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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-09-24
IGNORED BY BRYAN
FIGURES WHICH THE BOY ORATOR
DOES NOT QUOTE.
The Prices Which the Farmer Pays
"A Detailed Statement Of the
Decline in Prices Of Things the
Farmer Buys-Mr Bryan Does
Not Invite the Attention Of Farm
ers to the Prices Here Quoted.

I notice one Of the opponents Of free
coinage said the other day that if the
farmer had suffered from falling prices
when he went to sell, he had gained
in falling prices Of what he went to
buy. That may all be we'll enough for
some one who is not farmer to tell
a man who is farmer. It would never
be told BY farmer himself.-Ar.
Bryan at Syracuse, August 26.
Mr.. Bryan was then preaching the
silver doctrine of the 81 that should
have its purchasing power reduced, q
doctrine which he kept tn the back
ground at Madison Square Garden,
where he promised that with free coin
age the 53-cent silver dollar would at
once come to have value Of 100 cents
measured In gold" and would thus be
merely q duplication Of the hated zap
preciattng 81 of Wall street and Lom-
bard street.
But does not every Intelligent farmer
know that there has been great fall
during the Last twenty-three years in
the prices of the things he has to buy,
and that the decline began before 1878 -?
We are not aware that up to this
time the press has published any de-
tailed statement indicating the decline
Of the prices Of the articles which
farmers buy The following table
shows, In percentages which represent
averages and have for their basis the
prices Of 1860 (Which are marked by
the number 1907 the compared prices
of 1873 and 1891, in this country:
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-09-24
How Bryan Has FlOpped.

Bryan has not always been free
silverite. There was a time when he
did not believe the purchasing power
of the dollar could be regulated by act
of congress.
During the extraordinary session OF
congress of 1899, called by President
Cleveland, Bryan made a speech in
which he declared that:
While the government can say that
a given weight Of gold or silver shall
constitute a dollar and invest that dol
lar with legal tender qualities, 1t can.
not fix the purchasing power OF the
dollar. That must depend upon the
law of supply and demand.
If the number Of dollars increases
more rapidly than the need Of dollars
as it did after the gold discoveries OF
1S49-the exchange lie value Of each
dollar will fall prices rise.
There was a time, therefore, wheI
Bryan knew that the exchan ceable
value of dollar depended on some
thing besides congressional fiat He
knows it now.
At present, Bryan, like his fellow
popocIats, ascribes the fall In the
prices of commodities to the fall il
the price of silver. He and they assev
crate that 1.-The crime of 1873" pulled
silver down, and that it pulled every
thing else down with it.
In the spring Of 1892 Bryan declared
In speech made by him on the tariff
question that the fall in prices must
be attributed:
To the inventive genius that has mul
tiplied thousand times, in many in
stances. the strength Of a single arm
and enabled us to do to-day with one
man what fifty men could not do fifty
years ago. That is What brought the
prices down in this country and every
where
Then he talked sensibly. Inventive
genius" reducing the cost of produc
tion or transportation, or both, has
brought down the price of about every
thing except human labor That is in.
creasing in value from decade to de.
cade, as every workingman knows.
Bryan is as we'll aware now as he
was in 1892 that the fall of silver has
had nothing to do with the general
fall of prices. Yet he denies in 1896
what he affirmed in s92, because he
thinks his change Of front will help
him into the White House.-Chicago
Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-09-24
Bulletin Of Mckay & Race,
MASONIC BLOCK GROCERS

We make a speciality of fine
Teas and Coffees, and yet we
keep cheap grades. High life
Coffee is the best favored, the
purest quality of Java and
Macha coffee grown. It's sold
only by Mckay & Race in Red
wood Falls. It's sold only in
two pound cans. It's unground
but we grind it for you if you
wish it. Try a can, you'll be
pleased with it.
do you keep Kenedy's bis
cuit?" asked a lady of us re-
Gently. Whey, madam, we
couldn't keep house without
them. Everybody wants them.
Why? Because they are the
best crackers baked.
We aim to keep Fresh Fruit
in their seasons and we aim to
offer to the trade the best quail
ity at reasonable prices. Grapes
and Apples just now are very
cheap. So much so they are
within the reach of all.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-09-24
THE FARMF7 rSD THE sILyERITE

