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Brine jour orders for job-work to
takcaaoe. BatiaraMionsaraataed,aad
work promptly done, aa agreed npoau
Dr. CKay ot Platte Center, baa
bomxht the medical praotioe of Dr. N. A.
William. It ia named that Dr. Wfl
liaawwUlaww to Michigan. Dr.CKay
comes well reoonunended. Genoa Pop-
Taarsasy's BaUy.
Last Thuraday Bight will long be re-
PERSONAL.
L. E. Siesoa waa in Omaha last week.
Miss Laura Burns visited in Osceola
bet week.
J. E. North of Omaha waa in the city
over Sunday.
Ai. Sickly, now of Omaha, was in the
city last week.
Mrs. W.B. Dale of Omahavisitcd.rel.
Columbus gcrurual.
TO THE LADIES.
TOU WANT FALL AND WINTER
DRY GOODS AND I WANT YOUR
HONEY. RESPECTFULLY, E. D.
FITZPATRICK.
Go to Strauss for the beat photo.
ibered by republicans aa one of the
WZDXE8DAT. SEPTEMBER S9. 18W.
great ocoaaiona in Columbus.
Captain Kilian, aa marshal of the
evening, got his bosta together, and
what with the cavalrymen carrying
torches, the footmen with torches, ban
ners, eta, the music of the band, Monroe
The Eepublicai Tarty s State Can
didates. Staple and
Keep yoar aya on Harrick'a new
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LEBANON IDGENoAJ. A AJT.
A,Rcgnlar ineeUngsad Wednesday in ejrt
: W rnw
W. IL NoTPmnK. Bec'y. " !
W1LDEV ijODOENo.M.LO.OFi
. meets xnr-aaj fjiu" s
Pweek at their hall on Thirteentl
street. Vismng nreinreu yj.
w. it. Vf . . . I
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COLUMBIAN CAMP No. S5, WOODMEN OI
the World, meets every ocond andfoortt
1-hDnJarsof the raonth. 730 p. in., at K. of i;
'Hall. Elewmth strept. KnUr attendances
"try dc-irable. and all viniling brethren ",co
. dially invited to meet with us. jana-i j
REOBflANlZEDCIIUKCn OF LATTKR-DA!
Saint, hold regular services every Bonda
,at 2 p. m., prayer meeUng n Webilay evenia
ItUileirciMH.-i.crncrof Nortlirtjeetand Paci
Avenue. All urw cordially invited. f
Minias Elder 11. J. Hudson'. President.!
2KRMAN ltEFOKMEDCIHJKCU.-Snnda
T8chool at V 30 a. m. Cliurch every Sunda
at 10 JO a. m. CliriKtian Endeaor at 730 p. a
Ladies' Aid Society every first Thursday in th
" month at the church. nov-l
dmHtWlirlHHWHIIHHHWM!HHIH:
I Now Look
1 Pleasant. .
I f HAVE BEEN
1 n nTmnintlHl Col-
umbus agents for the
-celebrated
I Eastman Kodaks
1 Price from $5.00 to
I $12.00.
ED. J. NIEWOHNER.
HIHWII1WHIHHHHHNHHII
. 1 GOOD TIMES COMING, j
AN IMMENSE CROPOFCORNj
THE COUNTY, AND AN IMMEN
- . STOCK OF DRY GOODS AT FIJ
: PATRICKS FOUiOW THE CRO
: . Fine job work dono nt Tiie Jouk
. office.
."t Dr; Nautnann, dentist, Thirtoe
. ; street, tf
.. Walking hats, only fiTi cents, at J
' . FilimaVa. 1 j
V Bom, to Mrs. Fred Scofield S
..' J3, a daughter.
'i Dr. T. R. Clark, Olive streetj
pfioe at hiRbte. i
.-! All kinds of goods for sale at;
" second-hand store, tf I
.. . Fred. Williams is attending the t
.. . "university at Lincoln.
" . . A Tam O'Shanter for only 50 o
t . worth $1.25, at J. C. Fillman's. 1
y ' . Some of the pupils in Mrs. Bal
. joom have organized a chorus.
The Cecilian club will meet
: . .Miss Nellie Post Monday evening.
. . . Miss Anna Berger has gone to f
sas City to take medical treatment!
