Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-13
A NEW KIND OF PARITY.
A Fable That Shows whsre Silver viii
Land Uncle Sam.


sending out the following fable in their
latest market letter. It's hard nut for
free sllverites to crack. The letter says
''One of the most distinguished bank
ers in this city sends us with the stamp
of his approval very amusing and in
structive leaflet It is fable entitled
the Wise Men of Kansas and the
scene is laid in the future. We can not
do better than to quote from it and thus
give it additional circulation as q speci-
men of the clever literature which will
be used by the Republicans of this cam
paign.
"'Then the governor assembled the
wise men in special session and thus ad-
dressed them:
"'Most noble, brave and mighty yeo-
men, our people groan. The burden is
heavy upon them. Early and late they
toll and eat the bread of disappointment
and bitterness. Make We laws for their
deliverance'
1--WE are the greatest state in the
union. We are big enough and rich
enough to have policy of our own re-
gardless of what other states may do or
may not do. Let as be patriotic. A
Kansas policy for Kansas is the need of
the hour. Wheat is hard to raise and
the yield is light and uncertain but we
are great on corn The notion that the
price must be the law of supply and de-
mand is a superstition by means of
which the rich plunder and oppress hon.
est toll. Make ye therefore law in ac-
cordance with which sovereign and au-
gust statute corn shall be put upon par
with wheat. They shall be interchange
able bushel for bushel, and the price of
corn shall be the same as the price of
wheat. Do this and the people of Kan
sas shall rise up and call you blessed,
and all the world except the money lend
ers shall hail you as the emancipators of
mankind
1.-THE wIse men passed the law as the
governor had advised, and all the peo-
pie Of the state rejoiced, for their CRIBS
were full of corn. They could hardly
contain themselves till the governor had
signed the bill which raised the price of
Kansas corn from l5 cents to 45 cents
bushel. Au the people now felt rich
They bought many Inquiries and most of
them went into debt. They wondered
that they had never before found out
that wealth was simply matter of leg
islation, and they felt great pity and
contempt fer the ignorant and supersti-
tlous people OF the other states. Then
the farmers from the other states began
hauling their corn to Kansas. Long
lines OF wagons came winding along
every road. Boats foated it down the
rivers and railroads rushed it from ev-
cry section of the country. 1t seemed
as if the country was all corn and it
was all headed for Kansas. The people
of Kansas took their medicine, that is,
they took the corn and gave up their
wheat.
1.-The farmers of the other states
thought the Kansas people queer, but
they kept bringing them their corn.
Corn came in and wheat went out. And
besides all the Kansas people had gone
to raising corn because it was more
easily produced than wheat and was to
bring just as much in the market as
wheat, for the wise men had decreed
that it should. 1t was not long until
Kansas had all of its own and nearly
all of its neishbors' corn.
"When the other states saw this vast
accumulation and knew that it must
sooner or later come on the market, the
price of corr began to decline till it
could be purchased everywhere, except
in Kansas, for 10 cents bushel. In
Kansas the price was still 45 cents,
which was the price of wheat, but there
were no buyers. Neither would anyone
exchange wheat for their corn. When
the autumn came the Kansas people did
not have any wheat for seed Then
they sent to the neighboring states and
lmpiored the farmers to exchange wheat
at parity with corn. But the farmers
said: I'VE will exchange one for four
and one-half bushels of corn Our
law replie '. the Kansas people, puts
corn and wheat ON a parity. they are
equal, for our wise men said they should
be- And the farmers replied: Your
wise men are asses ; let them eat your
corn So the Kansans went back home
and all their people were in dispair.
"The more corn they had the less it
was worth, and they had nothing but
corn. Day by day the times grew
harder.
''Then the governor again assembled
the wise men and said to them, Most
consummate, picturesque and glittering
golldarned fools. There is but one
bigger fool than yourselves. 1t is he
who now addresses you
1--WE thought we could bluff the
everlasting law of supply and demand
with our statute. We thought we could
legislate value into thing and make
our people rich by law. We thought
we were patriotic We were idiotic.
Let us honestly acknowledge our as
sininity, repeal our fool law, get back
into line with the other states, and
imagine no more that we are wiser than
the world"
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