The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-10-15

FUHGUb "
JAMES C, LEWIS.
Mr.. Pollock as Buyer of Wheat aud
nS n Candidate.
Tho Democratic candidate for the
state senate has modified himself on
the subject OF wages. lie now says. in
his latest utterance. that wages have
gone down under the Mckinley bill. A
lew days ago his statement was that
cverytbing had been going down for a
generation, and most OF all wages.
Since tho ISTELLIGENCER pointed out
his mistake in this respect lie has pull
cd in his horns, thus showing that he Is
not, like tho family organ. pertinacious
in defending an error By and by MIR.
Pollock will know more on tho tariff
and silver questions than hedoes to-day.
and by the time he Is next candidate
will DO better qualified to graphic with
those subjects. III the meanwhile tho
yoters OF the district will see that he
tarries in Jericho until his beard is
grown, or in other words, that no re-
mains at home until better qualified to
90 to the senate.
III his Saturday night speech Mr.. Pol
lock had something to say on the sub
iect OF wheat. A man'should naturally
talk best about matters that he is fa-
miliar with. Mr.. Pollock has been n
buyer and grinder Of wheat for long
tlme; long enough, as no says, to have
paid, three dollars per bushel for it.
Three dollar wheat Is n good deal like
26.cent wool; it needs to be taken
with much reservation aud with sut!i-
cheney of explanations. There wa,
time in the war when wool brought a
dollar per pound and cotton ncarly
twice as much, and pork forty to fifty
dollars per barrel, and wheat 50 so per
bushel. We happen to have no record
OF wheat bringing s. in the Wheeling
market. Such n thing is. however, just
possible, aud If Mr.. Pollock says, as he
does say, that he paid s. for it We shall
not accuse him OF anything worse than
Of an attempt to throw the bran OF his
purchase into the eyes and ears OF his
hearers, and thusblind and deafen them
TO the real truth. On July II, 1864,
gold went up in the New York market
to 81 So, and the best quality OF wheat
sold that day in that market at 81 65
per bushcl, viz, Milwaukee Club.
This was the highest price for gold
paid during the war, and paid for only
one day. We fail to discover in our
market reports any three dollar wheat.
But still, as VIC said, Mr.. Pollock may
have on como lone and solitary occa-
sion, all by himself, paid three dollars
for wheat.
Mr.. Pollock would have his hearers
believe, OF course, that those were good
old Democratic days when he was thus
able to pay such prices for wheat. They
werc, however, Democratic days only in
tho sense that tho war was Demo-
cratic calamity fastened upon the coun-
try by the butt end Of the party in the
south. Flo would also have his hear
ers suppose that tho present price for
wheat Is a Republican legacy to tho
country from the Harrison administra-
ton. Did Mr.. Pollock ever hear OF
fifty cent wheat in Democratic days be-
fore the war? II not, no has much to
learn. Ho never heard OF it during
Harrison's administration, however,
nor under any Republican administra-
ton since the war. 1t SO happens that
fifty cont wheat and sixteen cent wool
aud Democratic times all come on US
together, like the plague OF Egypt.
in tIluse good old Democratic days
OF Gfty cont wheat, before the war,
does Mr.. Pollock know what tho farmer
paid for tho neccssities Of his house.
Keeping life? What did no got in OK.
change for his fifty cent wheat? What
was ho compelled to pay for clothing
ior boots and shoes. hats and caps, and
for all kinds OF household and kitchen
furniture and farm implements? Docs
Mr.. Pollock know that no paid from
ono.third to two-thirds more for every
article ho was compelled to buyP II lie
doc, not no is away behind in his edn'
cation.
In 1866, Mt Chicago, in Republican
times, wheat Mt ono time, viz: in No.
vcmber Of that year, touched 81 So por
bushel, but We shall not claim this
price as anything more than specuIa-