Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-10-23

India 1000 miles near Liverpool.
They shipped no wheat prior to
that time; now they ship millions Of
bushels a year. Argentine also ships
many million bushels, where In 1878
they shipped none. Russia also
about l2O,O0O,OOO year. Do rot
these things make a difference in
prices? We ourselves ship several
times as much as we did then.
Doesn't this make some difference?
For some reason times have been
hard since 1898. We have. consumed
a t home much less wheat since then
than we did before. This also makes
difference. "~
Silver has fallen In price largely on
account OF the increase in transport
tatiOn facilities and new processes
for reducing the ore; iron also has
fallen for the same reasons from $12
a ton in 1873 to $3.50 a ton IN 1896.
Silver and iron cannot be mined
probably without railroads. They
need smelling works and the ore
must be transported to them. No
poor man can mine silver. Gold !,
however, ID the poor mans money.
You can go to the Rainy lake coun-
try on foot and mine gold by band,
and bling back on your back a
fortune. ~
This can't he done with silver. 1t
requires enormous expense. Now
look at the ratio and take COM
parison with other products. A few
years ago one horse was equal to
about four or five cows. Now Tom
Lowry and a lot Of other fellows
have d~mo1etized the horse by cleo
trio railroads, and the young folks
are riding bicycles and one horse is
only equal. should say. to two
cows. We, should pass Il law to put
back the ratio, or invent some pro-
cess for making milk without thecow.
1t ia the same with gold and silver.
Silver has been superseded by gold
as the money Of commerce.
The hard times are caused by over
speculation everywhere in this coun-
try and Others. In Duluth the fel-
lows who are bowling about how
much they love the poor held their
property so high q few years ago
that poor man could not live in
the town.
Towne and others have talked
about ancient Rome. They say it's
fall was caused by the demonetiza-
ton of silver. 1t was caused by its
citizens putting up their suffrages to
the highest bidder, as Towne ad-
vises men to do, now; take the other
fellows money and vote for him. :.
We can't all he millionaires, and
we don't need to be in order to he
happy. II anyone is happier than 1
with my wife and babies he is well
come to 1t. Only one man can be q
member of congress from this district
at once. Only a few can be very
rich, but we can all be comfortable
and happy. There is no real poverty
no destitution-Outsid OF the large
cities. - .,..- .
Our farm mortgages are all held
by poor. or comparatively poor,
people Rockefeller and Pierpoint
Morgan don't own one of them.
The poor of this country are the
money kings. They could bv with
drawing their deposits, in 80 days
fix things so Rockefeller could not
borrow a cent.
NY Democratic friends, we have
got to go to the Republican party
whether we like it or not, because
it's the only party that stands in
this campaign for principle. We are
like the fellow who went to see his
best girl and found her engaged
with another. He then went to see
his second best and found her also
engaged with a rival. Then he went
to church, and was asked to pray.
He said 20. Lord. we come to thee
because we have nowhere else togo"
Mr. Bede closed with an eloquent
tribute to the East the West and the
united country.
The meeting was great success,
and the speakers held the attention
of the large audience to the last.
Trade Conditions.