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Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-04-03

"YEs, doctor it still hurts me to breathe
In fact, the only trouble now seems TO be
my breath" "Oh, well, I'll give you some
thing that will soon stop that"-Lirc.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-04-03

For CocGHs, ASTHMA AND THROAT DIS
ORDERS "3,a,ra's BTUachid TiCch,s' are an
efiectual remedy. Sold only in boxes.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-04-03

By natures laws, immutable and Just,
enjoyment stops when Incidence begins
pOlloR
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-04-03

TiiE Innocence of the inten ion abates
lothing ef the mischief Of the example. -
aobert Hall.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-04-03

Or all vain things excuses are the vainest
Buxton.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-04-03
Personally Conducted Excursions to Cali


Via the Chicago, Union Pacific 81 North
Western Line, in upholstered tourist sleep
ing cars, leave Chicago every Thursday via
the orth-Wostcrn Line, Low rates, pic
turesque route, quickest time and careful
attention are advantages offered to those
who join these excursions. Cost of berth
only $500. Ask your nearest ticket agent
for full particulars or address w. b KNIs-
KERN. &. ?. d T. A., Chicago, III.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-04-03

LET dogs delight to bark and bite
TO do so is their fate,
They can't be turned; they never learned,
You sec, TO arbitrate.
Washington Star.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-04-03

"MAIp OF Athens, ere we part,
Give mo back my silver heart"
IL can't" the clever damscl cried,
MY new beau's picture is inside"
Chicago Record.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-04-03

HnAvrS- The treasury pf everlasting Joy
Shakespeare.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-04-03

Keep supply of ground bone where
the fowls car help themselves.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-04-03

cycle. His height is 80 inches, and the
will weigh less than ten pounds.
The common council of Chicago re
pealed the ordinance requiring street
cars to stop at the near crossings
Mayor Swift will probably sign the
measure and the old ways will rule.
MADAME. DIss DE BARS suit against
New York city for the recovery of II
alleged old masters, painted by spooks,
has been discoE tinued and the spook
mistress once more sinks in oblivion.
A FEW days ago South Gorham
(Me) man reported to the town au.
thorities that his horse had been
stolen. Upon investigation by the con-
stable he was found in we'll on the
farm, alive and we'll.
GEORGIA farmers are fearful for the
peach crop. The recent warm weather
swelled the buds on the treesnnd some
are almost about to bloom. A fros,
would destroy the buds and ruin the
prospects Of a good crop.
THE city directory OF Savannah,
which is nearly completed, will show
that the colored population has in
crcased moro rapidly than the whites,
the increase being larger than the com
piler who prepared last years directory
expected 10 find.
Az Iowa woman recently got YER
dict In breach of promise suit award
ing her 81 damages, In the trial Il
was shown chat the proposal has been
nadc after an acquain lance OF only
"a hours. The plaintiff, however
claims that the jury was prciudioed
and she has Sled a molten for a ne~
trial
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

tons adopted the gold standard have
exceeded all previously known. But
here is a simple test which the farmer
can easily apply for himself:
Take the average Of prices in your
neighborhood for the five years ending
In 1875 lit is not fair to take one year,
and the average gold or greenback value
Of ten ounce bar of silver at that
time. Divide and see what that silver
would have bought. Do the same for
the five years ending with 1895, and you
will find that the silver will buy more.
Is it not arrogant and insulting non
sense to say that silver has deprecated
when it will buy more Of the products
OF your labor? Here is table to help
you in the calculation:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10
Electric BitterS,

Electric Bitters is a medicine suit
ed for any season, but perhaps more
generally when the languid eX-
haustcd feeling prevails, when the
liver is torpid aud sluggish and the
need of tonic and Alternative is felt.
A prompt use of this medicine has
often averted long and perhaps fatal
bilious fevers. No medicine will act
more surely in counteracting and
freeing the system from the malarial
poison. Headache, Indigestion. con-
stipation. dizziness yield to Electric
hitters. soc and 81 per bottle at
Hartz & Ullemever's drug store.
What came near being double
tragedy WAS the climax Of a drunken
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10
By JOHN q. BEADLE.

