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A DAKOTA FARMER’S VIEWS.
DOLLARS IX SKUNKS.
“Well, sonny, listen at me. I got a
stable to build fer dat ole mule er
Populist Ketchum (formerly a real
An
A.
11. C. Lesson in Finance.
mine. I’m a wuckin* nigger’ I is. I
estate speculator of Boomtown, Minn.)
gits a dollar a day. Now sposen I goes Editor Register:
-iJ> g d mornin’ uabor; hard at it, HE OPENS THS EYES OF THE CHI ter git dem nails? I wants a keg. Hit’ll
The following is a conversation
, efe; Wel>. work suits some fellers,
cost me now cordin’ to yo’ figgerin* overheard in one of the cloak room«
CAGO WORKINGMEN.
but it never did me, nohow.”
two ounces er silver wuth fil.20. When of the House of Representatives be
Growsum, (who is plow-
dat free silver Krismus comes every tween a Populist Congressman-elec*
I jug)—“Guess yeh don’t. iff teh work, Coin Has Wheels in His Head —The thing gwinter to jump up. Dem nails from Kansas and a New York repre
Old Man Saj-s Senator Stewart
but yeh dress well, and got a good
Pulls the String—Plain Facts for will oobs me 8'2.40. But how 'bout sentative :
team and buggy there.”
my wages? Is dey gwinter jump?
Kansas—“Are your people inter
Wage Earners Who Toll.
i J?8’ PreHv fair. Got ’em on a
Who's gwinter double dat kyarpen- ested in the money question?”
(By
Grapevine
to
the
Atlanta
Journal.)
and deal just afore Boomtown busted,
ter’s wages wen dat free silver comes,
New York—“Yes, and a great many
and (with a wink) I thought I’d got a
C hicago , May 18, 1895.—The ap wen he'll hatter pay double fer his of them think there is not half enough
leetle further West. How’s times in pearance of Uncle Rastus in the Windy hammer, his saw, his nails, an* his in circulation to do the business of th»
this low-cality?”
City with hi3 homely way of putting lumber; who's gwinter to do dat, I country."
Bad, mity bad. Drouth last year; questions to Professor Coin hue been say?”
Kansas—“I am surprised; that ie
gophers et up most everything year the subject of much comment in the
“That old man has got some sense exactly what my constituents think,
afore; thet Ru‘liin thissel’s spreadin' hotel lobbies.
like white folks, remarked the hired but 1 had supposed that you Eastern
Workingmen, those who are de butler, who had come up to the door ers were all gold bugs, and wanted
like mad. Got to hussel to get a liv-
pendent upon their daily toil for to listen.
1B’ here. Gee roun there, Gray.”
less money instead of more.”
'Hard time», eh? Youre one of the bread, but who had been misled by
“My ole 'oman wants a new calikor
New Y’ork—“Well, there has been,
men I m lookin' lur. Calkilato to run the plausible statements made in the dress. De way I Agger dresses now, some change of sentiment in that
for Congru« this fall, and thought I’d school of finance, have begun to think an’ de way you puts hit down in dat direction in my village.
You se»
take a run through this part o’ the for themselves sinoe they read the re air book, I can git sixteen yards er we’ve got a literary society there that
State to ki i.ler get acquainted. Look* port of the interview between the old caliker fer sixty cents, 'nuff to mek de has been giving entertainments for
like 1 m goin’ to get the nomination negro and the teacher, a report pub ole ’oman an’ my lil gal a dress. No the benefit of the village library.
all right. If I do, spose I can count lished in nearly all of the papers, ex- body ainter gwinter double up my Some of its exhibitions didn’t prove to
on your vote?”
j cept the Inter-Ocean and a few others. wages wen dat free silver comes, but be very attractive, and instead of mak
‘‘Well, I dunno. What mout yer
dat caliker’s gwiutter git doubled an’ ing any money got behind, and, cast
,prinserpils be? So many fellows
dem same dresses gwiuter coss mo a ing around for a w ty out of its trouble,
roun’ now, all wantin to go to Con-
dollar an’ twenty cents. Wat in de it was found that old Dr. Mo----- of
grus, a man don’t know who’s who.”
