The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-09-10

for our produce Why / remember that
northern Wisconsin then took all the
calves we could raise. The value of
calves and of fruit shipped through
the Manitowoc express office was al
most $4,000 per year. That business
is reduced to about $1,000 per year.
Quite cutting off of good market
1T seems 70 me that if we would
search for some way of restoring, or
partially restoring, this business and
other lines which have suffered though
not so much. we would be acting far
more wisely than chasing after free
silver, That is my opinion. or course
the silver men think differently, hut l
begin to suspect they have some self
ish motive, ard | do not wholly trust
them. OF course we don't want the
wild speculation of 1892. or business
done on wind, but we want business
enough to employ onr idle capital
rather than to create more capital.
"Now am satisfied we farmers can
not be benefited by any catch penny
Legislation and that but very little if
any good comes from us through legis-
lation designed to benefit mine ,wners
or manufacturers. OF course they
will pull the wool over our eyes if
they can, but we are to blame If we
permit them to do it always
Our prosperity comes from general
prosperity and that can result only
from rational methods and not from
schemes designed to benefit few.
Protection and legislation for doubl-
ing the value of silver are devices of
few to enrich themselves. Neither
is on the line of honest industry and
cannot be promotive Of the pubic
good.
People having money to invest are
afraid to 90 so because of this med
ding with The finances of the country.
We are not gold bugs or silver bugs,
but it IS to our interest to have general
prosperity. We want confidence re
stored so that money will come ont
from its hiding place and furnish en-
| ployment for labor and thus create a
demand for our products. The money
the world uses is good enough for rs
and we should quit fooling with it.
1t does not remain idle from choice
but from fear and while it remains
idle we are punched with hard times.
I've are convinced there can be no
patent device for increasing the price
of farm products. The natural way
is the only way and that is to create a
demand by encouraging industrial
activity. Every one Is afraid to 90
into business now, because all are
afraid if they make contract on a
gold basis they will be paid on silver
basis. For this reason they stay out
of business or do just enough to meet
the demands of the present. That
makes hard times and keeps money
from moving and we feel it.
every line of business has reduced
its volume except the agricultural line.
All felt that running full blast in bad
times wonld put the supply beyond
the demand and make production not
only Improbable but insure a loss.
We farmers have kept on running full
blast and have furnished products
away beyond the demands of hard
times. We cannot limit our production
as manufacturers do, for the reason we
cannot figure what the yield will be,
natural causes being factor affecting
our output. That is why hard times
pinch us more than it does others who
can accommodate themselves to chang
ed circumstances. That is why we
are more interested than others in re
storing good times and why we are
opposed to experimenting witlA the
finances of the country.
Let rs try restoring confidence by
insisting that monkeying with money
standards be discontinued. For years
this thing has been going on and |
notice that since it began times have
grown worse and our products have
fallen in price. Let Us try what the
result of keeping hands OFF, will be.
Should good times not follow, then we
may see what a change of system
might bring about. Just at present
we want to see what confidence will
do in reviving business and for that
reason we want all this fooling stop
ped"