Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-30

prairies. Burn down your cities and
leave us our farms aud your cities will
spring up again as by magic. But des-
.. troy our farms and the grass will grow
IN the streets OF every city i'll the land. !"
Let me only add, in concluding this
brief and imperfect summary of the sill
yer issue IN America, that can mag
ine no more serious financial catastro-
phe for the English investor than to be
luiled into sense of false security by
the daily assurance of New York cor
respondents that Mr.. Bryan's candida
ture is hopeless. The balance between
American parties is infinitely narrow.
Had Mr.. Blaine IN 1884 obtained only
$40 "mugwump" votes then cast in the
one city of New York for Mr.. Cleve-
land. Mr. Blaine and not Mr.. Cleveland
had been president. And it is the
gravest mistake TO blink the fact that a
million Populist votes, together with a
great mass of seceders from the repub-
lican party IN the granger states, and
| the Pacific and Rocky mountain states
will gravitate at the coming election
| toward the new democratic platform.
Under these circumstances, it is surely
the very first duty of the British press
to prepare our investors for the coming
change. That change, if panic mong-
ers in the press, who are expecting to
get rich by immense "bear sales" of
American securities, can only be de-
feated in their intention to organize
panic and disaster, is likely to restore
a prosperity now long absent from
American finance. Free silver will at
once raise the exchange rates between
Europe and Asia, and also between
Europe and South America, thereby
greatly stimulating our export trade to
four-Gfth of the inhabited world and
enabling us to purchase much more
largely from America. 1t will also, at
the same time, secure an expansion of
the exports of the United States to Eu-
rope, at the expense of Asiatic exports.
For the lack of this expansion and a
consequent favorable trade balance,
that great debtor nation, the United
way with difficulty and at high rates
and piling higher that debt, the burden
of which becomes more and more intoI-
cradle with each fresh fall of prices.
And whatever the United States, in
raising the level of the silver exchanges
with the orient. accompliSheS equally
for every white farmer and white work
jngman everywhere. All of us since
1898 have suffered alike from falling eX-
change rates, and the consequent COM
petition Of myriads OF orientals, which
has SO inevitably followed the deprecia
ton Of their currencIes.
| hold, sir. most firmly, that though
faxed statistics, the men who either
wilfuliy close their eyes on the suffer
lngs Of American agriculturists, or who
with jibes and floutS and jeers have al
ready goaded whole states full of suffer
| ings to fury-that these men operating
in the eastern and the English press are
| today paving the way for a war be-
| tween the two nations. If the census
report demonstrates great misery; If
| the statistics of the agricultural depart
ment collapses as never has had any
parallel whatsoever in the history of
Ireland, then instead of watching with
sympathy what is surely the most pa
thetic spectacle ever presented to the
historian of our time. our press seems
inclined to do anything rather than
look for panacea which may help to
secure solvent agriculture for white
men everywhere.
Let me add, in conclusion that while we
may settle the Venezuelan difficulty and
while we may ripple over on this side
! the sea, with the assurances of cousinly
love, yet a letter such as that from Lord
Farrer's pen, which appeared IN one of
your contemporaries on Saturday last-a
letter denounclng great historic party
as party of robbers, and its platform
as bare faced robbery"-this letter
will few days hence provide the re
| CURED material in a thousand western
newspapers for fresh outburst of hat
red and fury age inst the''great creditor
nation''