DEMOCRATS KICK AT
FARMS' PR
USPER TV.
Farm Products Advance More than the
Goods that Farmers Have to Buy
at the Stores.
EVIDENT CAUSE OF MORTGAGE CA1TCELIHG
Since McKinley Has Been at the Helm Farm Products Have
Advanced 45 Per Cent, While Articles Bought by
Farmers Increased Only 19 Per Cent.
The Darnocratic fault-finders bsse their
efforts to create discontent smon? the
farmers in 11KX) upon a different plane
from that of Then their complaint
was that the prices of farm products
were too low Now they complain that
the farmers nre too prosperous and the
prices of their products nre too high.
Mr. Bryan was nominated in Chicr.go
on July 10. 1S1J0. and n:in at Kansas
City on July 5, l'J'0. Let us take the
quotations cf the fust week in July,
1KH and July, HMO, the respective dates
are Wrought as nearly as practicable to
the dates of his respective nominations.
Nobody will question the fairness of
selecting wheat, corn, oats, lard. pork,
beef, cotton, wool, hay and butter as.
ten representative articles of fsrm pro
duction, nor will anybody question the
fairness of selecting sugar, tea, coffee,
rice, petroleum, leather, cotton cloth, tin
plate, sisal (from which binder twine is
made) and Bessemer pit iron (the basis
of all agricultural requirements iu iron
fclui- T! I' r't .tm. JUmmJZll!! titles
r rami consumption. .
The tables which follow show the
prices of the ten articles of farm produc
tion atd of an equal number of articles
of farm consumption at the dates named
and the percentage of increase in each
article, also the average increase, at the
date of Mr. Bryan's second nomination
as compared with the' prices at the date
of bis first nomination:
and which has licen widely discussed in
the fctudy of national economic questions
of lato years. Why not measure by this?
A glance at the table which hows the
relative prices of articles in lSHtJ and
liXK will answer this question. It hap
pens that the percentage of increase in
the price of wheat is less thsn that of
any other article of farm production,
since wheat is more directly affected by
the production in other parts of the world
where crops have been generally good
during the last two seasons.
Whent has only advanced C,7i per cent
from to 15HK.I. while corn advanced
IS per cent, mess pork CO per cent, lard
CS per cent and wool OS cr cent. Now
it i easy to see why the Democrats
"happened" to select this I'srticular item
"wheat" by which to measure everything
else, simply because it shows a smaller
increase in price than almost any other
article in the list.
Yet they are gravely inarching through
the agricultural regions of this country
sr.iting to the farmer that "a bushel of
" 1 I II i ii i "Ii-Im
which you consume tTHWa twet
wheat would buy of those same articles
in ISOtJ." Let us accept the challenge.
Mr. Bryan's first nomination occurred
on July 10, 1890. and his second nomina
tion on July 5, 1S00. The records of the
bureau of statistics shtw that the -high
est price of "No. 2 red winter wheat,'
a standard grade by which all others may
V
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HIGHER PRICES
FOR THE FARMERS.
Hearst's Chicago American (Democratic) of Sept. 20, gives
the following table, which 6 hows how prices of farm products
advance under IiffcK.lr.ley prosperity:
A Week Ago.
Flour, pir barrel $ 4.40
Cornmeal, per ton '.. 23.00
Cheese, per pound '0
Brcakf st Bacon, per pound 11
Smoked Side Meat, per pound 09
Lard, per pound 08
Peas Advance of 10 per cent.
z
:
To-day.
$ 4.70 Z
24.00
1IJ5 Z
.wy
.09
.08X Z
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BRYANISM IH WEST,
CROKERISM IN EAST."
Reasons Why James H. Eckels
Will Vote for AlcKinley.
Cleveland's Comptroller of the Currency
Urges All to Unite and Give Bryan
Ism Its Deathblow as a Dis
turbing Factor.
The political outlook in the West is, I
believe, generally satisfactory to those
who are opposed to Mr. Bryan and the
things for which he stands in public life.
