The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, September 24, 1896, SUPPLEMENT, Image 6
SUPPLEMENT TO THE O'NEILL FRONTIER Thursday, September 24,1SS>«. BRYAN’S INDIA FAKE. His Repeated Assertions Concern ing India Wheat Proven False. , HON. JAMES BRYCE SPEAKS. Oenials by Members of the English Parliament and a Prominent London Merchant In tbe speech delivered by William Jennings Bryan to tbe farmers of New Xork assembled at Chautauqua, the In dia wheat fake waa revamped by the silver candidate for president. The as sertion made by Mr. Bryan in hia Omaha debate last May that the Eng lish speculators could drive great bar gains in buying silver and trading it for India wheat to the detriment of the American farmer was reiterated and embellished by his fervid imagination ao as to create tbe impression that the decline «rf stiver has made India the most formidable competitor of the American wheat and cotton growers. As usual, Mr. Bryan talked at random wlthont taking tbe trouble to acquaint himself with the actual facts. The Bee now has tbe facts and the figures that effectually explode Mr. Bryan’s India fake. Over two months ago the editor of the Bee directed a per sonal inquiry on this subject to Hon. James Bryce, who is now and has for many years been a member of Parlia ment and was a member of the British board of trade. Responding to this letter, under date of August 1, Mr. Bryce says: “You are aulte right in thinking that British merchants gain nothing at all from the dosing of the Indian mints. The sharp competition, especially of the Hindoo native merchants, cuts down their profits and they lose heavily on the exchange between India and Eng land in turning into English gold tbe Silver prices they receive for the goods they export to India. The export of food staffs from India has not, I gather, in creased during the last few years and the closing «f the mints has not increased It. Manchester and our manufacturers generally complain that business with India is unprofitable. Our cotton Indus try is at present greatly depressed. So * Britain at least gains nothing. You will, therefore, be safe in denying that there g** been, w k, any bonus or benefit to British merchants or manufacturers.” ThkJ«tter has been supplemented bj •le prepared bj Bret. Bryce with an articL r,IV,n Ills toother, i. Annan Bryce, a Ter prominent London merchant, who wa for many year* a resident of India. Mi J. Annan Bryce nays: “Per Mr. Rosewater*, guidance I hat made np the annexed statement, whlc ebews in parallel columns the exports c wheat from tbe United States, Arget tine, Russia and India np to 1878 lx fere the Rill in silver and rupee ei change became pronounced. You wl observe that while the exports from th United States, Russia and Argentine ar on the whole increasing, those from I* $*• aw falilng off, and that In the yea 1880 tbe exports from India were th name aa in the year 1877. Of conroe I does net do to reason on individual yean aa there may be special circumstance) each ea famines, to account for ver Short years. Kor instance, 1878 an! 1879 were the years of the great fan Inc In India and 1892 waa the year o the famine In Russia. Dividing the last twenty years into p« nods of five years each, you will see tha during the last three five-year periods th eximrts from India have been falling oil while those from the United States. At gent Inc and Russia have been increai Ing, although all the while rupee ex change has been steadily faliiug witl Oliver. The figures provo conclusivel! as regards Indian wheat, which ha always been the great bogy with th American silver man, that the India ex jort has had nothing to do with th rail of silver or rupee exchange. Th Oliver man would be more sensible If b were to take alarm at the growing ex 6>rts from Argentine and from Russia ut he could make nothing of the silve ■ argument here, for neither Russian n Argentine ^exchange defends on silve: — —— - uvuub wu mil v r —--conn trie* during the whole of th period embraced in my statement, lie for the basis of their currency and c coarse foreign exchange an inconrertlb] -f* currency and not either silrer « “Altogether the fact* Illustrate the Mandneas of Mr. Rosewater’s conclusion that the fall in prices of commodities Is one to more economical production and transport. In India, in Russia and in Argentine wheat exports became possi ble not because the exchange value of npee, the rouble or the dollar fell, but , because railways were built Into districts E*T 5»aly