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r Sk3Scr-s-asRai jXaC .Vf W -? .-- SUPPLEMENT TO THE COLUMBUS JOURNAL. Friday. Oct f. THE MODERN FARMER. IIih Lot Is Improving Faster than That of Other Men. The old-time farmer's boy was not seri ously to Maine for striking out for the city. His pathway of life was not strewn with roses, nor were his days a succession of joyous picnics, lie was compelled to rise early in the morning. long before the lark had ceased from slumber, and bring the cw s from the dewy pasture. He was expected, before he had a chance to sat isfy his morning hunger, to "pail" siv cows; be kicked oxer at least once; feed and groom four !iorse. and carry food :md drink to at least twenty -live head of open laced swine. In the slimmer he was espected to hold ihe handles of a bull tongue plow and tramp adown the rows of corn until long after I he chickens had gone to their uight 1 n'st. In the fall, when the old lior-c power threshing machine came arbund, he stood at the tail end and torked away the straw, while ragweed dust tilled his lungs and clogged the poles of his skin. In the w inter he was cent out to pick stones from the rocky field, anil as he picked, fresh stones sprang up like dragons' teeth to take the place of those he had gathered. He had no time to read, and mighty little for rest. It isn't any wonder he got tired of the business and struck out for the city. Now it different. The farmer no longer I'uiiifi to towu iii his road wagon, sitting on a two-inch plank laid across the top of the wagon, but lie rides in his surrey, his horses arrayed in silver-mounted harness. He sits in u carriage seat to plow his ground, and after his day's work is done takes a walk for exercise. The old-fush-iou-d horse-killing and man-destroying threshing machine has given way to a modern invention run by steam, automat ially fed, which stacks its own straw, afci? tiic-tsuies, ueigbi and loads the grain, while the farmer, sealed iu the comforta ble shade, may watch the operation. His hay is stacked by machinery, and baled by machinery. His water is pumped by machinery. His stock will soon be fed by machinery. He is beginning to put in telephones and order his groceries over the w ::e. The time is near at hand when, instead or being the slave of toil, the fanner will Ik? the man of leisure as well as the man of capital. When that time comes it will be found that the ambition of young men will lie in the direction of becoming landed coun try gentlemen instead of hard-driven, overworked and smothercd-for-air resi dents of the cities. Silver Issue Dead. From all reliable sources it appears that the much advertised 10-to-l camp meet ing iu Springfield. Ohio, was a most con spicuous failuie. The Cincinnati Enquir er keeps up the semblance of a large at tendance and great enthusiasm, but the fuels gathered by other correspondents show that it was a failure that will dam age the 10-to-l fad. Even Mr. Bryan could not be induced to go to help draw a crowd. Most of the other orators for sil ver were conspicuous by their absence. Ei-Reprcsentative Towne of Minnesota, silver Republican, was present, but he had nowhere else to go. (.Jen. Warner was present, but as the head of the silver mine owners' lobby at Washington he is under pay and must put in an appearance. The unfortunate Democratic candidate for Governor was advertised to appear, but lie is not an orator. Ten cents admission was asked in order to meet the expenses, but the collections for admissions are not half the cpe:iscs. The correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch writes that "a wonderful change lias been made locally iu politics by the failure of the silver camp meeting." and that "local Democrats are outspoken in declaring that there was only one way to account for the slim at tendance, and that is that the silver issue is dead." I ndianapolis .Tournal. A Weak Comparison. In his lola spech Mr. I.r.van revived his two p; es of wheat. Suppose, he said, iu effect, ii'-it if all the wheat in the world is eoilc"tcd in two piles, and that one of the piles is btiri.cd, will not the other pile be doubled in value? The same, he ""-lys, is true of money. In 1ST3 (here is the "criiue" nainj the Republican party burned one of the two piles of money, that is the white pile. Therefore, the re maining pile, the gold, has doubled in value. The fanners who heard the speech must have smiled. It was possible to talk such uuiiseuse last jear, not this year. In the first place, the Republican party did not burn one-half of the money in the ountry. That statement is just a plain misstatement. In 1S73 our circulation was only $7."il.iSl.yjU: in 1SJM5 it was $1,-riOU.lhll.0-u. Instead of burning one-half of the niuucv iu circulation, the Republi can party dot bled the circulation, vvh'le. during