Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-24
Several Holes in That r estern Skinner.

a prominent Colorado Republican
who has been visiting in this city says
that there will be sound money host
in that state when the votes are
counted. He does not, of course, eX-
pect that Mckinley will carry the
state but he does expect their ranks to
grow from now until the third of
November. He describes the feeling
prevalent there where the silver craze
had it's origin and where the storm
center has since been found Men who
have acquired a little property, or have
little more than enough to pay their
debts, or have a hope of paying their
debts, are not in favor of reputation.
OF course those with silver mining
property expect to reap an immense
temporary reward and for the most
part are doing everything in their
power to bring about free silver. Every
prospector, who has in mind the money
he made discovering veins that caught
the fancy of the Eastern investor in
times that are past, every man who has
been a plunger and lost, remembering
the heyday of silver mining is anxious
to have another try at the game. Allied
with him is found every Coxeyite, al
most every Populist in that state and
every man who is infected with the
idea that unlimited paper money is the
millennium that must come and is surest
to come through the medium of UNI
limited coinage just by way of a be-
ginning. OF course every owner of a
poor silver mine, which might either
be made to pay for time under Bryan
ism, or at least could be unloaded onto
unsuspecting investors is in the move
ment for all he is worth. But there
are quite good many of other influen-
tial and respectable citizens of Colorado
who do not believe that unlimited
coinage of silver at the proposed ratio
would be good for Colorado, let alone
the country; and this gentleman re-
marked that among themselves, unless
talking to those whom they presumed
did not know as much about it as they
they make no pretensc of thinking the
market price of silver will be brought
up to the present price of gold, and if
1t were the debtors realize that it
wouldn't help them, as they want to be
helped, by cheap dollar. The sub
stantial business of Colorado is not in
need of a boom and subsequent re-
lapse. a good many of the people in
that state also realize that they want
protective tariff far different from
what we now have, and that there is no
possibility of getting it through the
election of Mr. Bryan.
This feature of the situation is more
noticeable in some of the other Western
states, especially in the wool growing
districts. and right down in Nebra ska
and Kansas there is very lively tariff
issue at the present time. One of orr
Western exchanges says that ont tbero
the farmers are bringing hay into the
towns and selling it, delivered to the
barn, for 81 ton. That means small
wages for the cutting and gathering Of
the crop. 1t means that they are losing
~ or more on every ton for it has never
been so low by that amount before in
the history OF the West The reason is
that the Southern market which has
always been the outlet of the Western
nay is cut off; the hay from Illinois
Y and ohio is going to the South heca,,sa
that from Canada is takiny tha 1,.s,
''"'Ae'' go the West is out, and firms
'ha' nave shipped thousands of tons a
month in previous years are now find
ing II impossible to SCH any in that