Jnacceesihle. In India the {melding of railway facilities stimulated She extension of irrigation. In the ronjah. for instance, many millions of •me were brought Into cultivation under Irrigation as soon as the opening of the *nJ!w*y *o Karachi made the export pos sible. But in India there no longer -- ••• S“W*» vuri c UU luusvr remains any large new field to be opened and in most of the wheat-producing districts which depend on Irrigation I believe as much water Is now taken out •* riJer* u ^ c»> give. Ameri ca therefore need not fear India much In the future, even if silver and rupee jjw* likely to go lower, which they are .The statistical exhibit accompanying this statement is exhaustive and con vrlncing in summit..of the conclusions ntrieed at by Mr Bryce. In 1873 the amort of wheat from the United States to England }vas 45,791,008 bushels; from Bussla, 47,040,000 bushels; Argentine made no exports and India exported a faction over 1,250.000 bushels. In 1877 Wheat exports from the Ur’.ted States had reached 107,420,606 bnshels; from «?2&V,.S7'i2<W0 bushels; from India 15,633,333 bushels; Argentine still had bo wheat to export. In 1893 wheat ex from the United States had reached .-13*133 bushels; from Russia, 100, ,000 bushels; from India, 27,000,600 ' CTv !*’ It?® Argentine, 42,000,000 fejahclv/uu, 1“ ISO* Argentine exported 4KOOO.OOO bushels of wheat to England, while India did not increase its export •verXhe preceding year. In 1885 the Wheat export from the United States ’** _ 170,833^83 bushels; from Russia, bnahela: from Argentine, .000 bushels; from India, 15,120, — bushels. Thajaveragc price of wheat to Bom Aif from 18W ta 1876 waa <1.20 per PUTTING RINGS ON THE RtfGHT HOGS> IV-****,, A » pm i was pairing through Iowa some month* ago, and I got an Idea from aomo hog*. [Laughter.] An tdoa la the moat Important thing that a peraon can get Into hi* head, and we gather onr ldeaa from *w ' *rjr-*%} WB* ■toBf1 not*e*d the,e ho«" rootln* l* * fleId- “n<l they were tearing np the ground, and the drat thought that came to me wa* that they were deatroylng a good deal of property. And that carried me back to the time when aa a boy I Heed upon a farm, and I remembered that when we had boga we uaed to put ringa In the note* of the hoga.and then the thought came to me, “Whr, did we do ItT Not to keep the hog* from getting fat. We were more Interested In their getting fat than they were. [laughter.] The aooner they got fat the eooner we killed them; the longer theft were In getting fat the longer they lived. But why were the ringa put In the none* of those hogs? So that, while they were getting fat, they would not destroy more property than they were worth. [Laughter and great applause.] And aa I thought of that thla thought came'to me, that one of the duties of the government, one of the important duties of government, Is the putting of rings In the nosea of hogs. [Applause.] ___ ^ . —[From W. J. Bryan's Labor Day Speech. bushel, which was equal to the price of one ounce of silver. From 1876 to 1880, while silver was going down, the aver age price of wheat at Bombay rose to $1.49 per bushel. Between 1881 and 1885 the average price of wheat at Bom bay was $1.10 per bushel, nnd from 1886 to 1800 $1.01 per bushel, although silver had been tending upward. From 1881 to 1805 the average price of wheat at Bombay was 06 cents per bushel. Had wheat followed the price of silver it should bate been only 68 cents per bushel. Cotton exports from India to Europe have been equally at variance with the theories advanced by Mr. Bryan. In 1874 India exported 1,230,882 bales and In 1875 1,241,526 bales. During tho nve years following its cotton ex port was below 1.000,000 bales. In 1870 it was only 641,458 bales. During the five yeara ending with 1885 the cot ton export from India has been steadily decreasing. In 1801 it was 1,028,417 hale*: in 1802, 054,000 bales; in 1883, 857,771 bales: In 1801, 707,070 boles; In 1^05, 625,000 bales. In contrast with this the United States exports of cotton have been steadily Increasing. In 1800 they amounted to 5,020.013 bales; In 1801, 5,820,770 bales; in 1802, 5.801,411 bales; In 1803, 4,431.220 bales; in 1804, 5,387,509 bales; in 1885, 0.005,358 bales! Thus it will be seen that the India bugbear has no foundation, but has been conjured up for political purposes by Bryan, Harvey and all the apostles of silver.