The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-04-12

demouet,zed silver. Fftm that hour
the flame of the candle of values af
all, save gold, has been waning, till
now, in 1893, the average value per
acre Of the four great American sta
pies is down to $8.15.
There is no profit. not even a family
support in farming at this rate.
Dating from the characterization of
silver in 1873, wheat has fallen
steadily year after year, nearly sixty
per cent. Three per cent a year
which is what gold dealers count as
clear interest ON their metal over all
expenses of Legislation to MAINTAIN
its reasonable power they weld by
their methods of gifts, bribery, Prcsi-
dentil patronage and corruption.
The New York Recorder, a Kepub-
lican paper, has an editor who sees
the cause of all this panic and desc
lation Of homes and deademng of
courage reopened to successfully
fight the battle Of life, and in speak
ing OF the great matter, which is in
deed the concern Of every citizen,
says:
"At this moment it is certain that
American wheat is being sold below
the cost OF production.
Over production does not explain it,
because the decline has gone on
through years Of lean crops as we'll
as through years Of fat crops.
Farm values have gone down, down
down all over the Union. The farms
OF Pennsylvania, for example, were
worth $65, ,OOO, 900 less in 1890 than
in 1880.
The contraction of the currency by
the initiation of the measure of values
-gold-is at the bottom of this pro
gressive destruction of all property
values and prices.
The gold standard madness has
sold the American producer into
bondage to the foreign interest gath
erers.
Two million dollars day is about
what the American people are paying
in interest to the European Gold
Trusts.
How do they pay it?
They pay it in food and other raw
products. Plainly enough, the lower
the price of their wheat, barley, corn
and cotton are depressed on Eu-
ropean markets The more they will
have to pay to meet their interest
obligations.
Fifty bushels of American wheat
in 1873 paid as much interest Gin
gold as one hundred bushels will pay
to-day.
And the longer we submit to the
appreciation of gold and the conse-
qucnt depreciation of every thing we
produce the harder the times will
grow, and the more hopeless will be-
come the lot of our our people-farm-
ers, planters, manufacturers, factory
workers and all.
The best protective tariff that ever
was framed cannot produce prosper
lty in the face of Contracting currency
and a constantly inflated measure Of
values"
Apply it not as partisan measure,
but as something greater, higher.
nobler, patriotic people, protecting
country, benc6ting its owners.
Day by day the circulating money
of the country grows less and less.
Day by day money goes more and
more into hiding As the New York
Recorder, Republican paper, says
in its issue of Feb Is, 1s94:-"The
gold ring has got the American peo-
pie on the torture-rack of money con-
traction, and If the screws are not
loosened it will crush all enterprise
and fill this land with bankrupts and
paupers from one end to the other"
Brother Americans
We do not care what your color.
your politics. your religion. your place
of birth. No matter whether YOU
like US or dislike US All personal