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THURSDAY, AUGUST 20 18UI
FARMERS AS WAREHOUSE MEN.
Advice is cheap, unless followed,
and then it sometimes becomes
-very dear o him who listens to it.
Friends of the farmers are very
plenty just now, especia'ly among
those who are w'l'ing to sacrifice
personal interests for their coun
try's good in fillingoffices. Among
other items, of gratuitous advice
given to our "horny handed sons"
of the field is "store your grain and
.bold it for higher prices." This is
good advice, perhaps for without
doubt every g -ain of food of crop
of 1891 will be granted at good
prices, but the advice given doesn"t
tell his would-be constituent where
to store it and how to take care of
it.
The spring wheat crop is esti
wiatedjat 180,000,000 bushels, which
would require 1.8C0 elevators; each
of 1C3.C03 bushels capacity, or 3,00
evators of 50,000 bushels capacny
cach, and this last is as large as
the country elevators will average.
Suppose the crop is divided and
only one-half of it is held, it would
atill require 1,800 elevators. Now,
this spring wheat is nearly all
grown in the newer portion of the
Northwest, where not 600 instead of
3,000 country elevators are found,
and many of these have not the
proper facilities for handling the
new grain as it is handled by our
large elevators with their improved
machinery.
But the latest advice from the
"farmers' riend" is to build your
own granary and there store your
grain for the higher prices. Both
of these plans contemplate immedi
ate threshing, and not holding in
stack, as there is danger of loss by
fire when in straw. If the farmer is
as poor as his newly found friends
claim him to be he can not in every
case follow this advice; for he may
be living with his family in a "sod
bouse" for want of ability to build
a better, and he would be obliged
to sell some of his wheat to be able
to build his granary. But suppose
the country elevator and granaries
are all filled and the grain is held
for the expected high price, who
shall control the delivery, so as not
to "break the market" with the rush,
when the panic for selling strikes
the thousands of holders? Or
where is the man, or the company
who will garantee the condition of
the grain when it comes out of the
elevator or granary where it has
lain unmoved for two, three, or six
months? It may go in No. 1, or 2,
and come out No. 4, or "rejected."
Every friend of his country
wishes to see the farmer as well as
eveiy other 'laborer get the best
possible return for his toil; but the
best prices do not always come to
him who seeks for all there is in it.
Unwise advisers may lead our
farmers into unwise measures, and
before they decide to hold their
grain they must decide where to
hold it and how to handle it so as to
preserve its quality. In the above
calculation no consideration was
taken of the winter wheat crop,
which is esimated at over 360,000,000
bushels, or double the amount of
the spring wheat; and if all of both
kinds is to be held then we must
multiply our above figures on
elevators by three. But the winter
wheat men are older in their busi
ness, and are apparently satisfied
with present prices, for they are
meeting the millers' demands for
their grain and freely bringing it
forward. Whether they expect
higher prices or not the indications
are that a great many of them pre
fer selling and getting out of debt
to running any risks by waiting
further developments. Inter
Ocean.
There is a bottomless chasm be
tween the platform of the demo
crats of Maryland and those of
Ohio and Iowa; the latter in their
state platforms declare for the free
coinage of silver and the former
against it; and yet it is possible to
find democrats who deny the strad
dling propensities of their party.
Jfadison Chronicle.
THE corn stalk cane will be the
Jeading factor in Iowa politics this
iJall.
THE color line has been estab
' lished by the Grand Army of the
Kepublic, which liaa become an or-
I ani.atioti lor tlie looting or me
public treasury. The new grand
commander, eazey, oruereu in-u
the "niters" must Hock by them
HelveH. There will, therefore, here
after be colored encampments, as
there are colored schools and col
ored churches. Memphis Com
mercial. Kvery word of the above is false.
"The color line" has not been estab
lished. There will not be colored
encampiiienfs. It would, in fact, be
difficult to state more barefaced
falsehoods in the same space.
General Veazey was the retiring
commander, not the new, and the
encampment voted squarely
against the "color line" reso ution.
The Ohio democrats demad for
silver and gold "the equal right of
each to free and unlimited coinage."
They are precisejy. the words in
which they put their demand, and
in this, the Ledger thinks, they have
made another grave mistake, if
their platform, in this regard, is to
set the pattern for the presidential
election next year. They are de
manding equality for things sil
ver and rold which in their very
nature are unequal, and which no
iteration or reiteration of mere
words in the resolves of a political
convention, or an act of congress
can make equal. Nothing but an
international agreement among
the commercial nations of the
world can maintain them upon an
"equal" fooling for the purposes of
international commerce. All ex
perience has shown this, and the
inequality must continue to exist
so long as the production of gold
shall be as limited as it actually is
and so long as the power of pro
duction of silver is practically "tin
limited," as it actually is. In this
condition of the production of the
"precious metals" there will be and
must be fluctuations in value that
cannot be overcome by resolves of
party conventions, or by the acts of
any one congress or parliament, or
any other power except redemption
in gold or by international agree
mentPhiladelphia Ledger.
