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years and has submitted to the robbery
and voted for more Of it. He is despised
because he has consented to his W
degradation.
His very virtues have been made the
means of his degradation. The farmers,
and especially the men who till their
own acres,> r our great conservative
class. They dread revolution. They
love their country with an impassioned
ardor born of close contact with the soil
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tim Of all the stale old practical jokes.
"Hayseed' 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
o fight. He figures in the illustrated
comics as q half savage. Look at the
pictures Of the typical farmer in the
New York papers and see something
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looked the fact that parties are COM
posed Of men and therefore subject to
change. They were slow to believe that
the grand old party could contain
schemera.
On top Of all the rest comes q finan-
cial system which has added 80 per cent
to the value Of money and deprecated
the price of the farmers products in
like proportion, and at the least signs of
q revolt on his part he is denounced as
O traitor. It is assumed as O matter OF
course that Wall street
should strive for q rise in -GS
stocks, that manufacturers ~aA~
should lobby for a higher NNW
tariff, that the Pacific @%
Railway companies should SlF
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
It the bare hint that the farmer
Is to vote for restoring silver to
get Q little better price for his
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the farmer COM
plain that prices
60 down as the
size Of the crop
goes up2 And
how a you
prove that elevat.
ing the condition
Of the farmer
will elevate that
Of other labor.
ers?"
1t is impossible
to raise the agri-
cultural class of
any n t
without raising
all the other
classes who de-
pend on labor for
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An ardor Of pa
triotism which
q o m e writers
have thought i'm
possible in men
reared in cities.
Naturally, there
fore, the north
ern farmers stood
BY their govern
ment i'll the great
civil war. The
Republican party
was in power and
acquired an inn
mense prestige
by the successful
issue of the con-
fict. Naturally
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oas become pos
sessed with the
notion that gold
is infalli5lc, a
notion as degrad-
ing in its way as
the Afric a L
snake worship.
Nine tenths of
the gold mono.
metallists in this
country boldly
proclaim that,
while all other
c o IN m odities
change in value,
gold does not.
I'VE know" the
q wage say,
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losses American
farmers h q We
sustained because
Of the increased
purchasingpower
of gold, look over
the files Of the
gold papers be-
fore this became
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two bushels per capita was left for
bread. 1t has been repeatedly shown
that the worlds cotton crop il still
5000. 900 bales short of the worlds
consumpt:ve demand Our own aaricul.
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l. "oiAo' MuCu 10 Dc feared
that in great part he has lost his own
self respect. His poverty has become
Is reproach.
The Addiction Of Abundance.
But there has been 80 great an in
crease in production. Now, why should
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THE FARMER.
As He Mas and
: as He Is.
HOW He IS ROBBED.
Stupendous Decline in
Farm Products.
4 PERNICIOUS FINANCIAL POLICY.

of Wealth-Rise and Fall of Gold-The
Effect OF the Free Coinage OF Silver.
What Gold Recommendation Stands For,
An Honest Payment of Deots-The Help
Offered by the Ballot.
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1881, for instance. $685.
ESQ, 900 bushels were val
ued at s456, $50, AIT, and
in 1896, ACT. 1O2, 947 bush.
els at 1887, 93s, 998. 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
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auction OF lanQf In tWO-thlrdS OF the
country east Of Illinois you can today
buy thousands of splendid farms at what
they were 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 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.
But as q matter Of fact is there any
overproduction7 Have mankind more
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N. 7. Herald. the great qdes'
ton is, What is the farmer going to do
about it1 On him depends the solution
Of this all important issue. The fato Of
bimetallisro is in his hands.
A Simple Fact.
"But is not the money question too
complicated for farmers to master it in
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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
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from an unwilling witness. Early in
1892 Hon. Roswell G. Horn, tariff edi.
tor Of the New York Tribune, started
out to prove that protection did not Gre
ate m~illionaires.
Under his direction a very careful
census was taken in every part of the
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United States by
T h e Tribune's
agents. The lists
were published
weekly III 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.. Horr
o c c e in
proving to h i 8
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. living. It IL 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 Tess per pound or per
bushel when the crop is big than when
1t 10 small. What he does complain Of.
and what he has Q right to COMPLAIN Of.