the same thne. the population fell far short of dcub.ing itself. The money in the country in 1S73 was only $18 per eapita: it was nearlv $.": in lSJH'i. In the fate of the-e f.icts. what becomes of the charge that the Republican p.irtv has burned i ne ef the two piles of money? Isn't it ndicu'oiis? Iowa State Register. The l!tgmisillc Affair. is s.iid the attempted assassination I: of Isaiah 11. l-oftiu. the colored postmas ter of IItigaiisvii'e. Ia.. will be made the basK of an immediate and vigorous pros ecution of .ill who ale connected with the affair. This much is due to the enforte ineut of law. bat in addition the admin istration should take a firm stand against the movement to bovcott colored Hice holders in the South. It is not likely there will be many such appointments, but wherever the.v are made the incumbents should have ample protection. The Gov ernment should not allow itself to be co erced or dic.ited to in the smallest matter by any pan v. faction or class of men. and if anv community attempts to draw the olor line against a postmaster otherwise iu:ililietl it shoal, 1 lie made to understand that the Constitution and laws of the United States are supreme in every part of the national domain. The lric or Cotton Ties. A dispatch from Charlotte, X. C. states that an Illinois manufacturing company offers to furnish the regular flat cotton tie at 70 cents per bundle at wholesale in carload lots, or at 75 cents at retail, and that several carloads have already been ordered for that immediate section. The dispatch goes on to say that last year the price was $l..r0 per boodle at retail and f L35 at wholesale. Thea the Wiltoa- Gorman law was in force and cotton ties were on the free list, but the price was $l-5 per bundle at wholesale. This year we have the Dingley bill and a protective tariff on cotton ties and they are offered at 70 cents a bundle at wholesale. These facts do not seem to work in with the Cleveland parrot cry that "the tariff is a tax." These facts, too. are of themselves a sutlicient refutation of the other free trade falsehood scattered so broadly and so constantly, that a protective tariff fos ters trusts. Last jear, under free trade, there was a cotton tie trust: this year, un der a protective tariff, the trust is broken. An Object Lesson. The tiuancial situation in the Southern Hepublic presents an object lesson which should not be lost upon our friends, the free silver lunatics. Advices from the City of Mexico, iu the words of a recent arrival from that unhappy place, paint "a gloomy pieluic of the future." A young Californian who has resided there for three or four years, and who has held a conspicuous position in a large business concern, states that the decline in the price of silver has practically driven him out of business. He pays that everything has gone up threefold except wage. Ow ing to the tremendous discount on that metal working people are uow scarcely able to earn sutlicient to procure the nec essaries of life. All branches of business are paralyzed and Americans are leaving the country in droves. Merchants who have outstanding accounts and who are compelled to collect them in silver are being put to a tremen dous loss. When this young man left Mexico it -took $2.50 to buy $1 in ex change, a condition which has practically destroyed the importing business, and which is gradually crippling the Govern ment; for as imports decline the revenues of the republic are obliterated. The evolution of a free silver basis in Mexico substantiates everything alleged by the opponents of Mr. Bryan in the last I Iinflul.fifin1 pnmnnfifn tti iMm iwnntpr I I was then said that wages were the last to go up, aud that currency inflation of every kind was injurious to the maesee. This is always tie fact. Capital takes care of itself, Lut labor is always the victim of prevailing circumstances. let it is a strange coincidence that of the several millions of people who voted for William J. Bryau, probably 75 per cent were men who, had his financial theories been put into effect, would have suffered the most. In Mexico the masses are not responsi ble for the financial crisis. The Gov ernment maintains its silver basis with out consulting them. But in the United States, had the free coinage of silver been adopted, the people themselves would have wrought their own ruin. No reason ing man can contemplate the possible re sults of the presidential campaign of 1SJMJ without a shiver. Bryan was defeated, after all, by a narrow plurality. Had he succeeded and had his demagogy and crude theories been put into the form of laws, fifty j ears of good government and prosperity would not have wiped out the damage he would have inflicted upon the nation. If there are any free silver lunatics in this country who still believe that it is safe to adopt free