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1 IB ivv Kli SUPPLEMENT TO THE K M'COOK TRIBUNE. Hv f K , Friday , August 28,1896. ml FARMER'S ' EGG BASKET \ m Lm-mm mj'yjjk. Ths McKinley Law Checked Im- K'JK'portation and Gave I V Sd Home Market , R [ Mr EFFECT 0F m WILSON BILL , HMfjrlw ) The Canadian Farmer Has Protection V hpwtf but the American Farmer K R Has None. H"lMK Tbcre is no reason why Canada , Mexi- B jjf co , China , or any other country should B-'S , supply the United States with a sin trie BV jv egg. Canada does not buy a single egg V from us , and there is no reason why wc HKl flL ' should buy from her. When we do , the TbTbTbTbTi VW American farmer loses the beneGt of part L rfmm of his natural market. m m vdB The purpose of this article is to show TBTBTBTl'i BVS a Cw u "res tne benefit which the TBTBTbV w&\ American fanner derived from the Mc- L mmi'Vm ! \ Kinley law ; not merely because the ' * * * * > - ' l * aw stopepd imports from other countries , H bTA'V-W ut because under that law he received ' fflV f - L au averaPO of 1 > cents a dozen for his L L LWmuj LW * csgs nil the year around. Under the TBTBTrJlnV ' present 'Wilson-Gorman bill , he hardly TbTbTB/Ibk / averages u cents a dozen ; and the people H'B could better afford to pay 15 cents a TflTflTflW E dozen in 1S02 , thau they can 5 cents a . < tW dozen in 1S1K ! . K , | ti From 1SS3 to 1S00 , there was no tariff TBTBTBTtlU upon eggs. The Canadian farmer could ' WO eeud * "s ess . s across tue Ulie from Elaine i Mm to California. Mexico. China , France. TBTBTBTf\ AMT Germany and other countries supplied TBTBTbTi ' ' 4 C * • us w'tu 15 , 00,000 dozens of eggs , an- " " " ' Hnr nually. on the average. We paid every B ( -M\ year to the foreign farmer on this small K ' ' 'flr product alone , at 15 cents a dozen , $2 , - B "Wl 500,000. This importation of over 1 , - TBTBTK ' , Hw ' 000,000 dozen a month or 50,000 dozen a Kjj f day was felt , in the way of competition , Hrfihrr by our farmers chiefly in the large cities. V.iM J Farmers enn get the best prices'for eggs TbTBTBbSvw ' am * tucir products in the large cities ; i'fm DUt wuen ew York , Philadelphia , BosH - TBTBTBT H • 'aJB t ° n Buffalo , Cleveland , Chicago , San K' 'fJLw Francisco and many other markets are TBfflLlr Wi supplied with eggs , shipped at cheap " " ' ' ! rates of transportation by water , how Tb TB ; ' JBb'l can tue farmer expect to compete who TbTbm ' ' ' < carT * * as t0 sn'P ns Ggss ' , J" ra ' - • ) ? - e following statement shows inipor- mWm P wlL. tations of eggs , by countries , the year be- 1'vlh * ore tne McKinley tariff went into effect , ' BLm | V f ° r the year ending .Tune 30 , 1SS0 : ; Vuy Vi Importations of eggs , by countries , Julyl , TbTbh ' K f 1S8S , to June 30 , lbhO. A1 - Countries. 1 Dozens. | Value. T : ; ' ? " ' * ? * . / Austria-Hungary 1,52S $3S2 M ! VMSeS Belgium 215.1G4 33,223 iVif China . . . 12G.300 G.425 "ST- Denmark 74,050 11.S99 m mWi' Jmt France 140 99 M1 , M \ Germany 73,355 14,119 fl am * Vm England 4,914 897 PJntfJ > Scotland 4,100 820 Ell CJr'jR Nova Scotia , New mM ; Brunswick and KX > ) Prince Edward Island 3,037,222 481,009 m mWm r Quebec , Ontario , Man- \ kmWW ' itoba Territory 11.731.SG4 1,864,020 B ab British Columbia 975 86 T flC Hong Kong 15,219 7S0 mK Italy 12.4GS 2,078 afHs Japan 20 5 Hir JE Mexico 18.5S7 2.3S0 K' A Netherlands 500 70 B awf Cuba 10,503 154 K ; > tmijL Turkey In Africa a T / > * Total 115.91S.S09 ? 2,418.97G BtT ) ' Tlie next table shows the points at w-lch H 'hifcT these eggs were received : i j , "Wfi AMERICA PORTS OF ENTRY FOR EGGS. ' j. 4k Ports. | Dozens. | Value. V & * Aroostook , Maine I 1,958 . 5277 Hi f Bangor , Maine 540,826 CS.142 V : # Bath , Maine 3S5 35 BBM- - - . . , tm Boston and Charleston , ! X km Wl Mass I 1.93S.2G7 270,990 HvS' ' Buffalo Creek , X. 3T. . . 5.740,946 920.09G i1" Cape Vincent , X. T 9.40C 1,347 fi/jR Champlain , X. Y I S29.S94 125,003 Mfe w Corpus Chrlstl , Texas..I 32 4 W f f Cuyahoga. O I COO 80 kmJ M Detroit , Mich I 437,993 51,314 kmP'M- Genesee. X. Y 735 104 HLrAiKv Gloucester , Mass 15,783 2,342 [ VmV | Huron , Mich lli < 7 1,418 f-TSrm Key West. Fla 1,503 • 154 IPVia Marblehead. Mass 1,729 204 H-Ti New London. Conn. . . 