The herald., 1896-10-01


sponsibility. for the sentiments expressed.
Owing TO the very large number of COM
munications received lately by The Herald
tions. correspondents will underst land that
there may be some delay in the publication
Of their letters; Correspondents are re-
quested to cultivate brevity as far as is
consistent with the proper expression OF
their views.)
THE SILVER QUESTION AS 1T AT
FECTS THE SOUTHERN FARMER
Editor Herald: In the endeavors to
make the money question seem but a
secondary proposition to the great and
momentous question of the tariff, the
Republicans of this district are making
the great cry that the farmers of South
ern California especially are more in
terested in the restoration of the old
Mckinley tariff ow, rather than the
restoration of silver. They claim that
the farmer would be more prosperous
with revision of the present tariff bill
than by the free coinage of silver.
In order to demonstrate the falsity of
this argument, together with the many
other statements of our worthy Repub-
lcan friends, tour was made among
the farming regions of Southern Cali
fornia from Santa Barbara to Modesto,
and the one general result of my obser-
vations was that seven out of every
ten farmers believed that they would not
be benefited by any revision of the tar
iff while money is SO closely tied to-
gether in the pockets of a few Shylocks
and the mass Of the people having hard
ly enough to pay the taxes on their re-
spective farms. The general consensus
of opinion was that il free coinage of
silver were successful, and our western
mines thrown open, thousands of men
would at once be given employment and
money would then again be + y ely dis
tributed among the people. And when
money becomes thus circulated, it must
naturally help the farmer more than
any other, for in 1t sales would be made
of his products. AS it is now, he is conf
PEELED to let half of what he grows go
to waste and decay. One farmer at
Hanford, who has been a Republican
for over twenty years, said he felt COM
PEELED to acknowledge against his own
positive convictions that the Republican
party is advocating the false theory this
time. But it was fact. Loyal as he
was to the Republican party, he felt
that continuation of the present tyran-
Eical control of few bondholders of
Wall street, who have the money market
of this nation by the throat when at
their bidding money can be distributed
or contracted, would prove most disas
trous to private interests, for this rea-
son. That even If his crop should prove
SUCCESSFUL tIlS year, as IL IluS III the
Fast, he would be compelled to lose more
than he could make for what little he
could SELL and the small amount of
money his customers could contribute
would be nothing in comparison to the
loss he must suffer in all that he would
be compelled to leave idle in his fields.
1t presents itself as a crime to see these
acres upon acres of farming lands lying
untouched, because farmers see no gain
tn. ,tn1yt ytaer kIo fn,. Ill
lack of demand. f.,
And why is this? Scarcity of money,
of course. The merchant cannot af-
ford to purchase more than his absolute
need, thereby overlooking the supply as
a speculation which prompts trade and
means prosperity; and of course in this
the farmer most suffers. Nf
The expression of opinion of this Han
ford farmer was one of the many COM
plants from most every farming sec
tion, and everywhere you would hear
that they felt compelled to vote this
year against their own party, believing,
as Bryan truthfully states, that the
only savior for this country is the free
coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to IT,
as so clearly expounded by the Chicago
platform. Any Republican who would
like to receive an estimation of the
strength of the silver movement of
Southern California has only to move
about in the farming regions Of Santa
Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, Kern
and Fresno counties and find his staunch
Republicanism considerably dampened
by the evidences of the loyalty OF these
farmers to the noble cause of silver.
And in this district the followers of that
"czar, Mark Hanna cannot use their
hullodzing methods of ''coercing' men
to vote in favor of the Syndicate can
didate," as they are trying to do all
over the country in the large corpora
tions and factories. Thanks to the true
American spirit of freedom, the farm
ers are one class of people who cannot
be whipped into voting, not only against
their convictions, but against their
interests as well, in order to satisfy and
enrich certain combination of bloated
stockholders who are speculating to
make the presidency an investment by
which they can still further cinch the
finances of this country. Put McKin-
ley into the presidents chair and you
will have a Marionette dancing to the
avaricious will of that dear friend of
the workingmen, Mark Hanna-Hanna,
Kohlstadt & Co., who so generously gave
Mr.. Mckinley the $1S0,00O with which to
redeem prOmissory notes which he him.
self was entirely unable to meet The
gentlemanly company are not spending
all their time and money to get McKin-
ley elected just through the friendship
and esteem they have for the "gilt-edged
apostle of protection" (protection for
the bondholders, suppose they mean).
not by any means. Hanna is not that
kind of philanthropist He has deep
ly fathomed interest in McKinley's
election, which only few know, and it
is the duty of every American citizen to
rise up in arms against the using of such
a sacred office as the presidency of the
United States for the speculation and
personal benefit OF a few greedy mil
lionaires, who have held the throat of
our nation long enough. If we should
sustain. this miserable lot of Shylocks,
we may as well give UP our energy to
become free and Independent citizens,
and constitute ourselves as lot of slaves
to the "boodlers' 'of Wall street.
The reports we see daily of how the
manufactures and corporations, at the
dictation Of that arch traitor to all true
American principles, Mark Hanna, are
trying to coerce their employees to vote
as they dictate. indicates the desperate
strait our confident Republicans have
come into, and the assurance they feel
OF the tremendous victory of their blaz- |
ing candidate, William Mckinley of
"Hanna's WILL"
Along the line of the Southern Pacific |
railroad you will find at every station |
yellow placards stuck up on the bulletin
boards of each office, giving seven good |
reasons why free coinage Of silver |
should not succeed, over q large print |
order of Employees should see that this !
notice is posted in a conspicuous place |
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