coinage of silver with out the consent of any other nation, they should be sent to Mexico and compelled there to study the frightful results of a depreciated currency upon the welfare of the common people. San Francisco Post. Free Coinage of Freight Cars. The free silver leaders have contended that what is needed is an increase in the volume of money; but that does not seem to be the trouble just at present. What is needed is an increase in the volume of freight cars. The Chicago. Milwaukee aud St. Paul road is trying to borrow five thousand cars from some of the Southern roads to enable it to handle the traffic offered to it. Unless it is able to get the cars it will have to lose considerable busi ness. At present it is using all the cars available ami is unable to keep up with the demand from all points on its lines. The situation is lccomiug serious, not only with the St. Paul, but with the North western, the Burlington, Rock Isl and. Atchison and all the other Western and Northwestern roads. They are sim ply unable to handle the traffic ordered. All the roads report that not only are they deluged with grain traffic, but west-bound merchandise is offered in great volume. What is needed then is a little more free coinage of freight cars. Kalamazoo Tele graph. Have a New Opportunity. Democratic orators who last year were trving to convince the public that the clique of financiers in Europe whom they vaguely denominated "money power" were responsible for the adoption of the gold standard by all the intelligent na tions of the earth, will now have an op portunity to make an equally interesting and equally reasonable assertion by charging up to the gold power the failure of the crops all over the world. It is just as reasonable to charge the destruc tion of Argentine crops by grasshoppers to the money power as it is to assume that the money power could influence the leg islation of a great nation on that most important question of its policy, the cur rency. Wheat to Brine Golden Dollars. While our wheat production is very large this jear. our home consumption is increasing with returning prosperity and we will have to hold the major part of it for our own people. It is estimated that we will have in the neighborhood of I'OO, ( 10.000 bushels for export, which means not far from tMMl.OOO.OOO golden dollars to be distributed among the farmers. Absurdity Is Made Clear. The recent statements of Statistician Mulhall. in which he shows that the prai rie States are the most proserous sjMtt upon the face of the earth, make clear the absurdity of the effort which was made by the silver orators last jear to induce the people of that section to adopt cheap money as a basis of further prosierity. Threats Not Carried Oat. It is not observed that the countries which were making that terrific protest against our tiew tariff three months ago are putting any of their implied threats into execution. They know uow what they knew then, that the balance of trade was in their favor, aud that they could not afford to carry out any of their threats. Had to Have an Issue. People who are surprised that the three anti-Republican conventions in Xebraska decided to again advocate free silver should remember that they had to have something for an issue. Of course the Democratic tariff theory was too unpopu lar to trot out again, as also the other di lapidated fads of the Democracy. W --C-jrauMPtwKfcawa i aiFs5-l3aiJl saw " tJ s fcCmJH nFviWltTH.lL a LgJr ,C9 rTniirSiflM '' BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING. THE Bureau of Engraving and Printing, situated at the corner of II and Fourteenth streets southwest, is 200 root long. 135 feet wide and constructed of pressed brick, fireproof throughout, only doors and window frames being of wood. The north facade facing the city comprises a basement aud three stories surmounted bv an artistic cornice, broken by three pavilions at the northeast rising into a belfry tower 130 feet high. The south facade overlooking the Po tomac river is uroKcn oy several umum-js oi arcimeciurai designs. 1 no west carries off the fumes oMhe hardening rooms aud is built of massive walls to resist the action of the fumes of the acids used in hardening the plate. The elevator towers are of beautiful designs. The stack from the boiler rooms in the rear is 100 feet high. The plate vault containing all the engraved plates of the Oovcrnuieiit is guarded day and tificatc? and bond? issued direct by the SOUTHERNS CONTROL. Cringing Xortbcra Mudsills Not in Management of the Party. Senator Jones of Arkansas, the boss of the Democratic party, appears to be a ready letter writer. He recently sent one to the Democratic State Committee of New York, in which he declared it would be "impolitic" to indorse the Chicago plat form. But he has written other letters. For