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Total SIS y s75 % $50 a.. $50 10 sd q so -
Average Is G Is 10 IL S. Ii . 6 20 8 i
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N. Y. Press.

age value per ton has declined from
$13.82 to $3.50 This last is the farm
price as reported by the agricultural
department for July; nevertheless, on
the day I write this hay is selling in
New York city by retail at SIS per
ton, which is beautiful illustration
of how your city consumer profits by
the loss of the farmer. Wheat is supposed
to be all exception because our rivals in
other countries are producing so much,
and yet the figures are significant. In
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The Robbery.

contrary. EN-
pires of land and
hundreds of mil
lions of money
were given to
gr at 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 murm ured
they did not re-
volt They nrar.
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HAS OcCOmo pos
sessed with the
notion that gold
is infallible, a
notion as degrad-
ing in its way as
the Afric a n
snake worship.
Nine-tenths of
the gold mono
metallists in this
country boldly
proclaim that,
while all other
com modities
change in value,
gold does not.
I'VE know. the
SaYap eS say
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actual alteration
In the quantities
Of the precious
metals has ma
terially altered
their value at
different periods
Of history. "
Professor Fran
els A. Walker Of
the Massachu-
sets Institute of
Technology, in
his able work on
m o. ey, says:
Gold and silver
do over long no.
riods undergo
great changes Of
value and become
in a high degree
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AN ardor of pa
triotism which
so III e writers
have thought i'm
possible in men
reared in cities.
Naturally, there
fore, the north
ern farmers stood
by their govern
ment in the great
civil war. The
Republican party
was in power and
acquired an i'm
mense prestige
by the successful
issue of the con-
fict. Naturally
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Few, 1t must be ad-
mitted-were hon.
estly made by legit.
innate enterprises in
which the govern
ment was not a
partner, and many
by the advance in
real estate in our
great cities. Many
others have carried
TIL Q investigation
much farth er.
Thomas q. Shear
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per cent. as Senator Jones thinks.
Would not even that much imitation do
great harm in dislocating existing. bust
ness conditioner
History has answered that question
30 conclusively that argument is un-
necessary. In 1896 the specie infia-
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living. 1t is not absolutely i'm
possible to press down the agricul-
tural laborer and yet leave the city la
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 right to complain Of.
is that prices have fallen so fast that
he gets very much less money for very
big crop than he formerly got for q
small one. Thus the bounties of Provi-
dence are turned into curses and he is
coming to look upon abundance as an
affiiction. Let me call your attention to
some figures In 1881 the farmers pro-
duced 4l6. 4S1. 900 bushels of oats and
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You can find all that denied or skill
fully cvaded il The Sun nowadays, but
that cuts 10 figure. Nobody denied it
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ton throughout
the world is al
legged to have
been some 20 per
cent, and in this
try there
was a general
currency infa-
ton Of 40 per
cent. Was any
body badly hurt?
Look over the pa
porS or THAT time
and see if you
can find any COM
plants from the
farming regions
Do not econo-
m is is Of all
schools agree
that the 10 years
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perhaps to one, and that is, Has silver
deprecated or gold appreciated since
1878? On their answer to that depend
the votes of million honest farmers.
Monometallists say gold has stood still
while all other things have cheapened.
We say that silver has stood almost TN
changed while gold has advanced enor-
mously in value, and. what is more, we
prove it by every line of reasoning which
can be applied to the subject That sill
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has ever denied it. In his
" Wealth of Nations"
Adam Smith says: "Gold
and silver, like every other
commodity, vary in their
value. The discovery of
the abundant mines of
America reduced in the
fifteenth century the value
Of gold and silver in Eu-
rope to about a third Of
what it had been before.
This revolution in their
value, though perhaps the
greatest, is by no means
the only one of which his
tory gives some account. p"
Professor Jevons, in his
york upon money and
fhe Mechanism of Ev
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haps in one or
two where the
process has been
going on for
1, 600 years, but
in no country,
ancient or mod
ern, has the proc
ess been so rapid
as i'll this. In
1860 there were
alleged to be in
this nation q doz-
ell nlillionaires.
Today there are
at least 5, 900 and
probably many
more. On this
point we have
u n i m p eachable
fpStirnOpv ON
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United States by
7 h e Tribune's
agents. The lists
were published
weekly in The
Tribune for cor
rection and then
compiled in a
pamphlet. The
number exceeded
1000 and was
soon proved to
be entirely too
small. Mr.. Horn
su Gee ded in
proving to h i s
own satisfaction
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hand. the rapid increase
in the value Of gold with
in the last 90 years has
wrought worldwide bank
ruptcy, has brought a wall
of distress from producers
in all lands, has again and
again shaken the very
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= II Il = III II
1881, for instance, $685.