Drs. Martyn, Evans & Geer,i
' three doors north of Friedhofs stot
. '' !-Dr.L.C.Vo8sandC.F.O.Miei
' 'homeopathic phy8icians,Columbus,
--Jlra. J. D. Stires was in Banc
I Wednesday on business for the Eai
SUr.
The city teachers will meet a
'. High school Friday afternoon
o'clock.
Ti;bd Vmat nt TVnncnn vran
""city right early Monday mornifi
baaineBS.
Joe-Kranse and family drove
' from Genoa Thursdsy to hear
worth apeak.
V L-Cfearks Rice' of Los Angeles,
has reoafitly recovered from an at
typhoid fever.
Tfas U. P. Beauty's are bette
ttev ever were. Patronize home.
)
J
Sold all over town. 4
Dr. Gaer moves this week il
baamtifal new residence, just i
OoL WhitJBoyer'a. j
Mrs. G. W. Phillips was rj
Monday morning as not imprcj
well aa she had been.
"Walking hats in all the
atyka at X C. Fillman's. 1
Miss Myrtle, daughter of I
Mrs. Gas Clark ia recovering I
' aariows attack of lung fever.
CC. Hardy was at Leigh if
sad Friday. There is consideral
aaaa bang done in that barg.
For Underwear, H
and Shoes,
j
Weraer Schupbach left
Great Falls, Moataaa, whare
Mot
SUPPLEMENT TO THE
COLUMBUS JOUBNAL.
Wednesday, September 23, 1896.
BRYAN'S INDIA FAE
St Repeated Assertions Concern
ing India Wheat ProTen
False.
HON. JAMES BRYCE SPEAKS.
Denials by Members of the English
Parliament and a Prominent
London Merchant
In tlic speech delivered by William
Tenninga Bryan to the farmers of New
York assembled at Chautauqua, the In
iia wheat fake was revamped by the
, silver candidate for president. The as
sertion made by Mr. Bryan in his
Omaha debate last May that the Eng
lish speculators could drive great bar
tains in buying silver and trading it
for India wheat to the detriment of (he
American farmer was reiterated and
embellished by his fervid imagination
so as to create the impression that the
iecline of silver has made India the
most formidable competitor of the
American wheat and cotton growers.
As usual, Mr. Bryan talked at random
without taking the trouble to acquaint
himself with the actual facts.
The Bee now has the facts and the
Sjrnres that effectually explode Mr.
Bryan's India fake. Over two months
sgo the editor of the Bee directed a per
sonal inquiry on this subject to Hon.
Jamea 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
aw leuer, uuuer uaie oi August l, Mr.
Bryce says:
-You are quite right in thinking that
British merchants gain nothiug at all
from the closing 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 the
silver prices they receive for the goods
they export to India. The export of food
stuffs from India has not. I gather, in
crraaed during the last few years and
Ike closing of the uiiuts has not increased
it Manchester and our manufacturer
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
has been, or is. any bonus or benefit to
British merchants or manufacturers."
This letter has been tippleuiented by
Prof. Bryce with an article prewired by
his brother. J. Annan Bryce. a very
Bromiueut London merchant, who was
for many years a resident of Iudia. Mr.
J. Aunau Bryce says:
For Mr. Itoscwuicr's guidance I have
made up the annexed statement, which
shows in parallel columns the exports of
wheat from the United States. Argen
tine, Itubsia and India up to 1S73 lie
fore the fall in silver and rupee ex
change liecame pronounced. You will
bserve that while the exports from the
United States, Kussia and Argentine are
n the whole increasing, those from In
dia are falling off, and that in the year
1805 the exports from India were the
same as in the year 1877. Of course it
does not do to reason on individual years,
as there may be special circumstances,
SHch as famines, to account for very
snort years, tor instance. Ifcih and
1879 were the years of the great fam
ine in India and 1892 was the year of
the famine in Russia.
Dividing the last twenty years into pe
riods of five years each, you will see that
daring the last three five-year periods the
exports from India have been falling off,
while those from the United States. Ar
gentine and Russia have been increas
mg. although all the while rupee ex
aaange has been steadily falling with
aQver. The figures prove conclusively
as regards Indian wheat, which has
always been the great bogy with the
'Asserican silver man. that the India ex
sort has had nothing to do with the
fall of silver or rupee exchange. The
silver man would be more sensible if he
were to take alarm at the growing ex-
Sirts from Argentine and from Russia.
