as
if it had wings.
It is peculiarly interesting at this time,
when Mr. Itryan ami the other soon-to-lie-snuffcd-oiit
lights of the free-silver
heresy have been cramming a variety of
pleasing fictions down the t Intuits of
farmers, to call attention to the practical
ly simultaneous rise in wheat and drop
iu silver.
I'robably the free-silver folk will say iu
regard to the remarkable rise in wheat
about 11 cents n 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 luiving
wheat now. as it will go to a dollar at
least after Mr. Bryan's election. That's
why Europe is buying such ipiautitics of
wheat."
Won't Work Both Vtay.
If this is the free-silver argument for
the advance in wheat, why is it that Eu
rope is not buyinc silver at (i-!i. cents :n
ounce if Mr. Bryan's election will raise
us price to .i.'t.'
Mr. Bryan's contention has been that it
was impossible for wheat to rise as long
as me gold standard prevailed. Mr.
Bryan knew as well as anv of us that
lie was lying when he said that. What
docs 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 mav get off
something equally illuminating as his ex
planation of the gold iin.Mu-t movement.
The fact is, this advance in wheat,
wholly due as it is to natural causes.
' a stunning blow to the free silver
fallacy. It is useless to tell the fanner
that he cannot get more for his wheat
while we remain on gold standard,
when he is receiving 1(1 cents a bushel
more for it than he was a month ago.
I onsidermg that this lias been one of
the stock arguments of the free silver
ites. it is well to point out again and
agi.in just why wheat has advanced.
It is all summed up iu 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 $i75,coo.o3D.
I Oct. 13.
I Sept. ia.
Wheat. Dec. bus. '$
7"";?
..WKt
.lli'i
t oril, lice., bus. .
Oats, Dec. bus. ..
Uye. Dec has. . .
Barley .malting..
Klox. Xo. 1. bus.,
t'lover. 100 lbs. ..
I'ork. bid
I.nril. per too lbs.
Kills. cr 100 lbs.
Hmter. lb
Kggs. doz
Cheese, lb
Potatoes, bus ...
I'-eans. bns
Benns, bus
Hides, lb
..'(!
.30
.7(
8.i'
s.rs)
.33
.32
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i;..VT'j
:i.tio
3.27V4
.15
.13
.or .m
.18 ft .30
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.W4
.15
.to wi ..-t
l.lKiUjj
l.Oil
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Americans are in the midst of a mar
velous era. Several hundred million dol
lars have been addeti to the value of
American products iu the last liucty
days. The magic of Aladdin is tame by
the side of the sober Iruth of modern
trade. The wildest dreams of the epos
ties of fintism pnlc 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 iu the prices
of the products of American farms
means the beginning of a prosperity that
needs only the success ot tlie honest dol
lar at the November election to guaran
tee its permanence.
.Most of the chief farm products share
iu the advanced prices. Most of liiese
commodities arc being exKrted iu enor
mous quantities, aud in exchange Amer
ica will get European gold. No one can
say truly how much has been added to
the wealth of Americans by the rise, but
a few figures will give the reader an ink-.
ling or tlie mighty force at work for
American weal. Corn has risen 5 cents
a bushel, wheat 14 cents and iats 4
cents. Competent graiu men estimate
that those advances have added ro the
value of the holdings in this country on
the three cereals alone the following
enormous sums:
C.nrtx
.. .$100,000,000
... .'0,(KI0.O(Hl
. . . 25.O00.000
Wheat. ..
Oats
REPUBLICAN' CAMPAIGN POTPOURI
18U0.
(7in " V.ttt't to Good Old Winn. Drink Jlcr
Itown. )
We want an honest dollar, so we po.
We want an honest dollar, so we do.
We want an honest dollar aud for It we
will boiler.
If we have to burst our collar
ow win you:
Free silver'll never do. dont yon see.
Free silver II never uo, uoit t ;
Free silver'll never Uo, only for a shabby
few,
A repudiating crew
OO ttltr uc.
Protection Is onr cry. so it Is,
Protection is our crj. m u .
Protection is our cry. and we 11 snoot It
. louu auu iiiru.
For election It is nigL
SO 1L IB.
We're after Bryan's scalp, so we pe.
We're after Bryan s scaip, so we .pe,
We're after Brvan's scalp, and we 11 mage
him whine and yelp
After 1'opulistic help
1MIU t JUU Bi t .
Vow. Sewall he is sad, down in Maine,
Now, Sewall be is sad, down In Maine,
Now, Sewall be is sad, and Watson he Is
man.
And it makes ns 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 sonuey.
But McKinley and Habart
So we will.
Judge F. J. Hamilton.
Stnrgeon Bay. Wis.
BRYAN'S GREAT SILVER TRUST.
Conplracy of Maltl-MIlllonalre Mine
Owners to Bob the American People.
