The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-30
POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS.
BY A CONTRIBUTOR.

POLlIlCAL PARAGRAPHS.
BY A CONTRIBUTOR.
WHAT has become of that 81, 500
speech which Mr.. Bryan was to de
liver at the Ohio silver camp-meeting'
Also, what has become of the camp
meeting itself? 1t seems to have beer
as fiat failure as Bryan's paid "ex
planatiOn" of why silver and wheat
have parted company.
POPOCRATIC Chairman Jones is evi
IDENTITY determined that the New York
ers shall not make the same mistake
that the Ohio and Iowa Democrats
have made in the present campaign.
of endorsing the exploded free silver
proposition. He has recommended to
New Workers that they let the silver
question carefully alone, and Senator
German, by the way, is doing the
same thing in Maryland.
The Treasury Department has over
$145, 600 Of gold in hand, and has
had since the Mckinley administra-
ton came in a larger gold surplus than
at any time for long period of years.
This is in marked contrast with the
conditions during the Democratic ad-
ministration, when President Cleve-
land was compelled to sell bonds every
now and then to keep up the hun
dred-milliOn reserve.
No BETTER evidence of the actual
return of business activity could be
found than the official reports of bank
clearances for the week ending Sep
tember 19. They show the clearances
to be fifty per cent. greater than at
this time last year, and seventy-five
per cent. in excess of those of the cor
responding week two years ago. They
are greater than at any time since
January, 1888.
THOSE people who are satisfied with
Mr.. Bryan's explanation of the cause
in the advance in the price of wheat
might do well to inquire of him about
the advance of wool. He says the ad-
vance in wheat was due to a shortage
abroad There is no record of any
considerable shortage abroad in wool
yet prices of wool have advanced
sixty per cent. since the beginning of
September, 1886, while silver has fal-
len twenty per cent. in the same
time.
LAST weeks report covering the
business failures in the United States
is more encouraging than any which
has been presented since the upward
tendency of business which came with
the inauguration of President McKin-
ley. The entire number of business
failures reported last week was only
1853, which was half than less the mum
Der III the corresponding week of Sep
tember, 1893, the first year of Cleve-
lands second term, and vastly less
than any corresponding week during
the entire four years of his occupancy
of the presidential chair.
Is n the Dingley law or the fall of
silver which is the cause of advance
of al farm products in the last sixty
days? There has been no occasion in
h Ill II f.,l l1A, ~; div
than during the month of August and
September. Since the Dingley law
went into operation about the time
that this advance came, it might be
we'll to call upon Mr.. Bryan for an
other paid syndicate article explain
ing the cause OF this general advance.
Is 1T that terrible money power
that is destroying the crops all over
the world for the purpose of giving
American farmers higher prices and
thus showing them the falsity of the
wheat-and-sllyer theory? There is
just as much sense in assuming that
the money power could control the
wind and weather and GrasshOppers
and other causes of foreign grain
shortages as it was to assume
last fall that handful of financiers
located in some mysterious secret
chamber in London or elsewhere could
control the legislation of the greatest
and most intelligent nations of the
world in behalf OF the gold standard,
as was asserted from day to day and
week to week during the entire cam
paign of 1896.
WHEAT and silver, instead of being
hand in hand are not even neigh
borly any longer They stood side by
in price on September 1st, 1896, an
ounce of silver and bushel of wheat
being worth at that time sixty-seven
cents each. BY September 1st of the
present i Par the ounce of silver had
fallen to fifty-one cents and the bushel
OF wheat had advanced to one hun