In the extreme West his most ardent
friends are ready to concede that ho has
lost much ground since the campaign of
1S9C, ami unless he can recoup himself in
the Middle West and East, his defeat will
become a matter of certainty. The Pacific
States, the Dakotas, Wyoming, nnd Kan
sas will all be found to be against him,
The price of Ten Principal Article of .Ktta Prodactioo
Market at dates ofiilr. Krr' firatW' Ai"t xr,nilna
, 4kc per ceit f Indrtane la 1030 over 1B96j t
Article of Farm
Production.
Wheat, per bnthel
Corn, per bushel ........
Oat, per tiuahel. .......
'ard. per lb.
Vim Pork, per bbl
JoW 2, JnW S,
1896. 1O0O.
.5 1-2
.33 1-2 ,49 5-9
.21 1-4 .2S 1-2
.0423 - .H7I5,
... S R.75 S14 OO
Ueef, family, per lb ,.(' jy.t
lotto, per 'h WI 13-16 .101-10
Wool, Ohio XT, per lb 17 28 1-13
tllaj, per ttii 14.02 13.5S
tButter, per lb .131 .IS
A vera ft e increase
At New Orleans.
tExport price.
The price of Ten Principal Article of Farm Consumption In New York
Market at dates of Mr. Bryan's first and second nominations, showing the
per cent of increase or decrease:
Article of Farm
iomnmptioa.
Kice, per lb
rMal, per lb
Hmtr I'iz Iron, per ton..
Petroleum, per fial., in bbl. .
H- Hlate
Coffee, per lb
Leather, Oa'-, per lb
Suicar, per lb.....................
'lea, per ll
tCotton Cloth, unbleached, yd
1 ' Arage4ncreae. ,-. 19 per cant.
Import prices does o include war iaau'"V : '
tExport price, -
uW 3, Jn'r 5, Percent, of In-
.830. 1(.0. crease or decrease
.04 1-2 .Oo 11
.03 1-2 .05 3-4 4
.2.25 $IO 5 33
. ,t;Of0 .0733 14
.OM47 1-2 .04Si3 4(
.013 1-4 .OH1-S 31
.2 .35 25
,40 .0569 24
,I4 ,14 -oa
.054 .03 1 00
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vom. shawl a 2 I : A Pflr.-ll UTO . ,;5-5. yST H .X,. ' 5 ir . V. 1
, 1 u mmmitst M M rm w ' 'V-a' ' 1 rw ,B"a a" 1 11 x r 1"rt'.- MA. f
II m 5,55,857 J A Sm
7,655,414 , M:vmmmwMM& f
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"It Sort o' Looks as If Fd Have to Expand.'
It will be seen by an examination of
the tables that in every article of farm
producton named there has been an in
crease in price ranging (with a single ex
ception) from 33 per cent to CS per cent,
or an average increase in the entire se
ries of articles of 4.".8 per cent.
In the list of the articles of farm eon
sumption there is a reduction in price
in two of the articles named, while the
increase in the other articles ranges mnch
lower than that of the farm products,
the average increase for the entire series
of articles f farm consumption being
19 per cent.
Thus we see that in ten representative
articles of farm consumption, the aver
age increase has been 19 per cent, while
in the ten equally representative articles
of farm production, the increase has been
45.8 per cent.
Now to take the single item of farm
production upon which the f anlt-finders
base their arguments and by which they
measure all articles of farm consump
tion, namely, wheat. How do you sup
poe it happened that they hare selected
this particular article "wheat, by which
to measure everything else? There is
corn: its acreage in the United States
in 1S99 was practically double that of
wheat, its production four times as maDy
(Compiled from official reports of the bureau of statistics.)
Quantity which
1 rice on
ARTICLES.
Jily 10, July 3,
1S!XI. l'RK).
Cents. Cents.
Wheat, per bushel C4; 88
be measured, was. on July 9, 1S9G, in
the New York market, C4V4c per bushel.
and on July 5, 1S(K, wa-s SSc per bushel
Now let 11s follow the same general
plan adopted in the other comparisons
and by selecting ten principal articles of
farm consumption, obtain their relative
prices in the New York market in 1S9G
and 1900, at the dates nearest Mr. Kry
an's nomination, and thus tind out what
quantity of each bushel of wheat, at the
prices named at these two dates, would
have bought. The articles of farm con
sumption selected for this comparison are
equally representative with those of farm
production alove named, namely, sugar,
coffee, petroleum, rice, salt, leather, cot
ton cloths, starch, mackerel anil cut nails.
