The Dickinson press., 1896-10-10
PATRIOTIC FARMERS.
Whenever Danger Threatened the
Country They Have Rallied
to Its Support.
HARD NJ E AND THE CAUSE.
EmpIoyment Of Labor in Mechanical
Industries and, Not DECEASED
Money is Needed.

tuition the farmer has always rallied to
the support of his country. There is
good reason in this, in the fact that he
owns the broad acres of our territory and
is 80 identified with our institutions that
protect him in this ownership that his in
terest is necessarily of a character to
make him the safe conservator of our
governments perpetuity, prosperity and
honor.
In the present campaign we are con-
fronted by an issue that affects every
class of our citizens, hence. there is an
interest in the outcome more intense than
in any campaign since 1860. One reason
for the manifestation for so much inter
est is the fact that the country has been
suffering from IN unprecedented period
of depression and is earnest in its intent
to secure relief. Among those who Ia
Dor none have more reason for COM
plant than the farmer. Prices of his
products have been low. values of land
and stock have continued to decline,
until discouraged and disheartened,
AGO seem to believe him ready to
accept any promise that they make, but
the fact is. and better still, he is ready to
review and dis aqsso fully f the me nrdno ei ine
DTODOSlllOuS ol4SASus
that has been urged paramount to oil
others. is the free and unlimited coinage
of silver. .
There never was a more deceptive
proposition, one more startling IN It's
effects and results and one that would
be more disappointing shouid 1t become
a practical fact. 1t is advocated by
men having a pecuniary interest at stake,
backed by a combination of capital nm
equaled by any that has ever attempted
to control our government since the day
of the slave power. The. silver mine
owners of the United States, skilled in
political maneuvering. have organized
themselves into a syndicate for the pur
pose of forcing upon the country, With
.,ut regard to consequences, the free and
unlimited coinage of silver.
The magnificent scheme was outlined
nv Mr.. BRYAN in his Madison square
speech when he said: EAT the present
time and under the present law, a silver
dollar when melted loses nearly onc-half
its value, but that will not be true when
we can establish a mint price of silver
and leave no surplus silver upon the
market to drag down the price of sill
yer bullion" and then to show the pos
sibility of cornering silver and forcing
it to a price satisfactory to mine owners.
1--WE cannot even expect all of the an
nual product of silver because India,
China, Japan, Mexico and other silver.
using countries must satisfy their annual
need from the annual product; the arts
will require a large amount and the gold
standard countries will need a consider
able quantity TO- subsidiary coinage:
we will be required to coin only that
which is not needed elsewhere, but if we
stand ready to take and utilize all Of it,
other nations will be ready to buy at
the price we fix"
WI3~ t. Tho c;1vop minora' 0ohnma ~
outlined by Mr.. Bryan. The people are
invited to loan the of this gov
eminent to a silver syndicate in order
that it may be able by taking all the
silver that is offered to the world 20
fix the price and compel other nations
to pay that price. This is worse than
free and unlimited coinage, vet it is the
only way Mr.. Bryan says whereby the
price of silver can be maintained at
parity with gold. The magnitude of the
scheme and their audacity in attempt
ing it's execution challenges admiration.
but the American people are accustomed
to investigate the claims of parties and
men. They want to know for themselves
the why and wherefores, if some great
will thus investigate and judge for them
selves is evidence that they are quail
fed for self-government.
That present conditions are hard, es-
pecially among the farming class, every
n admits. There is undoubtedly Il
cause for this abnormal condition. The
silver advocates attribute the existing
yer, "the crime of 1873" as they desig-
nate the suspension of coinage of silver
dollars in 1873.
They fail to show how that legislation
reduced prices: they simply assert that it
did. They fail also to show why prices
continued to decline after coinage of sill
yer was resumed in 1873. They ignore
all the facts of development, the large
and unprecedented production of farm
products and especially the improbable
division of labor. The building of new
railroads and the opening of vast terri
tories for cultivation are entirely ignored.
the factories and shops of New England
and the middle and older Western states
to locate on the lands in Kansas and Ne
braska and the Dakotas. These all be-
came active producers instead of consum-
ers of farm products.
What we now need is to reverse this
condition of affairs and secure less pro-
ducers and more consumers of farm pro.
ducts. If by any way we can do this, we
will have accomplished something prac-
tical in correcting the ills our farmers
have to year. There is a method by
III e0Ao may NC accomplished, II RENE.
dy that it not only practical but pcr.
manent and far reaching in its effects.
There is a well established principle in
political economy often referred to by
writer's that 'the greatest creator Of
wealth ie the greatest possible division of
labor" Previous to the election of 1892
under the operation of the Republican
policy of protection, we were struggling
to realize u benefits of this principle and
w were rapidly overcoming our adverse
conditions by increasing the demand fol-
farm products. The interest which the
movement of labor has in protective du.
ties lies in the effect which the movement
of labor has upon the supply and demand
of agricultural products. It is impossible
to maintain a proper division of labor
except we produce the largest amount o,
manufactured goods possible within ouI
" territory. Open our ports free ant
allow our markets to be supplied by the
manufacturers of Europe and the efec
would be to compel our wage earning