Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-10-03
LANcAsTER. WISCONSIN. THURSDAY. OCTOBER ; SIS


quarter OF cent of the value Of gold
and silver and there il sticks, steady
as the level of your lakes. Why. Ii
four months, in FIVE months, the vari.
atoms of the currency has not reach
ed more than the fraction 81 j cent.
Then we have a better currency.
THE BALANCE OF TRADE
But perhaps mars Interesting Ii
you as farmers, il tho condition ii
our export and import trade For
five years before tho panic ho BAL
ance Of trade against the United
States aas 100000, 900. That is 10
say We bought of these mon acros.,
tho ocean 100000 more than
we sent them, aud balances have 10
DO made up in cash. How ia il now /?
Why last year, the baianca OF trade
~ oar favor was S257, 000, 900 -more
than ever before, and as an average
for three yoars past, we gained be-
tween three aud four hundred mil
lions Of dollars, as compared with
tho period next before the panie.
And bow does that come ? Then
we sent between two ana three hun.
dred millions Of dollars of agrioultur-
al products abroad. We ar5 sending
living animals, we ara seuding bread
and breadstuffs-that means wheat
largely and corn. We are sending
leather We are sending some man
ufactnred goods nover cont abroad
before. We are boating them with
our watches 10 Paris, and sending
watch-works actually up to the shops
where they make watches in Switz
efland, because we do il better than
they do.
We are gaining Their, my friends,
IN this whole business between us
and abroad. Now am not here To
discuss the question of the balance
OF trade--a very abatrase matter
economists diffor about that. But
taere ls ono thing we do not differ
about. Ii is a good deal better to
have hundred millions on our side
than against rs That we under
stand, and that is tho way it ia TO.
day. Now tins encouragement and
the hope that would draw from all
these facts is that we are getting
along to
BETTER AND BETTER TIMES.
And on this journey of ours to the
West We have learned an9ther fact
that | had not got into my prepared
budget of material when left Wash.
layton, and that is this: East Of The
mountains there are great many
people ont of employment not half
so many out of employment that
really want work as they pretend,
but thero are great many. Now
they said to us that all the good
lands ia the United States we're ta~
ken up-there were no more left. We
have got now to support ourselves
as they do in Europe, on what we
have got. Well, we have been out
there we have been clear out there,
nesrly into the center of the Ameri
can Desert; and right there 10 the
center of that desert Mr.. Dairy pie
took Ms at trot and q gallop in his
buggy around for about an hour and
half through IL 900 acres of wheat
field which had averaged this year,
twenty -four bushels to tho acre Of
first class wheat Cheers and that in
the dascrt [Iaughter1 and the land
cost them, / am told about one dol
lar an acre. Now what is the trou-
bic? Is it that they have not room
enough? The world has laughed q
great deal at Mr.. Greedy for favor
lite phrase of his, Young man, Go
WestP but Mr.. Greedy was wiser
than those that laughed at him.
There is good sense in that. Every
thousand people that go West make
it just that much easier for those
that are left at tho East to got en-
ployment. and when they got West
they build them homes. They want
carpets they want furniture they
wans every description of supplies,
and they give just init much moro
employ ment to the manufacturers of
tho east. And that is not all. They
60 to work and they raise their
twenty-four basbels of wheat TO the
acrc, and help feed those men at the
east, and so the movement of popu-
lation that is now going on moro
rapidly than ever before in this
country, to Teyas in the south. to
Kansas 10 tho center, to Dakota and
Minnesota in the north, is steadily
helping US on TO that period of bet
ter times oil which | think we arc
now on the threshold.
REMEDIES FOR HARDTIMEs
And now, my frisnda, may talk .
little OF my own convictions as TO
remedies that arc proposed for these
hard times ? [App,ause and cries Of
'Go on Go on n do not like to
mingle in nero partisan discussions,
and I do not propose to but | have
some friends rho tell mo that after
all, our trouble is that our currency
is not cheap enough, and that it will
not stay at home. 1t goes abroad,
and therefore they tell me that they
want carrency that is 80 cheap
that it is better Tor us than That cost
ly currency gold and silver, and Of
such quality thatit will not go away
[Laughter.] Nov that is a very de.
sirable quality in currency. You have
all found it SO. Ii you can keep it,,
it il good thing. Lot rs talk about
that litlle. First, the chaapness
of the currency. They toll mo what
they wish is this; the United Siates
ought to say Che speaker holding M
a piece Of paper the size of o dollar
bilD This is one dollar anywhere in
the United Slaies, by act of congress
- piece of paper about the siza Of
that, probably. OF course we do
not want to counterfeit it, / am
afraid it would not be . great while
after it was Issued that nobody
would want to counterfeit IL. Lang
tori But, that in order that il should
be IS good as possible, we would
print it on good paper--the people
are accustomed TO good paper they
wouii have 1t look ike q national
bank note, or q grsenbaek-good