The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-01

having been stopped should expect to nd the
ties are speaking truly the prices Of silver bullion wheat and cot
ton all going down together. But they did Silver
down in 1874 to SI27 ounce but the price of wheat went
to SLAB bus,el while the price Of cotton fell off three
per pound Neither the Of wheat the fall of cotton
prices kept pace with the fall Of ves price, for the simple
that the price Of either Of those three articles had
influence whatever the prices of the other two Again. in
1873 wheat sold "a bushe higher than 1873 by three
per bse but silver had fallen to per In the
seven cents per pound 1873 though silver had fallen
anything like the extent In 1890 silver rallied price 10
$o4 from cents per ounce in 1889 But
wheat did not rally with it. On the contrary wheat tell from
ninety buse 1880 eighty cents per bushe
in 1890 The s9I wheat advanced two cents per
bshe $780, but silver fell off fourteen cents per ounce
while held right up the previous years price, just as
nothing had happened wheat up silver down.
them with silver prices In sz, corn sold for thrtvour cents
per bushe OF the silver refused free COIN
the price should have steadily down we'll
the price of wfeathat there truth at all in the free
silver argument But has not down uniformly with
silver for the past wenty-tree Far from it, The price
OF in 1879 ortynne cents per bushe rise OF fifteen
1873 In 1888 sold for fyour cents per
tshe and 1882 sold for eighty cents bue two and
half times as much as it sold for in 1873 All the time silver
dropping In 1894 selling for fifty cents per
bush rise of sixteen cents the 1873 price although sill
had dropped in the meantime from $29 to cents
per So that while silver had fallen OFT fty per cent IN
market value, had risen to nearly the same extent
We might multiply these illustrations indefinitely but these
will suffice to establish the point that there has been the
slightest relation Of cause and effect between the decline
prices Of farm crops and the decline the price OF bullion silver
And this point the pivot OF the whole question SO tar as the
through free silver coinage They told by free silver
authority that the value Of their has diminished
steadily with and proportion to the falling price OF silver
bullion That is ue they find for themselves by
comparing price lists since 1873 And that not true, then
be either that to afcialy initiate the market price
Of silver by giving free coinage at mnts ratio which
ovevaues it by nearly fifty cent above its market price all
over the world would give the farmer the benefit of the
generalization flat rise in the price of his crops The farmers
tell him that such magic OF raising
the prices of his possibly exist He will get more or
less for his wheat cotton and just he always has done
worlds markets. including those Of his country he should
give the silver mine coined dollar for fifty cents
worth Of his silver that will be good thing for the mine
owner would certainly induce the farmers customers,
either abroad give him dollar bushe for his
wheat the supply of should be large relatively to the de-
and that could be bought of other people for sixty sixty
five cents.
There other views Of this money question which the
farmer will need to consider but he will do well first rid his
mind OF the foundation lacy of all the free silver deusion
little close scrutiny of the price list will enable him grasp the
fact firmly that the prices of his wheat and cotton
have gone up down with the prices OF silver bullion and from
that fact he will be perfectly safe infer that they will
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