$50, 900 bushels We're val
ned at $456, $50, 427, and
in 1895, 467. 102, 947 BUSH
els at 1887, 93S, 99S. And
yet the world has not as
much wheat as it wants,
and not much more than
half as much as it would
buy if it had the where
with. There is evidently
e,o,,,o@L;,,c. H. 49, ~
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termining tn q
general level Of
prices. 1t was
taken for granted
that the amount
Of money Of ulti-
mate redemption
determined the
price level. It
was the founda-
ton upon which
a ii disputants
built their argu-
ments. But now
you can hear it
denied every day.
And why? Be-
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crops, the coun-
try rings with
frantic cries Of
rage and denun-
citation. The
farmer has sub
mitted too long.
He has lost the
respect of those
who have robbed
him, and it is
r,,,ICn IN no f0or0IJ
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the grower in
such eloquent
wordsthat storms
of applause shook
the hall. We
loved to read and
quote the old stir
ring lines telling
how ''the en-
battled farmers
stood" at Lex
ington and Con
cord, and it was
u niv crsally
agreed that they
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received therefor s193, 1913, go; In
1888 they produced ST., 302, 400 bushels
and received for it S1S7, O40, 1854; in
1889 they produced ISL, 515, 900 bushels
and received $171, ISL ,008, and SO on
down, the amount rising as the money
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Price Of Price Of Price O
Tho Concentration of Wealth.

Many cite the concentration of
wealth in few hands as one cause of the
farmers poverty, but is not that worse in
other countries with different systems?''
There is no country of high civiliza-
tion in which it is so bad, except per.
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losses American
farmers h q We
sustained because
Of the increased
,purchasinepowcr
of gold, lock over
tie files Of tie
gold Papers hC-
fore t!'is haC.:uo
IN DNl.-.o,l :.-
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yer is by natural
law far more sta
bic III value than
gold has been
proved from ge-
ology, from min
eralogy, from
metallurgy and
still more by
comparing the
fluctuations of
prices in differ
ent trie s
having the diff
ferent standards
CT in the same
country at differ
ent times. Every
one of these tests
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the annual re-
ports for 20 years
and deduct that
ased for export
and seed from
the crop of each
year and that fed
to stock in late
years you will
find that 10000
600 people are
eating only about
the same amount
of wheat flour
that $4,000, 900
people did. In
Europe also it has
been shown that
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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 1.-The
people of the
civilized world,
and, deducting
seed and that
made into whis-
ky, little over
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received for it
fell, till 1895,
when they pro-
duced 824, 443,-
537 bushels of
oats and received
therefor $780,
655, 068. And the
population has
increased 70 per
cent. In 1870 we
produced 1884,
225, 600 bushels
of corn, worth
1901, 839, $50; in
1898 1919. 1885,
1S1 bus b @ | 8,
worth $591, $685.
627, and in 1895
2, 1 8 1, 1 38, $50
bushels, worth
s 8 Z, 8 90, 100.
Ov reproduction,
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you say, but divide the bushels by the
population each year, and you will find
that per capita the increase was quite
small, and in 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
the United States has increased in al
most exact parallelism with the in
crease of population, and yet the aver
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the brief time
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.
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stable than silver, and that twice with
in the memory of men not very old it
has changed in value so suddenly as to
vitiate all long time contracts and dis
locate all industrial conditions.
The Fact About Gold.
Every economist worthy of the name
had said again and again that gold fluc-
tuates in value No economic writer
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like this: A long, lean. lank monstrosity,
with bones showing horribly prominent
through his clothes, face like a 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
whisker. but looks like wisp of weather
beaten hay.
This is the farmer of today as the
people of the cities are taught to con-
slider him
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has yielded exactly the same result.
The fluctuations since the principal ma
lions adopted the gold standard have
exceeded all previously known. But
here IS simple test which the farmer
can easily apply for himself:
Take the average of prices in your
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THE FARMER.
As He Was and
/ as He Is.
HOW HE IS ROBBED.
Stupendous Decline in
Farm Products.
A PERNICIOUS FINANCIAL POLICY.

Evils Of Ccntraction-Tho Concentration
Of Wealth -RIso and Fall Of GoId-The
Erect OF tho FREQ Coinage OF silver.
What Gold recommendation Stands Foe.
Offered By tie Ballot.