—Omaha Bee. THINGS TO BEMBMBES. Nine Points About Silver and Protec tion. First—That there is not a free coinage country In the world today that is not on a silver basis. Second—That free coinage will not raise the price of American wool one cent while foreign wool Is coming in free of duty and is crowding American wool out of the home uiurket. Third—That there is not a gold stand ard country.In the world that does not use silver along with gold and keep its silver coins worth twice as much as their bullion value. * VU4 1.1 » U« ‘ I I IT UJIUIIKC Ul Nllvcr will not start a single factory in this country, when under the Democratic tar iff the products of foreign labor are shipped into this country cheaper than they can be made here. Fifth—That there is not a silver stand ard country iu the world that uses any gold as money along with silver. Sixth—That free silver coinage will not preate a demand for labor when Democratic free trade makes the supply many times greater than the demand. Seventh—That there is not a silver standard country In the world today that has more than one-third as much money In circulation per capita as the United States has. Eighth—That free silver is not going to increase the price of nor the demand for farm products so long as the Ameri can workingman, who is the principal Consumer, is kept in idleness by trans ferring his work to the hands of foreign workmen through the medium of free trade. Ninth—That there is not a silver-stand ard country in the world where the la boring than receives fair pay for his day’s work, and it is largely these men's products that have come into this coun try by the grace of Democratic free trade, and wiped out the prosperity we enjoyed prior to 1803.—Zanesville Times. Free Silver and Degradation. - Labor, today, baa reached its crisis. This is a very simple proposition, to anyone who looks at it with common sense and reason, but one on which hangs the fate of labor. If labor votes for Bryan and free silver, it votes away one-half of its wages. It will vote its organisations and unions out of exist ence. For degraded labor that is a drug on the market, too poor to save a penny, too feeble to lift its head against wrong and oppression, cannot maintain an or ganisation against power and wealth. It will vote its children into ignorance and toil from their earliest years. It will vote its women into the tilling of its fields, into drudgery in brick vards and into slavery in the very mines which silver men will operate for their own advantage, at the expense of evervone in the United States who works' for wages. It will vote itself into bondage from which it cannot escape in our day and time. The statistics of every free silver country- in the world wlU prove this proposition to be true. A Household Truly Homelike and Entirely Free from AS Ostentatious. NOTES OF A VISIT TO CANTON. -— » Jtrd The House Where the McKinleys Have Made Their Home for Twenty-five Yearn Sojourning a few days recently near Canton gave opportunity for a charm ing visit to that new center of attrac tion. Canton is alive with enthusiasm, the courthouse, business places and private houses are decorated with flags, por traits of Maj, McKinley, national colors and various national and patriotic de vices. It is easy to recognize the McKinley residence by the lawn, which is worn brown and bare by the delegations that continue to come from all parts to pay their respects to the future occupant of' the white house. Never before have women taken such an active interest, in the presidential campaign, and never before since the nomination of President Lincoln have women's hearts been so stirred over the condition of the country, and while many are interested because of the main issues of the campaign, all are interested in the Republican nominee for president, because of his standing as a man and a citizen, and his social and family life. _The residence of Gov. end Mrs. Mc Kinley is homelike, and free from os tentation. A porch extends along the entire front pf the house, some flue old trees cast a grateful shade upon the lawn, and beds of flowers attract the sight. We sten into the tMU furnished with easy chairs and colors restful to the eye; a moment more, and we are received by Mr. Mc Kinley. The reception room, on the right of the hall as one enters, is used as an office, and here at all times of the day Mr. McKinley receives news and tele grams that are communicated directly to his residence, of such matters as cer tain to and are of interen to the cam paign. While ho talks his secretary occasion ally hands him a telegram which he reads without interruption to the conver sation. Mr. McKinley will remain In Canton most of the time 'until after the elec tion in November.' It has been bis in tention to take a short trio to some point on the sea coast, bnt he has decided to remain in Canton. “I have no wish r' he sald|; “to shut myself away from the people. 