The record-union., 1896-08-30
EX-GOVERNOR HORACE BOIES.
OPENS THE DEMOCRATIC CAM
PAIGN IN IOWA.
The Financial Question One Which
Overshadows Every Other
Since the War.

WATERLOO Ga), Aug. ga large
crowd gathered in the East Side Park
this afternoon to listen to Horace Boies
open the campaign in behalf of the Dem
ocratic party. F. E. Pollans, Demo-
cratic candidate for County Attorney,
presided, and after making a short
speech presented the Ex-Governor.
In opening his address Mr.. Boies said
that the subject which called the meet
ing together was one which overshad-
owed every ,other since the war. 1T is
a subject" he continued, (which inter-
ests in the same way all classes of peo-
pie. The leaders of the Democratic
party are denounced for the alleged at
tempt to appeal to class. Mr.. McKin-
ley has taken the pains to allege that
an appeal has been made to the classes
and an attempt made to divide the
country on the silver issue. BY the
very nature of things there must be two
classes
The speaker then said that Eve are af-
fected differently by the mney question.
The man whose wealth is money nat
urally wants the gold standard, for that
makes his money more valuable but the
man who produces what must be sold
for money WILL if he understands it,,
favor bimetallism, cheaper money,
money which they call, if you please,
deprecated currency as the best for
the people, because it tends to raise the
price of products.
Il said some time ago to a reporter of
a New York paper" continued the
speaker, that the condition of the
Western farmer is deplorable that
prices of the products of the farm are so
low that if a man was given the use of
land and was required to furnish the
capital to run it, pay the laborer the
same wages he could get in other kinds
of work, keep up the repairs and pay the
taxes, and to do this had to sell the pro-
ducts of the farm for present prices, he
would find himself without a dollar left
at the end of the year.
Il said that and now I find certain
New York capitalists declaring that a
greater amount of falsehood was never
included in the same amount of Ian
guage. Now, I did not make that state
nent upon my own experience, but sew
eral years ago the Iowa Commissioner
of Labor made inquiries of over five
hundred Iowa farmers of the cost of
raising one bushel of corn. They sent
him reports, and from them he found
that it cost 2S cents per bushel to raise
corn in Iowa. To-day in over one-half
of the State corn is selling for IA cents a
bushel. The Eastern capitalists may
have heard OF instances where farms
have sold for increased prices during the
past five years. That is true, but farms
have not sold for higher prices since the
repeal of the Sherman Act. They will
not sell for higher prices as long as oats
sells for 10 cents per bushel and corn for
IA cents"
The speaker then took up the question
of prices, and said it was all a question
of prices. The honor of the country was
not involved, for the reason that the
Government obligations were payable in
coin. They bear no promise to be paid
in gold alone. With the gold standard
prices depreciate. Money appreciated
as it would in 1873.
In closing his speech the Ex-Governor
said that the gold standard was the
standard of England. He said, IF we
adopt this measure of value we cannot
help but expect that our agricultural
lands sooner or later will come into the
hands of the landlords, as the case is
there, and that eventually conditions
here will be as they are in England,
With an aristocracy of wealth on one
side and a democracy of poverty on the
other