Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-04-17
POLITICAL BOSS FARMING.
Silver knight.

Silver knight.
The season for plowing the voters,
which comes around every four years,
has arrived. While the inventors and
mechanics OF the United States are
discovering improvements in agricult-
ural machinery, the political bosses
are inventing new tricks and devices
to harvest tie +6tes ef tie farmers for
the benefit of stock -jobbers and gold
gamblers. These enemies OF the peo-
pie use the votes their hirelings har-
vest to cheat the farmers out OF their
crops which hard labor and improved
machinery enable them to produce
When the political tricksters make the
farmers believe it was good thing for
John Sherman's conspiracy to destroy
half the metallic money of the world,
and put the United States on a gold
basis-so that the deluded farmers will
give their votes to keep goldbugs in
power-the labor and money expended
for machinery and fertilizers to pro-
duce crops add to the poverty or en-
barrassment OF the farmer, while they
enrich the bondholders. stock -jobbers
and gold-gamblers. When the com.
mercial press and the venal politicians
can make the farmers OF the United
States believe in the gold standards,
which compels them to take half as
much for their wheat and cotton as
the Russian, or Asiatic receives, they
| can make them vote for hard times
for themselves and good times for the
goldites. Behold the difference be-
tween the condition of the Russian or
Asiatic wheat-grower, or cotton plant.
er, and the condition of the wheat
growers and cotton. planters in this
country. The Russians and Asiatics
are compelled to pay taxes, clothe
themselves and families, contribute to
their churches, and pay for what
schooling they are allowed to have,
the same as the people OF the United
States are compelled TO do; but the
Russian aud Asiatic can pay the same
nominal amount of taxes and debts
with half the wheat or cotton which
the American farmer is compelled to
sell to pay q like amount. For in
stance: The Asiatic has one hundred
dollars Of fixed charges to pay. One
hundred bushels of wheat will do it.
The American, having one hundred
dollars to pay. is bound to give up 200
bushels OF wheat. This is why the
agriculturalists OF all silver-standard
countries are prospering as they never
did before in all history, and all agri-
culturalists in gold-standard countries
are suffering more than at any other
time since the discovery OF gold and
silver in Mexico and South America
There Was q time when the American
farmer had a monopoly of the Euro.
pean market. That market is now
practically monopolized by Russia and
South America and Asia. The gold.
ties cannot deny this; but they at.
tempt to appeal to the prejudices of
the farmer, and say that he does not
want the same kind OF money that the
heathen has, but wants the very best
money-such money as the Christians
have. BY Christians, the goldites OF
course, mean the Rothschilds. They
are the type OF Christians that want
everybody to have very dear money,
because they have got the money Of
the world pooled, and the dearer it is
the more they can get for it. The
farmers ought to remember that in
the better days of the Republic we
used the same kind OF money that the
Asiatic did. He used silver, and we
used silver, and all the prosperous
countries of Europe used silver; and
when the United States and Europe
stopped using silver times commenced
growing harder for the farmers of this
country and better for the farmers Of
Russia, aud all other silver. standard
countries. Who believes that Hamil-
ton, Jefferson and Jackson were dis
graced for using silver, because the
Chinese used the same metal as
money? This shows the kind OF lies
and nonsense the political bosses are
hired to tell the farmer. We are op-
posed to these agricultural bosses, who
farm the country every four years, and
SOW the seeds of distress which pro-
duce q crop of such hypocrites and
sharks as Sherman, Cleveland, and
the minions that follow in the wake of
these cormorants of hard times for the
people and good times for the robbers