He was settin' on shoe box at tn corner Nv
the street,
Chawin plug srhacker an vaitin' for treat.
While he squ-rted his terbs cker juice at an ner-
fensive fly,
BE saw an honest farmer come a-walkin' slowly
So he histed up his britches, an he took another
chew,
An boldly waded inter him. an this is wha, hs
blew:
"Can you tell me, my friend. why the chinch bug
eain up yer grain!
Have yer cyphered on the problem why we Git 50
little rain!
Can you tell me, ploddins farmer. why the army
worms around?
Why the tarnal yeller sunlight is burning up tn
ground?
Can you tell me why tn weevil, tn rust an Hes
sian fly
Are eatin Up yer substances Do yer know tn
rason why?
Are a-falin' in tn market az the years are pass
in by?
shadders 'crost the sun,
Why yer debts ere gttin' bigger as the seasons
60 an knm3
Tn reason fer this trouble is plain enough ter
It's t9st or'ul fearful nasty thing: tn crime NV
lie" pe sure, We didn kn'w II ho1 lilly 'e
But it worked this orfu havoc It dealt this dead
ly blow.
tn Gold Bugs down In Wall street. under cover
Have euhbled up yer earnings in their thirsty
hungry nav.
Sixteen to one will cure yuu-'tis the only thing
If ser take it IN large doses, On the allopathic
PLAN
tn farmer stopped an listened, tho tt almost
At the stupid senseless logic Of this within
talkin calf,
An bis anger gan arisin, at this everlastin'
bore,
An be kr,chsd his hseh together, an he shook hts
fists an swors:
''You must not thinh we farmers hav' nuthfn else
But stan a,oun' an 'arg,fy with ssch 'tarnal
fools sou,
You'll leigislate the weevil cn1nch bug an Hes
sian 1fy.
Ya,ll resolute the raiD-drop er know the reason
You'll upset the laws Nv natur, you'll change tbs
seasons round
You'n stop the golden sunlight from shfnln on ths
ground.
The law that fixes prices you'll change 1t jest Tel
TtIn,
nth eoinin' nv the silver sixteen tew ono.'
rlaif dollars worth Nv metal will be worth jest
twict as much, a..
When melted by the Government, an g1v'n III
magic touch.
You'd bust up all the railroads, shops an saving
banks
With tn drivltn, Silly nonsense Nv you crazy sli
cranks.
Mt seems to me that l remember when thing
were all askew,
Some time about November in tn year Nv 'p2
That the same gang Nv fellers promised anothe
treat
That you told the grubbtn' farmer that you'd gil
him dollar wheat
That he'd sure'~ then be happy an his fortun
would be made
Ell we'd jest upset the tariff. vote Tor CfeVelah
an free trade.
Now we don't pretend to know much, fer we neve
had much show,
But there's quite grtst of things that eVel
farmers know.
| They know when the've been lied to an take1
fer a Ounce,
An they're goin' tew be id keerfuf that the
don't git fooled but once!'
q. W. Reynolds, st. Cloud, Mimi
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-09-24
On u Gold Basis SfXty-TwO Years

The people of the United States have
done business on strictly gold basis
for sixty-two years-since Andrew
Jackson was president Of the United
States. There is no parallel in history
for the advancement Of this nation on
this Jacksonian basis of ST." lard
value. Our population has been in
creased fivefold, our territory vastly
extended, our resources so deve ped
as to put us to the front among vii
lied nations. In the meantime we have
fought one foreign war to successful
finish. and have emerged unscathed
from the terrific strain of civil war,
keeping the honor and credit of our
government unstained. We have kept
faith with our creditors who trusted
us. We have borrowed gold, and paid
back the gold borrowed to the last dol
lar. according to the wording Of our
bonds.
1t is too late to break this splendid
record. When the job is undo. aken
in the name Of the party Of .eL.rson
and Jackson 1t involves still more
detestable ignomilv. Philadelphia
Record DEM
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-09-24
People Who Will Not Vote for Bryan

