The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1896-09-12
That Silver Bait.

taus things are becoming manifest, some
Of them very puzzling to the politicians.
For instance silver is slowly dropping in
price and silver dollars are now worth
less than fifty cents IN commercial value.
The silver organs are strangely silent
about 1t. Not word can We find as TO
its cause from any Of them. Bryan says
nothing in any Of his speeches about it,
and something must be wrong. Every
day we expect To see something about
John Bull. tho Rothchilds, money power,
somebody responsible Tor Il, but not
word. II is only about sixty days until
! according to Alr. Bryan, it will 60 10 si2 %
Surely somebody IS sadly neglecting
grand opportunity to make an enormous
fortune, and tie money sharks, john
Boil. etc. are not nsuaIly 80 blind To
chance 10 make an honest dollar.
The same conditions exist with great
many other commodities also. Wheat is
about holding its own. but corn ia drop
ping. selling 10 Chicago September lth,
Tor ~, the lowest since 1870. The mar
he.s are glutted, and train lead after
train load OF last years corn IS going ont
Of Iowa every day, with prospect that
this year We viii have the greatest yield
ever known. Manufactures are closing
down, people by the thousands thrown
into idleness, staenation everywhere and
in every thing aud failures by the score
every day. S3i last week in the United
States. Strange is II not with free and
unlimited coinage Of silver aud prosper
ity only sixty dnys OF that business all
over this great land is practically at a
stand still VIII somebody expIainG
We eeFtainly cannot do so, but we can
give some historical facts, -that be who
runs may read.n In 1892 this country
had reached the highest mark Of pros
perity ever attained, after having main
tainod for twenty years a policy of stabil-
fty in our financial and tariff laws Pro
lection, sound money and towards the
last reciprocity, were the laws under
which We were doing business during all
that time. We had England aud Europe
by the throat, compelling them 70 pay a
high tariff upon every product thoy
brought here to sell, that we could pro-
duce Under the immortal Blaine's pol
icy OF reciprocity, we allowed them to
bring in products, which We desired but
could not produce, free, provided they
opened thetr ports to our products, and
the bait was too tempting TO be resisted.
Times were good, everybody was at work
that desired to be, prices were good,
wages, were high, money plenty and this
country was the finest market in the
world for all the comforts and luxuries
which are produced anywhere.
In 1892 our exports of farm Products
alone were over one billion dollars under
protection and reciprocity or the Mckin-
Icy law. Last yeur they had dropped to
a little more than six hundred millions
of dollars. almost one-half in'three years
under the Wilson bill, not to mention the
hundreds Of millions OF loss on manufac-
turing products. The result was vast
decrease in all lines OF manufacturing,
thousands OF laboring men thrown out OF
employment and decrease in the wages
OF the balance OF them, depression in all
lines OF trade, and the panic OF 1898 with
its thousands of failures in all business
lines, and here we are on the brink OF
starvation. This is history, historical
fact, and cannot be controverted.
All this is to be remedied and the ma
tion placed again upon the topmost round
OF prosperity by the free and unlimited
coinage of silver at sixteen to one. Less
than fifty cents worth OF silver made a
legal tender for one repudiation
pure and simple. Was ever a more mon
strous proposition made 90 an intelligent