The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-02
ROANOKE VA, THURSDAY, APRIL 9 1896

What OF the downward tendency of the
price OF all kinds Of produce?
Two years ago was travelling In Ne
braskR, and q young man came through
the cars and said, Dinner is ready in
the dining car" Wheat was thirty
three cents bushel in Nebraska then.
An old farmer said, "How much do. you
man answered. "Holy smoked" said
the old farmer, ",hree bushels Of
wheat for dinner" YES" said,
..snd II you stay to supper It will be
three bushels more, and II you stay
for breakfast II will take three bushels
more. and il you sleep In the Pullmsh
oar It will take six bushels more.
Nine bushels for dinner, breakfastiand
supper and six bushels for your bed,
fifteen bushels to feed and sleep an
old farmer twenty-four hoursl"f And
yet old party politicians tell you far
mers that II you will stick to this
system you will wear diamonds after
awhile. It Is lower than that now; IL
is thirty cents In Western Kansas.
The average downward tendency Of
wheat and corn and pork and cotton, and
wool has been gradual from the de-
monetfzation OF silver to the present.
hour. Y
Gold men say they do not want q
fifty cent dollar?
Neither dol. We Prohibitionists don't
intend to have fifty cent dollar either.
Ii we have ffty.cent dollar to day, 1
ask you who gave 1t to US? II we have
silver dollar worth but fifty cents to-
day, then somebody has been robbed Of
nifty cents On every dollar. And who
robbed us? II were setting o deiec.
tive ct work to find shat robber would
say, Keep Your eye ON the Demo-
cratic Republican party. The bullion
In silver dollar under the legislation
OF Congress for the last twenty-five
years has been brought down so that Il
is only worth fifty cents, but the fat Of
the government makes It pass for dol
lar. You can take the silver dollar and
get as much sugar and beef and pork
with 1t as you can with the gold dollar
Now let us change the thing. You de-
monetizs gold throughout she world and
remonetize silver, and the gold in q
twenty-dollar gold piece will not be
worth more than ten dollars. 1t ia the
nat OF the government that makes
money.
What are we going to do to trade with
England?
More than hundred years ago, when
we were yet baby, Englnnd attempted
to tax us without giving us represe nta .
ton. We got mad and said to England,
"You shsn't slide on our cellar door;
you shall not 'holler down our rain bar Z.
rel;' and. John Bull. you'll be sorry af-
ter while when you gee Us an indie
pendent nation" We threw the tea
overheard into Boston harbor. and had
she biggest tea party on record. And
then he got mad and pitched in to us,
and we licked him.
say the time has come when We
should adopt financial system for our
own people, and II England don't like X
let her help herself. Away with all
talk about what we would do to trade
with England" Ours Is the most inae-
pendent government on earth; greatest
and grAndest in it's natural resources;
and we can live without Irading with
Eogland, or with any government that
don't want to trade with US.
How much greater is the purchasing
power OF the dollar now than in 1873?
I'm 1886 the debt of the United States
was IN round numbers So. S27, S6s, 600
BY the close OF the year 1895 we had
paid interest amounting to So. 635, OOO, 900
and principle amounting to 81, 700, OOO,-
600 and still there Is balance due,
counting premium, OF about 81, 237, OOO,-
600. The shrinksge in market values of
farm products has been so great since
1865, that it would now take GAG, OOO, 900
more bushels OF wheat, or 51,359, 900
more barrels Of pork. or s,673, 4s6, OOC
more pounds of cotton, or 425, 900, OOd
more pounds Of wool to pay the S1,237,.
600, 600 we still owe than 1t would to
have paid the SO. s27 1868 900 in 1866.
And this is the bounty the toilers OF
this nation are paying for "sound
money"-and the voters are asked to 90
to the polls, and there, through the
agency of the ballot, perpetuate in
power political system that has thus
robbed the people"