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n. I. world foundations OF cred
throughout the British empire, and right
now, according to Dr. Eduard Suess,
threatens q redivision of the earth. In
short. contraction is very many times
more destructive than imitation.
''BUt the monometallists deny that
there has been any contraction, or that
gold cheapened in 1896, or that it
has really appreciated in value since
1870"
Oh, yes. they'll deny anything noW.
Macaulay has we'll said that if a prop
erty interest were affected by it thou
sands Of Intelligent men would deny the
law Of gravitation. Only few years
ago some Of the greatest scholars in this
country denied that man whose skin
was black and his hair woolly had nat
ural right to the fruits of his labor or
that married woman had right to
her own earnings.
A Dangerous Basis.
In no speech or book published before
1890 will you find it denied that the
volume Of money and its proportion to
general trade are the main factors in de-
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N. Y. Herald.

from an unwilling witness. Early in
1892 Hon. Roswell G. Horr, tariff edi-
tor of the New York Tribune, started
out to prove that protection did not ere.
ate millionaires.
Under his direction very careful
census was taken in every part of the
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4 = = ! -''.tttt 1
. f.;y:n = ton.-
+" i HAT }";Ccs
e GNwD to I,Go
Z ot tic c"op
'oS rT? A"d
~ C.n son
love TIT c,ovat.-
Agtav CONDITION
4 TIE f..cIcr.
MI elevate that
IF other Labor.
orsE''
Il is impossible
to raise tha aSri-
cultural class Of
any coun try
without raising
all the other
classes who de-
pend on labor for
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nearly 100. 900, 900 people cannot afford
to eat wheat bread. They are using
cheap substitutes like rye and potatoes.
Are we to suppose that they do that for
fun?
Enormous Losses to Agriculture.
If you want to realize what enormous
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MINES OF SPAIN AND GREECE.
AND, AS IF PROVIDENCE HAD
INTENDED TO REVEAL IN THE
CLEAREST MANNER THE IN
FLUENCE OF THIS MIGHTY
AGENT ON HUMAN AFFAIRS.
THE RESURRECTION OF MAN
KIND FROM THE RUIN WHICH
THOSE CAUSES HAD PRODUCED
WAS OWING TO A DIRECT
LY OPPOSITE SET OF AGENCIES
BEING PUT IN OPERATION. CO.
LUMBUS LED THE WAY IN THE
CAREER OF RENOVATION. WHEN
HE SPREAD HIS SAILS ACROSS
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uucOloI VI lana! In tWO-thlrdS OF the
country east of Illinois you can today
buy thousands Of splendid farms at what
they We're assessed for in 1870 and in
some of the finest parts of New York
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 very great pro-
duction, but the figures show 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.
But as matter of fact is there any
overproduction? Have mankind more
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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
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two bushels per capita was left for
bread. 1t has been repeatedly shown
that the worlds cotton crop is still
5000, coo bales short of the worlds
sonsumptive demand. Our own agricul-
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spotted breeches.
He is the butt of
vile jokes in the
city saloons. He
shares with the
mule and the
mother in : law,
the plantation
darky, the rusty
stovepipe and the
mp as the
stockmaterial for
cheap paragraph
ers. He is brought
on the stage of
every low theater
as the stock vic
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LIE ALLAN liz, HE
BORE MANKIND AND
IT'S FORTUNES IN HIS
BARK. THE ANNUAL
SUPPLY OF THE PRE-
C1OUS METALS FOR
THE USE OF THE
WORLD WAS TRIP
LED. BEFORE A CEN
TURY HAD EXPIRED
THE PRICES OF EV-
cry SPECIES OF PRO-
DUCE WERE QUADRU-
Piled. THE WEIGHT
OF DERT AND TAYEC
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Immediately preceding our civil war
were the golden age of the Ameri-
can farmer. if he ever had one?
Again, from early III 1869 to early in
1865 the currency of this country was
inflated at least $50 per cent Some
harm was done, of course, because the
initiation was rapid and tremendous. 1t
was six times as great as any imitation
now possible from the free coinage of
silver, but the only serious evil in it
was that it gave occasion for subse-
quent contraction.
The Benefits Of Expansion.
