The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-22
WHEAT ARGUMENT.
Inward Tendency OF the Cereal
Gives n Black Eycyto
3Tl,Ih|lEE;iF|lR,EE SILVER CONTENTION
That ~ 'i's Fall ofsliysrD Drag. the prlee OF
Wheat with i,--T'rylng to Get Out OF Il
pyssylnE the I,l,s a."pian,eil.--1lie
charge Bear, tile Stamp OF Abanriity on
as Fare. \ u

4 New York Mall and Exprcss. Nothing
has caused such Consideration among
The leaders OF the Popocrattc campaign
as the tremendous upward movement
IN thes;whcat market. 1t has Knocked
the whole free silver argument In the
head, COMPOUNDED the agltators who In
sistItllat agricultural prosperity can be
created by congressional enactment and
plunged the fiat contingent Into terror
z and confusion. ;s;t siS.};
y Tho iPppoeratlc brethren fully appre-
x clate the situation, and are already try
+ ing 20 explain Fit.f Our silver contempo-
4 rnry tho journal announces Its blacklist
Z headlines that "Wheats Rise Was
Planned, the effort being to show that
= the advance In prices has been caused
= by artificial Influences rather than by
natural conditions The farmer will be
asked TO believe that the law.of supply
and demand has nothing to do with the
!. rise an values, that 1t Is all q trick OF the
+ politicians and spectators who want 10
.oppress' him, and that his salvation
/, must be gained byt,roting for Bryan,
who contlDucs to Insist that when silver
goes down wheat goes down with:it.
rs u cruel necessity which the per-
& verse conditions Of trade impose upon
tho Popocratic organ. With wheat
booming up toward thellollar mark and
silver steadily sinking below Its own
y ilowest.Haluc, the taskh f convincing the
farlnerSthat he Is being smashed by the
Z gold stadard is both painful and hope
loss. 1t Is, like asking a man In vigorous
heilthsto call In quack doctor,to treat
himlfo aniailmcnt which he hasn't iund
never had ~
rs The increase In wheat prices within
Z the last thirty days means that the farm
: products of the United States are worth
!, over Sg0, 000, 900 more than they were
six weeks ago. Does anybody suppose
Z that the spectators have forced this
5 enormous appreciation In values merely
teS defeat poor Mr.. Bryan? Can any
Popocratic orator persuade himself or
anybody else that this stupendous move
4 Iflcnt has any connection, one way or
andshcr with the politics of this coun-
4 try3
Is nature that Is doing the heavy
fighting against Mr.. Bryan in this wheat
Z movement. 1t Is a condition, not the
ury.ihat confrontS him. Short crops'ln
Australia some parts OF Eurnps,t to-
xc:hcr with total failure and famine in
: a large area OF India, have suddenly de-
reloped an enormous foreign demand for
american wheat. The increasing eN-
ports from our Atlantic scaports are
supplemented with vast and increasing
shipments fromthe Pacific coast to Aus
tralia and the Orient. and under the
stimulus OF this natural. legitimate
movement there is q steady and logi-
1 cal advance in the price OF wheat In our
own markets. This Is the whole motive
power ,ofsnature'g heartleSs plot against
the unfortunate Mr.. Bryan. Provi-
idcYfce and Its mysserlnusly ordered
works are arrayed against the Popo-
cratic theory Of economy and finance.
d Natural conditions. operating through
the great trade exchanges OF the world,
have set before the American farmers a
golden text TO prove that Mr.. Bryans
teachings are false, that prosperity can
not be made by joint resolution of Con-
Gress and that the producer OF wheat.
like. the producer of silver, must depend
upon the memorable law OF supply and
demand for the success OF his business.
5.. The Republican, party. claims none OF
the crcdittfor this rising tide OF asrlcu!-
tural prosperity. 1t docs contend. how
K ever. for the credit OF standing steadfast
in8hehalf OF a financial policy which
Z Shall makeSt farmers gain secure by
providing that the Increased price he re-
ceives for his wheat shall be paid In
money worth 4 hundred cents on the
dollar. Free coinage now would destroy
= allfthc benefits which American agricul-
ture Is TO derive from the. great foreign
consumption OF our breadstuffs. 1t
would mean'that with the 50-cent dollar
: In circulation here the farmer would
realize no more actual profit from dollar
wheat than he had from 6O-cent wheat
Il on a sound money basis. In this re-
spect OF protecting the farmers gain
the bulwark of honest money the
Republican party viii naturally profit
from the tremendous argument of wheat
iItlsan argument, which .impeaches Bry-
K dr, and commands the vote OF the agrl-
cultural masses for Mckinley.