Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-10-22

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GOLD BRICK swiNpLE olyEsv1AY
TO the SILVER PQlrAp. y
Honest uusbsndmcn should Not be De-
ludsd by the silvery Promises Of tho
Political Fskir-7some Piain sn4 Proven
Truths.
We have In this good land of ours GER
tain people knowHEas confidence men,.
via 3ayesdeps' consldc{ab sIcz|2 rs in
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products and the purchase of supplies
for his own needs; and who, having hon.
restly fulfilled his own engagements, nat
urally believes other people 10 nc nom
est; Is very apt to rely on plausible
glib-tongued stranger: Vendors Of pat.
ent hay forks. lightning rods, and geld
bricks have been most successful In our
rural districts where there IL LITTLE trade
and the daily paper Is least read, but
the Tribune always has. and always
will, so far as possible, give Its readers.
fair warning against these gentry.
There is now new. class of farmers
friends who are perambulatiDg the coun-
try and seeking personal gains from the
farmer, not by the gold brick but'by the
silver dollar scheme. Out of love and
kindness to the sturdy cultivators of the
soil those bold gents exhibit the silver.
dollar as an object lesson, and PROMISE
the honest f,r1nef that.fif he will give.
not his written contract nor his prom
issory note payable in bank, hut will
give, to the chief of these wanderers and
I and Of the destiny of this great nation,
the value of his farm and all of its in
crease shall be doubled. -
Now we advise the farmer not TO be
deiuded by these silvery promises. The
value of the wheat. and corn, and beef.
and pork. which the farmer has to sell
depends upon the markets of Europe and
cannot in any way be changed or altered
by these new tangled confidence men,
and no one kispgs it better than the con-
fdence man himself. He proposes to al
low any owner of silver mine TO take
/ an ounce or million of ounces of silver
to the mint and have every 30 cents
worth of it marked a dollar, and asks
| the farmer to believe that when he gets
two of these irredeemable coins he will
be richer than when he gets an honest
gold dollar. Do not trust these men;
they are trying to swindle you. They
have deceived you before. and If you
take their advice they will do il again.
-Four years ago some of these Same
| Imenl told YOU how you were being i'm
povershed by Republican tariff legisa-
ton. and promised that if you would put
times, you would all ride in better car
riages, be better clad and fed, and live
| like lords. You took them at their word.
You helped them elect just such II Presi-
dent and Congress as they wanted
They came into power in March, 1893,
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control of all of the legislation and adj
ministration of the United States govern
| ment and fixed up matters just to suit
| themselves, and now they come around
again and tell you that you are worse off
than ever before, and ask you to take a
| new kind of remedy for your ills. Have
| you not had enough of their wares? Do
you desire again to invest in any of their
peculiar agricultural implements? Do you
want any more of their patent hay
forks, or gold or even silver bricks?
| Four years ago they promised us a
tariff which would contain such provis,,
| ions as would deprive monopolies and
| trusts of protection, but over the objec-
| tions of President Cleveland the baser
part of the Democratic combination en-
acted patchwork unsymmetrically
| framed according to the dictafion of
| Senators German and Brice, the repre-
sehtatives of the wealthiest trusts on the
| continent. And here is the way they
| protected the Western farmer; they put
| n tariff of 40 cents Il pound on iron ore,
| 30 or ~ per cent. on iron, 115 cent on
| every. pound of rice raised on the South
| ern plantation, and took away all of the
tariff on wool, leaving the Northern
| farmer unprotected on this. one of his
| most important products. We refer to
| this as a well-known instance showing
| how much regard these gentlemen have
| for your interests. Do you want to trust
cuch friends aUninc
| One of the greatest and most powerful
| combines in the world is the sugar trust
with its capital of S75,0OO,0O0, but the
| enemies of President Cleveland, after
putting tariff of 40 per cent. on brown
sugar, put an extra protective tariff OF
one-eighth of / per cent. on all refined
| sugar, the effect of which was to give to
| the great Havemyer sugar trust Il COM
plete monopoly of the refining of sugar,
and is said to have increased the value
| of its capital in the sum of $4,000, 900.
We are not aware that these gentlemen
did anything of a like character for the
| Northern farmer. On the contrary, ow-
| ing to their revision of the tariff.
! they cut down and diminished all of
| the protection that the farmer then had.
| The Tribune told you in 1893 that you
would be deceived and injured and we
| ask you as sensible men il our predic-
| tons have not come true? Have you
| had enough of the patent medicine Of
1ered 10 you by these DOlu strangers or
| do you want another dose?
And now the tariff having been al
tered and changed and business democrat
| lied, factories shut down and workmen
out of employment and the nation sick
| ana diseased financially new remedy
is suggested. Bryan and his associates
| propose to cure all our ills and make us
wealthy by calling 80 cents dollar and
| then advise you TO relieve yourselves Of
what little debt you may individually
J or politically owe by swindling your con-
| fiding creditors out of one-half of their
dues. We trust you will take our warn
ing. We verify believe that the farmers
of Indiana, although in the honesty Of
their heHt. they may be deceived, will
always Indignantly drive from their
doors every man who asks them to save
little money by repudiating their hon
est obligations and will add their num-
bers to the majority that will make Nc
Kinley President and save themselves
and the flag of our country from dishon-
or and disgrace.-South Bend Tribune.
Dressed Meat Compared with Gold.
There are few things with which we
can compare gold with some reason and
| assurance, and / wish to call your at
| tention to some of them. There is