Those who live by wages received
by their daily labor. They don't want
a 53-cent dollar. The more the dollar
is worth the better they like it.
The men who live on fixed salaries.
teachers, clerks, officials, professional
men and the rest. They don't want to
pay twice as much for what they buy,
while their salaries remain the same.
All those who are proud of their
country and want to save it's honor
from disgrace and it's credit from de-
graduation.
BY all, OF course, we mean all of
those citizens who are not deluded
fools or incurable cranks, and are not
lost in ignorance. But even when the
whole number of such unfortunates is
allowed for, there will still remain the
vast majority of the people of this
country. There may be men who pre-
fer the half to the whole. Drunken
men and lunatics will sometimes burn
their money. But some people prefer
to get all they can for their dollars.
Hence they prefer gold to silver.
The truth is, Bryan could not lead
to the polls O force Of voters bigger
than Coxey's famous army Of tramps
was when 1t got to Washington, If hu-
man society were not always burdened
with lot Of stupidity put upon 1t by
Divine Providence, we suppose, to
keep it's muscles trained by the exer-
tiop of carrying the dead weight.
The more the people know Of Bryan
and his doctrine the less they will
want him and them. He can't stand up
against the popular common sense
New York Sun.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-09-24

1t is not unusual for druggists to rec
Ommend Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy to their customers. Many of them
have used it themselves, or in their
families and know from personal ex-
perience ls great value in the treat
ment of coughs, colds and Group. They
know too that their customers are their
best friends and naturally wish to give
them the most reliable medicine they
have for those ailments. Messrs.
Daugherty Bros, prominent druggists
of Indiana, Pa, say, "We sell more of
Chamberlain Cough Remedy than of
any other cough syrup, and always
take pleasure in recommending it to
our customers" H. NJ. Urey, the pop
ular druggist at Fredonia, Pa, who has
sold Chamberlain 8 Cough Remedy for
several years, says: II can truly say
that it is the best cough remedy in the
market" For sale at % and so cents
per bottle by Otto Schmahl, the drug
gist SIT
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-09-24

Look at this bill of fare and
see if you can't find something
too tempting: Grapes, Peach
es, Pears, Apples, Banans,
Plums, Cranberries and Sweet
Potatoes.
All kinds of Dried Fruits are
reasonable. Never cheaper and
never better.
Free silver"-that's what
some want-we all want work
and a chance to earn money so
as to buy what we need. Prom
ises won't buy much or earn
much, but low prices will in
duce people to buy who have
money. Call on Mckay &
Race when you come to town.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-09-24

Iheae percentage comparisons are
taken from the elaborate report (lS93)
of the senate committe on finance con-
corning prices and wages. which shows
the results of a non-partisan investi-
cation and Is regarded as the very best
authority Tor the period which it Gov
ers. The inquiry was brought down
only to 1891. Since that year there
has been a further decline In the price
of cereals. it is true. but the prices Of
many other products also have fallen.
the decline In the case of Ressemer pig
iron having been about 35 per cent.
while cotton goods. glass. carpets and
clothing are much cheaper.
The decline in the prices Of certain
groups Of products from 1873 to 1891
Is e,xh1HifAd as fnl1ouc-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-09-24

Mr.. Bryan will never invite the atten-
ton Of farmers to the facts which are
noted in these tables. nor will he say
to workingmen that they have been
benefited by a decline Of the prices of
the necessar1es of life while their
wages were increasing, under the gold
standard
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-09-24
Her Cruelty.