316 33 aBTftl New York. X. Y 392,469 63,845 k B ) Niagara , X. Y 1.412,963 240,086 | ll Oswegatchie , X. Y 1.020,293 141,521 Hk/M Oswego , X. Y 25 5 wm Paso del Xorte , Texas HgR & and New Mexico 18,555 2,376 K mVm'Sm , Passamauuoddy , Maine. 1,122,638 13S.131 KLW ? V } Philadelphia. Pa 5 I HwF - f ' Portland and Falmouth , T' - 'Ml Maine 2,081 3S2 Hj. fJ Portsmouth , X. H 164 18 Mri jr Providence , R. I * 30 6 ffaV't - 'm Puget Sound , Wash. . . 975 86 p.m Salem and Beverly , Kfr M. Mass 4,184 563 Fmmr \ 'aP. Sandusky , 0 720 62 t BL' MF Ban Francisco , Cat 126,300 0,425 mH Superior , Mich 7,704 1,162 V LfA L Vermont 2,250,070 377,407 B LX > aWv Waldoborough. Me. . . . 3,364 485 Ki H Willamette , Or 10,215 507 > \ All other customs dis tricts 1,255 211 ( Total 15.918,809 $2,418.976 F\U- \ It would evidently be impossible for XctL farmers fifty miles in the interior of any TbJf ° tne states bordewng on the Great K - f Lakes , to compete with eggs shipped by TaTr f ) water from Canada. Kll&it The McKinley tariff imposed a duty Hra . % of 5 cents a dozen on eggs. This law Hk&J ? went into effect October 1 , 1890. Dur- 2.1 Ing the year ending June 30 , 1S90 , we * EJS imported nearly 900,000 dozen eggs less B D" " than in the year previous , when there BtFl was no protection. The importation of Hr . JC . eggs steadily decreased until the repeal E ; M of the McKinley law in 1894 , so that H& vM Instead of nearly 16,000,000 dozen eggs fcCvJT being brought into this country , as here- - S' tofore , in 1890-1 we imported S,000,000 HgMl dozen ; 4,000,000 in 1S91-92 ; 3,000.000 Hgll in 1S92-3 ; 1,750,000 in 1S93-4. By 1894 HB nearly $2OX)0,000 had been taken from HR tne foreign shipper , which now went into H Hh the pockets of the American farmer. HH The following table shows the importa- 9 { tions of eggs since 1SS3 : 1 Annual importations of foreign eggs , 1S83- k " mb\ 1895. \ * \ Lm { WJ& Year ending June 30. [ Dozens. | Value. \ km 1&M $ * 1SS3. > . 15,279.0G5S2,0G7,604 ! M f/M/ a 18S5 1G.09S.450 2.476 67 ° Hi (3m. * 18S6 16.092.5S3 ! 2,173,454 BlMntii al8S7 13.930.0541 1,900,390 ko * l alSSS 15.642.861 2.312.47S \ m mVC& \ aiSS9 rri.9is.soQ ! 2,41s97G r 7i. blSOO in,0G2.7nt > j 2.074.fl ] ' > H MrzJi biS9i s.2 ; .04:5 : ! i. 5T. ,9r V IWm 1)1892 4.18S.492) ) 522,240 LW XM blS93 3,2ir .SJl' 382.C17 B- i bl894 1.7&I,430 | 199Sj6 H'l9 C1S93 2.701t,411i 324,133 B * tWm > a Under Free Trade. ? W\ \ b Protected , October 0. 1S90 , at 5 cents per B" ! dozen. B MX c Gorman 3c Tariff. r J\ During the last year of the McKinley BB V ill tariff the only eggs we bought were from BB/l Canada , and from China for the Chi- BBV Ut\ nese. We bought none whatever from BBT m } European countries , as before. Even at- B BL&Tl' 5 cents a dozen the tariff would not be BBBjjM any too high. It simply made a differ- BBwB&kv cace to the countries across the Ocean , orB ' a a"j'ar ! ot e' PPiaff-J B B B iMnBMr mi T ? HcafliSJ ? 3 " ' - b b b HBBbbbbb bb b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b bSiiihi ! Sr y * * iai < ayraww wSWBBMHBKSBBSSi BBBB "What does all this talk about sixteen to one mean ? • ! It means that free coinage of silver will ruin business and close -workshops so that when there is a job for one man there will be sixteen men out of work applying- it. ( I If the McKinley law had been Jet alone , the American farmer in 1S95-G would be supplying nearly every egg in the American market. The farmer 's wife would have felt encouraged to in crease her stock of poultry , on which she depended for pin money to clothe herself and her children. When the McKinley law was repeuled and the tar iff on eggs reduced from u cents to 3 cents u dozen , importation increased 1,000,000 dozen in one year , at an in creased price of § 123,000. Unless the American farmer can see it to be his in terest to vote for McKinley and the restoration of a proper duty on eggs , the Canadian and other foreign fanners will soon again ship us 10,000,000 dozen a year and the price of domestic eggs will continue to decline , as they have done for the last two years. Question. Why Should Democrats Legis late in favor of the Canadian as against the American Farmer ! The American