I might quote all the economic writ
ers, from Adam Smith down, TO the
effect that the volume of money is the
main factor in fixing the general price
level You will find the doctrine ably
set forth in the works of Adam Smith,
John Locke. David Hume, John Stuart
Mill, David Ricardo, William Stanley
Jevons and by all the French and Ameri-
can economists. The appalling effects of
long continued contraction and the al
most marvellous benefits resulting from
liberal increase in the coin supply are
thus beautifully set forth by Sir Archi-
bald Alison in his history of Europe:
1.-THE TWO GREATEST EVENTS
THAT HAVE OCCURRED IN THE
HISTORY OF MANKINE HAVE
BEEN DIRECTLY BROUGHT
ABOUT BY A CONTRACTION AND,
ON THE OTHER HAND, AN Elk
PANSION OF THE CIRCULATING
MEDIUM OF SOCIETY. THE FALL
OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, so
LONG ASCRIBED IN IGNORANCE
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before this be-
came a political
question. The de.
cline still contin-
ues, and there is
every indication
that it will con-
tinue. And now
AI
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cannot be explained by that handy
phrase "overproduction. -
Has there been any overproduction of
fat hogs? Every farmer knows that there
is just now great scarcity, almost a
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looked the fact that parties are COM
posed of me-; and therefore subject to
change. They were slow to believe that
the grand old party could contain
schcmers
On top of all the rest comes 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
revolt on his part he is denounced as
a traitor. It is assumed as matter of
course that Wall street
should strive for rise in 1AS
stocks, that manufacturers 81 e7HSs 49,
should lobby for higher " STN
tariff, that the Pacific GA1AG
Railway companies should ny
evade payment of their
debt. All other men can Judge.
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 little better price for his
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TO SLAYER Y,
EGOTISM AND
MORAL COR
RUPTION, WAS
IN REALITY
B r o u G. II II
ABOUT BY A
DECLINE IN
THE SILVER
a Nh GnT.n
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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
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tim OF at The stale old practical jokes.
Havg~"d" aul "Wayback" ard Jay"
-" RI r"C'''ir titles. even umou- cult
~, .Ir .,1.'', and il, the Sims 'f1rlrcr"
q lie ciitbets wljc'. p.orcLc
.." ,i"urys in the illustrated
ia!e savarr. Lock ~ ~,
- typical f:rucr ~
.r-S AID SCI sp9lyt1'3
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before they E2;i any interest il deny
ing the truth. in the New York san
Of Sept. 10. 1898, for instance, vas ~
editorial Ct which this is III extract:
Fer more than Is years 1873 to 1873, all TX.
great primary agricultural staples nav. b-c,
declining in rrica. although there ha.-., hca;;
periods when lie pr'cr of some one was h:,,
for limited time This is more not.thI1. tr,r
as respects secondary products, especially
meats and lard, but the trend of the whole,
scale has been C0Asthlltl. Iuahward, and the
general price level at 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 ted!er and hay loader
and all other great improvements In agricul-
tural machinery having come into use prior 10
1878. Subsequent notifications and improve
ments have been in the direction of greater
facility in operation rather than of lesse,led
cost. While it is true that there has been n
material reduction in the cost of farming i'm
PIGMENTS, such reduction has not always re-
suited in lesseniug the cost of production On
the farm, as new machines have often dis
placed those which were but partially worn
and which were quite as efficient.
1t Is probable that upon farms largo enough
to warrant the purchase of full lines of inn
proved machinery the cost of production has
thereby been lessened 10 per cent, but such
farms constituting less than 5 per cent of the
whole area under cultivation the aggregate
saving from such economies has been slight
and has probably been fully offset by tho
progressively increasing use of commercial
fertilizers which has been found necessary in
al the region east of the Mississippi, not to
increase the fertility of the land, but simply
to prevent further deterioration.
The Yield of an Acre.
While the cost of production cannot have
been lessened as much as per cent since 1875,
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that II great part he has lost his ow,'
self II .rcct His poverty has bcccm,
. reprc>ch.
Ti;p affection OF Abundance.
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were the salvation Of the land. THY
wcro the hardy yeomanry, the free and
independent workers. and even such for
eiEn visitors rs Dc TccGrcville wCui
ont of their way to describe tho hcppy
condition of the landowning farmer in
this country
Washington c:loricd i'll hcirg farm
or, Oar greatest statesmen passed their
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w -
hog famine. And
yet fat hogs in
the central region
of the west are
selling at 3 cents
a pound or less,
when but q few
years ago they
sold at 6. Has
there been any
Ov erproduction
in milk COWS?
The census will
show you they
are less numer-
GUS in proportion
to population
than they were,
and yet the price
is going steadily
downward. Is
there an overpro-
1-aAs@- 80 IIo
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ton is, What is the farmer going to do
about it? On him depends the solution
Ut this all important issue. The fate of
bimetallism is in his hands.
A Simple Fact.
but is not the money question too
complicated for farmers to master it in