HeT Cruelty.
Fl told her would lay the world at
her feet. -
"Whnt did she say?''
''She said If was that athletic
ought to be travelling With show. -
Chicago Record
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-09-24
The Summer Girl in CAMP.

Daisy Wheeler should think the
girl campers would be afraid in the
evening.
Handel Barr-Not at all A camp
with 80 many pretty summer girls is
certain to be we'll armed.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-09-24

First Girl never wear a veil, no
matter how hot the sun is.
Second Gir-You must have com-
plexion to burn.-Detroit Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-09-24
Stormy Time.

'"They must have had a cyclone over
at Newriches last week?''
"What makes you think sop
''Mrs. Newrtches said they had their
monogram blown into every piece of
glass in the house. detroit Free Press
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-09-24
No Wonder.

Mrs Talkalot-What does make you
talk SO much In your sleep, Joseph? !,
Joseph-Goshl It's the only chance
ever GET -Truth
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-09-24
His Business.

The New Pastor-I beg pardon, but
in what walk Of life are yen engaged7
The Brand-None, sir. lam a sprint
er.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-09-24
Time to Reply.

lis the colonel speaking yet?''
Eyes He's just called you q hsr."
IF that's the case, he must be pretty
well through Please hand me my ahot-
gun. "-Atlauta Constitution.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-09-24

Do you know that we make picture
frames and sell window curtains at
rock bottom prices!
37-t.f BERGEN Bros.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-09-24
His Strong and Weak Poiuts.

dolby tells me that he can carry
immense sums in his head ;"
Perhaps SO, but he never carries
over so cents in his pocket. "-Detruit
Free Press.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-09-24
What Troubled HeS,

He-They say there are microbes tn q
Wuman's 6sa
6heI hope not
"Whyf'
II don't want to have to stop Kissing
Fido "-Town Topica
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-09-24
Lamp and CrO6k6ru Dept.

We offer you Lamp goods at
cheap prices. If you need
hand or stand Lamp call in.
If you need any Dishes call in.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-09-24

The same authority set forth the de-
cline Of the prices of certain agricul-
tural products by the following per-
centagaS.
Milford chronicle., 1896-10-16
which,, Cannot BE Both.

The paradoxes and fallacics of the
free silver advocates arc plentifully il
Illustrated in the Interesting letters Of
workingmen to The World.
One set stoutly maintain that there
would be no cheap dollar or 80 cent
dollar under free coinage. If the white
metal were given unlimited coinage it
would instantly rise, they say, to 81. 30
an ounce. The present price Of So cents
they attribute to the decentralization in
1878, though a silver dollar was then
worth more than a gold one, and none
was coined or i'll circulation.
Another and the more numerous class
at the south and west insist that what
the country needs is a cheaper dollar
The good old gold dollar of jefferson,
Jackson and Benton has been forced
VI" in value, they say. They want
dollaro about half its value to increase
the price of their products and to enable
them to pay their debts at half the pres
ent cost and trouble. AS Mr., Bryan
put it in his letter to The World, they
would restore the parity between
money and property" by reducing the
value of the dollar.
Now both of these theories cannot be
true. They are fatty contradictory. If
silver would appreciate under free coin
age, there would be no cheap money.
Prices would not rise. Debts could not
be scaled down. If it would not appre-
ciate, the workingman's saved dollars
would be reduced one-half i'll value, the
cost of his living would double and his
wages would not increase in anything
like the ratio of the increase in his ex-
penses.
Why is the best money too good for
What is the matter with
the highest standard Of value in a coun-
try where the highest wages and the
highest standard Of living prevail? The
World begs the workingmen to think a
little deeper and little further on this
vital subject. New York World.
Milford chronicle., 1896-10-16
MI.,l.aQELLANEoua IrEMs.


