Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-08-07
wsyERHAEUsER on SILVER.
The Great Lumberman Gives MS
Views on the Money q
Question. s
Free Coinage Would Injare Business
and Harm Laboring-
IL men. +

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and Harm Laboring-
men. N.
The Minneapolis tNmbermanl
seldom discusses politics, but II cay
that this J ear the money issue 2 pre-
scented to the voters requires II !,
take the Republican side. ItzAdvS,
Gates the support Of the Republican,
ticket this year. and closes lite arttcl,
GU 'The Financial Question from {
Trade Standpoint" as follows:
There is 5perhaps no lumtser,nat, Il
the west who Is better posted nnt
more able to, speak of this question
and It's probable effect ON the lumber
trade than Friedrich Weyerhaeusel
of st. Paul. He is broad enough
too, to SEQ that it is not alone the
matter of the money standard. but
also the question Of protection tt
American industry, that must be
taken into account In thecOtning fall
elections. The following is what he
mas to say on the matters In question;
1.-The silver men propose to cut the
dollars in two, butt do not think
they will succeed, and I think after a
while they will be glad they did not.
I think that the most OF them will
see the error 0f their views before
election day. and it will be we'll for
the country that they do. There
seems to be some argument that free
silver will help the laboring man, but
honestly believe it would do him
more damage than anyone else.
Wages will not be advanced with
the decline in the value of money
which would inevitably follow free
silver legislation. The great trouble
IS that people have for years been
trying to make something out Of
nothing, and the free silver craze Ia
another manifestation of it. They
have never succeeded, and they never
will in this enlightened country.
These silver fellows are not SO sincere
as they pretend. Among the many
people that are putting away their.
gold there are as many of the advO-
Gates Of silver as, any other. They
know that the cheap money will
drive out the better money and they
wish to take advantage uf the OPP
portunity to freeze ON to all the gold
they can. r..
1--WE cannot do business in this
country without protection to labor
and sound money. For these rea-'
sons am for Mckfn1eyfor president,
He certainly represents all Of these
things and it would be something of
a calamityif the voters of the coun-
try should cast enough votes to elect
Mr.. Bryan. I do not wish to predict
disaster, but there is no doubtlwhat-
ever that the consequences would be
to the business and COM
interests OF the country. and
they would be far reaching.
1.-THE lumber business. in which
am interested, has suffered much,
and in this lake section In particular.
During the past year, upder q free
tariff, Canada shipped to this coun-
try 500, 600, 900 feet Of lumber and 4OO,-
)00,Oo0 feet Of logs, against about
200, 900, 600, all told, the previous year,
under q protective tariff. In other |
words, during the past year free
trade has robbed the lum Der interests |!
Of this county of 7O0,O0O,000 or $780,
)00, 900 feet of lumber and the most |
# the loss has fallen on the lake
'egion, and think the Duluth lum-
5ermen will agree thatI am speak.
ing advisedly. @,'.s'>> =: IT, -. -. y,
y IF Bryan Is elected, our securities
n Europe will come back TO be sold
or what they will bring, The great !
:rouble with the people 1. short
memory for what has transpired in
he past. Experience should lie a !
great teacher and cause and effect
should be studied. There are certain
Inevitable laws and those relati to
finance cannot be trifled with with
,ut someone getting hurt. The
Of this country IL the
one that should consider the situa-
ton carefully. for, though he may
have little, he may have more at
stake than the rich man, for he has
his labor to depend on" r. .ss..,
Installation of Officers.
Star Of the West Hive. l.. O. T. NJ,
held it's regular meeting Tuesday
.x,npi n ~ n nd Insf a11A6 tho ft,l1s,1uin r.