Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-06-16
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TUESDAY, JUNE 10TH, 10!

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Europe buys about 1OO,O0O,OOO
bushels Of wheat from us each
year. Europe is therefore inter-
ested in keeping the price of
wheat as low as possible.
India is our chief competitor in
the sale of wheat. If the price
of Indian wheat is made to fall on
the Liverpool market; down must
go the price of American wheat
to the same level.
Years ago India discovered a
way to reduce the price of wheat
in India.
India is a great consumer of
silver. It's as necessary to her
as wheat is to England. Very
naturally, therefore, it : came
about that England procured sill
yer to send to India to pay for
the wheat. No country had so
much of this silver to sell as the
United States. Thus it happen
ed that England bought silver in
the United States and traded it
to India for wheat, AS long as
we and France had FREQ coinage
this silver cost England 81. 80 per
ounce, and wheat was correspo
ingly high. After silver was
demonetized it's price began to
fall. The cheaper England could
buy silver in America the less
her wheat cost her in India. So
as silver went down wheat went
down. OF course as our Americ.
an wheat had to sell in Liverpool
in competition with wheat from
India the price of American
wheat came down also. The more
silver fell, the more wheat fell.
If free silver coinage should
be enacted and the price of silver
return to 81. 20 England would be
forced to pay more for her silver
which would raise the price of
wheat on the Liverpool market,
and as it rose there it would rise
in this country also.
It is no wonder that the farm
ers of the west want free silver
coinage. If this were the only
reason it would be enough, and it
is only one of several reasons.
When western farmers get
morefor their wheat we will have
better times in Omaha. World
Herald, Omaha.
Yes. and in Willmar too. Real
ly, it the strangest thing yet seen
under the sun that there are any
farmers or business men in
wheat raising sections of this
country, that are so thick skulled
as not to see the supreme impor-
lance Of free coinage Of silver on
wheat prices. We talk about the
folly of our ancestors who sever
al hundred years ago worshiped
royalty and nobility. We refer
to the Indian Idol worshipper.
who sacrificed himself under the
VIII cells of Juggernaut and the
mother who threw her darling
babies in the Ganges, as illustra-
tons of barbaric superstition.
But Notwithstanding our super
ior educational advantages. the
farmer who to-day votes for the
gold standard is guilty of greater
folly and entranced in greater
superstition than our royalty
worshipping forefathers or the
heather Indian. The farmer who
works and tolls with soil and eli
mate to produce his crop, and
then deliberately votes at the bal:
lot box to take less than cost of
production for it, and deprives
himself and family of the neces-
saries and comforts of life, when
he might as well as not secure a
fair compensation for his labors,
is indeed pitiful object to be.
hold. The heather Indian was
hum bugged and subdued BY the
willy priest by the awe Of an un-
known hereafter. The farmer Of
the day is humb ugged Of his
senses BY direful trades in re-
gard to what Z urrup'' will do.
in case he should dare to assert.
his mamie I'd and vote for the IN
terest of himself and family!
Men who have hard ever.
money enough for q cent food and
clothing will fear and trembleE
lest the feW shekels they may
st hold o6ss hould not begood in