Bt he could make nothing of the silver
argument here, for neither Russian nor
Argentine exchange depends on silver.
Both countries, during the whole of the
eriod embraced in my statement, had
for the basis of their currency and of
earse foreign exenange an inconvertible
f-aper currency snd not either silver or
"Altogether the facts illustrate the
soundness of Mr. Rosewater's conclusion
that the fall in prices of .commodities is
4ae to more economical production and
transport. In India, in Russia and in
Argentine wheat exports became possi
ble not because the exchange value of
Tspee. the rouble or the dollar fell, but
lecaase railways were built into districts
previously inaccessible. In India the
-providing of railway facilities stimulated
the extension of irrigation. In the
Funjab, for instance, many millions of
acres were brought into cultivation under
irrigation as soon as the opening of the
asilway to Karachi made the export pos
sible. But in Indis there no longer
xemains any large new field to be opened
Wp, and in most of the wheat-producing
stMrtricts which depend on irrigation I
aelieve as much water is now taken out
f the rivers as they can give. Ameri
ca therefore need not fear India much
ia the future, even if silver and rupee
were likely to go lower, which they are
ast."
The statistical exhibit accompanying
wais statement is exhaustive and con
viscing in support of the conclusions
arrived at by Mr. Bryce. In 1873 the
export of wheat from the United States
ts England was 45.791,006 bushels; from
Bssfcis. 47.040,000 bushels; Argentine
aasde no exports and India exported a
Traction over 12250.000 bushels. In 1877
wheat exports from the United States
wsd reached 107.42G.GTiG bushels; from
-Jtsssia. 57,120.000 bushels: from India
95.633.333 bushels; Argentine still had
aw wheat to export. In 1893 wheat ex
perts from the United States had reached
223.818,333 bushels; from Russia. 109.
375.000 bushels; from India, 27.0GG.G6G
.aashels, and from Argentine. 42.000.000
osheN. In 1894 Argentine exiwrted
5.000.000 bushels of wheat to England,
.while India did not increase its export
wrer the preceding year. In 1895 the
wheat export from the United States
iwas 170.333,333 bushel: from Russia,
950333.333 bushels: from Argentine,
42.000.000 bushels; from India, 13,120,
00 bushels.
The average price of wheat in Bom
. pay iroai 1SG9 to 1S73 was $1.20 per
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I was passing tbroogb Iowa some months ago, and I got aa idea from some Iioft. Laughter J An Idea Is the most Important thing that a person can get Into alt head, and we gather onr Ideas frost st
ery source. As I was riding along I noticed these hogs rooting In a field, and they were tearing up the ground, and the first thought that came to ma waa that they were destroying a good deal of property.
And that carried me back to the time when aa a boy I lived upon a farm, and I remembered that when we had bogs we used to put rings In the noses of the hogs, and then the thought came to me, "Why
did we do it?" Not to keep the hogs from getting fat. We were more Interested In their getting fat than they were. Laughter. The sooner they got fat the sooner we killed them; the longer the,
were In getting fat the longer they lived. But why were the rings put In the noses of those hogs? So that, while they were getting fat, they would not destroy more property than they were worth.
ILaughter and great applauseJ And as I thought of that this 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 noses
of hogs. lApplause.l From W. J. Bryan's Labor Day Speech.
bushel, which was equal to the price of
one ounce of silver. From 1870 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, ami from 18S6
to 1890 $1.01 per bushel, although silver
had lteen tending upward. From 1891
to 1895 the average price of wheat at
Bombay was 95 cents per bushel. Had
wheat followed the price of silver it should
have leer only G8 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 1.23G.SS2 biles
and iu 1S75 1.241,520 bales. During
the five years following its cotton ex
txrt was below 1.000.000 bales. In
1879 it was only G41,45S bales. During
the five years ending with 1895 Ihe cot
ton export from India has been steadily
decreasing. In 1S91 it was 1,028,417
bales: in 1892, 954.000 bales: in 1893,
857.771 bales: in 1894, 797,070 bales; in
1S95. G25.000 bales. In contrast with
this the United States exports of cotton
have been steadily increasing. In 1890
they amounted to 5,020.913 bales; iu
1S91, 5,820.779 bales; in 1892, 5.S91.411
bales; in 1893. 4.431.220 bales: in 1894,
5,397.509 bales; in 1895. 0.965,358 :sles.