The authority for the prices is the same
as that already utilized the bureau of
statistics.
In every case the quantity of these
representative articles of farm con
sumption which a bushel of wheat
would buy iu JOOO is greater than a
bushel of wheat could have bought
in 1SOO.
Purchasing power of one bushel of
wheat at the date of Mr. Bryan's first
and second nominations, respectively, in
ten different articles of ordinary farm
consumption, basing the price of each
article upon that quoted ia the New York
market at the respective dates:
of bushel of
wLat will buv
July i.0,
1SIM5.
Pounds..
Jaly 5, .
1900.
Pounds
Coffee, per pound IS
Leather (oak), per pound. ... . o0
Kice, per pound 44
Petroleum, refined, per gallon... 7S-10
Sui;ar, granulated, per pound.
4V;
Salt, per 100 pounds 0 3-lOa
Cotton cloths, uueolored, per yard i 4-10b
Starch, per pcuud -l ,
Cut nails 1 8-10b
Mackerel 0 C-lOa
a Average import price during June,
b Average export price during June.
5
9 3-10
5 7-10
11 3-10
5 7-10
2 1-10
2 4-10
4 9-10
c Yards,
d Gallons.
4 9-10
2 1-10
131,4
dS-10
14 4-10
GOO
cl 19-10
32 1-10
35 7-10
12C-10
9C-10
2 4-10
17M.
OVj
15 4-10
778
cl5 4-10
41 9-10
36G-10
17 8-10
bushels nnd its actual value, as estimated
by the Department of Agriculture, nearly
double that of wheat. Why did they
not adopt corn as a standard of measure
ment? Again, there is the item of provisions,
which we are the world's greatest pro
duepr. Why not measure by that?
Then there is wool, in the production
of which the farmer is greatly interested
These statements are all official and
may be verified from the public records
of the bureau of statistics available ki
any standard library. The figures and
prices in every case are given, and every
man can determine whether the asser
tions of the Democratic fault-finders and
"prophets of evil" in 1900 are any more
reliable than they were in 189G.
I Proof of the Pudding
Inthe-Eating, Thereof.
I
THESE
ASSERTIONS
MADE
FOUR
YEARS
J I
BY
MR. ORYAN.
WHO
HOW
I ASKS
Itke
! AMERICAN
PEOPLE
TO
INTRUST
I THEIR
GQVERHMEfl
TO
HIS
DIRECTION
FOR
i FOUR
I YEARS.
If we are defeated in thla
rampaicn, there is nothing be
fore the people bat four years
more of hard times and greater
agitation.
I Jo you think we have drained
the cap of rorraw to Its dregs?
No, my f rienda, you cannot set
a limit to the present hard
times.
Btutiness men complain that
buninras condition are bad. I
warn them that these condi
tions cannot be improved by
following np the policies of
the I'epublican party.
The tCrpubliran party pro
duces a policy that makes hard
times. All those who love hard
times ought to vote for the
Kepubllran ticket, and all
those who are tired of hard
times have got to vote the
Democratic ticket. If they
would expect any relief.
These are hard times. There
will be harder times if the gold
standard continues.
I f you ask how the gold stan
dard atTects the farmer, we
tell yon that the gold standard
lowers the prireof products of
him who cells without lower
ing hu taxes or debts. If yon
ask how the gold standard af
fects the laboring men. we re
ply that It destroys the oppor
tunity for labor, multiplies the
number of Idle men, and fills
our streets with those aaxioua
for work, who cannot find the
opportunity. The gold stan
dard, by Increasing Idleness,
brings poverty to those who
ought to have enough and to
(pare.
i he gold standard means a
dearer dollar and falling
prices, and falling prices mean
hard times.
If we have a gold standard,
prices are as certain to fall as
a stone which Is thrown into
the air.
An American dollar will buy
two Mexican dollars and also
about two bushels of wheat at
the same time. There was m
time when an American dollar '
would buy only one Mexican
dollar, and then an American
dollar would buy only one
bushel of wheat. If the time
ever comes when an American
dallar will buy three Mexican
dollars, then It will buy three
bushels of wheat.
Yon know that with the
slightest prospect of foreign
war we would suspend gotd
payments, and go either to a
silver or to a paper basis at
once.