3peaking of the activity of the women in the campaign, he said; “I am glad the ladies have snch confidence in me" I was glad to respond: “We do have great confidence in you, Mr. McKinley, more than it has ever before been our opportunity to. express." “Would rmi llko to m ‘Would you like to meet Mrs. McKin ley? Mother is one of our family, but at present she is away on a visit; and although she has reached the age of 81, she is in excellent health.” Any antleipatd pleasure we may have had in meeting Mrs. McKinley is more than realised. Seated in the handsome parlor, where all lights and colors har monise—prevailing harmony impresses one first and last in the McKinley home —with some dainty crochet work in blue sephyr in her lap talking with a lady visitor, is the future mistress of the white house. It is easy to say of this woman who will be the first lady in the land, now that she is approaching her aenith, that she is one of the loveliest women we have ever met, but snch if the oft-repeated verdict of the many. At first glance we recognise Mrs. Mc Kinley, from her pictures recently taken, the shining hair parted in the center of 'he forehead, rippling softly over the beautiful brow, a sweet, almost girlish face—not a line or wrinkle marring its smoothness—the incarnation of womanly sweetness. One who is sensitive and observant, need never to have heard one word of Mr. McKinley’s family life to understand the relation Mr. and Mrs. McKinley occupy toward one another, and while the pleas ant morning conversation proceeds, we seem to feel through the atmosphere of the room every word of the spirit and ex istence of the happy wedded life perpetu ated, which Browning expressed and painted in his “By the Fireside.” We are looking at and discussing pic tures of Mr. and 'Mrs. McKiuley, when S?e ,the family, taking up one of Mr. McKinley, which from the view of the face shows the deep thought line extend 1 -, T luuu6“i nut tiieuu *3 fki^Jength of the forehead, remarks: ‘ * , uc IWltUtOU) ICUlaiKD, _Jr«. McKinley does not like these—she thinks that line looks like a scowl.” We all smile and quite agree with her, that that picture does not “do him justice,” and we think what picture could por tray him as he is, the charming person ality, the kindly, genial manner, the clear, perfectly modulated voice, the bright blue eye, and clear complexion, And the line smooth skin that a wom an might envy? While his pictures can not portray this, they do show with fidel ity some qualities of the man whose splendid constitution has never been im paired by excesses, the erect form, the brown hair, that shows but few traces of silver; the broad, full forehead, deep set eye. clearly cut features and square, massive jaw, the features and bearing one might look for in the hero of the battle of Fisher’s Hill and Cedar Creek, where he was breveted major by Presi dent Lincoln. Mr. McKinley’s passionate love of flowers is recognized by his friends. “Are not those roses lovely?” says Mrs. McKinley, calling our attention to some vases of rare red roses, upon the mantel and brackets; “but I love these,” glancing at a bouquet of sweet peas on the pretty table beside her. “The roses came in such a beautiful wooden box. The name of the giver is not here. Wil liam, ’ addressing Mr. McKinley, and, taking up a card and reading, “To Mr. and Mrs. McKinley, from your devoted friend, -” “The magnolias were sent from the South.” As Mr. McKinley rises, our eyes follow him, and we catch “ glimpse, through an open door, of a inty couch iu white and gold, and daf .7. . »uu guiu, auu Mrs. McKinley says softly, “William, ca J ,L'V 111 lUClX'. So gentle is the step on the thick car pet* that It could not awaken the lightest sleeper,, and bolding the great snowy, waxen blossoms for our inspec tion he says, the recollection, perhaps, suggested by the thought of the little sleeper in the adjoining room, “We commenced our first housekeeping in this house over twenty-five years ago. Here our little ones were born and passed away, the old home's endeared to u* by many pleasant, hallowed mem ories. .The silken flag that adorned the chairman’s desk at the Republican con vention at St, Lonis is draped on one corner of the piano. Tbe