The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-08

die man, nj enables them to import
that class of farmers truck which real
ly pays the farmer best. You know
that ever since the Wilson bill has
been the law the government rev.
enue has been running behind about
forty million dollars IA year, or. in
other words, we are spending that
moun more than Il income. Does
it not strike you that we need a rev.
enue bill that will do away with the
necessity for selling bonds, but will
keep us at least even and pay III in
terest on the government debt? Nei-
Their you nor l felt that we were pay
ing any tax through the tariff because
we were prospecting, and at the same
time the government deb, was being
reduced every year That difference
between the Mckinley Law and the
Wilson Law made a big difference in
the prosperity of the farmers and may
account largely for the hard times.
Farmer: If we had free coinage Of
silver would it not make none more
plenty and easier to get?
Editor: How could it? If the minis
WIZ tuIuIIIS Out DuSucIS OI silver uOI-
lars each minute. not one more dollar
would find its way into your pocket
than does now. We depend on the pros
perity of the manufacturers and work
ing men to bring us good times. Free
coinage ia Uses prices all along the line
..Iaass one sSiH6 II M h y Yast -
be benefited by an With
illn man arOnnd Won WOnlI Won nvQr
look for an advance in wages? Ger
tainly prosperity must be widespread
before the price of labor, in wages, Is
materially advanced. In Colombia,
South America, as well as in Mexico
(both silver cOuntries), commodities
have advanced 100 per cent, while
wages have advanced only so per cent.
In BOgota, United States Of Columbia,
labor that was paid sixty cents per day
in 1925. now receives ninety cents per
day, though the cos of living has so
far advanced that the labOring man is
worse off than before. A poorer class
Of clothing had to he imported to meet
the conditions OF the labOring man.
Free coinage of silver in the United
botdtNS "ouiN hh'N' pt''Vc Hhu HDo
lust as the silver basis has done in
Japan. Russia. Mexico. United States
Of Colombia. and every other country
where it has been tried. Mark this,
not M country that is now on a silver
basis tOok that position voluntarily,
but it was forced upon them by exigen-
cies over which they had no control.
,VhaCo c;1ynr mime nyvnprS orn ocEinO nc
to voluntarily go not only on a silver
basis. but to invite Ii silver of all the
world TO come to our markers.
Farmer: Well. what do we need, in
order to secure prosperity:
Editor: We want TO produce work
for our mechanics and laborerS and
start our mills and furnaces and work
shops going on full time. and with full
force of hands. then the silver craze
will be forgotten just as the foolish
%greenback craze was. With a revenue
bill large enough to keep the product
of the foreign farms and factories out
of our markets. our skilled mechanics
VIII all find employment and that will
also provide for the unskilled laborer:
then our money will he kept in .Ameri-
ca. and not go abroad to make other
countries prosperous. We are the great
est consumers in the world. and when
our mechanics and labOring men are
at work at good wages they buy liber-
ally and live well. and that brings pros
perity to the farmer very time. When
the mechanic is idle or on half time,
as he Is at present all We the country,
then you farmers find it hard to sell
your products. and you feel hard times
and wonder what brings it on.
Farmer-'Then YOU think that free
silver coinage will not help any part Of
the country except the mining districts:
Editor-How can it: You receive no
money except for something o have
exchanged for money. or for work lone
for some one else. If the National
Rank in town here has received several
bags of silver money. how are you to
be benefited 10y ii:
Farmer-I don't know.
Editor-Neither do l.. You would not
hear any discomfort from the silver
mine and their politicians if the
Government bought all their silver and
paid them SIG per ounce for il. Why
should not the Government be required
by law to purchase all your potatoes at.
say. sixty cents per bushel. or YOUR
grain at 80 cents per bushel, as 10 be