Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-09-21
WHY Il SOLID SOUTH?

There is no reason why the Popo-
cratic party should be able to count
on the south as unit for it's candi-
date if the true result of the policy
which it indorses and upholds were
thoroughly understood among the
Intelligent people of that portion of
the country.
More directly than by any other
means the South can be affected
through it's cotton crop and the re-
turns received from it's marketing,
and it is the application of the silver
doctrine to this very thing which
should lead every voter to cast his
ballot for Mckinley and the sound
money policy which he represents.
The statistics of the best posted
men on the product of the cotton
fields show that out of the entire sup
ply furnished from the Southern
country very nearly 20 per cent is an
nually exported for use in foreign
factories, and of this 20 per cent,
scarcely more than 1 per cent is ship
ped to countries maintaining silver
standard. In other words, more than
two thirds of the Indirect support of
the South comes from countries
where gold is the standard metal.
Now what would be the result of
the enforcement of the doctrine
preached by the Popocrats? With the
market in gold standard countries the
cotton planter is going to get gold
standard price for his product. He
cannot say to the Englishmen, "Pay
me twice what you have been paying
for my cotton" because in the event
of the Englishman's refusal he has no
home market for his merchandise.
Nor can he say to the home con-
sumner, "You shall pay me twice the
former price," for a market which
controls 20 per cent of the entire
product will make the price for the
whole world, and the manufacturer
in New England will buy his cotton
as cheaply as his competitor across
the water. Thus we see that the cot
ton producer will gain nothing in his
receipts.
Now let us see how the debit ac-
count would appear. Mr.. Bryan
promises again that the price of
everything will be increased. While
we have seen that this prophecy
would not apply to cotton, it may be
made to apply to those things of
which we consume within our own
limits greater percentage. On the
articles the price might
easily be advanced; on machinery to
carry on the plantations, on supplies
for the wOrkmen, on many of the ne
cessities of life, this joyful news of an
to pay higher prices
might be realized. But where is the
cotton planter going to realize any
benefit from this? He is selling his
goods at the old time good prices and
buying his material at ''new age" sill
yer figures. The benefit would be en-
tirely reminiscent in it's character,
and memory broth is thin stuff.
The welfare of the South, no less
than that of of the North, depends up
ON the maintenance of an honest dol
lar, of a coin worth a hundred cents,
Of a dollar whose motto Gin God We |
Trust'' does not refer to the missing
II cents, and whose eagle can screech
without telling lie. If the South |
could understand the direct bearing |
upon it's prosperity which the decision
On the silver issue has and could ap-
oreciate what it's condition would be
under Popocrat rule, then there
would be no solid South for Bryan,
out universal turning to the support
Of Mckinley
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