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 a!ostles
of silver. Omaha Bee.
THINGS TO REMEMBER.
XI ae Points About bllver 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 market.
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.
Fourth That the free coinage of silver
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 he made here.
Fifth That there is not a silver stand
ard country in the world that uses any
gold as money along with silver.
Sixth That free silver coinage will
not create 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-standard
country in the world where the la
boring man receives fab 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 1893. Zanesville Times.
Free Silver aad Degradation.
Labor, today, has reached its crisis.
This is a very simple proposition, to
anyone who looks at it with common
sense and reason, bnt 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
organizations 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 bead against wrong
and oppression, cannot maintain an or
ganization 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 yards
and into slavery in the very mines which
silver men will operate for their own
advantage, at the expense of everyone
in the United States who works for
wages. It will vote itself into bondage
from which it cannot escape in our dav
and time. The statistics of every free
silver country in the world will prove
this proposition to be true.
MM ff KINLETS HOME
A Household Truly Homelike and
Entirely Free from All
Ostentations.
NOTES OF A VISIT TO CANTON.
The House Where the McKinleys
Have Made Their Home for
Twenty-five Years.
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
Sontiuuc to come from all parts to pay
beir respects to the future occupant of
the white house.
Never before have women taken such
an active interest iu 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. and Mrs. Mc
Kinley is homelike, and free from os
tentation. A porch extends along the
entire front of the house, some fine old
trees cast a grateful shade upon the
lawn, and beds of flowers attract the
sight. We step into the softly carpeted
hall, 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 dsy
Mr. McKinley receives news and tele
grams thst are communicated directly
to his residence, of such matters as per
tain to and are of interest to the cam
paign. While he 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 bas been his in
tention to take a short trip to some point
on the sea coast, but he has decided to
remain in Canton. "I have no wish,"
he said, "to shut myself awsy from the
people."
Spesking of the activity of the women
in the campaign, be said: "I am glad
the ladies have such confidence in me."
I was glad to respond: "We do bsve
great confidence in yon, Mr. McKinley,
more than it has ever before been onr
opportunity to express."
"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 sge of
81. she is in excellent health."
Any anticipatd pleasure we may have
had in meeting Mrs. McKinley i more
than realized. Seated in the handsome
parlor, where all lights and colors har
monize prevailing harmony impresses
one first and last in the McKinley home
with some dainty crochet work in blue
zephyr 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 lie the first lady in the
land, now that she is approaching her
zenith, that she is one of the loveliest
women we have ever met. bnt such is
tthe oft-repeated verdict of the many.
At nrst giance we recognize .Mrs. .Mc
Kinley. from her pictures recently taken,
the shining hair parted in the center of
the 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 bis "By the Fireside."
We are lookiug at and discussing pic
tures of Mr. and Mrs. McKinley, when
one of the family, taking up one of Mr.
McKinley, which from the view of the
face shows the deep thought Hue extend
ing the length of the forehead, remarks:
"Mrs. McKinley does not like these she
thinks that line looks like a s-cowl." 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 chnnniii" nerson-
ality, the kindly, genial manner, the
clear, perfectly modulated voice, the
bright blue eye, and clear complexion,
and the fine 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; "bnt I love these,"
glancing at a bouquet of sweet peas on
the pretty table beside her. "Tfie 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
mend, ine magnolias were sent
from the South." As Mr. McKinley
rises, our eyes follow him, and we catch
a glimpse, through an open door, of a
dainty couch in white and gold, and
Mrs. McKinley says softly, "William,
there is a baby asleep in there."
8o gentle is the step on the thick car
pets thst it could not awaken the
lightest sleeper, and holding the great
snowy, wsxen blossoms for our inspec
tion ne says, the recollection, perhaps,
suggested by the thought of the little
sleeper in the adjoining room, "We
commenced our first housekeeoinc in
this house over twenty-five years sgo.
Here our little ones were born snd
passed away, the old home's endeared to
us by many pleasant, hallowed mem
ories The silken flag that adorned the
chairman's desk at the Republican con
vention at St, Louis is draped on one
corner of the piano. The gavel used
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. Barn urn'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-producers, go hand in hand 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 sny
whether or not he "looks like aa anarchist."
FARMERS AND TARIFF
Home Demand Supplies the Chief
Market for Agricultural
Products.
WHERE THEIR INTEREST LIES.