name er Gawd, boy, does I want wid ----- College had a lecture on finano»
7 CRAWS aP.
“Oh, me? Why I'm fur the only
yo’ free silver ef hits gwinter do me that he would deliver for 850. Th»
party that’s fur the farmer. The free
dat a way? I kin wuck lil moren haff price was low, the cause popular, and
silver party, of course. Ain’t it time
a day now and mek nuff munney to as the people wero all interested in th»
that you, the toilers of our farms, rose
buy dresses an’ go fishin’ an’ ketch a money question.it was thought to be »
against the the giant money powers
mess er fish fer supper, but wen dat good idea to hire the Doctor, make a.
which like a huge octupus—”
free silver comes, bless Gawd, de ole special effort to rout out a good audi
“Hol on. I ain’t seen no jints out
nigger’ll be wuckin’ moren a day to ence and liquidate the society’s indebt
here in Dakoty. Its the thissels, and
git it, an’ he won’t git no time to fish, edness. So the Doctor was engaged,
drouth thet’s worryin’ me. Octupusses
hatter wait twill fall an’ hunt ’possum and on the appointed evening the hall
ain’t botherin’ us roun’ here half
at nite fer ter git sup’n to grease de was packed. The President of the so
as muoh as gophers. But wat yeh
skillet.”
ciety introduced the speaker, who-
coin’ to do for me if I help sen* you
“But, Rastus, you must not forget took the floor and delivered himself
to Uongrus?”
that dear old gentleman, Senator of the following:
“Do? I’m agoin’ to break the
Stewart; just think of how much he
“ ‘Ladies and gentlemen : This sub
chains thet the blasted British gold
has suffered. He owns n silver mine, ject, finance, is one that I’ve given a.
bugs hes got on every farmer. I’m
and at one time he was worth five or lifetime of study to. I have written
HOW RICH WE WILL BE WHEN ALL THE SILVER IN THE WORLD BEARS OCR STAMP)
goin’ to give you free coinage at 16
six million dollars. Since the fall of several works that have become text
“No greater act of patriotism can be performed for the South by its to 1. I’m goin' to put silver up to a
silver he has lost so much that I dare books in the schools and of recognized
own leaders than keeping up discussion of the money question in an open doller’n twenty-nine cents an ounce.
sav today he is not worth moro than a authority, so I think I know some
“WAT GOOD DAT GWINTER DO ME?”
«nd non-partisan domain, where men shall not call themselves Democrats Thet’s wat I’m goin’ to do.”
million. Think of how happy tho old thing about the subject. I am not a.
or Republican«, Northerners or Southerners, but honest-money men and
“Mebbe yeh are. An’ mebbe yeh They had been told by Coin that all man will be when Bilver is again made rich man, nor ever expect to be. For
men who do not dream they can make something money by merely put ain't. But wat I want ter know is
free, and he and his loved ODes aio
years I have been supported by
would increase, would double, lifted from the depths of poverty in many
ting a stamp on it.”—Chicago Times-Herald.
my
college,
and suppose I always will
how that’s goin’teh help me? (Hist, values
but they had overlooked tho fact that which they have been plunged. ”
be.
And
thus,
having neither money
darn yeh, Bill, git yer leg over that he
had made no assertion about wages
“He loss lots er rnunny is he?”
or tho want of it, I am an unprejudiced
trace.) I see how goin’ to Congrus’s doubling.
SMALL CHANGE.
INTEREST AND FREE COINAGE.
Oh, there’s no telling how much witness. I understand this matter
goin to help you wear good close and
Many of them wanted to see the col he “ has
lost I”
thoroughly myself, but to make it
a team without workin’. Whered’ ored
A great many people who are clam
The chief grievance of which the I drive
philosopher,
the
financier
in
“Well, I speck I kin tell whar hit’s clear to you, like the sleight-of-hand
oring for free coinage say they don’t Western farmer complains is high in come in?”
homespun clothes and black skin, but gone.