farmer could not sell eggs iD Canada , even if they had no tariff o'i American eggs. There are only a few large cities there , and they are near to the Canadian cheap farms. The half-a-dozen small markets in Canada have a total population only one-quarter as large as that of the city of New York. A few election districts in the city of New York , or in Philadelphia , or in Chicago , afford a better market for American eggs than the whole of Can ada. Yet Canada imposes a duty of 5 cents a dozen on our eggs , while we im pose a duty of only 3 cents a dozen on her eggs. The Canadians have protection , hut under the Wilson bill we have not. A Pointer for Farmers. I remember one instance that bears particularly upon this question that came to me today as I sat here , and that was this : My father came from the New England states upon this prairie in 1837. He told me this instance once : That after sowing a crop of wheat by hand , cutting it with the cradle , binding it with the rake , and threshing it with the ball upon the floor , he put it upon a wagon and drove it to this city of Milwaukee , ninety-six miles away , and sold it here for 46 cents a bushel. This was in the ' 50s , and silver then was $1.30 an ounce. Now tell the silver men to explain to you how it was that in the early ' 50s wheat was 46 cents a bushel , and silver $1.30 an ounce , if the price of silver always carries with it the price of wheat. And when he hems and haws , say to him : "It is not only confined to wheat , but that other commodity you yoke up with silver , cotton ; and tell hhn that for the four years ending in 1845 cotton in the city of New York averaged only 7 cents a pound ; and that for the four years ending in 1S94 the same class averaged S cents a pound. Tell him to explain that to you. That was when we had free coinage and silver was then $1.30 an ounce. He cannot explain it. That one illustration , my friends , utterly de stroys the whole silver heresy. Con- gres ' sman Fowler of'New Jersey. What Stewart Thought in 1894. Senator Stewart of Nevada made a speech in Congress February 11 , 1874 , in which he said : Let everybody know what a dollar is worth. The farmers will then know how to measure the difference in price be tween his wheat in Illinois and the wheat in Liverpool. The wheat will be meas ured by the same standard gold in Illinois as it is in Liverpool and any man can figure it up. But now it is a mys tery ; the whole subject of finance is a mystery , and what do we see every day ? We see those who devote their attention to it making large fortunes out of this " Let us do as all the people of the world have been doing from the beginning measure our values by gold , adopt the standard that all can understand , and get rid of this mystery. Mr. Logan "What does the senator Mr. Stewart I want the standard gold , and no paper money not redeemed in gold no paper money the value of which is not ascertained , no pauer money that will organize a gold board to speculate with it. TVho pays for this gold board ? Who pavs these immense fortunes ? How is it that millions and millions can be rolled up annually there ? Did anybody ever calculate who paid for it ? It comes out of the producers. How do these men exist ? By the latitude which your depreciated currency gives to specu lation and nothing el e. Persons who are f-pecnlating in your depreciated currency are making the mouey , and they will continue to make " it so long as you have a depreciated cur rency. If the farmers would get rich they have got to become skilled in this fluctuat ing currency and make corners and man ipulate the market , and if they do that they cannot farm. ( Congressional Kec- ord. .forty-third Congress , first session , iBBBBlBBBBBiBBBB THE MOR WED FARM Payment of Debts in Debased Cur rency Means Practically Eepudiation. * A NEBRASKA FARMER ANSWERED Fallacy of What is Considered the Strongest Free Trade Argument. The following letter is one of many that are daily received by the Times- Herald. It is supposed to contain the strongest free silver argument that can be addressed to the farmer , and it is used by the free silver orators with im mense assurance of its success : Lincoln , Neb. , Aug. 