Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-10-10
PATRIOTIC FARMERS.
Whenever Danger Threatened the
Country They Have Rallied
to It's Support.
HARD TIME AND THE CAUSE.
Employment Of Labor in Mechanical
Industries and Not DECEASED
Money is Needed

whenever danger tnreuleleh our ihst-
tuition the farmer has always rallied TO
The support of his country. There is
good reason in this. in the fact that he
WINS the broad acres of our territory and
- SO identified with our institutions that
.,rotect him in his ownership that his in
ierest is necessarily of a character to
nake him the safe conseryator OF our
governments perpetuity, prosperity aud
,onor.
In the present campaign we are con-
'rOntcd by an issue that affects every
lass Of our citizens. hence. there Is an
interest in the outcome more intense than
in any campaign since 1860. One reason
for the manifestation for so much inter
est is the fact that the country has been
suffering from an unprecedented period
of depression and is ~earnest in IFS intent
10 secure relief. Among those who Ia
nor none have more reason for com-
',laint than the farmer. Prices of his
,roducts rave been low. values of land
and stock have continued to decline.
,,ntil discouraged and disheartened.
uemnpogues seem TO believe him ready to
rccept any promise that they make, but
he fact is. and better still, he is ready to
review and discuss fully the merits OF the
.ropositions offered. The proposition
That has been urged paramount to all
Others, Is the free ana uhllHlteu colnasc
IF silver.
There never was a more deceptive
oronosition. one more startling in its
fleets and results and one that would
re more disappointing should 1t become
practical fact. Ii is advocated by
.ren having a p%ecuniary interest at stake,
.,ocked by n combination of capital un-
s-.nI.l Ia. ms thuf has ayar nftpmnfp1
~ control our government since the day
4 the slave power. The silver mine
,wners Of the United States, skilled in
,~olitical maneuvering, have organized
themselves into a syndicate for the pur-
n5se of forcing upon the country, with
out regard to consequences. the free and
unlimited coinage of silver.
The magnificent scheme was outlined
nv Mr.. Bryan in his Madison square
sDeech when he said: AT the present
line and under the present law, n silver
Collar when melted loses nearly one-half
it's value, but that will not be true when
axe can establish a mint price OF silver
md leave no surplus silver upon the
market 10 drag down the price Of sill
yer bullion" and then TO show the pos
ibility of cornering silver and forcing
4 To a price satisfactory 10 mine owners.
I'VE cannot even expect all of the an
nnsl product of silver because India.
China, Japan, Mexico and other silver
using countries must satisfy their annual
iced from the annual product: the arts
will require a large amount and the gold
standard countries will need a consider
-~s.l~~s~s.- ysa.rsSfAsrogs-~s1~ssosn ohfy tn"t
hich Is not needed elsewhere, but il we
stand ready TO take and utilize all OF IT,
.iher nations will be ready TO buy at
ne price we fix
This is the silver miners scheme az
outlined by Mr.. Bryan. The people are
invited 10 oar the resources OF This gov
,rnmept 10 a silver syndicate in order
hat il may be able hy taking al the
,ilyer that Is offered 20 the world 20
ns the price and compel other nations
y paw that price. This is worse than
tree and unlimited coinage, yet il is the
oily way Mr.. Bryan says whereby the
nrice of silver can be maintained at
.arity with gold. The magnitude of the
tleme and their audacity in attempt
ing it's execution challenges admiration.
mt the American people are accustomed
10 investigate the claims of parties and
men. They want TO kno for themselves
ihe why and wherefores, il some great
ldica change is proposed. That they
will thus investigate and judge for them
selves il evidence thar they are quail
fed for self-government.
That present conditions are hard, es-
pecially among the farming class, every
tile sftitHItN. ~ Undoubtedly ~
,ause for this abnormal condition. The
silver advocates attribute the existing
OPPRESSION to the characterization af sill
r, 1.-The crime of 1873" as they desig-
tate the suspension Of coinage Of silver
lnllars IN 1873.
They fail to show how that legislation
reduced prices: they simply assert that il
I'D. They fail also to show why prices
Continued to decline after coinage of sill
ser was resumed in 1878. They ignore
all the facts of development. the large
and unprecedented production of farm
~soducts' and especially the Improbable
vision at Labor. The building ,f new
railroads and the opening of vast terri
cries for cultivation are entirely ignored.
During the years lSTS-T9 and so IL is
known that over 100000 mechanics left
70 factories and shops of New England
md the middle and oder Western states
=, locate on the lands in Kansas md Ne
hraska and the Dakotas. These all be-
.Gme active producers instead of consum-
RS of farm products.
What We now need is TO reverse this
condition of affairs and secure less pro-
"icers and more consumers of farm pro-
Glcts: IL by any way we can do this. we
will haze accomplished something prac-
',cal in correcting the ills our farmers
lave. to bear. There is n method by
which this may be accomplished, n rene
- that II not only practical but Der.
lament aud far reaching i'm its effects.
There Is a well established principle in
political economy often referred 10 by
writer's that the greatest creator Of
ealth is the greatest possible division of
= hor.' Previous TO the election of lS9o
rader the operation of the Republican
icy. of protection. We were struggling
e., realizc our benefits of this principle and
oe were rapidly overcoming our adverse
-nditions by increasing the demand for
'arm products. The interest which the
ovement OF labor has in protective du.
80 liefs in the effect which the movement
~ labor has upon the supply and demand
: agricultural products. Ii is impossible
81 maintain a proper division of labor.
'ycept we produce the largest amount of
,..anufactured goods possible within our
n territory. Open our ports free and
,.,.ow our markets. tn be. supplied by the
>anafacture-s OF, Europe and the effect
'uld be to coHpel our waSe earning