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cannot be explained by that handy
phrase "overproduction."
Has there been any ovegproduction Of
fat hogs? Every farmer knows that there
Is just now q great scarcity, almost q
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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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80 Jooe AO" % 81
hog famine. And
yet fat hogs in
the central region,
Of the west are
selling at 8 cents
a pound or less,
when but q few
years ago they
sold at 6. Has
there been any
oduction
in milk COWS?
The n y will
show you they
are less numer-
Gus in proportion
to opulation
than they were,
and yet the price
is going steadily
downward. Is
there OH overpro-
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like this: A long. lean. lank monstrosity,
with bones showing horribly prominent
through his clothes, q face like q point.
cd Gothic front. q nose that describes an
irregular arc from the lowest point be-
tween the eyes down over the mouth, and
m his chin what 10 supposed to be Q
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Puck. O political issue,
before they had any interest in deny.
ing the truth. In the New York Sun
Of Sept. 10, 1898, for instance, was an
editorial of which this Is an extract:
For more than Is years. 1878 to 1893, all the
great primary agricultural staples have been
declining in price. although there have been
periods when the price Of some one was high
for a 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 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 pillow, mower, hay tedder and hay loader
and all other great improvements in agricul-
tural machinery having come into use prior to
1878. Subsequent notifications and improve.
ments have been in the direction Of greater
facility In operation rather than Of lessened
cost. While 1t Is true that there has been q
material reduction In the cost Of farming i'm
plements, such reduction has not always re-
suited In lessening the cost Of production on
the farm. rs new machines have often dis
placed those which were but partially worn
and which were quite as efficient.
1t Is probable that upon farms large enough
10 warrant the purchase Of full lines Of i'm
proved machinery the cost of production has
thereby been lessened 10 per cent, but such
farms constituting less than S per cent Of the
whole area under cultivation the aggrega :,
saving from such economies has been slig. /;
and has probably been fully Offset by tt
progressively increasing use Of commercial.
fertilizers which hos been found necessary m
all 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 5 per cent since 1878,
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change, chapter @, says, "In respect to
steadiness of value the metals are prob.
ably less satisfactory, regarded as q
standard of value, than many other COM.
modities, such RS corn"
By corn" Professor Jevons means
wheat and all other cereals.
Ricardo, in his paper on the "Higb
Price of Bullion" says, IF we dimin-
ish the quantity of currency, we give
an additional value to it."
BY currency Ricardo meant money
Of every character. including gold.
Mr.. Macleod, i'll his able work on
the Elements Of Banking" says, 1.-THE
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with their own land. Their N. Y. World.
names were coupled in the popular lore
with the names Of their estates. 1t was
Washington Of Mount Vernon, Jeffer-
son Of Monticello, Clay Of Ashland.
Webster Of Marshfeld and jackson Of
The Hermitage.
Where 10 that farmer nowr
The Vilifcation.
He is tho gibe and the sheer of every
clown who can get on the city stage in
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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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received for it
fell, till 1895.
when they pro-
duced ~s24,443,.
637 bushels Of
oats and received
therefor $l63,-
$50, 06S. And the
population has
increased 70 per
cent. In 1870 we
produced 1884,.
$4,000 bushels
Of corn, worth
eC0l,s39, $50; in
1898 1919. 496,-
1871 b u 8 h 6 s,
worth S59l,625,.
627, and in 1895
2, SO, $50
bushels, worth
$567,5 8, 100.
Ov reproduction.
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actual alteration
in the quantities
Of the precious
metals has ma
terially altered
their value al
different periods
Of history"
Professor Fran.
els A. Walker Of
the Massachu-
sets Institute Of
Technology, in
his able work on
m o Q y, says:
Gold and silver
do over long Pc
RODS undergo
great changes Of
value and become
II, a hiub Gr~rca
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|hisSer, but looks like u wisp Of weather
beaten hav.
This ia tie farmer Of today as the
people Of the ciuIs are taught to con-
slider him.
And why this change? 1t is because
10 has been So Systematically robbed for 30
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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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were the salvation of the land. They
were the hardy ycomanry, the free and
independent workers. and even such for.
eign visitors as De T%ocqueville went
out of their way to describe the happy
condition Of the landowning farmer in
this country.
