The record-union., 1896-10-19
This MEANS YOU
Points on Which All Parties Are
Agreed.
A Republican, Democrat and Populist
Give Some Important
Evidence.
(From the Nevada Transcript }

Republican administration. Republi-
cans, Democrats and Populists We're in
tervieWed, and their views were pub
lished under the above title, and they
agreed very substantially as to facts,
though there doubtless was not the same
degree OF harmony as to cure for the
trouble. Room can be found for only
one statement of the case from each
party, but they are to the point and good
to think over,
FROM A REPUBLICAN
David Burris said: In 1892 en-
ployed in hay-making an average of
eighteen laborers and my monthly pay
roll was $5So. In 1896 with the same
acreage l only employed ten laborers
and my average monthly pay roll is
5000
Mutton sheep sold in 1892 for S4 per
head; in 1896 81 80 per head l sold
my spring clip of wool in 1893 for l1st
cents. 1 am offered 3 cents for my fall
clip of 1886.
Fat hogs sold for cents in 1892 and
are only cents now
MY opinion of the shrinkage of values
in real Estate and improvements is fully
One-half now as compared to the prices
prevailing in 1892
FROM A DEMOCRAT.
j. M. Clark is an extensive farmer.
He said that wages of common ranch
hands in '92 was $50 per month. We
now pay the same class $40 per month,
although Miller & Lux and many others
pay only $40 per month.
Fat hogs were worth cents per
pound in 1892 There is no sale for
| them now.
Land has deprecated fully seven
tenths since 1892
II grubbed out 800 acres of raisin
grapes because there was no pay in
them"
FROM A POPULIST.
c. w. Elliott said: Land has shrunk
two-thirds.
5000 feet of lumber worth SIG per thou
sand.
Hogs were 3 cents in 1892 They are
now 21a cents.
Peaches (driedD sold for 1919 cents in
1892 They offer 3 cents now.
Hay was So per ton In 1892 It Is
50 80 now
Fat sheep We're SO 80 to 81 in 1892.
They are 81 80 now"
He discharged his hired help lately
and is doing what he can alone; can not
afford to hire men with prices at the
present ruinously low figures.
| As to the condition there is substan-
| tial agreement, and the agreement as to
the cause of this condition ought to be
as substantial.
| Take WOOL which fell so that Mr.
1 .
as he did get 1134 cents in 1892 Is there
Democrat who will hold that the cause
of it was not the taking off of the pro-
tective tariff?
Take mutton sheep, which in 1892
| sold at S4 per head, and now sell at
81 so. Is there any man who questions
that what killed the wool industry also
forced upon the market mutton sheep in
such excess as to reduce prices?
| Take land. The fall in the value Of
! land in the vicinity of Traver has, ac-
cording to above statements, ranged
between one-half and two-thirds Of
its value in 1892. Did the appreciation
of gold in three years do this? Grant
what no sound money man would think
of granting, that the appreciation of
gold is measured by the depreciation of
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average 81 cents per ounce. Until re-
Gently, in 1896, it has been worth SO
cents an ounce. a fall of about 20 per
cent. Grant that this measures the ap-
probation of gold, and even then an ap-
probation of gold of 20 per cent. would
not account for a depreciation in land
to half or one-third, of wool to ne-third,
of mutton to less than half, of hay to
! n nv ird lcn-
where to find the cause.
Why not look at the self-confessed
! failure of the Democratic party to con-
duct the affairs of this Government
properly; to the Wilson-Bryan tariff,
which admitted wool and shoddy free:
which closed down American factories;
| which cut off consumption on the part
of the people so that, according to an es-
innate made by the Statistical Depart
ment at Washington, the people of the
| United States consumed two and half
| bushels less of wheat per head in 1894
| than in 1892, a shrinkage of consump-
| ton among our own people amounting
to as much as six consecutive California
wheat crops? Why do men not look at
these things if they are really anxious
to learn the causes of hard times?
And where shall men look for cure?
| Why, to the party and principles which
maintained unexampled prosperity. in
this country for more than thirty years !;
to the tried and true leaders of the Re-
publican party who know how to con-
duct the affairs Of Government having
learned by practice and by percept. If
| the fall of silver did not produce this
unfortunate condition the rise of silver
'can not cure it,
On the other hand if want of conf
dence in the integrity and capacity of
the managers of a political party; IL a
low tariff and free wool and free shoddy;
! IL the shutting down of our factories,
| the throwing out of employment in San
Francisco alone of Ia 900 people en-
! gagged in manufacturing enterprise
| accompanied by the same ratio Of dis
| charge all over the country-if low
tariff policy and official imbecilty did
these things, and 1t Is plain that they
| did, why not restore confidence by put
| ting into power the party In whom the
people did have confidence, the party
that stands for opening the factories,
/ for putting our own people at work and
| putting the gate on It's hinges against
the Importation of foreign products not
needed?
| There Is under high heaven no other
means of bringing prosperity except to
return TO those conditions under which
our country had prosperity.
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