The evening times., 1896-12-05

| any thing. Business is at q standstill, and
| our people think there must be some way
| out except by hard knocks and they are
willing to try free silver.
$50 Turner told them if we had free
| coinage IL would make things all right.
| The price OF everything would be doubled
| he said. Then he took wheat that sells at
| 20 cents bushel with us. and costs 30
| cents a bushel to raise. With the price
doubled, he said, we could raise it at a
| profit OF 10 cents a bustel- As everything
| depends on the prosperity OF the farmer we
| should be in the swim again
| Il spoke the next night, and ] Just re-
| called his story OF it. Wheat at 20 cents
| bushel. / said, and 1t costs 80 cents to
| raise it. Loss on every bushel 10 cents.
| Free coinage will double the price Of
| everything. You pay now cents for seed
| and putting in, . cents for threshing,
cents for sacking. and so on, all the way
| up TO make the 80 cents OF cost To produce
! huslel. Then | said with prices doubled
| hy free silver it would cost 5 cents fer
\ seed and planting, . cents for threshing. 3
| eents for sackinS and so on, Just double al.
| the way up; so that it would take &c
| cents to make bushel of wheat; selling
price doubled to 40 cents; loss on every
| bushel, 90 cents. And l had him or
| course. he had lied about it and / just
| took him up"
COUNTY JUDGES PLATFORM
"But the fact is that the fusionists are
| ready for anything, and the people are
| willing to follow them. Why, the candi-
| date for Judge in the next county to me
| said In his speech of acceptance that lie
would never sign a decree for foreclosure
/ of a mortgage, and ne made his race ON
that and won Ikea whirwind. They
| think they are going to find way to
| beat tie man with money"
'Thats mighty bad for any country;
| capital will steer away from it.
Yes; but we can't help it. Every new
country has to go through that sort of a
period We've just got through the bor-
rowing stage. In building our towns, rail-
| roads, docks aud so on we first exhausted
all ouI credit i'll this country and then
we went over to Holland and borrowed
everything anybody would let us have
over there. We're clear in. We put the
general manager of the Hypothete Loan
Company in the insane asylum as the re-
suit Of it. He had out 81 100000 and he
couldn't stand the strain. But We've got
some mighty fine towns and other things
and we've got the richest country!'
Well. yod have SOME cUiu out there,
don't you?'
"Oh, yes; it's cold sometimes in Eastern
Washington. AndIU SHOWS. ThLJ's tile MAJ
ing Of our wheat. Then there comes along
the chinook That'Sa warm wind that comes
creeping up the Columbia Valley. 1t starts
somewhere out toward Japan and goes
all over our country. It's soft and gentle,
and is hailed by everybody as blessing.
1t modiries the climate and makes it very
different from the Dakotas and MontaDas.
COMING OF THE CHINOOK.
"It will begin blowing in the evening
when the wno,e country Is dee , under snow.
and next morning the snow is all gone. 1t
has a peculiar, soft, velvety touch that
have
There she bIows!' at sea when they see
a whale or n porpoise. Well, that's the
word. When it begins your neiShbor will
look up from his work suddenly and say,
There she blows!" and everybody knows
il is the chinook come.
That's what makes our floods. The
snow will be drifted up in all the ravines
Tor month or So. ami the chinook comes
and in one night takes 1t all off. OF course,
the rivers are all overfiowed at once. We
have to look out for that
This wind blows as far east as Helena.
They get only 4 touch of it there. 1t also
runs up west of the mountains. through the
Seattle aud Vancouver country, all the way
up TO Sitka. making the weather there
almost as mild as it is here. You can
believe the Sitka climate is good when you
see the stacks of letters I'm getting, ask
ing me to help get fellows place up there.
But say, Jones, you ought to do some
thing for our postoffice ut Spokane. We
haudle SGO0,000 10 100000 year Of
money business, and we've got little old
one-story office. and the postmastcrs gets
about ST5 month. You ought To do
better by US. We turn in more money
to the department than the whole South
put together; at least, we did. For they
made you deficit last time | looked, and
we don't--"
At that moment Gen. Jones and number
OF others were called to appear before the
appropriations committee, and the party
was broken up.
senator Wilson thinks the' Bingiey bill
will not pass, and believes some kind Of