The accompanying illustra-
lions are from New York
newspapers of recent date.
They are published to show
the popular idea of the per-
sonality CT the American far
mer in the gold stronghold of
the country.
Twill invite your attention to two
pictures.
Twenty-Five years ago the American
farmer was king. Poets sang about
him. Orators praised him.
Edward Everett held up an err Of gold
Ell corn before his audience and eulogized
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

AN ardor of pa
triOtisin which
$ me writers
have thought i'm
possible in men
reared in cities.
Naturally, there
fore, the north
crn farmers stood
by their govern.
ment in the great
civil war. The
Republican party
was in power and
acquired an i'm
inense prestige
by the successful
issue of the con-
hict. Naturally
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10
Puck.

gears and has submitted to the robbery
and voted for more Of it. He is despised
because he has consented to his own
degradation.
His very virtues have been made the
means of his degradation. The farmers,
and especially the men who till their
own acres, are our great conservative
class. They dread revolution. They
love their country with an impassioned
artlOr born Of close contact with the soil
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

perhaps to one, and that is. Has silver
deprecated or gold appreciated since
1873? On their answer to that depend
the votes of a million honest farmers.
Monometallists say gold has stood still
while all other things have cheapened.
We say that silver has stood almost I'M
changed while gold has advanced enor-
mously i'll value, and. what is more, we
prove it by every line of reasoning which
can be applied to the subject. That sill
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10
The Robbery.

contrary. En-
pires Of land and
hundreds of mil
lions Of money
were given to
great corpora
tions. Credit Mo.
bilier, the Indian
ring, the whisky
ring, the star
route ring and
scores Of others
followed in rapid
succession, but
though the farm
CrS urn ured
they did not re.
volt. They over.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10
The Decline In Value.

age value per ton has declined from
.l3.S2 to IS. 81. This last is the farm
price AS reported by the agricultural
department fer July: nevertheless, on
the day l write this hay is selling in
New York city by retail at SIS per
ton, which is q beautiful illustration
of how your city consumer profits by
the loss of the farmer. Wheat is supposed
to be III exception because our rivals in
other countries are producing so much,
and yet the figures are significant. In
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

great: We laugh at the roor hea-
then, but the argument is On their side,
for il never has been fundamentally
proved, and it cannot be proved, that
Mumbo Jumbo has not great power in
the unseen. but it has repeatedly been
Continued on Third pase)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

1881, for instance, 1888, :
ESQ, $50 bushels We're val
ued at $456, $50, 427, and
i'll 1898, 461. 1902, 941 BUSH
els at *237, 93S, 99S. And
yet the world has not as
much wheat as it wants,
and not much more than
half rs much rs it would
buy if it had the where
with. There is evidently
.,a.x.sI. = a
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

yer is by natural
law far more sta
bic in value than
gold has been
proved from ge-
ology, from min
eralogy, from
metallursy and
still more by
comparing the
fluctuations of
prices in differ
ent coun trie S
having the diff
ferent standards
or in the same
country at differ
ent times. Every
one of these tests
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

crops, the coun-
try rings with
frantic cries Of
rage and denun-
citation. The
farmer has sub
nittcd too long.
He has lost the
respect of those
who have robbed
him. and it is
n,nci, fnha fnaro1
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

the grower in
such eloquent
wordstliat storms
Of applause shook
the hall. We
loved ~ read and
quote the old stir
ring lines telling
how "thc en-
battled farmers
stood at Lex
ington and Con-
cord, and il was
Universally
agreed that they
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

breadstuffs than
they can eat and
more cotton than
they can wear
and more pork
and beef than
they want or
more shoes than
they need? Why,
the largest wheat
crop ever raised
only amounted to
three bushels per
capita for the
people of the
civilized world,
and. deduc,ing
seed and that
made into whis-
ky, little over
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

