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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
Trusts and Free Trade,

Under protection, when business thrives
and confidence reigns, men do not wait
long to compete with, and break down, a
trust which charges exorbitant prices.
Under free trade, when business is para
lyZed and confidence blasted, men do not
put their money into new enterprises, and
consequently those who are already estab-
lished in any business have things all
their own way with what business is left
to them. They have no fear of competing
rivals to kill their trade when the demand
is light. The cotton tie trust acted on this
knowledge, and the result was $1.35 per
bundle for ties which they are willing to
sell to-day for 70 cents per bundle. 1t is
time for the free traders to drop their
cry that protective tariff fosters trusts;
not because the facts are against them
that is never any reason for a free trader
to drop a charge-but because the facts
are getting too well known to let the lie
go longer undetected by the people at
large
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
A Marked Contrast.

What a marked contrast exists between
conditions in the United States to-day and
those of the corresponding period of Presi-
dent Cleyeland's last term. Four years
ago, with low tariff staring the manu-
facturers of the country in the face, busi-
ness was going to everlasting smash,
banks breaking, railroads going into the
hands of receivers, factories closing, and
workingmen thrown out of employment
by the hundreds of thousands. Now hun
dreds of thousands of workingmen are
finding additional employment, railroads
are ordering thousands of new cars to
meet the demand upon them for trans
portation of manufactures, mechandise
and grain, the banks report larger deposits
and larger clearings than in many years,
and instead of silent factories, there are
clouds of smoke and the hum of busy
wheels everywhere
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
Not Controlled by Silver.

Russia's exports of grain, according to
the latest advices, have amounted to only
about 65 per cent this year of those of
1896, the total of all kinds of grain
amounting to 143,000,000 bushels during
the first eight months of the present year.
When there is added to this fact the ex-
treme shortage in the crops of this year,
it is apparent that Russia will do little if
any exporting and supplying the markets
of the world, to which India, Australia
and Argentina will contribute little, if
anything, thus leaving the United States
the chief food supply of those sections
which have to go outside their own terri
tory for grain. This accounts for the ad-
vance in the price of wheat, and sustains
the claim of the Republicans in the last
fall campaign that the prices of wheat de-
pend upon supply and demand, and are
not controlled by or related to the use of
silver.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22

preaching State campaign. Despite the
air of ingenuousness given to the commit
tees discovery that it was clearly with
out authority to write party platform,
its failure to express last Wednesday even
the smallest opinion on public questions
bears all the earmarks of deliberate and
studied policy. Moreover, the plausible
excuses for lodging a reaffirmation of the
Chicago platform so obligingly furnished
to Senator Murphy by Chairman Jones of
the Democratic National Committee fail
wholly to obscure the main fact that the
Democratic organization in the foremost
State of the Union practically hauled
down the silver flag when, by policy of
inaction and silence, it committed itself
to conducting State campaign on lines
which virtually ignore the declarations ac-
cepted year ago as Democratic faith by
the national convention at Chicago.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
Free Coinage of Freight Cars.

The free silver leaders have contended
that what is needed is an increase in the
volume of money; but that does not seem
to be the trouble just a present. What is
needed is an increase in the volume of
freight cars. The Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. Paul road is trying to borrow five
thousand cars from some of the Southern
roads to enable it to handle the traffic
offered to it. Unless it is able to get the
cars it will have to lose considerable bust
ness. At present it is using all the cars
available and is unable to keep up with
the demand from all points on its lines.
The situation is becoming serious, not
only with the st. Paul, but with the
Northwestern, the Burlington, Rock ISL
and, Atchison and all the other Western
and Northwestern roads. They are SIM
ply unable to handle the traffic ordered.
All the roads report that not only are they
deluged with grain traffic, but west-bound
merchandise is offered in great volume.
What is needed then is little more free
coinage of freight cars.-Kalamazoo Tele-
graph
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
The Shipping Question,

Shipping is the one industry that Eng
land protects; shipping is the one indus
try that the United States does not pro-
tect. Last year the total tonnage of new
vessels launched by Great Britain was
over million tons; the total tonnage of
new vessels launched by the United States
was less than one-fifth of that of Great
Britain. No wonder England is mistress
of the seas. 1t certainly is high time for
us to take lesson from England and to
protect our merchant marine, and so dis
pute with England her control of the
carrying trade of the world. as we are
already beginning to dispute her suprem-
acy in the markets of the world in the
sale of manufactured products.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
The Hogansville Affair.

