People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-06-11
SILVER IN MEXICO.
The Greasers Are Prosperous
Under Free Coinage.
WHEAT WOKlH $l.O0 TO Sl.40
Freight and Passenger Rates Are
About Half Whar They Are in
This Country, Yetthe Roads
Prosper-Goldbus Lies
Herein Refuted.
WHEAT WOKlH $l.OO TO $l.4O


Ter vacation, there, and during the
tour visited twenty out Of the TWEEN
ty-nine States which compose the
United States Of Mexico. | found
countless humber Of our COuntrynen
there, engaged in every kind Of bus
iness and | met MeXicans OF every
rank from the president Of the repub-
lie and the members Of the supreme
court to the peon following the pillow
or mendng the road. l talked with
all and tried TO get the truth OF the
situation fairly and impartially stat
ed.
- That the country is now wonder
,ly prosperous is beyond a question.
None but the blind could fail to see.
tits equally certain that this prosper
ity is largely due to the fact that in
cur own country the value OF the dol
lar has been doubled by the demOne-
tiZatiOn Of silver, while in Mexico the
standard of values has remained un-
changed. The effect Of our doubling
the value Of our money has been to
double the value Of all debts, national
state, city and individual-and also
the interest on the same aud freight
and passenger rates, taxes, aud all
otter fixed charges, since IL requires
NEARLY double the quantity OF produce
and nearly doVble the labor to earn
the dollars to pay these while the val
ue Of farm products and other things
open to competition have diminished
in price Oue-half, and the wages of
labor, which should have been ca
HANGED, have materially diminished,
notwithstanding the efforts of labor
Organizations TO Rrevent this. In
Mexico products have remained at
the Samew value as ten years ago, waile
labor has somewhat enhanced in
price.
l. FanEl prOduets.-COttOn brings
IA to H'ceOtS per pound and corn and
wheat 81 tO-$l.4 0lper bushel, as for
merly7 according TO locality, 1 saw
many cotton mill owners and they
told me that Mexico, not producing a
sutficteDcy Of cotton the deficiency
supplied by purchasing at New Or
leans at an. average Of Is cents for a
serieS'df years, the price Ito them
being about the same. one year with
another, the difference being that
formerly theirl3 cents was eaual to
our B,cents, but with the constant
enhancement Of the value of our
standard their IL cents was nov
only equal to- cents in our money.
Thus our farmers, but for the legisla.
tion arbitrarily increasing the value
vi the'dollar, would be paying their
debt th.l&eent cotton and 81 wheat
and corn, as is the cash ia the COUP
tries south of US.
The tariff charges and freight ad-
ded to the New Orleans price us
cents make the price of cotton wary
IN Mexico, according 10 the locality,
from A,centS 10 the Mapimi country
In nOmhern Mexico, where it is large
ly raised, to lS,Or 10 cents ut the cot
ton factories near Oaxaca, which
visited in the interior in far southern
Mexio0 In the United States cOnsu.
lor repIrts for September, 1895, Con-
su! GOdmon, writing from MatamoraS
Mexico, says; Cotton is sold at I6 to
Is cents to the. cotton factories in
Monterey" This is in silver, OF
course, but it is in money which
few Yeas ago was at par with our
money. at the time when the bulk of
sour private Indebtedness was made
and our national, state and munioipal
debts We're being refunded.
z. Railroad fare and freights.-In
the United States consular repnrts
for December, 1895, Consul Oliver, al
Merida, says; Tariffs for passenger.
and freights are about half The rate
charged for local business by the rail
roads in the United States" Iht
railroads in Mexico are nearly all
owned By capitalists in the United
States. Their rates were fixed at a
time when our money was of the SAME
value as Mexican silver, therefor. al
our rates, If silver had deprecated
these rates would have risen, but il
truth, silver has remained the same
while our money has been doubled il
value by the legislation enacted BY
the procurment Of the bondh0lders OF
our national debt. The result is that
while the passenger and freight rate:
OF the countries are still noninally
the same, ours having become payable
in an enhanced standard now cost.
double as much, as the consul says.
). Effect on commerce. The en-.
hancement in the value of the stand
ard here. while money has remained
- at the same value in Mexico, has ID
1effect put tariff OF nearly 100 pei
cent. against the purchase OF article: