The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-11

party holds the balance of power in the
all-important senate and now that, for
the first time, one of the two great his
toric parties has come out for free sill
YER, which even of the eastern sea-
board states can be reckoned safe,
with the granger" on the war path?
"What is the value of a bushel of
wheat?" runs the granger Cateehism.
"An ounce of silver bullion" Why?
because an ounce of silver is three
rupees, and three rupees represent the
cost of producing wheat in India and
laying it down in London" The
agrarian currency creed is simple en-
ougb silver at IS an ounce spells wheat
at IS a bushel and cotton at Sd a pound.
Silver at IS Sd an ounce spells wheat at
Is Cd and cotton at Sd.
Said Mr.. Bryan to the Chicago con-
vention, when referring to the attitude
of the Wall street democrats:
"You come to US and tell US that the
great cities are in favor of the gold
standard. I tell you that the great
cities rest upon these broad and fertile
prairies. Burn down your cities and
leave US our farms and your cities will
spring up again as if by magic. But
destroy our farms and the grass will
grow in the streets of every city in the
land"
Let me only add, in concluding this
brief and imperfect summary of the
silver issue in America, that 1 can i'm
agine no more serious financial catas-
trophe for the English investor than to
be lulled into a sense of false security
by the daily assurance of New York
correspondents that Mr.. Bryan's can
didature is hopeless. The balance be-
tween American parties is infinitely
narrow. Had Mr.. Blaine in 1884 OBJ
tanned only 500 "mugwump" votes then
cast in the one city of New York for
Mr.. Cleveland, Mr.. Blaine and not Mr.
Cleveland had been president. And ii
is the gravest mistake to blink the fact
that million populist votes, together
with a great mass of seceders from the
republican party in the granger states
and the Pacific and Rocky mountain
states will gravitate at the coming cleo
ton toward the new democratic plat
form. Under these circumstances, il
is surely the very first duty Of the
British press to prepare our investors
| for the coming change. That change
| if panic-mongers in the press, who are
expecting to get rich by immense "beal
sales" Of American securities, can only
be defeated in their intention to or
ganize panic and disaster, is likely Il
restore a prosperity now long absent
from American finance. "Free siivel
will at once raise the exchange rates
between Europe and all Asia, and alsC
| between Europe and South America
thereby greatly stimulating our export
trade to four-ffths of the inhabited
world and enabling US to purchase
much more largely from America. I
will also, at the same time, secure al
expansion of the exports of the United
States to Europe, at the expense @
| Asiatic exports.
For the lack of this expansion and
consequent favorable trade balance
that great debtor nation, the Unite,
( States, is to-day insolvent, borrowing
| its way with difficulty and at high rate
and piling higher that debt, the burdel
of which becomes more aud more in
tolerable with each fresh fall of prices
And whatever the United States, il
raising the level Of the silver exchange
with the orient, aocompIshes equalt
for every white farmer and white work
lingman everywhere. All Of Us sine