MR. BLAINE'S NEUTRALITY.
There is nothing to show that Mr.
Blaine expects to use his remark
able popularity in the interest of
some other man; but it is well
enough, nevertheless, to let the fact
be understood that he can not do so
under any circumstances. It will
not do for him to decline the nomi
nation and still ask his friends to
be governed by his wishes with re
gard to their further discretion in
the matter. The moment that he
takes his own name out of he list
his supporters are free to do what
they please in the way of forming
alliances and negotiating bargains.
They ar under no obligation to
him that requires them to carry out
his desires in a contingency of that
sort. It is not for him to determine
what is best for them to do if they
can not have him for a candidate.
That is a question to be decided
without any reference to him or his
associations. He is wise enough, it
must be believed, to see that it
would be an ungenerous and im
proper thing for him to manifest
any partiality for one over another
of the aspirants who will be in the
field if he is not a candidate. He
can not afford to espouse the cause
of any one of them, whatever he
may think about the fitness or ex
pediency of a particular nomina
tion. It is for him to preserve an
entirely neutral attitude, provided
he does not want the nomination
himself; and the people will ex
pect him to adopt that course as a
matter of simple justice and pro
priety. Globe-Democrat.
NEW SOUTH WALES ABANDONS
FREE TRADE.
Free trade has received another
stunning blow. The colony of
New South Wales, Australia, which
has been under free trade for many
years, has abandoned it, and
adopted the protective policy. Its
next neighbor is the colony of Vic
toria, which has always been pro
tectionist. The two have similar
soil, the same climate, and the
same class of people, engaged in
similar occupations. Victoria has
grown in population and in wealth
and her people are individually
prosperous. New South Wales has
fallen far behind in the race, is bur
dened with debt, and her people
have been for years chronic com
plainers about hard times to make
a living. The object lesson which
Victoria afforded was too strong a
one not to be heeded; and so the
people of New South Wales very
sensibly determined to adopt the
same economic policy under which
Victoria had prospered. This leaves
Great Britain as the only civilized
free trade country in the world. The
fact is one which should not be lost
on the American people. Toledo
Blade.
The Republicans of Iowa expect
to elect their ticket this fall . by at
least 15,000 majority,
TEN MONTHS OF McKINLEY
PRICES.
The McKinley tariff law went into
effect ten months ago August 6, says
the New York Press.
There were predictions at the time
by free trade and mugwump papers
that stagnation of business and
trade would follow.
The conspiracy against prosperity
was begun to keep improvement in
business.
In large lines of goods prices were
raised without reason, the excuse be
ing given that the increase was due
to the Mckinley bill.
It was declared that no new indus
tries would spring up in this country
and that old industries would not
be stimulated.
The ten months that have elapsed
since these predictions were made
have utterly disproved each and
every one of them. Trade and com
merce have followed the even tenor
of their courses. The country is
generally properous.
The acommodities on which
prices were raised for political
effect can nearly all be purchased
at lower prices than before the Mc
Kinley bill went into force. New
industries are being established.
Old industries are flourishing.
The only place where stagnation
is to be found is in the speculative
circles of Wall street.
Actual prices, not "McKinley
prices" gotton up for the moment,
demonstrating to the people that
the McKinley bill is a good piece of
national legislation.
Prices of commodities on the
whole have declined, and the people
know the reason. It is due to pro
tection, and the gratifying feature
of it all is that the democratic press,
having asserted that the forced
high prices of last fall were McKin
ley prices, cannot now with con
sistency deny that the present low
prices are also McKinley prices.
AN IMPOSSIBILITY.
What does the democratic party
of Ohio propose as a remedy for the
evil condition which are mendaci
ously describes in its silver plank?
It proposes an impossibility the
f .-ee coinage of both gold, silver
and the double standard. There
can be no such thing as a double
standard. There may be an alter
nating standard, or a single stand
ard either of gold or silver, but the
standard must always be one or
the other of these metals. Free
coni?ge of both gold and silver
means the coinage of silver alone,
and the adoption of the silver stand
ard. Gold would be driven out of
circulation. We would undoubted
ly have plenty of money under the
free coinage policy and doubtless
priecs would mount higher by
jumps, but at what consequences
to trade and industry'? The coun
try would be flooded with debased
currency, credit would be at an
end, and bankruptcy and ruin
would complete the work begun by
financial lunatics. Detroit Tribtine.
J3 EC A USE IT HAS TO.
Says the Nashvill (Tenn.) Banner:
The State Alliance, "a non-political
body," which deals very largely
if not exclusively in politics, is in
session in the city to-day. The dele
gates will discuss a liumder of
interesting subjects in the alleged
interest of the farmers, but among
those subjects will doubtless be
none bearing on any distinctively
agricultural question
In truth the alliance is a political
order with a political platform just
like any other political party.