living. IL Is not absolutely inn
possible to press down the agricul.
tural laboref and yet leave the city Ia.
borer unaffected, but it is very unlikely.
The farmer. however. does not com.
plain that he gets less per pound or per
bushel when the crop is big than when
It is small. What he does complain Of,
and what he has a right to complain Of,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

lawyer, has conclusively shown that
some 30, 600 men own or absolutely con.
troll one-half the property of the United
States; that 100, 900 men own half the
remainder, and that the great mass Of
laboring producers actually own very
little If any more than they did in
1850. The results are simply awful.
Ten men in New York city today hold
the credit Of the United States abso-
lutely at their mercy. If it were to
their interest. they could tomorrow
sweep away the gold basis and precipi-
tate panic in Wall street. But the
farmer is told that all this is none Of his
business and is expected to be controlled
in his vote by the gold superstition.
The Gold superstition.
How can there be a gold superstition:
What do You mean by such phrase"
mean just what the words imply
that large portion of the human race
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

tim % all the stale old practical jokes
"Haysced" and "wayback" and Jay"
are his regular titles. even among cult.
waited people. and in the slums farmer
Is one Of the vile epithets which provoke
fight. fle figures IN the illustrated
comics n half savage. Look at the
pictures of the typical farmer in the
New York papers and zee something
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

spotted brecches.
He is the butt Of
vile jokes in the
city saloons. He
shares with the
mule and the
mother : III. law,
the plantation
darky, the rusty
stov'pipc and the
tramp as the
stocknaterialfo for
cheap paragraph
crs. Hc is brought
on the stage Of
every low ,heatcr
as tho Sfncl; vic.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

ductlon or land: In twO-thirdS Of the
country east of Illinois you can today
buy thousands of splendid farms at what
they were assessed for in 1870, and in
state they will sell you good farms at
the assessment of 1860. Farmers do not
complain at reduced prices for products
of which there has been "a very great pro-
duction, but the figures show a decline.
though not SO great, in articles of which
| there is an admitted scarcity and that
the general decline is very much great
er than can be accounted for by the
amount produced.
Starving Midst Plenty.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

two bushels per capita was left for
bread. 1t has been repeatedly shown
that the worlds cotton crop is still
5000, 900 bales short Of the world 3
sonsumptive demand Our own agricul-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10
THE FARMER.
AS He Mas and
as He Is.
HOW He IS ROBBED.
1Stupendous Decline in
Farm Products.
4 PERxICIOUs FINANCIAL POLICY.

3vtls Of Coutrsction-The Concentration
Of wesith-Riss and Fall Of 0old-Ths
Erect Of the Free Coinage Of Silver.
What Gold Mouometaiiism Stands For.
An Honest Payment Of Debts-The Help
O6ered By the Ballot.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

few, 1t must be adj
mitted-were hon
estly made by legit-
innate enterprises in
which the govern.
ment was not q
partner, and many
by the advance in
real estate in our
great cities. Many
others have carried
the investigation
much farther .
Thomas G. Shear
man Esq tho groat
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

Price Of Price Of Price OF
wheat, cotton. silver.
The Concentration of Wealth.

"Many cite the concentration Of
wealth i'll 4 few hands as one cause Of the
farmers poverty, but is not that worse in
other countries with different systems?"
There is 10 country Of high civiliza-
ton in which it is so bad. excent ner.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

'o''
cannot be explained by that handy
phrase "overprodnction.
Has there been any overproduction of
fat hogs: Every farmer knows that there
il just now 4 great scarcity, almost q
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

hog famine and
yet fat hogs in
the central region
of the west are
selling ut 3 cents
a pound or less,
when but a few
years ago they
sold at 6. Has
there been any
ovcrproduction
III milk COWS?
The census will
show you they
are less numer-
Gus i'll proportion
to population
than tEey We're,
and yet the price
is going steadily
downward. Is
there an overpro-
5urtipu Of laDdI
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