gavel nsed by the chairman on that occasion, a beautiful piece of carved workmanship, was shown us. “It is said to have been made from a piece of one of the logs from the log cabin in which Abraham Lincoln lived. It is a pleasant thought to a lover of relics and to the patriotic.” says Mr. McKinley. There were also some beautiful bad ges, used during different presidential campaigns, one a white satin badge used during President Tyler’s campaign, bearing his motto, the design of which would have done credit to the finest of today, with all our modern accessories of art. Mr, McKinley Is, as It has been said, “the deliverer of a new gospel to women and children in making protec tion and the tariff plain to them,” and we may add, that is his blameless politi cal, professional, religious, domestic end social life, he has also revealed a new gospel to the young men of our country. Mary Stuart Coffin. Bryan’s hope of success is grounded wholly on the late P. T. Barnum’s the ory that a fool is born every minute. Paste it in your hat that free coin age and free trade, the great pair of panic-prodocera, go hand in band in this campaign. You can’t support the one without voting for the other. Mr. Bryan is too confidential with his audiences for dignity—almost plaintive, sometimes, in his appeals to them to say whether or not he “looks like an anarch FARMERS AND TARIFF Home Demand Supplies the Chief Market for Agricultural Products WHERE THEIR INTEREST LIES. Effect of Curtailing the Purchafng Power of the Men Employed in Factories. We export about one-third of the wheat grown in the United States either in the form of flour or of wheat. We export only about 5 per cent, of our corn crop. The exportation of other grain is as a rule trifling in quantity, al though the Tery low price of oats for the past two years, owing to heavy produc tion and a falling off in the home de mand for consumption by street rail way horses and driving horses, has led to a considerable foreign movement in this grain. Of our meats we probably export about 10 per cent., although exact statistics are not available on this point. These figures are sufficient to make it Elain to the intelligent farmer that the ome market is bis great market, and that any causes which reduce the home demand for provisions directly injure the farming interest. Besides the staple articles of grain and meat, there are a multitude of farm products for which there is no market at all except the home market. This in cludes the whole range of perishable fruits and vegetables, and also includes to a very great extent the dairy products. Other important items are poultry and eggs. All thrifty farmers know the value of home markets for such articles as these, and know, too, that much of the profit of farming comes from the minor nrorinrtinn* nf tho fnrm If we are to have increased home con sumption of farm products we must have labqr generally employed, and at fair wages, in the towns and cities. To "keep labor well employed it is absolutely es sential under the present conditions that we should hate protective duties upon a large range of foreign-made articles. This is no longer a matter of theory, about which intelligent men dispute. It was held for a time by the advocates of free trade that the superior intelligence of the average American workingman and the superior quality of the machinery he nsed would be a sufficient protection to insure our own markets for our own manufactured products. This is a de lusion which no intelligent man now ad vocates. The extension of commerce by steamship lines all over the world, the laying of submarine telegraph cables, the world-wide habit of travel, the cheap ness and convenience of transportation, and the general spread of intelligence bv newspapers has put the entire civ ilised and semi-civilised globe in close business relations. Our ingenious labor saving machines are being introduced into China and Japan, and no important improvement is made in inventions in this coutry that is not immediately known in all parts of Europe. The skill and producing capacity of the mechanics and operatives of other countries are constantly being increased by the sharp ness of competition and by the introduc tion of new methods and machinery. Labor all over the world is tending to a common level. Now the thoughtful farmer will readily see that if we were to keep up the abili ty of our own shop and factory popula tion to consume his product in liberal quantities we must maintain an excep tional