instance, one was produced yester day in which he urged an entirely differ ent policy from that he advocated on Wednesday. The letter in question was written to James O'Brien, formerly .sheriff of New York, and in it Mr. Jones said: I sincerely hope that genuine and Io.vhI Democrats get control of the organization In your State. It occurs to me that It would be wise for a State convention to be assem bled next fall for the purpose of making the one nomination needed and to organize the machinery of the party; but of course I nave no connection with your State organisation and don't know Just what -would be proper for me to say or do in that connection, or whether I should say anything at all. The result of this veering around is that the Bryanites are incensed with Jones and are saying ugly things about him. Xevcrtheless Jones is the boss of the party, and feels that it is within his province to go around with the wind and generally do as he pleases. For Jones is from the South, and the South is in the Democratic saddle, and as faithful and subservient creatures of the South, the Democrats of Xew York obey his orders. As "The Journal" repeatedly has declar ed, we are going to see history repeat itself, and find the Democracy of the Xorth again the pliable, submissive, cring ing tool of the South. In his speech at the fair grounds recently. Senator Tillman de clared that this condition of affairs must be brought about, and the dexterous speed shown by the Democratic State Com mittee in obeying Mr. Jones instructions proves that the Democracy of Xew York, in spite of the decadence of national lead ers, is prepared to resume its old position, and to come at the beck and call of the South. Albany Journal. Xot Controlled by Silver. Russia's exports of grain, according to the latest advices, have amounted to only about 05 per cent this year of those of 1S00, the total of all kinds of grain amounting to 143,000,000 bushels during the first eight months of the present year. When there is added to this fact the ex treme shortage in the crops of this .vear. it is apparent that Russia will do little if any exporting and supplying the markets of the world, to which India, Australia and Argentina will contribute little, if anything, thus leaving the United States the chief food supply of those sections which have to go outside their own terri tory for grain. This accounts for the ad vance in the price of wheat, and sustains the claim of the Republicans in the last fall campaign that the prices of wheat de pend upon supply and demand, and are not controlled by or related to the use of silver. Straws from the Pos office. The records of the Xew York postofflce show that nearly ten thousand more do mestic money orders were paid at the general office in the first two weeks of August this year than in the same time last jear. These money orders have, without doubt, in most eases been sent to pay for goods ordered from Xew York merchants by persons living elsewhere. This means that nearly ten'thousand peo ple who were not buying goods from Xew York dealers iu August last year are buy ing this year. Straws show which way the wind blows, and this is one of the straws which mark the coming of what promises to be a hurricane which will sweep the country into such prosperity as will give the devoted band of free traders bad dreams for many a da v. Why They're Paying Mortgages. It seems now that it is the poor fanners who are being "intimidated." Last fall the Popocrats assumed that the working men were professing friendship for the Republicans because they feared dismissal if they did not, but the election showed that there was no foundation for this as sertion. Xow Mr. Bryan says it is last year's threat of foreclosure that is lead ing the farmers to pay off their mortgages. Failnres Have Deer ase t. Business failures in the United States: Second week September. 1SD7 mjq Second week September. lfeUG 313 Second week September. 1S95 218 Second week September, 18JM 218 Second week September, 1803 340 Haaliag Down the Silver Flag. More than local significance attaches to the refusal of the Democratic State Com mittee of New York to revive the free silver coiaage issae for ase ia the ao- night by trusted .nvvrninent are printed 1 here. proac-hing State campaign. Despite the air of ingenuousness given to the commit tee's discovers" that it was clearly with out authority to write a parly platform, its failure to express last Wednesday even the smallest opinion on public questions bears all the earmarks of delilicrate and studied policy. Moreover, the plausible excuses for dodging a reaffirmation of the Chicago platform so obligingly furnished to Senator Murphy by Chairman Jones of the Democratic National Committee fail wholly to obscure the main fact that the Democratic organization in the foremost