the farmer COM
plain that prices
go down as the
size of the crop
goes up: And
how can you
prove that elevat-
ing the condition
Of the farmer
will elevate that
Of other labor
crs:r
1t is impossible
to raise the agri.
cultural class Of
any oun try
without raising
Rll the other
classes who de-
pend on labor for
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

again. therefore, the great majority Of
farmers credited all good things to that
party. They could not believe that the
party of Lincoln and Sumner and other
friends Of humanity would do aught Of
injustice.
The Robbery.
The war tariff was prolonged in time
Of peace despite solemn promises to the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

that i'll great part he has lost his own
self respect. His poverty has become
Is reproach.
The Afiiction Of Abundance.
But there has been so great an in
crease IN production. Now, why should
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

tne DrleI tlnle
between this and
the election::"
Not at all. In.
its present shape
indeed it is sim
gularly simple.
1t can be reduced
to two or three
plain questions,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

tllS all da1 IL
ports for 90 years
and deduct that
used for export
and seed from
the crop of each
year and that fed
to stock in late
years you will
find that 30, 900,
600 people are
eating only about
the same amount
Of wheat -four
that 5000. 600
people did. In
Europe also it has
been shown that
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

has become pos
sessed with the
notion that gold
is infallible, a
notion as degrad-
ing i'll its way as
the Afric an
snake worship
Nine-tenths of
the gold mono
metallists in this
country boldly
proclaim that,
while all other
com m o dities
change in value,
gold does not.
I'VE know, - the
s saw ages say,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

manufacturers.
And how We're the rest made:''
The cnorlGCrs land grants and subsi-
dies to railroads made few dozens like
Stanford, Crocker and Huntington. The
sudden growth of western cities due to
the dollhouse system Of forcing develop
ment made IA few hundreds. Dozens like
Jay Gould and his fellows were made
by the system of railroad wrecking.
Many were made by speculation in gold
and government bonds, by the national
banking system and many other schemes
fostered by government. A few-very
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

like this: A long. lean, lank monstrosity.
with bones showing horribly prominent
through his clothes, a face like u point.
ed Gothic front, nose that describes an
irregular arc from the lowest point be.
tween the eyes down over the mouth, and
on his chin what Is supposed to be a
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

tural department. has shown that the
American people are eating consider
ably less wheat per capita than they did
few years ago, and if you will take
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10
i5|3SHi ;G ||F||||I y5!(1l;93!

sre me most POWERFUL, stYB. PROMPT and RE-
LIABLE OF thi. kind in the market. The origir Al
your druggist II he don't keep them Write direc
70 ue and we viii eend it direct upon receipt o
PRICE. u, sealed, By mail prepaid. A. j. Rei-e
tsland- ~
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

looked the fact that parties are COM
posed Of men and therefore subject to
change. They We're slow to believe that
the grand old party could contain
schcmers.
On top OF all the rest comes a finan.
cial system which has added so per cent
to the value Of money and deprecated
the price of the farmers products in
like proportion. and at the least signs of
u revolt on his part he is denounced rs
u traitor. 1t is assumed as a matter Of
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10


before this be-
came n political
question. The de.
cline still contin-
ues, and there is
every indication
that it will con.
tinue. And now
the great QueS-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

mas yielded exactly the same result.
The fluctuations since the principal ma
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

course that Wall street
should strive for Il rise i'll
stocks, that manufacturers
should lobby for u higher
tariff, that the Pacific
Railway companies should
evade payment of their
debt. All other men can
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

vote and lobby to raise the price of what
they own and be good Christians, but
at the bare hint that the farmer
Is to vote for restoring silver to
get q little better price for his
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10
Starving Midst Plenty.

