Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-10-06

book are the following headlines:
Silver at 30. Its Money Uses are
Fully Restored by Republican
| Action.
The United States Treasury Richer
by 500, 23S,00 by Silver's Rise-All
/ American Cereals Have Grown in
Value, Too-And, as Usual, the
Democracy DISTRACTED.
In its last national platform the re-
publican party decla red this doctrine
'"The republican party is in favor
OF the use of both gold and silver as
money, and condemns the policy OF
the democratic administration in it's
efforts to demonetize silver"
SIN conformity with this pledge.
the republican congress has passed,
against the unanimous opposition of
democratic members, silver bill,
than which there has been no more
useful and inspiring act since the
resumption of specie payments. 1t
provides, in brief, that the secretary
OF the treasury shall purchase 4,5OO,-
600 ounces of silver per month, at the
market price, and issue in payment
thereof legal tender treasury notes,
redeemable in coin. This affords an
annual increase in money of over
$60,000,00O. The democratic Bland
act, under which the price of silver
fell to the lowest figure it has ever
reached, and the value of farm pro-
ducts to figures shocklngly disas-
trous, afforded an annual increase of
$24, 100000 But this money was of
doubtful reputation. 1t was money
that was good to-day and bad to.
morrow. The money provided by the
present republican congress is as
good as any money the world has
ever seen.
Happily, the country has not had
to wait for the beneficent results of
this legislation. They came as quick
ly and as surely as blossoms under a
May day sun. Indeed, the very pres
ence of a republican president in the
White house and a. republican con-
gress in the capitol, exercised an in
spring influence upon values and up
on all commerce. In the wake of the
democratic'rule had followed a pros
tration of industry and an accumu-
lation of farm mortgages, but the
election of 1883 was received by the
country rs the sure promise of bet
ter days. That these better days are
now arrived is unerringly revealed
IN the figures shown in this table"
Then follows table showing the
price Of silver when the Bland-Allison
act was passed to be $1.19 per ounce.
On July IA, 1890, $1.0S per ounce;
July 10, 1890, one day after the pas.
sage of the Sherman law, the price of
silver Was $1.10 per ounce; August 13,
1890. 81. 10 per ounce; August 80, 1880,
$1.199 per ounce.
This campaign book then. contin-
hes as follows:
1.-The significance Of this table is
tremendous. The democratic Bland
act found silver at $12Ot. On the
very next day it fell, and it kept fall
ling steadily. Grover CLEVELAND
who could not even wait until he was
inaugurated before he gave silver q
blow, pounded it until he and his
party forced it down to 91d cents, and
the silver dollar to 10 57-10O. The day
after president Harrison was elect ed
silver began to revive. and when the
the Fifty-frst congress met it had
climbed up to 964 cents. To-day it is
worth $1.2Oand its monetary uses are
fully restored. Was ever a clearer
sharper contrast drawn by hard fact
between republican wisdom and
competency and democratic folly and
incapacity than is shown in these un-
compromising figuresq
4 why, the value Of our silver coin
since Harrison's Inauguration has in.
creased S90,2s3,OOO.
But this is not all. Wheat, barley,
oats, rye-all products of the farm
have similarly grown in value. The
wheat crop of 1889 amounted to 400,
100000 bushels, and its value was
$342, 491, 707, an average of a little less
than 10 cents bushel. That same
crop would sell at to-day's prices
which have increased to 81. O25 q
bnhel, for 1854, 500, 400 more than was
actually realized. This table shows
the facts.
| I'm the presence of such facts as
these the democracy must stand
dumb or argue itself an ass. Its rep.
resentatiyes in congress voted bodily
against the silver bill. They have
been occupied ever since cursine
themselves and their blind leadersn'
On page 81 of the same book is set
out under heading, Issue No. A.,
the following:
| do you want good money and
plenty of it. or bad money, and not
enough of that to go around?
TWO DEMOCRATIC VIEWS.
Their promises in What they said
1884. (Froln the for silver in 1888,
democratic plat (Flom the demo,
form in that Year, cratic platform
We believe in the