State of the Union practically hauled down the silver flag when, by a policy of inaction aud silence, it committed itself to conducting a State campaign on lines which virtually ignore the declarations ac cepted a year ago as Democratic faith by At tional convention at Chicago. "PROVIDEDANDfF.,, Stand in the Way of that Siler and Bank of England Story. What the Bank of England proposes to do about silver was formally and authori tatively seated yesterday at the semi-annual meeting of the bank by the Governor, who read a letter he had written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, stating, in substance, that the bank was prepared to do what it was permitted to do by the bank act of 1844, that is, to carry one fifth of the reserve against its notes in silver, provided, however, that the French mint is again opened to the free coinage of silver "and that the price at which sil ver is procurable and salable is satisfac tory. The Governor went on to say that the bank had bought no silver, and all that it had agreed to was to do what is per missible under the act of 184 1, on the con ditions he stated. This is some slight en couragement to bimetallists. but not enough to excite them. Louisville Com mercial. The Silver Missionaries. Senators Cannon and Pettigrew are in Japan, where they propose to interview the emperor on the silver question. Pos sibly they think the etuperor has not heard of the fall in silver, or if he has, that he wi'l be unable to resist their wonderful eloquence, and so will immediately coun termand all orders looking to the estab lishment of the gold standard in his do minions. The manner in which these silver apos tles are wandering around the world seek ing to gain some support would be pitiful if it were not for the fact most of them are greatly interested in mining and are seeking to foist a depreciated metal upon the world, in order that they may profit personally. Pettigrew aad Mantle. Nobody has called attention to any great anxiety on the part of the public to know the result of the interview of Senators Pettigrew and Mantle with the Mikado of Japan on the true cause of the demoneti zation of silver. The fact is, cverybody except Pettigrew and Mantle understood all about it before they left, or if they did not they could easily have learned it by an examination of the official report of the director of our mint, which shows that the Japanese silver yen, which in 1887 was worth 75.3 cents, had, by July. 1807. dropped to 47.8, while the gold yen hail not changed a particle, the prices of 1SSS and 15J7 being precisely the same, !H.7. Iowa Democracy and Gov. Boies. The Democratic party in Iowa is not content to lose the alliance of the other anti-Republicans of the State, but by its latest move it has ostracized the Boies element. The venerable "Uncle Horace" saw tit to advocate the adoption of the commercial ratio between gold and silver, aud base free coinage thereon, instead of 10 to 1. He insisted upon it. There upon the leaders ordered him to the rear, lie is no longer allowed to go to and fro up and down the State preaching the gos pel of free coinage at 30 to 1. Chicago Inter Ocean. Slaking Our Own Tin Plate. The free trade theorists are not huntin:: up just now their assertions made when the McKinley law was enacted, that 110 amount of protection would enable the United States to make its own tin plate. Not only is the bulk of our tin plate now being manufactured at home as a result of that protection thus given, but our manufacturers of that article are actually invading foreign markets. Sick or His Own Medicine. The Ohio-mau-afraid-of-his-platform is now presenting a curious spectacle. Two months ago he crammed free silver, aud free silver only, down the throat of the Democratic party, and now be is as sick of the dose as were the other people. Bat he can't get rid of it now. He baa made his bed, be most lie in it. All greenbacks, silver ccr BRYAN REVERSES HIMSELF. Impertinence and Effrontery that Would Shame u Street Fakir. A year ago W. J. Bryan was traveling back and forth across the American con tinent decluriug that the law of supply ami demand had nothing whatever to do I with the prices of American products, and that the only hope for advancement out of the condition of industrial prostration was through the free and unlimited coinage of silver. Now he is campaigning among the same people with the unreserved declara tion that government policies, legislation, financial systems, etc., have nothing what ever to do with the price of products, but that they arc governed solely by the law of supply and demand. It would not be so bad if Mr. Bryan re mained content with reversing himself. But with an impertinence and effrontery that would make a patent medicine fakir ashamed of himself he proceeds to reverse all of the