I'ntll yon have bimetallism
millhands will stand on the
corner and wonder when the
gold standard will bring them
good times.
INSTEAD, !
WE HAVE !
HAD FOUR
YEARS OF I
UNPRECE
DENTED PROSPERITY.
THERE
HAVE BEEN
NO DREGS
IN THE
CUP.
GOLD
STANDARD,
GOOD i
TIMES !
AND ALL I
THAT:
MR. BRYAN I
THAT WE i
SHOULD :
HOT HAVE, I
WE HAVE I
ENJOYED. I
with a strong probability of Nebraska
unless State pride is extremely strong
joining them. It is hoped to make up this
loss by carrying Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio. Any one who knows Illinois poli
tics realizes that it is naturally a Repub
lien fvtate. and. has. gone Democratic
only once in-forty years, ana ouaCLcs
the business elements were favorable to
the Democratic candidates.
The same is to be said of Ohio, with
the added statement that it has never
given its electoral vote to a Democratic
candidate for the Presidency since the
war. Indiana is the only close State, and
those who know it best believe that the
Democrats will not win there. In both
Illinois and Indiana, exceptionally strong
men have been named as Democratic can
didates for Governor, and to an extent
they will aid Mr. l?ryan, but not enough
to overcome tne sentiment held every
where against him by conservative and
thoughtful people. AH this apparent
-rospect of success over Mr. 15-yan ought
not to cause a lessening of the struggle
against him. It will not do in this contest
to simply prevent his having a majority
in the Electoral College by giving Presi
dent McKinlev barelv enough to win.
DECISIVE DEFEAT FOIt IiRYANr
What ought to be accomplished is the
decisive defeat of l'ryanism as a disturb
ing factor in the politics of this country
The country cannot afford with each re
curring four years to be upset from one
end to the other by the danger of a man
of such vagaries as he entertains obtain
ing control of the nation's affairs. The
plea that is put forth by some men of
ability that he can be rendered harmless
before election by the enactment of new
laws is hardly statesmanships Why place
a man in the Presidency whom you must
virtually put under bonds to keep the
peace?
Mr. Bryan has so grievonsly wronged
the Democratic party that no Democrat
who really wishes to see the party get
back into public confidence ought to aid
and abet him at this time. He would de
stroy the country's currency system if he
could by substituting the silver standard.
Why give him indorsement in that deter
mination? He would abrogate the right
of private contract, overturn the tradi
tions, practices, and high position of the
Supreme Court, and make impossible the
quick and effective maintenance of public
order in times of excitement and stress.
Why make it possible for him to even
undertake so much that is revolutionary,
even though he fail in it all?
No Time for Experiments.
I hardly think the thoughtful judgment
of any citizen will say that the possibili
ty that Mr. Bryan may do better in the
Philippines than President McKinley is
doing justifies an experiment fraught
with so much danger to the stability of
things at home. The question may be ;
very properly raised whether a man who
is wrong on every important problem
which affects the citizens of the United
States at home can adjust and administer
trie affairs of the Philippine people prop
erly. I do not myself believe he can.
Mr. Bryan's plea for the salvation of
this country by the destruction of what ha
terms "imperialism," as exemplified in
the administration of -our affairs in the
Philippines, loses its force when it is re
membered what he pledges himself to
carry out at home, in matters which go to
the personal and property interests of
every citizen of the republic, no matter
how small such interests may be. It
would be the height of folly in this cam
paign to forget the very important effect
which Mr. Bryan's election would have
upon the business interests of the coun
try. In the minds of those who carry on
the affairs which make up our business
world he is associated with uncertainty
and doubt. It will not do to say that
these interests are selfish and ought to re
ceive a lesson, for the greates sufferers
will be those who are most dependent
upon the largest daily activity in busi
ness. No one would suffer so much as the
laborer, for he must have steady work
day in nnd day out. He has no reserve
capital from which to draw, and the cur
tailment of business operations means
the curtailment of employment of labor,
with attendant distress and idleness.
Dangerous to Labor Interests.