rate of wages. If through such free-trade legislation as Mr. Bryan and his followers advocate we are to lower onr American wage-earning population to the standards of living prevailing in the manufacturing countries which compete with us, then there would be a great surplus of farm products in this countr) for which there would be no home mar ket. We must put up a tariff wall to keep out a flood of such articles as we manufacture in our own country, or we will soon be deluged with cheap wares and fabrics from Japan and China as well as from the low-paid labor countries of Europe. The farming Industry is unquestiona bly in a depressed condition today, and! the cause is not far to seek. Look at! the hundreds of silent factories with their smokeless chimneys, all oyer tbs country, from Nebraska to Maine, aadu form, if you can, an estimate of thM immense multitude of people formerly* employed in these establishments, whs* are now eking out a poor living as best they can in other vocations, many «C them, no doubt, in farming and gardes* ingt, where they have become competitors with the men who formerly sMBBA them with food. If the free-trade Move ment led by Mr. Bryan goes on tfo its natural conclusion, whole lines at in dustry which have survived the Wilsoft! bill will be ruined and hundreds of thos-j sands of employes will be thrown os* of work. The conclusion cnght to be plaisf to every thoughtful man engaged in ag ricultural pursuits. We cannot afford to reduce our wage rates to those of for eign countries. We must make for our selves all articles needed for our ordi nary, every-day uses, importing only, such luxuries as foreign countries bars special facilities for producing. Tariltj for revenue only means the ruin of tba farmer, and tariff for protection means' a well-employed town and city poputo-l tion, and good home markets for every thing the farmer has to sell. CAMPAIGN NOTES. “I would willingly defend free trad*] with my life,” said Mr. Bryan in his first f speech in Congress, and as he is uos defending free silver with his tong only it is easy to see to which policy is most devoted. Democratic orators and organs may<' evade the tariff, but * -'' the country cannot, sents the unavoidable prosperity or idleness While the Popocrat demagogues RlSj hontinsr “Dnwn with tho rinh ” «-hV! Republican party advances with the cry,! “Up with .the poor,” and proposes the enactment of measures that will provlT work for the workers and pros for all. ' Sam Jones is nothing If not exr_ siye. He declares that he would rat beer i climb a ladder with an armful of eels: I tnau to undertake to fuse with the mid— | dle-of-the-road-Populists. . I The workingman does not want ■ - cheaper dollar. He wants steady em ployment paid, for in dollars as good aa 1 gold. The simplest way to elect McKinley la to vote for him. Mr. Bourke Cockran ob serves to his fellow Democrats, and that remark contains all the wisdom of • all i the ages. i The one question Bryan never answer* ' is the simple one, “How about fret trade?” ' . .T,he ®r^an party is made up of all H kinds of factions, led by all sorts Of 1 cranks, and if it should get into office U couldn t work together. V In denouncing wealth the Democratio i organs are consistent with their party. , »or 1* has done everything it could to f I make the people poor and keep them so. ‘ j The Republican pledge to promote the f1 free coinage of silver by international agreement offers the only solution of tho money problem which good business mem can accept, and for* that reason even tho democrats among them are working with the Republican party this year and will vote for McKinley. Any Popocrat who believes that Brr an can carry Kentucky when Palmer is m ' native and Buckner a native and a real- L dent of the Blue Grass state, doesn’t i know the Kentucky nature. It is easy to see from Thomas B. < Reed s speeches down in Maine that hn 1 is perfectly serene and happy. But then / he usually feels that way. He was bon i Mr. Bryan errs in saying that it is Idle/ curiosity that draws people to his meet-' ings. It is both interesting and aZofit able to study a man who, in this ci^Kzed country in this age of the worunfcs- \ parently thinks that wealth can be cn ated by legislation. “What gain would we make for ths/ circulating medium,” asked the lets' James G. Blaine eighteen years ago, “if* on opening the gate for silver to flow in, we open a still wider gate for “ to flow out?" The question U still anawersd and still timely. O, K flow , ■%