American people who did not agree with his liigbpopalorum theory of a year ago. Everywhere and upon all oc eations the Republicans insisted during the campaign of 1S06 that the price of products was governed by the law of sup ply and demand. Xow Mr. Bryan is driv ing to make it appear that the Republi cans have abandoned their contention of a year ago and are claiming that the ad vance in the price of wheat and corn is solely due to Republican legislation and not t the operations of the law of supply and demand. This is false and Mr. Bryan knows it is false. Because lie has come Iover on to Republican ground is no rea son why he should seek to drive the Re publicans on to Populist ground which he hasAi'Joncd. Kansas City Journal. .Vasts and Free Trade. TJnder protection, when business thrives and confidence reigns, men do not wait long to compete with, and break down, a trust which charges exorbitant prices. Under free trade, when business is para lyzed and confidence blasted, men do not put their money into new enterprises, and consequently those who are already estal lished in any business have things all their own way with what business is left to them. They have no fear of competing rivals to kill their trade when thcjlcmnnd is light. The cotton tie trust acted on this knowledge, and the result wa $1.35 per bundle for ties which they are willing to sell to-day for 70 cents per bundle. It is time for the free traders to drop their cry that a protective tariff fosters trusts; not because the facts are against them -that is never any reason for a free trader to drop a charge but liecause the facts are getting too well known to let the lie go longer undetected by the people at large. A Marked Contrast. What a marked contrast exists between conditions in the United States to-day and those of the corresponding period of Presi dent Cleveland's last term. Four years ago, with a low tariff staring the manu facturers of the country in the face, busi ness was going to everlasting smash, banks breaking, railroads going into the hands of receivers, factories closing, ami workingmen thrown out of employment by the hundreds of thousands. Now hun dreds tif thousands of vvorkiiigntcii are finding additional employment, railroads are ordering thousands of new cars to meet the demand upon them for trans portation of manufactures, meeliandi.se and grain, the banks report larger deposits and larger clearings than iu many years, and instead of silent factories, there are clouds tif smoke and the hum of busy v heels everywhere. The Shipping Question. Shipping is the one industry that Eng land protects: shipping is the one indus try that the United States does not pro tect. Last year the total tonnage of new vessels launched by Great Britain was over a million tons: the total tonnage of new vessels launched by the United States was less than one-fifth tif that of Great Britain. No wonder England is mistress of the seas. It certainly is high time for us to take a lesson from England and to protect our merchant marine, and so dis pute with England her control of the carrying trade of the world, as we are already beginning to dispute her suprem acy in the markets of the world iu the sale of manufactured products. Protection in the South. The growth of protective sentiment in the South, shown by the election of Sen ator McLaurin in South Carolina, is no surprise to those who have studied the situation in that section. The Xew York Sun, whose editors scan the political hori zon pretty closely, in a recent article points out the growth of Republicanism in that section, and says it is to be an im portant leld for the party in future. watchmen. ONLYA MINUTE. It Doesn't Take Long to Rem Snap-shots. Advices from Mexico show that states men there arc urging steps looking ltlu adoption of the gold standard. Mr. Bryan is so busy studying SroaisSt that he h is not had time to vxpiaia tfcr advance in the price of wheat. Ex-Candid.itc Bryan, in an article ia Uxr Xew York World, says: "Those wW favored free coinage may be wrong. Gsol it be possible, Mr. Bryau 'i The advance in the price of wot-J asn sheep will soon bring back to the tunacc the 75 million dollars loss in the valuer" sheep vv hich befell them under the Wihutts law. The more the coal strike is studied ti more apparent it becomes that the redac tion in coal tariff by the Wilson law b responsible for the low wages which, caus ed it. If any hotly croaks about the light re ceipts in the first month of the Din:rfc-. law, remind him of the enormous importa tions of the months which preceded itsee uctmeut. Did Mr. Bryan demand that ?I.5 h is to get for his Ohio speech in "gold con of present standard weight aud fiuenes"r That is the habit of his masters; why im Bryan, too? The fanners are too busy to lis tea t free ilv er speeches now. That specir (.e pastime may do for free trade times Iilc those of the past three years, but ntrt Ban der protection. It now takes two ounces of fine sitver to pay for a bushel of wheat. One year ago one ounce of silver was eqaivaleaC in the markets of the world tuiustahoBtotfe bushel of wheat. "Comrade McKinley" was eerdiaI unvtcd by the old soldiers at Buffsl. lie is the first President who served ia Uw. . 