”
performer, I need a confederate; so if
“I’m afraid, my friend, you don’t Uncle Rastus, being a nogno who knew
quite see what good it would do, but terest on the money which he is com
“Yes. yes, it’s painfully evident. It yon will sen<l up from the audience,
anyhow it would bring a big change. pelled to borrow. At least it is the see that if silver goes up, wheat’ll go his place, had sought some humble
has gone into the maw of that blood some one with money in hiB pocket 1'1)
Yes, and it would leave them without principal grievance which he thinks up, corn’ll go up, everything you lodgings and could not bo found.
vampire, Wall street, and the make it so plain that children can un
raise ’ll go up. Then you’ll be able
even small change.
Ho turned up again this morning, sucking
can be remedied by Government, for to
derstand it. ’
twice as much off'n your farm however, and paid a second call at the Shy locks of Europe.”
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in many cases drouth, grasshoppers, as make
“Charley G., tho Populist leader of
you do now.”
“Das wat you say, but we ain’ got
residence of Professor Coin.
frost,
flood
or
thistles
are
tho
farmer
’
s
the town, elbowed his way through the
“Will, hey? I ain’t so sure 'bout
I Silver advocates say that we must greatest enemies.
“How do you do dis mawnin’, none er dem kinder fish in de creek crowd
and got upon the stage, and th»
lave free coinage in order to compete
When the agitation for more money thet. Th’ price of wheat’s fixed in sonny?” said the old man, as he
speaker said to him :
■with the silver-paid laborers of India is traced to its loot among the far England, where ther’s the blame gold walked in and seated himself upon a
“ ‘Young man, have you got any
and South America. Is that a good mers, who honestly believe that their standard. How’s free silver goin’ to cane-bottom chair pulled in from the
money?’ Charley said he had fifteen
reason why the gold-paid American condition would be improved by an to change prices there? Anyway, if ball.
dollars.
workingmen should vote for cheap increase in the volume of currency, it prices do go up, won't I have to pay
“Oh, I don't feel so well,” replied
“ ‘Where did yon got it?’ ho was.
jist twict as much for my sugar, glass, Coin; “thero is a heaviness about my
money?
IJ then
will be found that a desire for lower nails, blankets an’ harness?”
asked. And Charley tol.l him
1* that ho'd
head, a sort of buzzing in my ears.”
rates
of
interest
is
the
origin
of
the
just sold ten skunk skins at
“Guess yeh will, but you can pay
“Free coinage would not benefit the
“Hit’s dem wheels in yo’ head, I
various
cheap
money
theories.
81.50 each. The Doctor then asked
yer debts off in silver, and stead of speck,” said Rastus, with a sympa
•ilver owner, as he would have to pay
li him who ho sold them to, and ho said
There
are
so
many
ways
in
which
higher wages.” How truly unselfish the farmer can increase his crops havin’ to give a thousan’ bushel of thetic look upon his face.
U
j
to a man that came along buying furs p
wheat for five hnnerd dollars, yeh’ll
fro all the silver barons who are giv- through
“What do you mean, sir? Wheels
the aid of more capital that only hev to give haf as many.”
ami on boing interrogated as to where
lg their money to the cheap money his wish for
in
my
head
I
”
lower interest is perfectly
tho buyer came from and wont to, h»
“Think I get yer meanin’ now.
propaganda funds I
“Toobe sure, honey, ain't you got
just and natural. Capital invested in You're one of these here fellers who
said he came there from the first town
I
yo
’
pioter
rit
in
dat
book
wid
wheels
drains, fertilizers, machinery, imple want to find some way of gettin’ out
to the east and went on west buying;
yu’ head? I speck Morse Senuiter
peltries. The Doctor then asked ling
“India can undersell our wheat ments, improved stock, etc., brings so of payin’ lawful debts, or cuttin’ them in
Stewart
got
a
holt
er
de
string
lass
if tho man wanted to buy more wlieg
growers because her people are paid much larger returns to the farmer’s down a hat. Mebbe if you paid yer nite an’sent dem wheels agwino to git
SENATOR STEWART PELLS TnE STRING.
ho sold him the ten skins, and Charleji
In silver.” Is the condition of the labors that borrowing money for these debts bock in Boomtown yeh wouldn’t anur book, an’ deys still a zoonin*.
said he did ; that he would buy all L h R
tiindoo coolies that which the silver- purposes nearly always pay.
have no team and buggy. Well, I’m
But the question of low interest is poor, an' I work hard. Got to get Fum de way dat book er you’rn reads, down my way. You say in dat book could get.