3. To the Editor : My land is encumbered by a mortgage of $1000 , payable In lawful money November 1 , 1S97. I must pay this debt with the products of my farm. Under ordinary cir cumstances I will be able to raise 1000 bushels of wheal next year. If there Is no change In our financial system , this wheat , at 50 cents per bushel , will pay half the debt. "When the value of a silver dollar is reduced to 30 cents by free coinage a bushel of wheat , without any change in Its value , will be worth a 50-cent dollar. With free coinage of silver I shall , there fore , be able to pay the entire debt with the 1000 bushels of wheat. The burden of paying a debt of $1000 has doubled since I borrowed the money. 1 have obeyed the laws of my country under the gold standard and shall obey them under a silver standard. The opponents of free coinage of silver are appealing to the laborers , the creditors and policy holders to protect their own per sonal interests. If I should fall to look out for my own Interests who will do so for me ? Is there any reason why I should not vote for the free and unlimited coinage of silver ? Yery respectfully , J. W. Binger. The answer is not far to seek. When this farmer borrowed the money it was the equivalent of $1000 in gold. It was the same as if he had received it all in gold § 20 pieces. He could have had it that way if he so desired. Per haps he did , for many such loans have been made. When he expended it he got $1000 in gold equivalent. He probably improved his farm to that extent or bought stock or machinery. In whatever way he used it , unless he burned it up or squandered it , he got value received. The borrowing and lending was a busi ness transaction and the borrower used the money to promote his business in terests. At no time since that mortgage was executed , for few mortgages run over five years without renewal , would a thousand bushels of wheat have paid it. Suppose we had borrowed the money from a neighboring farmer more pros perous than he. That neighbor would probably have to carry something like two thousand bushels of wheat to town , sell it for a thousand dollars , get the money and hand it over to his friend. There have been in the past thousands of such transac tions. In fact , in every farming community there are a few farmers , more thrifty and of better business ' qual ifications than the others , who always have money to lend out of their savings. They get the money from the products of their farms , but they are not loaning those products. They are loaning the money , and since 1879 it has been gold or its equivalent. Why should they not have the same kind of money in re payment ? Is it any wonder that the advocates of unlimited free coinage are charged with dishonesty and thaf silver is called dis honest money , when by the passage of a law a thousand 50-cent dollars will be sufficient to discharge a debt of a thou sand 100-cent dollars ? Such a law amounts to the repudiation of one-half the debt obligations of all the debtors in the United States. When Mr. Binger in the above letter savs , "The burden of paying a debt of $1000 has doubled since I borrowed the monev , " he must remember , if he is stat ing w ' hat is true , that the "burden" is not alone upon him , but upon every other business man who has borrowed money. Merchants and manufacturers feel the same stress of the hard times as the farmers do. It is not because they bor rowed gold and have to repay gold that the. burden is greater , but that their earnings and assets have not turned out as they hoped and expected. Competi tion and overproduction have " affected the whole world , but repudiation is not the proper cure for it. Honesty is the best policy as a policy merely , without reference to its moral p ntv f nations as wellgas forindir { j viduals. A man who has repudiated his debts is never trusted again and is re garded with contempt by all his neigh bors. And so is a nation. A free-coinage law is repudiation , and that it is understood in that sense is in dicated by such letters as the above. For if under free coinage the silver dollar lar is to appreciate to the value of a gold dollar how will the farmer get more of them for his thousand bushels of wheat ? How can he pay his debt any easier than he can now ? No , it is repudiation the silver men want , -nnd repudiation is dishonor. Chicago cage Times-Herald. VALUES DECREASED. Prices of Live Stock Under Republican and Democratic Eule. When we resumed specie pay ment in 1879 our domestic animals , horses , mules , cat tle , sheep and swlue were valued at $1,445,423,002 During the ensuing six years , until the election of Mr. Cleveland In 1SS4 , the values Increased to 2,4G7SCS,924 A gain during six years of Republican rule of ? 