The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-01-03
PRICES OF EXPORT.
NO" 80 Esgiish Conspiracy Work. IN
Actual Tr~a>.es o..

Actual Tr~a>.es On.
I secretary OF Agriculture Mortar in :
y recent statement showed that ne vain.
4 OF our exports in the last nsral va,
vas - million dollars less rhsn il 80
p1eoeoing year. and millions less
tnan In the year lSss-a3. This fai,;ns
"a vas not In quaint We really sent
abroad more OF our labor product bur
We got less for IT, As the sa,ret.r,
-'msei explained. We export "a 50 mill
ron more pounds Of cotton. but Oh alrss
lor SAX million less dol ars
II the average export ar.es ~ co..o,
Tor the fiscal wear fse4-5 b,s h...,. -
sAme as for the preceding year The
salue CT United States cotton exnor,es
Nouln nave reached se77 900 go ms cad
OF vo.Voe-eoS. During the sama no
roo, mad the price remained standard
our bacon would have brought $40 400
- instead OF $4,000 00c. and our Lard
ssS."vvOo instead OF s37 900 Oo0
That Is to say. on three articles :,
american export Ne lost - million del
.s'rs because the price had fallen. The
n4raef the farmers work the less money
they earn The more American xeal,h
lie nation sends 10 other Lands ~
smaller the amount Of debt il paws Mr.
morton remedy for this evil. growing
iAore destructive year after year. il m
apply American inventive genius 70
AT" Management" But the sole ex-
planation OF the fall of prices offered hy
me secretary and his friends is thar
inventive genius has already mad
~ MS more productive How much far 4
'her Is II TO go7 Is a machine 70 he H. o
vented that will surpass the saIf-bina- e
IHs reaper as that surpassed the sickle, y
- the fertility Of the soil 10 be made o.
'"o-foid greater, IL 80. how r, = s.
easy to propose remedies. hu, No mn Il
@no Is capable of forming an opinion =
Upon the subject can seriously believe y
-nat remedy lies in that direction @
! mere Is out one remedy within reach
- 70 stop he upward movement of ~
old by remonetizing silver IN
" mat lesson the foregoing contains,
ne golcifes persisfently claim tha, the
rec silver movement is altoxe,h.r q mi
ne interest of few silver miners 4, no
pc same time they argue streauously ~
NAT under free coinage silver would "a. N.
al lower even than ii is now. -
Ho~ the silver miner is to max. a,x III
ling by a still further decline in ,ba sn'
aAue OF his product is point uno, ~
nich they preserve a discreet silence
but let that 90. Here We have q 70 mas
'rt by Secretary Morton. in which ha
q 90
re staple products Of American agri- &c
lture This is more than the entire -
tput OF our silver mines would he -.
'rth II silver were al par 80
secretary Morton recognizes this - =
Tinkage In values as an evil. because -.
suggests remedy. as given above -,
not the secretary little inconsis,- :, :
Z He says that the American -
a,,.,ra.', money OF the great time
yer 'i0o
- les
ie Is . goldite in the most extren,e ~. ,
Sc There is not shadow Of donh, NO,
! ne Is In perfect accord with creve ~ 1,
3 ioea OF retiring large portion Of nrev,
paper currency. which contraction demc
essarily means a still greater prosr
inksge in prices. 80.
upon MIN. though. in a versa
VI way. tnat when s3i 900 Of &C
pounus more OF American cotton tvent
igs s.0co-O0o fewer dollars. there a.
ething not exactly right abou, i,
rerore he proposes a remedy lie
Is TO improve farm ma,aya,r.,, r. DR.
now, Would he increase the cro, cite
mus increase the ''overproduci ior. ne co
the gold people saw /. ~. Draus
he trouble, Or uopls - "Th
lers diversity their York
ID out the loss over greater nun. menel
u products7 Or would he have them sun q
&C their crops. thus throwing lar,c ne o'
sers OF farm hands out OF emn,ov W 81
)! " would he carry the innrova any -
OF arm machinery to a still hi~h- ~ -
'inI and displace manual labor a. no~e'
way, rans
I N falling nri.~. that II
Il has hean ~ 'nink. ness '
'pions song. mat low prices are =
sssns. Why should the secretary
70 himself about trifiins los ~
o.oVV Ia . whole year on thr~e
-, ~ well
II = Al, ,A.,s 4, The 20
fallin. 49,. :. n''re mat . good
cunt Of money for The same ouan- 80 y
u products. When the tremep- Sube<
fali In prices is urged an an ar list. 81.
at % favor 81 restoring silver. 10 Nation
gold standard army shouts that roe STR
ICES AZ seed thing because the ~
IA GO ~ = nssA vtsA . ~ > -.