The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-09-24

FrG0 ana UM1HHuAs- VAASASs -
Why should the farmers of the country
work especially for the interests Of the
silver mine owners to the neglect Of
their own interests?
They are asked to favor free and un
limited coinage ut basis of sixteen to
one; that is. sixteen ounces OF silver be-
ing rated as being worth as much as
one ounce of gold,
AS a matter of fact. everyone UNDER
stands that il person goes into the
market to buy an ounce of gold, using
silver bullion in payment. he will have
to g,ye thirty.two ounces in silver for
the one in gold.
Hence, what the farmer is asked to do
is to make it possible for the silver mine
owner to take fifty cents worth of sill
yer to the mint and have the govern
ment stamp it as dollar:
Bryan claims that this government
stamp would make it worth a dollar,
and If it would, the mine owner would
be enabled to dispose of its bullion at
double it's present value.
Why should not the farmer stop and
consider where he comes in on such a
proposition? When the silver mine
owners gets his d,llars with the alleged
fifty cents profit OH each one, he will
ask the farmer to accept them at double
their intrinsic value, and the farmer
who has voted in favor OF being swind-
led will have no just grounds for COM
pla1ut,
If this plan of doing business is to be
reciprocal, the farmer should call upon
the silver mine owner to aid him in hav-
ing the government build. system of
elevators throughout the country,
where wheat can be stored. Say that
wheat is worth fifty cents bushel, the
farmer should insist upon having eleva-
tor receipts issued, not in the ordinary
form, merely stating the number OF
bushels in store, but stating. for in
stance. that he has deposited one thou
sand bushels of wheat in the elevator
which the government declares to be
worth $1,000. He should go still
further and demand that these wheat
certificates should be made legal tender
dor their face value.
Of cousre, the wheat would only be
worth fifty cents bushel, measured by
the market price of bullion. If the far
mer is to join the silver mine owner and
make that fifty cents legal tender for
one dollar, why should he not insist as
a condition that the silver mine owner
reciprocate and all unite in making the
wheat elevator receipts current at the
rate of one dollar per bushel for fifty
cent wheat?
In the ordinary handling of grain,
wheat receipts pass current IN the COM
mercial world, the evidence of so many
bushels being in the elevator being ac-
,cepted as so much value, according to
the market price of the grain.
1t is just as easy and prectical for the
government to make a fictitious value
for..wheat as 1t is for silver. Other
countries would not accept these wheat
receipts at any more than the market
value of wheat, neither will they accept
our "free and unlimited" silver dollars
at any more than the market price of
bullion. Our silver friends insist that
we should do business on our own
account regardless of the rest of the
world u and if this is to be done, the tar
mers should be aided as well as the
mine owners. j : s.s /
What our Popocratic friends desire is
to have the government make some
thing OFT of nothing, but they limit the
people who are to be benefited to alto
gether too small a circle. Hsuch q plan
is to be adopted, the interests of the
farmer should be protected and not con-
fine the advantages to those who hap
pen to own silver mines.-Minneapolis
Tribune.