Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-10-22
BUNKO THE FARMERS.
GOLD BRICK SWlNDLE GIVES WAY
TO THE SILVER DOLLAR.
Honest Husbandmen Should Not be De-
luded by the Silvcry Promises of the
Political Fakir-Some Plain and Proven
Truths.

Political Fakir-Some Plaln ana PROVEN
Truths.
We have in this good land Of ours GER
tain people known as confidence men,
who have done considerable posing in
our agricultural communities. The farm
err is but little in town who lives a
comparatively isolated life, whose trad
ing is confined to the sale of his own
products and the purchase of supplies
for his own needs; and who, having hon
estly fulfilled his own engagements, nat
urally believes other people to be hon
est; is very apt to rely on a plausible
tale told him by graceful, bold and
glib-tongued stranger. Vendors of pat
ent hay forks, lightning rods, and gold
bricks have been most successful in our
rural districts where there is little trade
and the daily paper is least read, but
the Tribune always has, and always
will, so far as possible, give its readers
fair warning against these gentry.
There is now a new class OF farmers
friends who are perambulating the coun-
try and seeking personal gain from the
farmer, not by the gold brick but by the
silver dollar scheme. Out of love and
kindness to the sturdy cultivators of the
soil these bold gents exhibit the silver
dollar as an object lesson, and promise
the honest farmer that il he will give,
not his written contract nor his prom
issory note payable in bank. but will
give to the chief Of these wanderers and
his friends the control of his own future
and of the destiny of this great nation,
the value of his farm and all of its in
crease shall be doubled
Now we advise the farmer not to be
deluded by these silvery promises. The
value of the wheat and corn, and beef
and pork, which tho farmer has to sell
depends upon the markets of Europe and
cannot in any way be changed or altered
by these new tangled confidence men,
and no one knows it better than the con-
fidence man himself. He proposes to al
low any owner of silver mine to take
an ounce or million of ounces of silver
to the mint and have every 80 cents
worth of it marked dollar, and asks
the farmer to believe that when he gets
two of these irredeemable coins he will
be richer than when he gets an honest
gold dollar. Do not trust these men;
they are trying to swindlc you. They
have deceived you before and if you
take their advice they will do it again.
-Four years ago some of these same
lmenl told you how you were being i'm
poverished by Republican tariff legisla-
them in power you would have good
times, you would all ride in better car
riages, be better clad and fed, and live
like lords. You took them at their word
You helped them elect just such Presi-
dent and Congress as they wanted.
They came into power in March, 1893,
and for two years have had complete
control of all of the legislation and adj
ministration of the United States govern
ment, and fixed up matters just to suit
themselves, and now they come around
again and tell you that you are worse off
than ever before, and ask you to take Il
new kind of remedy for your ills. Have
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you desire again to invest in any of their
peculiar agricultural implements? Do you
want any more of their patent bay
forks, or gold or even silver bricks?
-Four years ago they promised us q
tariff which would contain such provis-
ions as would deprive monopolies and
trusts of protection, but over the objec-
tons of President Cleveland the baser
part of the Democratic combination en-
acted a patchwork nsymmetrically
framed according to the dictation of
Senators German and Brice, the repre-
sentatives of the wealthest trusts on the
continent And here is the way they
protected the Western farmer; they put
a tariff of 40 cents a pound on iron ore,
30 or 40 per cent. on iron, ~ cent on
every pound of rice raised on the South
ern plantation, and took away all of the
tariff on wool. leaving the Northern
farmer unprotected Oh this, one of his
this as a well-known instance showing
how much regard these gentlemen have
for your interests. Do you want to trust
such friends again?
One of the greatest and most powerful
combines in the world is the sugar trust
enemies of President Cleveland, after
putting tariff of 40 per cent. on brown
sugar, put an extra protective tariff of
one-eighth of l per cent. on all refined
sugar, the effect of which was to give to
the great Havemyer sugar trust Il COM
plete monopoly of the refining of sugar,
and is said to have increased the value
of it's capital in the sum of $SO0O,OOO
We are not aware that these gentlemen
did anything of like character for the
Northern farmer. On the contrary, ow-
ing to their revision Of the tariff
they cut down and diminished all of
the protection that the farmer then had
The Tribune told you in 1893 that you
would be deceived and injured and we
ask you rs sensible men if our predic-
tons have not come true? Have you
had enough of the patent medicine Of
fered to you by these bold strangers or
do you want another dose?
And now the tariff having been al
tered and changed and business democrat
lied, factories shut down and workmen
out of employment and the nation sick
and diseased financially a new remedy
Is SuSScSlcu. bryan ANA LIS aSSOCIllcS
propose to cure all our ills and make us
wMllthy by calling so cents Il dollar and
tlsen advise you to relieve yourselves of
what little debt you may individually
or politically owe by swindling your con-
fding creditors out of one-half of their
dues. We trust you will take our warn
ing. We verify believe that the farmers
of Indiana, although in the honesty of
their heart, they may be deceived, will
always Indignantly drive from their
doors every man who asks them to save
a little money by repudiating their hon
est obligations and will add their num-
bers to the majority that will make Nc
Kinley President and save themselves
and the flag of our country from dishon-
or and d'sgrace.-South Bend Tribune.
Dressed Meat Compared with Gold.
There are few things with which we
can compare gold with some reason and
assurance, and I wish to call your at
tention to some of them. There is
dressed meats. for instance. Dressed
meat is an article which is manufactured
from time to time to supply an imme-
date demand. Our packing-house are
not obliged to keep large stock on hand
in the NEE expectation of market. If
the market is glutted they stop killing.
If there is Il prospect of a demand they
buy just cattle enough to meet the de-