Washington gloried in being a farm
er. Our greatest statesmen nassed their
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Is that prices have fallen 60 fast that
he gets very much less rioney for q very
big crop than he formerly got for a
small one. Thus the bounties of Provi-
dence are turned into curses and he is
coming to look upon abundance as an
affection. Let me call your attention to
some figures. In 1881 the farmers pro.
duced 4l6, 4Sl, 900 bushels Of oats and
received therefor sl93, 1913, 970; In
1883 they produced 57l, 800, 400 bushels
and received for it Sls7. 04o, 264; in
1889 they produced ISL, 5l5, 900 bushels
ard received $l7l, 7sl, 008, and SO Oh
down, the amour rising as the money
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"that Mumbo Commercial Advertisse.
Jumbo 10 ugly and we belieye that hs b
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prices lot the stdple prOuucts
Of the farm averaged g. per
cent greater during the five
years ending with 1876 than
now. This is especially true
% respects the five staples
corn, wheat. oats, hay and cot
ton-which employ lo6. 900. 900
out Of zoe, 900. coo acres now de-
voted to staple crops.
The following table shows
In FIVE year averages the gold
value per acre Tin the local
farm markets. Of the product
Of the Eve staples named for
quinquennia! periods since
1865 and an estimate of the
value with average yields of
each such staple In 1893 at pre-
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has yielded exactly the same result.
The fluctuations since the principal M.
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great" We laugh at the poor hes
then. but the argument is on their side,
tor 1t has been mathematically
proved, and it cannot be proved, that
Mumbo Jumbo has rot great power in
the unseen; but it has repeatedly been
proved in every way open to the human
intellect that gold is a shifting and I'M.
stable standard Of value, far more nm.
stable than silver, and that twice with.
In the memory Of men not very old 1t
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 f1uc-
tuates in value. No economic writer
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deceptive as a measure of the obliga-
ton of the debtor. Of the claim of the
creditor. Thus Professor Jevons es,i-
mates that the value Of gold fell between
1889 and 1909 80 per cent, and from
$500 to lS49 it rose lao per cent"
When Gold Was Cheap.
1t is q point well worth noting, how.
ever, that in the sever or eight years
l840-56-that gold. according to the
best authorities, lost rs per cent of its
value, the world accommodated itself
very easily TO the change. The only
outcry was from the holders of fixed iii.
d~ebtcdress, and they wanted 10 dc.none.
tie gold because II was too cheap. We
heard verv little about that in this
country and the masses of orr people
did 40 o"cI k:.ow il, btr."sc we had
then no l~1"@.a-cl.' rcHtu! class, no
great ~bCnCholGCrS; bat TIC literature CT
Europe AZ TIE time ": IL, Of COM
plants, AND AC%TNIA, GERMANY
AND Fix iUM LC-IA-Ly Dc.
MONE-I-LD GOLD. c. - other
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But as a matter Of fact is there any
overproduction? Have mankind more
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NdCaIlOus OLl tLlSlE O"il
farms, among their horses
and cattle. They delighted
in rural pleasure, they
worked and personally di-
rected their employees,
and from a season of this
kind of life and close con-
tact with the people they
came back to Washington
wonderfully freshened by
having lived close to the
heart Of nature, more
American and more dem.
rCrotio o~l ~oro ~ lora 4
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Total -. $7s q SIS o. $50 42 $50 40 s49 a $40 rs
Average Is g. Is 10 l. s. II q Q 10 8 Is

You a find all that denied or skill.
fully evaded in The Sun nowadays, but
that cuts NO figure. Nobody denied il
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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.
Professor Jevons, in his
work upon Money and
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I you want to realize what enormous
Ameryka. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1893-1902, 1896-07-11
PODROZ oh. DOLSKIEGO.

SHAMooK1N, PA.,-Ob. K
Dolski, organizator oddzia}6w
socyalistycznych, pisze nam :
"Po wyjezdzie z Buffalo, od'
wiedzi}em Rochester, gdzie ma
mityngu by4o najmniej 400 o
sob i spora z Mich ilosc zapisa,
Ia sic do stowarzyszenia. Z
tamtad wyjecha1em do Syracu.