1t is said the attempted assassination
of Isaiah H. Loftin, the colored postmas-
ter of Hogansville, Ca, will be made the
basis of an immediate and vigorous pros
ecution of all who are connected with the
affair. This much is due to the enforce
ment of law, but in addition the admin
istration should take firm stand against
the movement to boycott colored office
holders in the South. 1t is not likely there
will be many such appointments, but
wherever they are made the incumbents
should have ample protection. The Gov
ernment should not allow itself to be CO.
creed or dictated to in the smallest matter
by any party, faction or class of men, and
if any community attempts to draw the
color line against postmaster otherwise
qualified it should be made to understand
that the Constitution and laws of the
United States are supreme in every part
of the national domain.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
BRYAN REvERSES HIMSELF.
1mpertinence and Effrontery tina t
Would Shame Street Fakir.

Would Shame Street Fakir.
A year ago W. j. Bryan was travelling
back and forth across the American con-
tinent declaring that the law of supply
and demand had nothing whatever to do
with the prices of American products, and
that the only hope for advancement out of
the condition of industrial prostration was
| through the free and unlimited coinage of
silver. Now he is campaigning among the
same people with the unreserved declara-
| ton that government policies, legislation,
financial systems, etc., have nothing what
ever to do with the price of products, but
that they are governed solely by the law
of supply and demand.
1t would not be so bad if Mr.. Bryan re-
mained content with reversing himself.
But with an impertinence and effrontery
that would make patent medicine fakir
ashamed of himself he proceeds to reverse
all of the American people who did not
agree with his highpopalorum theory of a
year ago. Everywhere and upon all oc-
cations the Republicans insisted during
the campaign of 1896 that the price of
products was governed by the law of sup
ply and demand. Now Mr.. Bryan is striv-
ing to make it appear that the Republi-
cans have abandoned their contention of
year ago and are claiming that the ad-
vance in the price of wheat and corn is
solely due to Republican legislation and
not to the operations of the law of supply
and demand. This is false and Mr.. Bryan
knows it is false. Because he has come
over on to Republican ground is no rea
son why he should seek to drive the Re
publicans on to Populist ground which he
has abandoned.-Kansas City journal.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
s,ra1ys from ,be Pos Office.

The records of the New York postoffice
show that nearly ten thousand more do
mestic money orders were paid at the
general Office in the first two weeks of
August this year than in the same time
last year. These money orders have,
without doubt, in most cases been sent
to pay for goods ordered from New York
merchants by persons living elsewhere.
This means that nearly ten thousand peo-
pie who were not buying goods from New
York dealers in August last year are buy
ing this year. Straws show which way
the wind blows, and this is one Of the
straws which mark the coming of what
promises to be hurricane which will
sweep the country into such prosperity
as will give the devoted band of free
traders bad dreams for many day.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
Have a New Opportunity.

Democratic orators who last year were
trying to convince the public that the
clique of fnanciers in Europe whom they
vaguely denominated money power"
were responsible for the adoption of the
gold standard by all the intelligent ma
tions of the earth, will now have an op-
portunity to make an equally interesting
and equally reasonable assertion by
charging up to the gold power the failure
of the crops all over the world. 1t is
just as reasonable to charge the destruc-
ton of Argentine crops by grasshoppers
to the money power as it is to assume that
the money power could influence the leg
islation of a great nation on that most
important question of its policy, the cur
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
The Silver Missionaries.

