The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-02-10

communion. There are cases of leprosy
and smallpox and a vast variety of uu-
slightly and contagious diseases in hos
pitfalls, but we do not take our families to
see them. There are in by streets and
alleys nightly Genes which furn .sh food
for earnest reflection to the reformer and
s~oeiologist, but if we can help it our chill
dren never hear of them. We become
the willing victims of the plumber to keep
sewer gas out of our houses, and the
newspaper, under the guise of faithful re-
porting, with picturesque and attractive
de ails, has not the liberty to bring all
these thing into our homes. It is often
said that there is enormous profit in min
lsterlng % the depraved and debased ele-
ments in human nature, and that the
papers which refrain throw way fortunes.
L do not believ' it, if the paper has come
to stay. The witches and scorpions and
ali their brood are VIGOROUSLY short lived
unpro6 able. The family is the unit of
society, and no matter what its head may
be, he does not introduce or tolerate in
that circle any element which he believes
will destroy 1t. Without the family sup
port no newspaper can survive, and that
journal will have longest. the largest
pro62s and the greatest influence, which
as far as possible admits to it's columns
only such matte a. its editor would freely
narrate at his own own t tble = auncsy
N. Depew.
There must surely be some important
legislation on the silver question by this
Congress. The diff ;ulties attending such
legislation will undoubtedly be confned
to details. A great revolution has taken
place in the minds of the people on the
money question, and especi ally upon the
silver question. On that question they
are now practically united. The question
Of an adequate and fixed volume of legal
lender money will SOON follow, az no
public man can stand long in the pathway
of either. The people have for many
years felt that something was wrong
somewhere. That there was some cause
why, with increased Toll and economy,
the end Of each year found them poorer
than at its beginning, and n various ways
they have appealed to their representa-
tiVes for relief. American producers now
know, if their representatives do not, that
that cause is a lack of sufficient money to
pay fair prices for the vast products of
their industry. They know, if some Of
the great newspapers Of the country do
not, that while importing countries can
buy silver bullion at a discount and then
coin it at it's full value for use in In
dis, Egypt, Russia, and other silver using
countries, that the price Of American pro-
ducts will be deprecated in competition
with the products of those countries in
exact ratio to the difference between the
price paid for silver bullion and is coined
in the countries where it Is used, which
value the pas few years has amounted to
about thirty per cent. England has been
the chief gamer by the demonstration of
silver. She coins the money for India
and Egypt. She must import .wo thirds
Of her bread, food AMI provisions, or her
people would starv-. The manufacturing
and handling o. cotton is her second most
important industry. We raise near three
quarters of all the cot on raised in tie
world. She has saved, and Americ; n
cotton and wheat producers have lost, on
an average more than $l25, 000, 900 Oh
those crops during each of the seventeen
years since silver was ~demonetized in
1873. Many maps have been published
in commercial papers of Europe showing
how absolutely the price of wheat and
cotton in the world are governed by tie
price of silver. when it IS treated as a
commodity. We need not look back but
a few months, OF ever weeks, to prove
this statement by our own ex oerience.
For some time after the passage of the
silver act of July II, 1890, and while sill
yer bullio1 was selling at from 81 Is to
$1.20 per ounce, the price of cash wheat
ranged at aSou! 81 per bushel ia Chicago,
AM cotton at about IL cents per poundto
its producers. Whel silver declined to
81 per ounce, wheat declined from Is to
l8 cents per bushels and cotton from 8
to 81 cents per pound. Now, the loss Of
Is cents per bushel on a 400, 000, 600 bush
Ell crop of wheat as is our estimate for
this year, amounts to $50, 900, 900 t. its
producers, and a loss of II cents per
pound, or Is cents on 10000 bales, or
$500, 100000 pounds of cotton, also
amounts to 100000, 900. The Price of all
American products that come il compe-
tition with the products of silver using
countries show a similar fate. What q
commentary on American craftsmanship
to have permitted or to still permit such
conditions to exist. Who can estimate
the suffering the absence of this vast
amount of money has brought about, or
the happiness am prosperity its expendi-
ture here would have offered the Ameri-
can pc ople and their industries? It is
disgusting to hear people talk about this
effort to remonetize silver being a move
ment in the interest of silver producers,
when such recent events prove that by
the decline in silver the loss on either
wheat or conton has amounted to more
than the value of the entire yearly pro-
duct Of silver in this country. The Sec
rotary in his report says, that the small
amount of surplus silver aAoat in this
country enables spectators to control its
price, aud yet it is proposed that he shall
be a year in buying up that small surplus.
Why Is it to enable these speculations
to be continued during another year, and
thereby control the price and rob Ameri-
can farmers out Of their just dues on an
other crop ? No other logical reason can
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