To which we would add no more
than this: It is a political body in
the South because, in the vernacu
lar of the street, "it has to." It is
not a political body in the North
becuase it "doen't have to."
In the North two great parties
always are contending for power
and one or both of them is sure to
grant any reasonable demand made
by any class or condition of men
that conders itself unfairly treated.
In the South there is but one party,
or rather there is but one party that
is permitted to vote freely or to
speak plainly. The other party has
been proscibed, simply and solely
because its members either did not
believe in slavery and secession as
a means of maintaining and ex
tending it, or, having once so be
lieved, have accepted the results of
the war in good faith, and have con:
formed themselves to the terms
imposed on the South after it had
made unconditional surrender.
The consequences is that the
Southern States are hideously mis
governed, as all bodies under the
dominion of an irresponsible and
uncriticsed potentate or party must
be. Wherefore, since the second in
age of the old parties has not been
allowed to criticise or to contest
with the elder, a new and third
party has risen. It marks the
begnning of the end of the South
ern oligarchies. The alliance may
perish; the spirit of opposition and
a injury which it has worked will
endure. And all this because, as
we hare said, in the nature of things
"it has it." Inter-Ocean.
The price of wheat has advanced
in Kurope, and our export trade in
that cereal is increasing rapidly.
Meantime the price of silver bul
lion is hardly holding its own. A
clear proof of the falsity of the as
sumption that the prices of silver
and wheat rise and fall together.
OUK Kansas exchanges are claim
ing that their State has raised this
year one-forthieth of the wheat
yield of the world, still PetTer Simp
son &Co.keep on telling the people
of the east what a deplorable con
dition the farmers of their State are
in. Blue Valley Blade.
THE Kansas chinch bug inocula
tion experiment is exciting a good
deal more than a local interest. It
has been recently put to a test in a
wheat field in Wisconsin in which
case the hards bugs of the north
rapidly succumbed to the ravages
spread by the importations of their
infected brothers from the sunny
clime of Kansas. Nebraska Farmer.
President Balmaceda, it is said,
has offered the United States Gov
ernment $,XK),C30 for the cruiser
Charleston. It is not easy to see,
however, how this boat, serviceable
as it is, could do any good to the
Chilian Government without the
American sailors who man it. The
insurgents have readily beaten
nearly all the vessels, good and bad
sent against them by Balmaceda
thus far.
Reports show that more than
half of the imports into the United
States come in now duty free, a por
portion never reached under any
previous tariff bill. But it doen't
lessen the free trade howl- The De
mocratic shriekers still insist that
"the poor laboring man" wants his
French champagne and Havana
cigars, and won't be content until
they are faee.
The late Mr. George Jones, of the
New York Times, had sensible ideas
on the training of boys. He gave
his son a good education, and then,
instead of putting him into the
light and easy harness of a polite
profession, apprenticed him to the
machinery business, to prepare
him for the superititendance of the
times machinery department, a
position which he now holds. Mr
Tones was a rich man when he did
this, too. He also educated one of
his daughters as literary editor of
the times, and she still works hard
in that capacity.
DURING the campaign of 1892 the
democratic party of the country
will deny it ever said there was no
tin plate in the United States. Its
speakers will point with pride next
Fourth of July to the development
of our mines, including the tin
mines. Tin is about to put demo
cratic editors crazy just now. It is
remarkable how they do fight tin.
They write and dream about tin;
but tin, American tin. is marching
on, and the democrats will be com
pelled to bow the knee in time. It
is only a question of time when the
acknowledgement will be made.
Indianola (la.) Herald.
Colonel Farwell's rain making
apparatus has been fired at the
clottds in Texas and ten hours after
wards there was a big rain in all
that region, the biggest rain of the
season according to the dispatches.
But as there were also very big
rains in Kansas and Minnesota at
the same time, the experiment is
not entirely conclusive. Two or
three more explositions of a dyna
mite balloon will settle the ques
tion. The amateur rain maker at Can
ton, O., was very sucessful once or
twice according to all accounts, but
latterly his chemical plant has ut
terly failed to materialize the mois
ureandhe has subsided. Lincoln
Journal.
TO MAKE MONEY SCARCE.
There are a large number of peo
ple in the United States who
sincerely believe that we have not
money enough, and whose chief
desire is to increase the amount of
the currency. We beg leave to re
mind them that one of the best ways
of doing that is by the protectionist
policy. If we adopt a free trade
tariff, and buy our manufactured
goode in Europe in place ofjmaking
them ourselves, there will be a con
stant drain of gold twelve months
in the year from this side of the
Atlantic, the same as there was dur
ing the famous free trade era from
1847 to 1860. President Fillmore,
in his message to Congress in 1852,
reminded that body that notwite
standing the enormous amount of
gold furnished by the mines of Cali
fornia, it was no sooner coined than
it was shipped to Europe to pay for
manufactured goods. Shall we go
back to a period of money scarcity.
Toledo Blade.
What did you say? I said that
Gering & Co's soda water and frost
ed cream are out of eight, tf
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