The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-31
THE FARMERS WHO FARM.
What He Can and Must DO to Find
Relief


What He Can and Must DO to Find
Relief
The merchant is supposed to set
the price upon the articles in his
store, and it is supposed that that
price guarantees him profit. This
is true, as . rule, but suppose that
merchant buys big bill Of goods on
time, and that he is already bor-
rover at the bank In order to carry
his delinquent customers. The time
approaches for paying his big bill of
goods. He hasa't enough ready
money to meet the bill; the whole
saler writes that he must have his
money promptly; the bank tells him
he can have no new loans, and his in
debtedness ct the bank is also coming
due shortly and he can have no ex-
tension; the bank must call in it's
funds, you know. The merchant
finds it profitable to slash prices,
selling below cost even, in order to
meet these pressing debts. He must
either lose at least the profits on the
sales for q time, or lose all he has,
The bank and grain men have been
in collision for many years: The
banks take notes from farmers pay
able just after harvest arguing that
| if they can't pay then they never can.
The farmer never seems to realize
that most of his brother farmers are
in the same boat as himself. They
must, most of them, sell as soon as
their crops can be marketed, no mat
ter what the price-and, very natur-
ally, throwing the entire crop of the
country upon the market at one time,
even without the grain-buyers' know
! ledge that the farmer must sell for
what he can get, would depress prices.
The farmer sells at cost, or less than
cost of production-the spectators
gather in the profits.
The farmer cannot ask what he
wants to for his crop till he is out of
the clutch of Shylock, says the Chi
cago Free Trader.
He can never get out of debt so
long as the gold bugs rule. and so
long as he is compelled to bear the
chief burden of taxation.
The American farmers raise a sur
plus of grain; that surplus, chiefly, is
sold in Liverpool, England. England
believes in a gold basis for herself as
we'll as for America, and England
controls our monetary policy. Her
sharks paid 100000 for the demon
etization of silver in America. She
has millions upon millions of our
bonds and mortgages. It is to her
interest to make them more and more
valuable through the contraction of
our currency. Again, with silver de-
monetized in America, she can buy
cheap silver, and with cheap silver
she can lower the price of all the
wheat she buys just that much. Buy
ing our silver at seventy cents she
can ship to India in exchange for one
dollars worth of wheat, and enabling
her to do this also enables her to get
our surplus wheat at the same price,
for our wheat is sold in competition
with the India wheat. Not only that,
but the Liverpool price of wheat sets
the price of wheat sold here at home.
1t is always higher there than here;
to the amount of freight, commission,
insurance, etc. If it was less there
than here, none would be exported.
The farmer is between the upper
and neither milestone No wonder he
is being ground to powder. His only
remedy is in voting.
He must have honest money and
enough of it.
He must be helped to escape the
clutches of Old Shylock-and no one
will help him unless he helps himself.
Even God, it. is said, helps those who
help themselves.
The way he can help himself is to
vote for only such men as will legis-
late for money for the people not for
Shylock.
He must vote for men who will re-
store the right to issue all money to
the gOvernment-nOt for men who
legislate the mighty power to banks,
to expand and contract as best suits
their devilish schemes of robbery
He must vote for men who will
legislate to give the country say
about $50 per capita.
/ AAO LAuSU FOCo AOE 1u0u 'WuO WILL
legislate to foil Greedy Shylock-
legislate to loan the debt-ridden,
mortgage-cursed and tax-burdened
farmer at three per cent, on long
time. enough money to pay of his
mortgages. The security is good,
for Shylock. himself, has Investigated
it! -
If it is said that Uncle Sam must
not loan to these oppressed farmers,
it will be said by those who legislat-
ed loan of sos, 900, 600 to the Pacific
roads, and who gave these same
roads millions of acres of our ,choic-
est lands, and who are, even now,
lead by John Sherman, advocating q
loan of 500, 100000 to a private
canal project. The $65, OO0, 900 loan
to the Pacific roads has never been
paid and never will he. The debt is
about due. The roads seek an ex-
tension of time. The roads have
been sucked dry. The corporation
has invested the earnings in side
lines and outside property which the
government cannot take on it's mort
gage-a second mortgage, by the
way; changed from q first to q Sec
ond mortgage by traitors to the peo-
pie in congress. This mortgage
ought to be foreclosed instanter; and
the ..private" property of the cor
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