Effect of Curtailing the Purchasing
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 exiortation of other
grain is as a rule trifling in quantity, al
though the very low price of oats for the
past two years, owing to heavy produc
tion and a falling off iu the home de
mand for consumption by street rail
way horses and driving horses, bas 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 muke it
Elain to the intelligent farmer that the
ome market is his 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 vahole 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
productions of the farm.
If we are to have increased borne con
sumption of farm products we must have
labor 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 hare protective duties upon
a large range of foreign-made articles.
This is bo longer a matter of theory,
about which intelligent men dispute. It
was held for a time by the advocates of
free trade that the sunerior intelligence
of the average American workingman and
the superior quality of the machinery he
used 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
by newspapers has put the entire civ
ilized and semi-civilised globe ia close
business relations. Our ingenious labor
saving machines are being introduced
into China and Japan, and no important
imorovement 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 arc
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
our 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 country
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 6oon be deluged with che'an wares
and fabrics from Japan and China as j
well as from the low-paid labor countries
of Europe.
The farming industry Is unquestioas
bly in a depressed condition today, aad
the cause is not far to seek. Look at
the hundreds of silent factories with
their smokeless chimneys, sll over th
country, from Nebraska to Maine, sad
form, if you can, an estimate of th
immense multitude of people formerly
employed in these establishments, who
are now eking out a poor living as best
they can in other vocations, many of
them, no doubt, in farming and gardes
ing. where they have become competitors
with the men who formerly supplied
them with food. If the free-trade move
ment led by Mr. Bryan goes on to its
iiatur.il conclusion, whole lines of in
dustry which have survived the Wilson
bill will be ruined und hundreds of thou
sands of employes uill be thrown out
of work.
The conclusion ought to be plala
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 bavs
sitecial facilities for producing. Tariff
for revenue only means the ruin of tha
farmer, and tariff for protection moans
a well-employed town and city popula
tion, and good home markets fur every
thing the farmer has to sell.
CAMPAIGN NOTES.
T would willingly defend free trad
with my life." said Mr. Bryan in his first
speech in Congress, and as he is uow
defending free silver with his tongus
only it is easy to see to which policy ha
is most devoted.
Democratic orators and organs may
evade the tariff, but the workingmen of
the country cannot, for to them it pre
sents the unavoidable issue of work and
prosperity or idleness and poverty.
While the Popocrat demagogues are
shouting "Down with the rich." tha
Republican party advances with the cry
"Up with the poor," and proposes tha
enactment of measures that will provide
work for the workers and prosperity
for all.
Sam Jones is nothing if not expres
sive. He declares that he would rather
climb a ladder with an armful of eels
tuan to undertake to fuse with the middle-of-the-road-Populists.
The workingman does not wast a
cheaper dollar. He wants steady em
ployment paid for in dollars as good aa
gold.
The simplest way to elect McKinley la
to vote for him. Mr. Bourke Cockraa oa
serrts to his fellow Democrats, and that
remark contains sll the wisdom of all
the ages.
The one Question Bryan never answers
is the simple one, "How about Xrea
trade?"
The Bryan party is made up ef all
kinds of factions, led by all sorts ef
cranks, and if it should get into office it
couldn't work together.
In denouncing wealth the Democratis
organs are consistent with their party,
for it bas done everything it could ta
make the people poor and keep them so.
The Republican pledge to promote tha
free coinage of silver by international
agreement offers the only solution of tha
money problem which good business ssea
can accept, and for that reason eves tha
Democrats among them are working with
the Republican party this year and will
vote for McKinley.
Any Popocrat who believes that Bry.
an can carry Kentucky wbea Palmer ia a
native and Buckner a native and a rest
dent of the Blue Grass state, doesa't
know the Kentucky nature.
It is easy to see from Thomas B
Reed s speeches down in Maine that ha
is perfectly serene and happy. But tbea
he usually feels that way. He was bora
so.
Mr. Bryan errs in saying that it is tdla
curiosity that draws people to his meet
ings. It is lioth interesting and profit
able to study a man who, in this civilized
country in this age of the world, ap
parently thinks that wealth can be cre
ated by legislation.
"What gain would we make for the
circulating medium," asked the lata
James (J. Blaine eightren years ago, "if
on opening the gate for silver to flow
in, we open a still wider gate for goW
t flow out?" Th question is still us
answered and still timely.
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