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II however, they would come for

II however, they would come for
ward in a noble. manly way and admit
frankly that they were mistaken, as all
know. and ask the people for another
osition we would respect them for It.;
but no. they come forward like a lot OF
towards and lay the blame for all our
distress upon an act Of bygone years
that is as far removed from the cause
as the north is from the south. Sill
yer, the demonstration of silver in
1873" say they. lis the source from
which all our trouble flows" Have
they proved their assertion? Never. Can
they prove it in a plain logical way and
by the use of some arguments? We
doubt it, for if it were possible they
would have lone so. The clarion toned
voice of history is against them.
Are there not a few who know that
the crime OF 1893 strikes a little nearer
the cause of our ills than the so-called
crime of 1878. Can any Of our demo-
cratic friends explain why this
try prospered, as never before. for full
ly 20 years. almost a generation, after
the s~o-called crime was committed, and
that there was no cause during all those
years for a political party to come be-
fore the people with a tale of woe and
speak in doleful terms of the deplora-
BILE condition of the workingman and
farmer until the democrats got into
power in 1892. To the thinking man
there is a very clear connection be-
tween the election of Grover Cleve-
land, with his avowed free trade pro-
clivitieS and the hard times that fol-
lowed so soon as his election was an
nounced, and no connection between
the hard times of 1893 and an act of
congress passed in February. 1873.
The act of 70 was followed by 20
years of unprecedented prosperity. The
election of Cleveland = followed by
widespread disaster. Pause and con-
slider. Do your own thinking. Again
we ask our democratic friends to ex-
plain.
1t was about as reasonable to blame
the act of 1873 for the panic OF '93 as to
say that a mar died last week because
his father fell and broke his arm 20
years ago.. Do the democrats or Bry-
antics forget or are they wilfully blind
IN tho farf ihot tho how'd tkrpoo 80 u,hiob
they complain SO bitterly. commenced
just so soon as Mr.. Cleveland was
elected and that, too. at a time when
under the provisions Of the Sherman
act the United States was purchasing
$500, 900 ounces OF silver each month,
or 81, 900 900 ounces a year, which was
approximately the entire American
product, thus creating a market for u
silver. and not only was 1t purchased,
it was coined into standard American
silver dollars. How then can Mr.. Bry-
an or his following of silver mine own
ers and their satellites, attribute the
depression to the demonstration of
silver, when as a matter Of fact, they
had a market for the entire American
product and the same was being coined
into dollars at the very time the panic,
depression, hard times, or whatever
you wish to call it, was at its height.
VIII some silverite please explain?
What does Bryan want to create? What
do the big silver mine owners demand?
A market for their product. Did they
not have 1t then? All know they did,
ard yet the price Of silver kept going
down. Why? Because the annual pro-
duction was becoming enormous.
In 1850 the worlds production Of sill
yer was only 81. O0O. 900 ounces In 1895
it had Increased to ia, 796, 1875 ounces.
Will increased production alter values ?
Most assuredly it will. and men who
know anything OF the laws Of supply
and demand require no arguments to
prove It to them. II therefore the
panic Of 1893 come upon us at a time
when there was a market for the entire
output of the silver mines Of America,
the Sherman purchasing act being still
in full force. a the silverites consist
emily claim that the act Of 1873 is in
any way responsible for the distress
that prevailed in '93 and for the relief
OF which the democrats called a spe-
cial session OF congress and repealed
the Sherman act. According to the
teaching Of the democrats In the pres
emit campaign an act that would create
a market for our silver would bring
prosperity out Of distress and yet, as
before stated, the Sherman law did give
us a market for our silver but neither
the buying nor the coming of the same
did then what the democrats hope to dc
now. viz: bring prosperity. Is 1t safe?
Is 1t wise to trust in a party that makes
and breaks SO many promises as the
democratic party? The promises were
made to catch votes, and broken be-
cause they did not intend to fulfill
them. Why follow the democrats in a
wild goose chase across the continent
when we have in the grand old repub-
lican party the goose that lays the gold