But as matter of fact is there any
overprcduction: Have mankind more
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10


before they had any interest in deny
ing the truth. In the New York Sun
Of Sept. TO- 1898, for instance, was an
editorial of which this is an extract:
For more than u years. 1873 to 1898. all the
great primary agricultural staples have been
declining III price, although there have been
periods when the price of some one was high
for limited time. This is more notably true
as respects secondary products, especially
meats and lard, but the trend of the whole
scale has been constantly downward, and the
general price level ut the end of each year
was lower than at its beginning. In the mean
time there had been no material reduction in
the cost Of production, the self binder, the
gang piow. mower. hay tedder and hay loader
and all other great improvements in agricul-
tural machinery having come into use prior to
1875. Subsequent notifications and improve
mcntS have been in the direction of greater
facility in operation rather than of lessered
cost. While it Is true that there has been
material reduction in the cost of farming i'm
plen.ents, such reduction has not always re-
suited in lesseninS the cost Of production on
the farm, as new machines have often dis
placed those which We're but partially worn
and which We're quite as efficient.
1t is probable that upon farms large enough
to warrcnt the purchase Of full lines Of i'm
proved machinery the cost Of production has
thereby been lesscncd 10 Der cent, but such
farms constituting less than per cent OF the
whole area under cultivation the aggregate
saving from such economies has been slight
and has probably been fully Offset by the
progressively increasing use Of commercial
fertilizers which has been found necessary i'll
ali the region east OF the Mississippi, not to
increase Tic fertility Of the land, but simply
TO prevent further deterioration.
The Yield Of an Acre.
While TIE cost OF production cannot have
OF,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

whistler. but looks like o wisp Of weather
beaten hay.
This is the farmer Of today as the
people Of the cities are taught to con.
slider him.
And why this change: 1t is because
he has been systematic ally robbed for 80
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

you say. hut divide the bushels by the
population each year, and you will find
that per capita the increase was quite
small, and i'll such years as 1890 and
1894, when the crop was very short and
the number of bushels per capita very
much less than the average of several
years ago, the price Per bushel was still
low
The Decline In Value.
Since 1870 the production of hay in
.hc United States has increased in al
most exact parallelism with the in
crease of population. and yet the aver
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

Te'PlVeu ICT II
fell, till 1895,
when they pro-
duced s24,
531 bushels of
oats and received
therefor $685.
$50, 06S. And the
population has
increased 20 per
cent. In 1870 we
produced 1884,
225, GOO bushels
Of corn, worth
1901, s39, 030; in
1898 1918. 1885,
131 bus he / 8,
worth $591, 625,-
621, and in 1895
2, ! D !, l 3S, $50
bushels, wortl.
1907, 80 Q. 100.
low reproduction,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

pst, SA'tbe Nl-
haps i'll one or
two where the
process has been
going on for
1000 years, but
i'll no country,
ancient or mod
ern, has the proc
ess been SO rapid
as i'll this. In
1860 there were
alleged to he in
this nation a doz-
Ell nillionaires.
Today there are
at least 1000 and
probably many
more. On this
point we have
unim peachable
testimony and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

losses american
farmers h We
sustained because
of the increased
>purchasingpower
Of gold, look over
the files of the
gold papers be.
fore this became
a political iSSuo
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

ton is, What is the farmer going to dc
about it: On him depends the solution
of this all important issue. The fate Of
bimetallism is in his hands.
A Simple Fact.
But is not the money question toe
complicated for farmers to master it in
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

Is that prices have fallen SO fast that
ne gets very much less money for a very
big crop than he formerly got for o
small one. Thus the bounties of Provi-
coming to look upon abundance as an
aifiiction. Let me call your attention to
some figures. In 1881 the farmers pro-
du.cd 4l6, iS1, coo bushels of oats and
received therefor s193, 19S, go; in
1883 they produced 5I1, 302, 400 bushels
and received Cor it s1S7, OiO, 1854; in
1859 they produced s51, SIS, coo bushels
and received S17l.7S1 zoos, and so on
down, the amount rising as the money
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10
FFFfFN EFE EIfN INV
The Niiitiration.

He il the Ribc and the snccr of every
clown who can get on the city stage in
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10

Jumbo i ugly and We believe that he il
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-10
Total SIS q So - $50 AZ ssh 10 SO a $40 -
AYlrcl.L. Ii II Ii u Ii Ii

You can find all that denied or skill
fully evaded in The sun nowadays, but
that cuts no figure Nobody denied it