1,022,4451SG2 During the ensuing four years until the election of Mr. Harrison In 18SS , values decrease - crease "d from 2,4G7,86S,924 A loss during four years of Democratic rule of 5S.S25.50C During the ensuing four years. until the second election of Mr. Cleveland in 1S92 , values again increased from 2,409,043,418 To. . 2,401,755,008 # A sain during four years of Republican rule of 52.712.2S0 During the last two years , under the second adminis tration of Mr. Cleveland , and under preposed and accom plished free trade and sweep ing tariff reductions , values again decreased from (1893) . 2,4S3,50G,6S1 To the comparatively Insigni ficant total of 1S19,44G,30G Showing the enormous loss In Two years of Democratic rule of GG4.0G0.373 Cheap . Dollars. • • Everything is cheap or dear according to what we have to pay for it. Sunar is cheap at 5 cents a pound , but would be dear at 10 cents. A cheap dollar , therefore , is one that the merchant buys with less goods lhan he would have to give for a dearer del lar. If a merchant now gives twenty pounds of sugar for a dollar , and the dollar lar which he gets is a 200-cent dollar ; and if the 200-cent dollar is a dishonest dollar and ought to be replaced by a 100- cent dollar , worth only half as innch ; in that case , the merchant will give only half as much sugar for the cheaper dollar lar as he now gives for the dishonest 200-cent dollar. That is clear , is it not ? This is precisely what "cheap money" means. Is this what the farmer and the workingman - ingman really want ? Apply this illustration to labor , if you please. The workingman buys dollars with labor. Does he want a cheap dollar lar , for which the merchant will give only ten pounds of sugar ? Or does he want a 200-cent dollar , for which the merchant will give twenty pounds of sugar ? Cheap dollars would cut his wages in half. He surely does not want that , "Oh , no , " says the workingman , "that is not what I want ; but , if dollars were cheap , I would get twice as many of them for a day's work. " "Would you , indeed ? Not on your life. Free and unlimited coinage of silver , at the ratio of 1G to 1 , is simply a scheme to reduce your wages without your know ing it or having an excuse for striking. What good would it do you to get twice as many dollars for a day ' s work if $2 would buy no more sugar , and no more of anything else , than $1 will now buv ? Besides , if prices go up , under free coinage , as they will we admit that does not the workingman know that the first thing to go up will be rents , the next thing will be food and clothing , and the last thing will be labor ? Under free coinage , instead of being better off , the workingman would be worse off than he is now. Think this over , and see what it all means to you and to your little family. Springfield (111. ) Journal. A Question for Farmers. If the volume of silver money controls prices , as the free coiners would have us believe that it does , so xhat the more silver coin there is in circulation , the higher is the price of wheat , and the less silver coin there is in circulation , the lower the price of wheat ; then will some farmer , who believes in the free coinage of silver at 1G to 1 , answer the question : How did it happen that wheat was lower in price in 18D4- than ever before , while the amount of coined silver in the world was greater than ever before ? Illinois State Journal. f > WH I I'll ' IU i FIGURES FOR FARMERS Arithmatic for Wheat Growers Which Neglects Tax and In terest Considerations , * A FREE SILVER MATHEMATICIAN. < Silver Accountants Concede Double Expense in Mexico and As sume Equal Profits. . Warren , Minn. , Aug. G. To the