Senators Cannon and Pettigrew are in
Japan, where they propose to interview
the emperor on the silver question. Pos
sibly they think the emperor has not heard
of the fall in silver, or if he has, that he
will be unable to resist their wonderful
eloquence, and so will Immediately coun.
termand all orders looking to the estab.
lishment of the gold standard in his do.
minions.
The manner in which these silver apos-
ties are wandering around the world seek
ing to gain some support would be pitiful
if it were not for the fact most of them
are greatly interested in mining and are
seeking to foist deprecated metal upon
the world, in order that they may profit
personally
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
PettisreW and Mantle.

Nobody has called attention to any great
anxiety on the part of the public to know
the result of the interview of Senators
Pettigrew and Mantle with the Mikado of
Japan on the true cause of the demoneti-
zation of silver. The fact is, everybody
except Pettigrew and Mantle understood
all about it before they left, or if they did
not they could easily have learned it by an
examination of the official report of the
director of our mint, which shows that the
Japanese silver yen, which in 1887 was
worth 1913 cents, had, by July, 1897,
dropped to 47.S, while the gold yen had
not changed particle, the prices of 1888
and 1897 being precisely the same, 99.7.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
SOUTHERNS CONTROL.
Cringing Northern Mudsi11s Not In
Management of the Party.

Senator Jones of Arkansas, the boss of
the Democratic party, appears to be a
ready letter writer. He recently sent one
to the Democratic State Committee of
New York, in which he declared it would
be ''impolitic' to indorse the Chicago plat
form. But he has written other letters.
For instance, one was produced yester-
day in which he urged an entirely differ
ent policy from that he advocated on
Wednesday. The letter in question was
written to James O'Brien, formerly sheriff
of New York, and in it Mr.. Jones said:
1 sincerely hope that genuine and loyal
Democrats get control Of the organization
in your State. 1t occurs to me that it would
be wise for a State convention to be assem-
bled next fall for the purpose OF making the
one nomination needed and to organize the
machinery of the party; but of course l nave
connection with your State organization
and don't know just what would be proper
for me to say or do in that connection, or
whether l should say anything at ALL
The result of this veering around is
that the Bryanites are incensed with
Jones and are saying ugly things about
him. Nevertheless Jones is the boss of
the party, and feels that it is within his
province to go around with the wind and
generally do as he pleases. For Jones is
from the South, and the South is in the
Democratic saddle, and as faithful and
subservient creatures of the South, the
Democrats of New York obey his orders.
As 1.-The Journal" repeatedly has declar-
ed, we are going to see history repeat
itself, and find the Democracy of the
North again the pliable, submissive, cring-
ing tool of the South. In his speech at the
fair grounds recently, Senator Tillman de-
clared that this condition of affairs must
be brought about and the dexterous speed
shown by the Democratic State Com
mittee in obeying Mr.. Jones' instructions
proves that the Democracy of New York,
in spite of the decadence of national lead
ers, is prepared to resume its old position,
and to come at the beck and call of the
South.-Albany Journal.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
"PROvlDED" AND "IF."
Stand in the Way of that Si--er and
Bank of ENGLAND Story.

Bank of England Story.
What the Bank of England proposes to
do about silver was formally and authori-
tatively stated yesterday at the semi-an-
nual meeting of the bank by the Governor,
who read letter he had written to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, stating, in
substance, that the bank was prepared to
do what it was permitted to do by the
bank act of 1874; that is, to carry one
fifth of the reserve against its notes in
silver, provided, however, that the French
mint is again opened to the free coinage
of silver 'and that the price at which sill
yer is procurable and salable is satisfac-
tory" The Governor went on to say that
the bank had bought no silver, and all that
it had agreed to was to do what is per-
missible under the act of 1914, on the con-
ditions he stated. This is some slight en-
couragement to bimetallists, but not
enough to excite them.-Louisville Com
mercial
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
THE MODERN FARMER.
His Lot Is Improving Faster than
That of Other Men.