Sc, gdzie po mityngu $3.50 o.
s6b) za}ozy4 sic oddzia} s. P. R
Ma tspnie by}em W Pricebur-
gu, gdzie przyjeto mnie bardzo
wspaniale, muzyka, a ma mi.
tying prsyby3o 100000 osob.
Ia to przyjecie sk3adam tam.
tejszym rodakom szczere po
dziekowanie. Potem pojecha.
lem do Wilkesbarre i tn sic
zorganizowa} oddzia} z SO
cz}onk6w. Nastepnie W Smith.
vile, gdzie republikahscy poll.
tykierzy chcieli za}ozyc klub,
utworzy1 sic oddzia} z49 cz1on
k6w; ma mityng przybyli wszy.
scy polacy tn zamieszkali. w
Duryea j W okolicy Smithville
wspaniafy mityng zako6czy}
sic zapisaniem sic 127 czfon-
k6w do stowarzyszenia.
Podr6z moja, niestety, ma
sic ku ko1cowi.
Ruch idacy wzrastajaca cia.
gle fala, pcha massy W nasze
szeregi.
Katastrofa W Pittstonie ma.
stapi}a wskutek niedbalstwa
ze strony zarzadu i niedbalstwo
to kosztowafo zycie 100 ludzi.
Pomiedzy tymi bylo 80 pola.
kow i ]itwin6w; wielu pozosta.
WHO po 6 i Z dzieci.
X. Dolski.
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niczy, jako ME wystepujacy
wrogo przeciwko religii i pa
tryotyzmowi, pozostawia tym
dwom swoim poprzednikom
moznost zmiany ich polityki z
nieprzyjaznej ma przyjazna'
Prsyjazne odnoszenie sic kos
c,o}a patryotyzmu do ruchu
robotniczego ME obali ami reli.
sii, ami narodowosci, ale doda
giido rozwoju kazdej idei, DO
zamiast sobie przeszkadzac be
da sic wzajemnie popierac.
Zaznaczylismy, ze przyczyna
nieprzyjaznego wystepowania
kosciola patryotyzmu przeciw
ko ruchowi robotniczemu moze
bye tylko pycha w}adzy, ME
chcacej sic wyrzec swego stano'
wiska; jako tez zaznaczylismy,
ze W gruncie rzeczy ruch robot
niczy ME moze ranit ami uczu6
patryotycznych, ami religijnych.
Massey naszych robotnik6w pol
skich So bardzo religijne, die
siatki tysiecy z posr6d mas piesci
sic mysla niepodleg&ej Polski,
warto jest wiec narzecz tego
ogo}u rozebrc blizej wezay, Ia.
czace kosci6f i patryotyzm
ruchem robotniczym, jako te2
te przeszkody, ktore je dziela.
Many przy tenn nadzieje,. IL ci
kt6rzy slepo potepiaja ruch ro-
botniczy dlatego, ze on jest no
wynn, lub dlatego, ze ME jest
on religijnym, ami tez ME mo
wi ma ka3dym kroku o Polsce,
re ci w}asnie zostana ku nasze
mu ruchowi pociagnieci z chwi'
Ia, gdy zrozumieja, il moga byt
relig igjjnymi, moga kochac Pol.
ke, a przytem moga podac re
ke swym braciom robotnikom
kt6rzy we wszystkich krajacf
}acza sic W coraz potezniejszt
szeregi, aby zapewnic sobie
chleb rag ns zawsze, ably raz ns
zawsze odpedzic cd swych pro
|gow widmo g}odu i bezrobocia
lDokohczenie nastap;.)
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STANOWISKO PATRYOTYZMU U
KOSCIOkA WOBEC RU-
CHU ROBOTNICZEGO.

Dotychczas naszychp polskich
obywateli ma amerykahskiej zie.
mi zajmowa]y przedewszystkiem
trzy sprawy. Pierwsze 'miejsce
naturaluie trzyma dorabianie sic
piepiedzy, drugie : kosci6}, trze.
Gle : patryotyzm.
Cd paru lat jednak wmiesza}a
sic pomiedzy mas pewna nowosc
= ruch robotniczy. Wsrod 60.
raczki byznesowej, wsrod znoj6w
fabrycznych nowy ten ruch po'
wlada: pracujmy ua zycie ME
kazdy osobna, walczac jeden z