Editor : I enclose comparative slips circulated by an advocate of free silver , which subject I would like your opinion on. If , of course , is intended to catch the farmer who raises wheat , and deductions of this kind have had their influence in this dis trict , which is largely wheat growing. I would like the going wages in Alexico and the rates of interest in countries on silver basis as compared with the gold standard countries. L. Lamberson. The first slip professes to show the net profit to a farmer of raising 5000 bushels of wheat in the United States : oOOO bushels , at 5G cents per bushel.2,800 Expenses $1,000 Freight 800 Interest 200 Taxes 40 2,030 Assumed net profit to American farmer S7G0 The second slip makes a similar state ment of the assumed profits of raising 5000 bushels of wheat in Mexico : 5000 bushels , at $1.12 per bushel $3,000 Expense $2,000 Interest 200 Taxes 40 , . - . . 4 * - - . . -3.040 Assumed net profit to Mexican . farmer $2,500 Reduced to gold 1.2S0 As this assumed profit would be in silver and the wheat would have to be sold upon the gold standard , this skillful accountant reduces this to gold , making the net profit to the Mexican farmer $1280. But to produce this result this accommodating accountant , while con ceding that the expense of raising the wheat would be twice cs many silver dollars as in the United States , as sumes that the profit on it would be the same number of silver dollars as in the United States. As a matter of fact the freight rates in Mexico are higher ex pressed in the gold standard than in the United States , but assuming that they are the same , the American railroad com panies , as soon as they cross the border , require twice as many Mexican dollars to pay a given freight rate as they re quire of American dollars on American territory , so that the freight rate in Mexico ice would be ? 1G00 instead of $ S00 , as our free silver accountant states it. Moreover , interest rates are higher in Mexico than in the United States , if paid in Mexican silver dollars , and more over the interest would have to be paid on twice the number of silver dollars bor rowed by the American farmer , so that even supposing the rates of interest to be the same , the amount of interest would be double , raising it from $200 to $400. Moreover , the equivalent of $40 taxes paid by the American farmer would be $ S0 in Mexican dollars , so that the account of the Mexican farmer , thus corrected , would stand as follows : 5000 bushels at $1.12 per bushel $5G00 Expense 2.000 Freight l.GOO Interest 400 Taxes so so4.0SO $1,520 Reducing this to gold , as in the original statement , the net profit of the Mexican farmer would be $ TG0. exactly what that of the American farmer would be. This is a fair specimen of the illusory and deceptive statements put forth by free silver men to deceive American farmers. Bryan a Grcenbacker. Mr. Bryan is not so much a silverite as he is a greenbacker. He said , on the floor of the House of Representatives in Washington , June 5 , 1S04 : "The issue of money by the govern ment directly to the people gives us a safer currency ( than nutional bank bills ) and saves to the people as a whole the profit arising from its issue. When a bank issues money , you must pay the market rate of interest to get it ; but • when the government issues money , the , people save the interest , if the money is afterward called in ; and they save the principal also , if the money is kept in cir culation. " He asserted that greenbacks "can-be used to pay the expenses of the govern ment. " The tarilT on some of the neces saries of life might be redticed , and the deficit made up .by an issue of money. " Or , if tliis is not deemed advisable , "gov ernment paper can be issued to pay for special improvements ; harbors can be deepened and rivers improved in this way. " ne introduced a bill to issue $70,000,000 of United States treasury notes , with which to inaugurate the con struction of the Nicaragua canal. He further suggested that "we can use any available coin on hand to take up ma tured bonds and reulace the coin so used with paper money. He introduced an other bill providing in this way for the payment of the $2. > .000.000 