"a well-seasoned old oplored woman
is Mary Marks, who resides in Brennan,
Tex. Size was born in the West Indies
in i776. and is therefore 100 years of age
Six footed pigs, the progeny Of a
six-footed yearling pig, are to be seen on
the farm Of Jesse Carry, of Marion, Ind.
A seventh pig of the same litter has
seven feet, but it did not live.
Russia will henceforth supply its
Baltic feet with coal from the Donetz
region, instead of from England; the
minister of finance having arranged to
cheapen the railroad freight charges,
This is serious blow to England's coal
trade with St. Petersburg.-NIilitary
Gazette.
-vandals destroyed the saddles of
all members of the congregation Of
Crooked Creek church, near Marion,
KY, who rode horseback to worship one
night, and when service was over they
fired from ambush a broadside from
shotguns at the church building and
riddled all the windows.
During the family's absence a thief
entered a Memphis (Tenn.) house and
stole a bottle of beer and half dozen
pairs Of socks. That night the socks
were returned with a note saying that
the callers feet were not of museum size
and asking why more than one bottle
of beer wasn't kept on ice.
An uncomfortable desire to tramp,
preference for barns rather than
comfortable home in which to sleep, and
supreme satisfaction in begging or
stealing food have caused 12-year-old
Willie King, of Syracuse, to give his
parents so much trouble that they have
been obliged to have him arrested.
Atlantic City scorns the press agent,
TO be sure. but it sends out a story of
beautiful young woman of Pittsburgh,
whose hat, which was ornamented with
a diamond buckle, was blown into the
sea by a puff of wind and was brought
ashore by a faithful dog. as the owner
was mingling her salt tears with Nep-
tunes.
There was a Respondent bride in
Ore, because the groom failed
to appear at the hour named for the
ceremony. Half an hour
passed, and then the brides spirits re-
yived as she beheld the belated one
toward her on his bicycle.
He had missed the train, and used his
wheel as a substitute.
Milford chronicle., 1896-10-16
IN IGNORANT CIRCLES.
Education Does Not Always Make Oh
Safe in an FWg Trade

Education Does Not Always Make One
Safe in an Egg Trade.
was sitting on a key of nails in a
West Virginia mountain store, watch
ing native dickering with the mer-
chant over a trade of a bucket of eggs
for n calico dress. After some time Il
bargain was closed, the native walked
out with the dress in u bundle under
his arms and 1 followed him.
at isn't any business of mine, said,
"but 1 was watching the trade and 1
was surprised to see you let the eggs
go for the dress"
what for?" he asked, in astonish-
ment, as he mounted his horse.
How many eggs did you have?"
Basket full"
How many dozen?"
Dunno. Can't count"
That's where you miss the advantage
of education. With knowledge you
might have got two dress for those
eggs"
but didn't want two dresses, mis-
ter" he argued.
Perhaps not, but that was no reason
why you should have paid two prices
for one. The merchant got the advan-
tage of you because of his education.
He knew what he was about"
He looked at me for minute, as if
he felt real sorry for me. Then he
grinned and pulled his horse over close
to me.
'Ireckon, he half whispered, casting
furtive glances toward the store, his
eddication amt 50 much morn mine ez
you think it is. lie don't know how
many NV them aigs is spilled en- do"
and he rode away before could argue
further.-Albany Argus.
Milford chronicle., 1896-10-16
a Warming From webster.

He who campers with the currency
robs labor Of its bread. He .panders in
deed to greedy capital, which is keen
sighted and may shift for itself, but he
beggars labor, which is honest, unsus-
pecting and too busy with the present
to calculate for the future. The pros
perity of the working classes lives,
moves and has its being in established
credit and a steady medium of payment.
All sudden changes destroy it.
Honest industry never comes in for
any part Of the spoils in that scramble
which takes place when the currency Of
country is disordered. Did wild
schemes and projects ever benefit the
Industrious? Did violent fluctuations
ever do good to him who depends on
his daily labor for his daily bread? Ger
tainly never.
All these things may crafty greedi-
ness for sudden gain or the rashness
of daring speculation, but they can
bring nothing but injury and distress
to the homes of patient industry and
honest labor Daniel Webster, Speech
at New York, 1887.