I look upon Mr. Bryan as the most
dangerous man to the lalwr interests to
day in public life. In the first instance
he is a demagogue, possessed of a certain
quality of oratory which appeals always
to prejudice. In the second, lie is well
grounded in no branch of political econ
omy and unsound in all. He would bo
more unpopular with laboring men, if
eleeted, than, it is claimed, he is popular
with them now, because his success would
paralyze business for a long time at least,,
during which time the laborer of neces
sity would be without employment.
Then, too, the laborer would soon dis
cover how utterly futile Mr. Bryan's ef
forts would be to make better bis condi
tion by making war upon his employers.
The laborer certainly cannot be benefited
by n policy which is directed wholly to
ward the unsettling of values, the reduc
tion of the purchasing power of his wage
nnd the enactment into law of views
which, tested by experience and history,
are wholly unsound.
I believe President McKinley ought to
be re-elected as largely as possible by
Democratic votes. Under the present
domination of Mr. Bryan a conservative
Democrat can find no place of influence
in the party. Those who now return to
it after rejecting Bryanism four years
ago will find themselves without voice in
tnevdministrntion. Theey go back to ac
cept Mr." Bryants views. Hd- uucd JBct
accept theirs. They indorse him be does
not indorse them; and, once elected, they,
are not in a position, after changing front.,
to protest against his radicalism. By vot-.
ing for him they do, in fact, indorse him,'
despite a mental reservation that they do
not approve of his. public uttaranees and
IPopulistic views. They disarm them
selves of a right to criticise and draw
down upon their heads more blame for
Mr. Bryan's unsound views as a disturb
ing factor than does Mr. Bryan himself.
For by their act in voting for Mr. Bryan
they have made it possible for him to do
the harm which they must know would
follow the carrying out of the principles
for which he stands.
Bryan's Party Popnlistic j
The Democratic party cannot be both.
Democratic and Populistic. Under Mr.
Bryan it is Populistic. It is so out of
power. It would be more so in power.'
The best example of what he would do
with the party if in power is shown ia
his own State, where even the kind or
Democrats they have in Nebraska are '
only allotted one or two minor affices,
while the Populists are given all of im
portance. '
When Mr. Bryan is eliminated Demo
crats can readily assume a position of re
spect and influence in the Democratic
party, and until he is they ought to fight
against him. They can aid the party best
by rescuing it from Populism by defeat
ing Populistic candidates at the polls, not
by electing their candidates with the vain,
hope that they can either reform them,
renderthem harmless, or prove them to
be pretentious Loaatcio, ?SSIT?I niina
for things which they never intended to "
carry out.
As far as I am concerned, I ara going
to maintain my Democracy by voting and
speaking against Mr. Bryan and those
who have debauched the party and placed
it in the attitude of a defender of all the
isms that disturb the country. I do not
believe in Bryanism in the West or Cro
kerism in the East. If a continuation of
Bryanism and Crokerism constitute De
mocracy, sound political wisdom and hon
est administrative ability, I do not wish
to be of it. But I do not believe it does,
and, therefore, I have faith in there being
enough Democrats who are Democrats
from principle to defeat Mr. Bryan so
emphatically as to make impossible the
things we have witnessed during the past
years in alleged Democratic conventions.
I really would like to know what a
thoughtful Democrat thinks of reforms
wrought in domestic and foreign affairs
through the combined wisdom and expe
rience of William J. Bryan and Richard
Croker. JAMES H. ECKELS.
Comptroller of the Currency under Cleve
land. Victory and Valor.
lAir. Marching Through Georgia.
Keep the fruits of victory stainless ever
more. Keep our banners flying on Manila's dis
tant shore;
Keep our noble President within the
White House door,
Bringing prosperity and glory! !
CHORUS.
Hurrah! Hurrah! In honor
bound.
Hurrah! Hurrah! Our money
sound;
Honest golden dollars ringing all
world around.
Bringing prosperity and glory!
we are
all is
the
Cherish deeds of valor wreathed in mem
ories subfime.
Cherish grand achievements wrought in
Oriental clime;
Cherish honest duty calling; now's the
golden time.
Bringing prosperity and glory!
CHORUS.
C. P. R.
On Foreign Trade.
We must know just what other people
want before we can supply their wants.
We must understand exactly how to
reach them with least expense if we
would enter into the most advantageous
business relations with them. William
McKinley.
ow
RING.
Co.