That of Other Men.
The old-time farmers boy was not seri-
ously to blame for striking out for the
city. His pathway of life was not strewn
with roses, nor were his days succession
of Joyous picnics. He was compelled to
rise early in the morning, long before the
lark had ceased from slumber, and bring
the cows from the dewy pasture. He was
expected, before he had chance to sat
isfy his morning hunger, to ''pail' six
cows; be kicked over at least once; feed
and groom four horses, and carry food
and drink to at least twenty-five head of
open-faced swine.
In the summer he was expected to hold
the handles of a bull tongue plow and
tramp adown the rows of corn until long
after the chickens had gone to their night
ly rest. In the fall, when the old horse
power threshing machine came around, he
stood at the tail end and forked away the
straw, while ragweed dust filled his lungs
and clogged the pores of his skin. In the
winter he was sent out to pick stones from
the rocky field, and as he picked, fresh
stones sprang up like dragons teeth to
take the place of those he had gathered.
He had no time to read, and mighty little
for rest. 1t isn't any wonder he got tired
Now it different. The farmer no longer
comes to town in his road wagon, sitting
on a two-inch plank laid across the top of
the wagon, but he rides in his surrey, his
horses arrayed in silver-mounted harness.
He sits in a carriage seat to plow his
ground, and after his days work is done
takes a walk for exercise. The old-fash-
ioned horse-killing and Misunderstanding
threshing machine has given way to
modern invention run by steam, automat-
ically fed, which stacks its own straw,
and measures, weighs and loads the grain,
while the farmer, seated in the comforta-
BILE shade, may watch the operation. His
hay is stacked by machinery, and baled
by machinery. His water is pumped by
machinery. His stock will soon be fed
by machinery. He is beginning to put in
telephones and order his groceries over the
wire.
The time is near at hand when, instead
of being the slave of toll, the farmer will
be the man of leisure as well as the man
of capital.
When that time comes it will be found
that the ambition of young men will lie
in the direction of becoming landed coun-
try gentlemen instead Of hard-driyen,
overworked and smothered-for-air resi-
dents of the cities. ....'.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
An Object Lesson.

The financial situation in the Southern
Republic presents an object lesson which
should not be lost upon our friends, the
free silver lunatics. Advices from the
City of Mexico, in the words of recent
arrival from that unhappy place. paint "a
gloomy picture of the future" A young
Californian who has resided there for
three or four years, and who has held
conspicuous position in a large business
concern, states that the decline in the
price of silver has practically driven him
out of business. He says that everything
has gone up threefold-except wages. Ow
ing to the tremendous discount on that
metal working people are now scarcely
able to earn sufficient to procure the nee
essaries of life.
All branches of business are paralyZed
and Americans are leaving the country in
droves. Merchants who have outstanding
accounts and who are compelled to collect
them in silver are being put to a tremen-
dous loss. When this young man left
Mexico it took $3.50 to buy ST. in ex
change, a condition which has practically
destroyed the importing business, and
which is gradually crippling the Govern
ment; for as imports decline the revenues
of the republic are oblterated.
The evolution of free silver basis in
Mexico substantiateS everything alleged
by the opponents of Mr.. Bryan in the last
presidential campaign in this country. 1t
was then said that wages were the last to
go up, and that currency imitation of every
kind was injurious to the masses. This
is always the fact. Capital takes care of
itself, but labor is always the victim of
prevailing circumstances. Yet it is a
strange coincidence that Of the several
millions of people who voted for William
]. Bryan, probably 75 per cent were men
who, had his financial theories been put
into effect, would have suffered the most.
In Mexico the masses are not RESPONSE
BILE for the financial crisis. The Gov
ernment maintains its silver basis with
out consulting them. But in the United
States, had the free coinage of silver been
adopted, the people themselves would
have wrought their own ruin. No reason
ing man can contemplate the possible re-
suits of the presidential campaign of 1896
without shiver. Bryan was defeated,
after all, by narrow plurality. Had he
succeeded and had his demagogy and
crude theories been put into the form of
laws, fifty years of good government and
prosperity would not have wiped out the
damage he would have inflicted upon the
nation.
If there are any free silver lunatics in
this country who still believe that it is
safe to adopt free coinage of silver with
out the consent of any other nation, they
should be sent to Mexico and compelled
there to study the frightful results of a
deprecated currency upon the welfare of
the common people.-San Francisco Post.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22