Ites want our farmers brought to, by
buddy, I speck you’so got oner dese
a lil pinch er dat golo, a lil dnss in
“ ‘Say,’ said the speaker, ‘vhy didn't
flooding the country with cheap one which is not settled by the quan these thissels plow’d under and ain’t yere brains dat you kin setoff luk you dat
de pan er de han’ soon be rich enuff you sell him more?’ end Charley told
tity of money in the country at large. got no more time to argy. But if I'm
money ?
The idea of cheap money faddists that poor I'm honest, and I don’t want to does a watch, oner dese yere Water to buy a man’s soul er a statesman's him it was because ho had no more.
berry fellers, an’ go off an' leave hit a honor. We ain’ got souls fer sale The orator then turned to the audi
i Money is a tool of trade. The peo if the currency was doubled interest send no man to Congrus to pass laws runnin’. ”
down my way, Jesus dun bought de ence and said:
ple who have good tools can always would fall one-hall is a delusion, pure cheatin’ men who’s lent money. G’d
The old man stopped to chuckle for lass ono in Monnt Zion Church, an’ as
“ ‘There, ladies and gentlemen, lie»
beat those who have poor ones. The and simple. After the war interest up there, dem yer picters. ”
a minute and then, as he looked upon fer de statesman's honor, well, I speck
best money is none too good for the was far higher than it is now, though
Then Mr. Ketchum drove off to look tho little fellow liefore him, he said : ole man Htewart dun Hinged away tho whole question in a nutshell. Ther»
is a wide diversity of opinion about th»
most intelligent, industrious and pro there was then a great inflation of the for a greener farmer.
“Is you ever seed dese yere Hital- sotner dat money er his'n buyin’ up amount of money required to do the
gressive people of the world—the currency. The Argentine Republic
yuns
agwine
roun
’
wid
a
monkey
run
dem
sorter
fellers.
Dey
do
say
he
’
s
had recently more than 8200 per capi
business of tho country, and what th»
Americans.
des Hingin' dollars rite an' leff 'mongst per capita circulation should be; aims
ta, yet interest ranged from ten to Not to Be Estimated by Their Noise. nin’ up a string?”
“
Yes,
I
’
ve
seen
them,
”
replied
the
dem newspaper fellers an* de men wet
fifteen per oent. Here in Amu lea,
Representative Tawney, of Minne professor, “they are wonderful littlo rites books. I wish he’d come down think it should lie at loast sovouty-flve
A soldier who found his blanket too with the same financial system for all
dollars, some fifty and others think
sota,
who
is
spending
a
few
days
in
toys. ”
dis away, bless ef I didn't gin him a that twenty-five is about right, but
ihort, cut a strip off the bottom and the States, rates of interest vary from
Washington,
is
of
tho
opinion
that
“Dey is dat fer a fak, an’ dey puts hatful er honor for somer dem dol everybody agrees that it should b»
lewed it to the top. He was surprised four and five per cent, in some States I
lars.”
to find that it was no longer than at to ten and twelve per cent, in others. the sentiment favorable to the free me in mine er you.”
more than fifteen. It is then perfectly
and
unlimited
coinage
of
silver
at
the
“How is that, Uncle Rastus?”
The people who were present wore clear that this young man has not got
first. A farmer who wanted to double the
The explanation is that high inter ratio of 16 to 1 is not so wide
“Well, Bah, dey’s got sup’n behine talking in an undertone and giving as much money iui ho should have, but
price of his products by halving the est nearly always means high risks.
ralue of the money paid for them, was In many cases, it is trie, bad banking spread as has been represented by ’em dat makes ’em clime. Ever time significant shakes of their heads ami the fault appears to lie, not in any
one of them was heard to say, “Can it scarcity of money, but rather, in th»
Astonished to learn that he would facilities are responsible for high in some observers. “In Minnesota,” he
be possible?”
have to pay twice as much for every terest. Foolish tax laws, which dis saio, “so far as lean judge, it is not
paucity of akunk skins. This money
making much headway.”
