The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1892-09-30
MIR. Sarf,s Hard Ones.


correspondent Of this paper, and offers
''some very hard nuts for Reader to
Crack he says. Like all of the
calamity arguments adduced by our
third party friends they are principally
founded on falsehoods and misstate-
ments. He starts off with bald assert
ion, which history and the personal ex-
perience of every man who was living in
TINS country 40 or 90 years ago knows to
be falsehood, when he says:
Il remember our grandfathers being prosper
Gus farmers No thoughts Of poverty or distress
invaded their peaceful breasts. The thought of
| foreclosure Of mortgage never troubled their
minds.
| Colon's Life of Henry Clay Vol. l.,
/ speaking of the distress caused by the
repeal Of the tariff and the financial crash
which followed in 1887 says:
Property Of every description was
parted with at prices that were astound-
ing, and as for the currency, there was
scarcely any at all. In some parts of
Pennsylvania the people were obliged to
divide bank notes into halves, quarters,
elghts, and SO on, and agree from necessi-
| ty to use them as money. In Ohio, with
all her abundance, it was hard TO get
money to pay taxes. The sheriff of Mus
klngum County, as stated by the Guern-
sey Times, in the summer of 1912. sold
at auction one four horse wagon at $3.50;
ten hogs at 81 cents each; two horses
(said to be worth $50 to S75 each) at So
each two cows at 81 each; barrel of
sugar at 81 90, and store OF goods at
that rate. In Pike County, Mo, as stat
ed by the Hannibal Journal, the sheriff
sold three horses at 81. so each one large
OK at l21a cents; five cows, two steers
and one calf, the lot at 1926; twenty
sheep at 1315 cents each; twenty four
hogs, the lot at % cents; one eight day
clock at $3.50; lot of tobacco, seven or
eigh: hogsheads, at So; three stacks of
hay, each at % cents, and one stack of
fodder at 25 cents"
No, in the good old days there we're
"no laws to make mlllionaires by the
thousands and paupers and tramps by
the Millions nor are therenow. If Mr.
Sarff is looking for honest work he can
get it. Tt was only few days ago that
one of his independent friends spent the
whole day IN town looking for man to
work on the farm, and he had to go
home without one There is work for
every man in this country who wants it.,
and Mr.. Sarff is only wasting his sym
pathy on buns who do not want work,
and whose hardest labor consists in try
| ing to beat their way in lifo without
work But il Mr.. Sarff infers that there
were no paupers IN the good old days,
wha. does this mean, printed In the New
York Tribune, January 10, 1850:
"Who is hnngrys Go and see. You
IL, ara fnl fal unI 1, ,n.u v,,,f hot ic
10 be hungry-perhaps never saw hun
ands. men and women. boys and girls,
old and young, black and white, of all
nations, crowding and jostling each
other, almost fighting for first chance,
acting more like hungry wolves than
human beings, in land of plenty, wait
ing till the food is ready for distribution
Such scene may be seen every day be-
tween eleven and two o'clock around the
corner OF Orange and Chatham streets,
where charity gives dinner to the poor
and soup and bread to others to carry to
their miserable families"
''On Saturday we spent an hour there
at the hour Of high tide. Wehave never
seen anything like it before. Upward OF
thousand people we're fed with plate
of soup. piece ot bread and piece oi
meat, on the premises, and in all more
than sixteen hundred. On the same day
one thousand one hundred and thirty
portions of soup we're dealt out from
Stewards soup kitchen. corner OF Reade
street and Broadway. At the rooms or
Duane street for the relief OF the poor
on the same day, they gave food to two
thousand two hundred and fifty-six. II
the Sixth ward alone over six thousand
persons were fed by charity on Saturday
January 18th. And this is only one day
in one ward. Meanwhile, scenes OF d
! ike nature are being enacted all ovel
the city,
/ And yet here is minister OF the gos
pei saving that mo thoughts Of poverty
Invaded their peaceful Breasts while
Thousands were fighting for slice o1
bread and plate Of soup. Mr.. Sarff il
either telling deliberate falsehood OF
he is talking about something of which
he is most wofully ignorant, and bis
Ignorance becomes crime when he set
himself up as teacher on economic
subjects.
Mr.. Sarff says that he remember!
that silver was the money OF our fathers
That through reIublican congress i
was demonetized"
Does not Mr.. Sarff know that from thu
foundation OF the government up to the
year 1872, when silver was demonetlzed
the government coined less than $163,-
OOO.OOO of silver. That since this SO.
called demonitization tho republican
policy has provided for the coinage o.
e5 OOO, 900 month, and in three years
this policy has coined about as much
silver as was coined in nearly q hundred
years OF the nations history.
Mr.. Sarff seems to think that to make
us oil rich it is only necessary tor the