German law was in force and cotton ties
were on the free list, but the price was
S1.35 per bundle at wholesale. This year
we have the Dingley bill and protective
tariff on cotton ties and they are offered
at 10 cents bundle at wholesale. These
facts do not seem to work in with the
Cleveland parrot cry that ''the tariff is a
tax" These facts, too, are of themselves
a sufficient refutation of the other free
trade falsehood scattered so broadly and
so constantly, that protective tariff fos-
ters trusts. Last year, under free trade,
there was a cotton tie trust; this year, un-
der a protective tariff, the trust is broken.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
Iowa Democracy and Gov. Boies.

The Democratic party in Iowa is not
content to lose the alliance of the other
anti Republicans of the State, but by it's
latest move it has ostracized the Boies
element. The venerable Uncle Horace
saw fit to advocate the adoption of the
commercial ratio between gold and silver,
and base free coinage thereon, instead of
16 to 1. He insisted upon it. There
upon the leaders ordered him to the rear.
He is no longer allowed to go to and fro
up and down the State preaching the gos-
pei of free coinage at 36 to 1.-Chicago
Inter Ocean.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
WHY They're Paying Mortgages.

1t seems now that it is the poor farmers
who are being 'intimidated." Last fall
the Popocrats assumed that the working
men were protesting friendship for the
Republicans because they feared dismissal
if they did not, but the election showed
that there was no foundation for this as
sertion. Now Mr.. Bryan says it is last
years threat of foreclosure that is lead
ing the farmers to pay off their mortgages.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
Protection in the South.

The growth of protective sentiment in
the South, shown by the election of Sen
ator McLaurn in South Carolina, is no
surprise to those who have studied the
situation in that section. The New York
Sun, whose editors scan the political hori-
zon pretty closely, in recent article
points out the growth of Republicanism
in that section, and says it is to be an i'm
portant field for the party in future.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
Nos a Safe Money MetaI.

A fall CT 20 per cent in value in a money
metal in ten months would seem to war
rant the belief that it is not very safe as
a money metal. Yet that is just the fall
in>the value of silver since last November.
1t was worth 6512 cents per ounce in New
York ON Nov. 3, 1896, and is worth only
81 cents to-day.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
Sick of His own Medicine.

The Ohio-man-afraid-of f-his-pla tform is
now presenting curious spectacle Two
months ago he crammed free silver, and
free silver only, down the throat of the
Democratic party, and now he is as sick
of the dose as were the other people But
he can't get rid of it now He has made
his bed. he must lie in it.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
Had to Have an Issue.

People who are surprised that the three
anti-Republican conventions in Nebraska
decided to again advocate free silver
should remember that they had to haze
something for an issue. OF course the
Democratic tariff theory was too unpopu-
lar to trot out again, as also the other di-
lapidated fads of the Democracy.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
Get Good Money for Wheat.

The farmers are now getting just two
and IL half times as much for wheat as Mr..
Bryan and his followers promised them if
they adopted free coinage. They prom
ised 81 per busbel for wheat in silver dol
lars, and admitted that they didn't know
what the silver coins would be worth.
They are now worth 40 cents under free
coinage. while the farmers are getting two
and half times that in good American
100-cent dolars-Exchange