outstanding 2 per cent , bonds. He did not stop even at that point , but gravely proposed that "government paper should be issued in the place of national bank notes , as they are retired. " His theory of the ultimate redemption of government obligations , as stated by himself , was that the larger the issue of treasury notes , the smaller will be the "coin" reserve required with which to meet them. By "coin" he ex plained that he meant both gold and sil ver , wilfully ignoring the disparity in in trinsic value between the gold and silver dollar. And this is the financier and states man for whom honest and sensible men are asked to ca- * their votes , next No vember ! Bryan Shown to be Uncertain. There is abundant proof that Mr. Bryan is an insincere politician and an unreliable adviser of the people. He was a bolter in 1S03 and in that year , too , he made a speech in which he de clared that the exchangeable value of a dollar depended on something besides a , congressional edict. When Frank Irvine was running on the Democratic ticke for judsre of the Supreme court of Nebraska Mr. Bryan supported a Populist. In reply to a let ter from Mr. Irvine , calling Mr. Bryan'a attention to his unexpected position , the present candidate for President on the Democratic ticket wrote a statement ox his reasons for b/JUn } which contained , the following cool remarks and assur ances of personal and peculiar esteem for the Democratic candidate : I regret that our people cho e for slaughter so deseryhi" a . mail. They ought to have seJe tQ some one of the numer ous Democrats Who Sfc responsible for the falling on * of the Democratic vote. I have spoken to you thus frankly and confidentially , because I feel that you" deserve a better fate than the one which I fear awalt3 you this fall. During the extraordinary sessioD o Congress of 1SD3 , called by President Cleveland , Mr. Bryan made a speech ia which he declared that : While the government can say that a glv a weight of gold or silver shall consti tute a dollar and invent that dollar with legal tender qualities , it cannot fix the purchasing power of the del lar. That must depend upon the law of supply and demand. If the number of dollars Increases more rapidly than the m-ed of dollars lars as it did after the gold discover ies of 1849 the exchangeable value of each dollar will fall and prices rise. Thus it appears that Mr. Brvan " knew what the exchangeable value of a del lar depended on. His change of tune , therefore , is not because conditions have changed , but because he shifts his prin ciples with the varying political breezes , and that he is willing to do anvthing for office. In the spring of 1S92 Bryan declared in a speech made by him on the tariff question that the fall of prices must be attributed To the inventive genius that has multiplied a thousand times , in many Instances , the strength of a single arm and 5 enabled ns to do today with one man \ what fifty men could not do fifty - • years ago. That Is what brought the , / prices down In this country and else- i where. A At this time another change has come J over the spirit of his white house jg dream. He and his fellow Populists ? ascribe the fall in the prices of commodities - - ities * o the fall in the price of silver. ) Mr. Bryan and his associates declared that "the crime of ISTo. " which the News has shown to have been no crime : at all , has pulled everything down with' it. f How can the people believe a man who thus stultifies himself and puts him-a self on both ides of vital qnestions , while , at the same time , he proves untrue - < true to his party associates ? Buffalo News. The Irishman and the Potato Bug. Mr. Tenney ' s story at Madison of the Irishman who swallowed a potato bug and then a dose of Paris green , in the , hope of killing the bug , is very pat to * the political situation. The American workingman swallowed free trade in 1S02. and now. to cure the misery which he has suffered ever since , the Populist J quack doctor is trying to induce him tc 'J swallow an unlimited dose of free silver , ' But if the workingman takes it , he will j find , when it Is too late , that the cure ii J worse than the disease. . \ m \m \ 1 1 i I