The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-10-21

mental years ago in running European
farmers, by flooding Europe with Amer
lean grain SO he is now-let us hope only
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS from a flood OF
the surplus crops of Australia, Asia, Ar
gentine Republic and Russia; his Gus
tomary outlets, England and the Euro
pean continent being supplied with
cheaper grain from those countries,
grain prices consequently had to drop.
The demagogues and paid silver ora
tors are trying to tell the farmer that
the low prices are caused by the scarcity
of silver, whereas they know that our
Treasury vaults are full of useless sill
YER and that the business of the country
is done by checks on banks, and not by
silver dollars. After confidence is de-
Stroyed as it will be if the silver party
should carry the election, then indeed
actual money even if it takes a carload
of silver dollars, to pay for merchan-
disc, whereas now, the faith and conf
dence in commercial integrity and in the
Government to make good and protect
the stability of every dollar issued by it,
makes payments by checks possible and
safe.
The farmer must always bear in mind
that a large crop of anything, whether
it's name be wheat, potatoes, labor, or
even silver, will cheaper it, as sure as
fate.
1t is every citizens duty to show up
threatens the destruction Of our COM
merce, and which is advocated by men
working for the benefit of the silver
mine interests, though some of them
may honestly believe that so radical an
experiment with the fir ances and the
credit of our country might really prove
beneficial.
There are still others, who agitate TIE
question in the densest, ignorance of the
inevitab BILE harm that must surely result,
but adopt it because it has become a
popular craze among the thoughtless or
inexperienced for the time being, and
apparently a sure means of political adj
vancement to themselves, as through it's
means they can obtain political .wer
or perhaps nOtOriety, according to the
bent Of their social, personal or political
plans or desires.
1t is the duty of every citizen to patri-
Otically take up this question and agi-
tate and Ventilate it in a spirit of diSin-
terestedness before any harm is done. 1t
is dangerous to defer starting the Cam
paigne of l.ducation' until after the
election Of the silver Candidate and to
defer until then the efforts to undo the
harm. which could so easily have been
prevented beforehand by slight effort
at ventilating the question. The "Silver
Craze an be cured and wiped out for
all time to cone, like other and similar
| lunacies that made their appearance in
| times past whenever business was de-
| PRESSED. 1T only needs public discussion
more about the effects Of establishing a
liver basis for this commercial nation,
Ian do the politicians or even the law
, erS as class.
1t is to the interest of every farmer
= we'll as every laborer, to prevent by
2 IL means in their power, any disturb
ance of the wheels of commerce, such as
we are now again experiencing on &C
cunt of this silver agitation. 1t has up
set commercial confidence and threatens
financial panic, which will close factO-
les and ruin merchants, through the re-
sulting inability to borrow money, or to
buy anything on credit. Neither the far
r?er nor the WOrkingman can expect
good times when merchants and manu-
facturers get ruined or embarrassed.
They can only count on doing well when
the latter navigate in smooth waters,
without any danger from vicious attacks
on the money system of the country
threatening it's stability
Let there be no support given by the
Workingmen or by the farmers to any
workinemen and the farmers for their
own self-protection, openly condemn this
'SilVer Craze" and on election day, No
vember Bird, next, help by their votes to
give the political death blow to the sill
yer agitators Who under the mantle of
Democracy allied themselves with An
archists and selfish politicians and favor
reputation, and even attack our highest
Courts of Justice.
The country must not be exposed to
such another business depression four
years hence, as has been caused this
year, by the silver agitation, and as
would be experienced much more in
tenSely, if the mere dread of the possible
election of the silver candidates were fol-
lowed by their actual election next No
Vember.
"FERTILIZER MERCHANT.