'jUs as a private soldier and will prohrv ' iy be the only one. Why don't Professor Debs and his as sociates call on the framers of the son law to help out the miners 2 It clearly- the reduction of the tarisv caused the reduction in th-miners' i Oh, by the way, have the Ohio and Iwi and Maryland and Kentucky and ffc braska and Xew Jersey and New Teat Democrat forgotten about the tariJTi They seem to- be strangely silent t te subject. Advices from abroad show that the for eign rye crop is as badly off as th- wl crop, and as ry e is largely used for I in European countries, this devcIopaiCT" indicates a still greater demand for Aart ican wheat. The calamity siiriokers of last year atar not told the farmers yet how it is tksT wool and wheat have advanced 5 per cent iu price since their shrienjs- X lssc year while silver has meantime iaowstrt ously fallen 25 per cent. The British gold I nigs again have tlw American farmer by the throat. This tin-.-it is in the shape of 450,000 English) asr ereigns, or over $2,000,000 coming ial San Francisco from Australia ia ex change for American wheat. With an increase of 50 per cent ia tbe value of wheat in the past year. and a fat? of 25 per cent iu the value of silver jurasi time, the gentlemen who were fxptsiiss the wheat and silver theory last jtarvrjt. uow seeking for new occupation. Professor Wilson does uot seexo l aw much in demand as a campaign alr among the Democrats this year. Hr. name is a little too suggestive of the lu cent bitter experiences tif the wuffiir -men ami farmers of this country. The old Democratic "gag" aboat i creased prices under the new tariff law ! not being heard this time the reas i that the average Democrat knows that. protests against protection are not hmgr" popular with the people of this country. One remarkable development uf !! opening months of the new tariff taw i the general gratification with which it I accepted ii respective of parly. Kira tfcc Democrats are omitting the usual talL. about, increase iu prices under the a- law. "Because it is my deliberate judgxnim' that the prosperity of America is maiacr due to its system of protective laws. ? urge that Germany has now reached tfe lioint where it is necessary to imitate tlit tariff system of the United State." -Bismarck. With several shiploads of gold oaaarorr in at the western iorts from Kloadikr-, others from Australia, and many atort coming in at the East, in paymat fr their golden grain, the farmers are spending much time listening to freesOKtr specches this fall. That little group of despairing states men who sailed for Japan some week ago in search of the true fact with nfer ence to the demonetization f s&rrr b that country have not yet favored tke people of the United States with the iv suit of their investigation. The continual fall in the value of siliee is causing great distress among the Iahsr ing people of Mexico. The dollar in whiek they are paid is now worth only 40 ceats and they get only about half as ittaay r them for a given amount of work as workingmen in the United Swtes. The calamity orators- are in troafefa again. The retent statement of the coh (lit ion of the national banks of the United States shows the individual deposits tole the largest in their history, amounting to the enormous suni of $1.770.4SO.5Kft. If this i.; McKinley calamity, let's have ator of it. "Blessed is the country whose soldiery fight for it and are willing to give the best they have, the best that any man ks. their own lives, to preserve it, becaasr they love it. Such an army the Unite States has always commanded in all her history." President .McKinley at Buf falo. Get Good Money Tor H'hewti- The farmers are now getting just ti and a half times as much for w heat aMr Bryan and his followers promised tht-n if they adopted free coinage. Tbvy prom ised $1 per bushel for wheat in silver dol lars, and admitted that they didn't kaew what the silver coins would be wart. They are now worth 40 cents under frre coinage. while the farmers are getting two and a half times that in good American 100-cent dollars. Exchange. Xot a Safe Money Metal. A fall cf 20 per cent in value in a ssssw nie'al in ten months would seem to war rant the belief that it is not very safe ae a money metal.. Yet that is just the fast in the value of silver since last X It was worth t5 cents per ounce i York on Xov. 3, 1800, and is worth 1 51 rests to-day.. aagr. r. gaivan-1 n J i l.-