“Yon talkin' bout street kyar faro is like a pigeon that flic th where it
thing he had to buy.
courage the investment of capital, also
“You see what Mr. Moseley, Secre
bein
’
de
same,
”
continued
the
old
man
listeth, and has no respect for per
tend to make interest higher. But as tary of the Inter-State Commerce
without noticing the remark, “but sons, State or National frontiers, po
Populists complain that the wealth a rule the competition of the owners Commission, says about it,” was sug
bow
bout
dat
free
silver
time.
Is
dein
litical or geographical divisions.
produced in the West goes to the of capital for employment of their gested.
fares gwineter double up? How’bout Where the mast is, there also is th»
“That reminds me of the fellow in
East without any return. To the ex money tends to bring down interest.
dem fellows wat puts on de lectif pigeon. So I say to you wherever th»
Agreeing with the farmers that they Duluth who, after walking about the
tent that thia is true it is only because
curnt' and twiss up de brakes, how skunk skin is for sale, there also is
the property in the West is owned by «re justified in trying to get loans at swamps that used to surround the
bow bout dem? Dey meks lil nuff tho dollar to buv it with. Good even
residents of the East, and rents and as low interest as possible, let us see town, went to a hotel keeper and
now, Gawd knows, fer de wuck ing.’ And the orator we’d paid 850
how
the
free
coinage
of
silver
would
wanted
to
sell
him
a
car
load
of
frogs
’
interest are sent there. Instead of
dey do, but when dat free silver to thus dismissed the audience and
aid
them.
The
first
result
of
free
legs.
tampering with the standard of value
comes dey gutter pay two dollars fer a the subject. Well, some of the peo
“ ‘But I don’t want a carload,* said
the people of the West would do bet ooinage, as generally admitted by all
dollar hat, Io’ dollars fer a two dollar ple were disappointed, but I’ve no
silverites,
would
be
to
put
the
country
the landlord. ‘I can’t use them.’
ter to buy out the Eastern capitalists
pair er shoes, an' two dollars feta dol ticed ever since that there’s great
on
a
silver
basis.
Gold
would
at
once
“ Well, take a wagon load, then,’
and keep their interest and rents at
lar’s wuth er meat an' bread. How deal less talk about finance, and mor»
leave the country, as securities pay the speculator urged.
'bout dem railroad men. Is dey all trapping for skunk going on.”
home.
able in gold would be sold by foreign
“ ‘That’s too many.’
gwineter git dere wages doubled up?
Kansas—“Borne folks think they’r»
holders. All over the country loans
“ ‘Anyhow, you can use a bushel.’
Is dey railroads gwineter double up cussed smart. ”-*-F. M. Todd in Friend
If some of the people are poor it would be called in, and instead of
“
‘
AU
right;
bring
in
a
bushel.*
fares?
How
’
bout
dem
hotel
niggers
is because they lack food, clothes, money seeking investment on mort
ship (N. Y.) Register.
“The n‘vt day the seller appeared
down my way ; dem niggers wat totes
ahelter, furniture, books and other gage, nobody would lend except at
with
a
little
paper
bag
which
on
in
diagrams, dem barber niggers, is dey
I '
_____
forms of wealth. Doubling the quan interest high enough to cover the risk
Why Silver Has Fallen.
all gutter git de samo pay an’ gotter
tity of money used in exchanging of being paid in cheap silver. Busi spection was found to contain just four
.TTY-.,
Silver
has dropped in vsluo sine»
frogs
’
legs.
pay uut two dollars fer ever one dey
wealth won’t maKe any more, of the ness of ali kinds would be unsettled.
.W.A- VW
1873 just as many other commodities
“ ‘I thought you said you could get
pays out now ?”
things which people need. No poor Foreign commerce would fall off ; and
“Well, really,” replied tho profes have dropped, bocauso tho supply of
Xnan would be better off if there was the farmers would soon find that in a car load,’ the landlord remarked.
