The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1896-09-18
DEMOCRATIC TICKET
FARMING and PROSPEROUS
TIMES

Farming is the basis OF our national
prosperity and national wealth.
When farm products do not bring
prices which justify the farmer in pro
ducing them, every other industry IL
affected thereby. Even though the
products of the farm are the necessa-
ries of fife, yet people generally would
rather pay higher prices for these
products, for this would mean more
prosperity in every line of work and
trade.
Ii we were il manufacturing nation,
and depended OH the countries for our
supply of breadstriifs, then it would
be to our general interest that prices
of farm products should be as low as
possible, but we are ali agricultural
nation.
This being so. is it sound argument
for any one to say that rise i'll prices
will be ruinous. That the election OF
Bryan means rise in prices with a
consequent financial crises. These
two do not travel together. The
worst panic and crisis, perhaps that
history records was brought about as
sentially by the long iron clad OPP
preston of the farmers of France dur
ing the last half of the eighteenth cen
fury. Taxes were enormous and prices
extremely low.
Farmers are q patient and peaceful
class. They will bear more oppression
than any other class; but when aroused
and thoroughly in earnest they be
come resolute in the course they take,
There is no turning the tide or stem
ming the current by any false or sooth-
ing measures.
In the present campaign the farm
ers and those interested in their pros
perity have grasped the monetary sit
uation in way that will be heard in
no uncertain tones in Novem Der.
The present contracted condition of
our currency has been great factor
in making the lot of the farmer at
present so hard. The law of supply
and demand, which the Republicans
talk so glibly about, has been a factor
in the fall in prices OF farm products
during the past few years, bnr it it
only factor.
By placing our currency on hiinet-
allie basis, remonetizing silver, we
will take away the pregnant cause;
money will circulate more freely,
prices will rise. business be more
brisk, and people generally will hay e
nore money to spend.
What if man must spend five dol
lars for an article he can now pur-
chase for three or four dollars? With
brisker business more ready employ
ment and better wages, he can well
afford to pay the advanced price and
have the consolation of earning as
we'll as spending more money in the
course of year. A man would rath-
er work for two dollars a day and
spend one dollar and fifty cents day
on a good living for himself and fam
lily than to go on the chinese plan of
working for twenty cents day and
living on fifteen.
Mr.. Mckinley offers no relief to the
farmer. He has no definite financial
policy to which he is pledged. In
marked contrast to this is the open
and straightforward statements of
Bryan. There is nothing hazy in his
speeches He has financial p )licy
which he will pursue, if elected, and
which will without doubt better the
condition of the farming class.
When we use the word farmer. we
do not mean merely the man who
owns or superintends the farm. but
all connected with the farming inter
estS.
Agriculture is the occupation of the
great majority of the people of Har-
ford county. Let them awake to
their interests. We believe they are
alive to the situation, and that
November will find our county send
ing in a good majority for Bryan,
Sewall and Jewett.