Evening journal., 1888-10-18

ciples of prohibition or local option as
their own, to nourish, support and pro
tect The latter party when in the Leg
islature have for a number Of years voted
this way, but never ia so pronounced a
declared il cardinal
This Is what has been
the desire Of temperance men for years
Ito get one or both of the old parties
10 adopt temperance legislation as one
of their planks This being done, the
Sunday school" method of campaign
ing manned mostly by preachers was
abrogated. As a political factor weak
from necessity and to many incongru-
Gus, it has lived its life and filled its
mission when a more powerful support
has arisen TO take its place Admit
ting the above statement TO be fact It
must be apparent that a third party in
Delaware is the outgrowth Of senti-
ment as futile and uncertain in its fabric
as a dream If constitutional reform and
temperance legislation is the real thing
desired more than the who and where.
fore Of getting it, the shorter and more
direct road lies plainly in sight.
What Makes Bread Dear.
New York Tribune.
Bearer bread increases the burdens Of
the working people in very definite and
Ineligible way. To the poor who are
compelled TO buy stale bread or none at
all, the advance of cent per loaf on the
4 and cent loaves is not blessing The
baker who gets $50 loaves ont Of
a barrel Of -four adds by the advance So. 80
to the cost OF the quantity Of
flopr ordinarily used in year for each
person, To G5, 100000 of people, IL an
had TO pay the same tax. il would mean a
new burden Of &i65 500, 900 yearly. TO
those who buy cheaper grades Of tlonr
and make their own bread the tax is not
so great for the advance in the price Of
such grades Of -four has been only about
81 per barrel, Or at the rate Of $50, 900
600 for the years consumption
Somewhere between these two figures
Is the actual Tux caused to consumers hv
the advance in four. Democratic news
papers show disposition to attribute it
entirely to wicked spectators. Others at
tribute it to the grasping bakers and
quote the rem0rks of one at the recent
meeting, that they were bound TO ad.
vance the price Of bread, or people would
think the bakers had been robbing them
all these years when bread was cheap.
The bakers and the spectators have
their share Of the responsibility beyond a
doubt But behind them is the Secretary
of the Treasury, whose anxiety to make
things lively" for spectators during the
campaign has stimulated wild and I'M
natural advance in wheat
III money had not poured out in great
flood for this purpose since the Presi-
Dental campaign has begun spectators
would not have found ii so easy to Dor.
row enough TO corner the wheat market.
That operation takes many millions, and
showed men do not dare to undertake II
unless they are assured that money IS tC
be made plenty, and the banks are to have
large sums to loan, especially at spec
ulativo centres. This year the secretary
made it known early that he was going Il
keep money plenty until after election, anc
he has been doing as he promised. The
money has been SO expended that it ha,
abounded at all speculative centres, anC
the men who gamble in wheat have hat
the lively time they were led to expect
The result is a heavy tax for con
sumers.
But is not wheat really scarce9 It il
not. The last official report indicated I
yield of four hundred and ten to four hun
bred and twenty million bushels, and tn,
surplus brought over was fifty to fifty
five million bushels, while the quantity
required for food and seed would not OK
coed three hundred and forty million
bushels, If the consumption were un
checked That would leave on
hundred and twenty to one hun
bred and thirty-fve million bush
els for export, and the advance il
the price abroad cuts down consumption
in Europe quickly and largely. At presen
foreigners are refusing TO buy wheat a
the rate Of 81 bushel at New York
while the spectators at Chicago and TIN
bankers are trying to sell 1t at $1.10 t,
81. 80 per bushel. This is the direct AM
natural result OF policy which make
things lively for traders, in order to hell
free trade candidate and marty