New York World (Dem.): The World
showed yesterday that some of the mines
nroduced silver at a cost of only 38 cents
in, ounce. The cost in other mines
ranges upward to about 60 cents an j
foreign trade estimates, from last year's
crop being more than llKM'OO.tHM) bush
els. Last year the total crop was more
than .a."i.(HHl.(KMI. This year Thoinan
estimates it at 4:!.".0HI.(HMI. The main
loss nas iicen outside tins country, so
that the demand for our wheat abroad
has been exccptionn'lly heavy. J?rad
strect's reports total exports of wheat
and tlour for last week at 4.'J15.7!)4 bush
els (the largest since September. lSlKIl,
against .".O.'iO.-lOC the week before anil
iMi1.'.N'; in the corresponding week last
year. Here is an increase over last year
1 Il.l.' I... .1.. l . 1 ...1.
loss nas iicen outside this country, so
"I I ' I .. IIIIMICIK. Ill IMC 1IIOIIII1 ot
September wo exported 1.511.727 bush
els; in September. 1S!5. lo.l 13.S07. an
increase of 5.:::i7.fS."!(l bushels. This will
explain to everyone exempt chuckle-bended
idiots why wiieat has rieu.
'No Munipiiltitioii.
There h-is been no manipulation about
if. In fact, the speculators have been
positively dazed at the advance. An
other thing which has indirectly made
wheat rise is the fact that the export
demand has been so heavy that
it has been found impossible to
send nil that was required. All the
freight room on European steamers has
been engaged up to January.
The explanation of the decline in silver
is as easily accounted for as the rise in
wheat. Soon after Bryan's nomination
the free-silver shunters kicked up such .
a rumpus that speculators both here and
abroad thought there was some chance
of his success, ami silver advanced on
speculative buying to about 70 cents an
ounce. It was not long, however, before
the holders became convinced that Bry
an's chances of success were hopeless,
ami they at once began to get rid of
their loads. Consequently, as more and
more holders of silver saw that they
had paid n good price for a white ele
phant, and sickened of their bargain,
the price of silver gradually sank until
today it is quoted at (!4:li cents an ounce.
This is considerably lower than it was
early last summer, when it was thought
improbable that the DeiiNicratie party
would come out flat-footed for the free
coinage of silver.
The day will come when Mr. Bryan
and his iik will learn that natural causes
alone govern 'the prices of all products.
New Y'ork l'ress.
Appreciation on Other Products.
To these must be added an aggregated
appreciation of many millions on other
commodities. I'ork. for instance, his ad
vanced from its low point by $1.85 a bar-
rel. and ribs have advanced nearly a
cent n pound. Lard has gone up i.iore
than $4 u tierce. Hye has been, ad
vanced nearly 10 cents a bushel, flaxseed '
l." cents and barley 8 cents. Cloverseed
has scored an increase of $3.25 per hun
dred weight.
The yearly sales of butter and eggs ex
ceed in cash value all the other products
of the farm. Butter bns advanced 25
per cent, and eggs 45 per cent. The
price of cheese has risen 25 to per
cent. White beans are 45 to !50 per
cent, higher. Most of these products are
in active demand in Europe. They are
pouring across the sea in such streams
that there ta tit- uliliinln.. o..,,..i. A
move them promptly. Even Anstralia
and India are sending for the good thincs
of the American farm. The sens are
covered with regular liners and with
tramp steamers flocking to American.
shores for the rich freightage.
Orchards Fall la Line.
But this list does not exhaust the
names of the staples that have Bcored
sensational gains. The American or
chard is coming in for a share of the
good times. To the list may be added
California dried fruits, such as raisins,
prunes, apricots and peaches, which have
gained from 15 to 50 ier cent, and are
still going up. Canned goods, such as
tomatoes, corn and peas, now nn impor
tant part ot tlie world s food supply,
have shown material improvement in
prices. The average man may be blind
to the import of higher prices, because
of limited information. A slight ad
vance in the value of one or two articles
in which he may have a personal inter
est may have little significance, and
when there is such a general rise as is
now going on it requires n compre
hensive survey of the situation to grasp
. 1. . . .. t .1 1 1 : . . . i .
i lie tumitcna ui life uotlltltJll 10 me value
of the products of the farmer. Chicago
Times-Herald.
ounce. As this silver is worth in the
market CU to (7 cents an ounce the mar-"
giu of profit is easily seen to be a very
heavy one 10 to 20 per cent.
Moreover, some of the mines represent
no actual investment whatever. Count
ing "water" and all. the Elk horn mine
has a nominal capital of only'$l,000,000.
It has paid dividends amounting to $L
212.000. The Granite Mountain is nomi
nally capitalized at $10,000,000. It has
already returned in dividends to it's
stockholders $12,120,000. Other mines
show enormous profits on investments
that are largely fictitious.
Vet the multi-millionaires who ewn
these properties coolly ask the people of
the country to pay them incalculable mil
lions of additional profit by coining each
(Mi cents' worth of their product into
$1.20 worth of legal tender money.
They ask the couutry 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 man
ran 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 the
difference between the new price of sil
ver and its mint price will represent so
much of robbery from creditors and toil
ers. In brief, this great silver trust is a
conspiracy among a hundred or so multi
millionaire mine-owners to rob the pub- .
lie and to levy a tribute upon the wages
of everyone who works.
Is there any conceivable reason why
any workingman. any savings bank de
positor, any holder of a life insurance
policy, or any other honest man shonld
vote for this ring's programme? -
EIGHT.
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