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-****,,
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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.
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