/
“ ‘I did,’ tho fellow replied in a
sor, “you must not prolong this inter it has increased foster than the de
pomewhere in the country twice as trying to make interest low by debas
view as I am not at ah well to-day, mand. In 1873 the world's produc
many counters representing wealth, or ing the currency, they had struck a mournful tone. ‘I thought from the
COTN HAS BAD DRKAMA.
noise they made that the awnmps were
and have too much of a roaring in my tion of silver wa.‘ of the valuo of 881,-
twice as much metal in the bank blow at their own prosperity.
full
of
them,but
these
were
all
I
could
ears
to talk intelligently. You must 800,000. In 1892, even when meas
de
Hitalyun
pulls
de
string
de
monkey
faults.
ured by its lower price per ounce, it
catch.
’
come
at some other time.”
runs fer de top notch on de stick.
Canada is a sparsely settled coun
was of the valuo ot 8196,459,000, or
“That’s the way the hunt for these Yon looks mitey pious Bittin’ here
"Oh,
das
all
rite,
boss,
I
kin
como
Forced to admit that free coin try, with a colder climate and natural silver men will turn out,” concluded
two and a half times as much.
wid dat Jim swinger coat on, but agin, but you better lemme rub somer nearlv
age, at a ratio of 16 to 1, by resources inferior to those of tho Mr. Tawney.—Washington Post.
In 1870, threo years before the de
nummine, jess wait till Marne Senni dis hier linniment bine yo’ years. monetization
lhe United States would result in United States. Yet during the past two
the freejnlverite»
ter Stewart an' Marne Jones pull de Hit’ll sho atop dat zooniu, an’ wen yo’ claim is alone which
Butting this country on a silver basis, years of financial panic in this coun
to blame for the fall in
go
to
bed
to
nite
dem
wheels
in
yo'
silver
strings
on
you
an
’
off
you
goes,
A
common
delusion
among
cheap
ie cheap money men say: “Well, try and our hundreds of bank failures,
gwineter run easy an’ yon won’t price, all tho mines in tho world only
even if it does drive out gold, we can onlv one Canadian bank suspended. money advocates is their belief that peart ez a nigger boy dimin' a greasy head
see nair gole bug ner money shark.” yielded silver to tho valno of 851,575,-
pole.
”
the
creditor
class
of
the
country
is
a
pay our debts in silver, and be so In our political institutions we are
Professor Coin waived the old man 000, or only about one fourth of th»
Rastus said as ho rose from the chair
much ahead of our creditors.” A far ahead of Canada, but we can learn small number of rich men, while the
and his bottle off and the butler value of the silver supply of 1892.
and
prepared
to
talk,
“
In
dat
book
er
debtors
are
a
large
number
of
poor
much simpler way to get out ot pay something from their banking and
There is no commodity whoso pro
men. The facts are just the reverse. yourn you say hit tuck three ounces showed him to the door and asked hie duction can be multiplied by four and
ing debts, and one which would not currency systems.
address
as
he
said
a
committee
of
Chi
er
silver
to
git
a
keg
er
nails
in
1873,
The creditors are the millions who
do half as much harm to the business
cago working men wanted to call on its previous price maintained unles»
The farmer thinks that it is our bad ' have a little money in the savings and but two ounces ’ll git a keg now; is him and get some of hie views, which the demand for it is also multiplied
prosperity of the country, would be
so?”
to pass a law compelling creditors to financial system which makes interest I other banks. The debtors are the dat “That
by four.—Baltimore Hun.
’s what I said, and the figures were so plain and simple.
accept fifty cents on tho dollar for high on farm mortgages. Yet the < merchants, manufacturers and real
They had been led to believe in tho I
are
there
to
prove
it.
”
estate
owner*,
who
borrow
large
sums
“The gold standard has made Eng
their claims. This would not affect same svstem prevails all over the
“Well das all rite, but you say wen free silver craze, because they had
Lusiness and commerce after out United States, and interest od mort from the banks. In an average town dat free silver Krinmus comes every never studied the question for them land the richest Nation in the world,”
standing debts had been liquidated, gages ranges from five to fifteen per there are ten lenders to one borrower, thing gwinter doable up in value? selves and had been misled by Coin say the silver monometallints. There
while the silver standard would un cent in various States. High interest for the money is deposited in bank*
and others who were financially inter fore. we American* who don't want to
so?”
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