Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-25
JOSLIN.


with her son, G. W. Crompton, in
Rock Island.
Simon Koch has erected a new
building, and has insured it in the
Coe and Yuma Mutual
The goods and chattles of Rev. W.
l.. De Mundrum, United Brethren
minister, arrived at Joslin from Ore
gan, H., by train, on Friday last.
lie is now comfortably housed in the
parsonage.
Hon. William Payne, w. l..
Sweeney, of Rock Island, and David
Adams met this morning with S. w.
Searle, at ,Joslin, for the purpose of
balancing and making partition of
the Joslin estate in the interest OF
the heirs.
Ii Legislation can be blocked in the
senate by small minority upon the
silver question, why cannot it be
blocked upon the tariff or any other
question? And in that case how
much OF republican form of gov
eminent have we left?
Mr. Bender, our blacksmith, has
moved to Mr.. Stephenson's farm, and
Frank DALEY has taken Mr.. Bender's
place in the blacksmith shop. Mir.
Daley will do blacksmith work and
repair wagons and buggies just as
Mr.. Bender has been in the habit of
doing. Mr.. Flanagan, of Rock Isl
and, has opened out as saddler and
harness maker and boot and shoe
maker and rePairer.
The remains of Miss Grace Shop
pard arrived at Joslin on Sunday
evening last from Englewood, where
! the lady died Saturday The tuner
al took place on Monday, the sermon
being preached by Rev. Thompson,
OF the the Methodist church, at the
residence. There was large con-
course of people in attendance. 65
vehicles being formed in the funeral
procession to the grave at Bethesda
: cemetery. G. Wake. F. Wainwright,
f. Walker. j. Daily, |. Moose and
W. Fillert acted a. pail bearers. and
! Undertaken Wendt, OF Port Byron.
had charge of the funeral.
Every American farmer should
study up for himself what has been
the effect OF the decentralization OF
! silver upon American agriculture.
, 1t should be burnt into the brain OF
! every American farmer that the de-
monctiZation Of silver has reduced
the price of every farm product, and
what is called protective tariff has
/ compelled him to pay more for al
most everything he has to purchase.
He has thu, been so bIed at both ends
| by legislation and tina. j. the secret
! Of the present condition of agricul-
ture in this country. 1t should al
ways be borne in mind that in this
country corn is king and the sue
cess of all business enterprises hangs
upon the success OF agriculture.
therefore. when We legislate against
the farmers interests. we kill the
goose that lays the golden egg"
| find in my reading that the great
era of prosperity was from 1866 to
1873. find during that time we had
no strikes. boycotts or granger legis-
lation. All classes of people seemed
to be at peace with each other. Our
factories were running, and we did
not have TO call out armed forces to
keep the employee from the throat of
the employer. In 1873. wheat on an
average was Sis per bushe., and
the cotton planter got % cents per
pound for his cotton: but in that wear
we demonetized silver. and what
happened? Silver at that time was
worth Sl29.29 per ounce; that
was its coinage value. And at that
time we had the grain markets and
the cotton markets Of the world; and
in 1878 India exported only 7S5. O00
bushels of wheat. Now. | find. there
never has been 4 time in the history
of India when silver has not been Its
money. and there never has been {
time from the day they commenced
raising wheat down to the present
hour that one ounce OF silver did no
measure the value of one bushel OF
wheat. 1t makes no difference wha
the value OF the rupee Is. The sam,
number OF rupees buy the same mum
Der of bushels Of wheat all the time
But England could not afford to bu,
an ounce of silver at S129.29 and tax,
il to India to measure the value o
Il
from US and paid Us little less. from
$1.2O to $1.23 in 1873. In 1874 Tia
shipments from India commenced
England bought her ounce of silye
here at 10, and she could take tina
to India and exchange it for bushe
of India wheat; and in five years af
ter the characterization of silver Eng
land had increased her shipment
from 735. 900 bushels to 11.900, 00t
bushels. In years with the continu
ous depreciation in the valu
of silver, the shipments 0
Indian wheat to Europe ha,
increased from 1000. 900 to &c.
900. 900 bushels In - years tn
shipment of Indian wheat to Europ
had increased from 735, 900 bushels i
1873 to Al .OOO, 900 bushels. and las