Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-23

Human law cannot strengthen the
moral and religious safeguards which
protect society. These can be strength
ened only by that which purities the
heart.
The republican party is respon-
Sible for the prosperity which we have
with US. | make the assertion from
the standpoint of a business man. >
Mark Hanna.
Office seeking has reached itszenith
when it is impossible for the president
to attend divine worship without ell
cOuntering an applicant for the Jeru-
salem Consulate in the pulpit.
Some persons would get along very
much easier in life if the time and
effort they spend in trying to "get
around" the truth and eyade their
truth and living it.
Most of our politicians spend a ma
iOTity Of their time in desperate
effort to uncover the pebbles Of selfish
ness in their opponents, little dream
ing that their own ambition is the
spring from which bubbles such en-
ergy.
Mr.. Bryan informs the palpitating
public that the foreign famine is re-
sDOnSible for the increased price of
wheat in the face of the fall of silver.
but says nothing about advance in
cotton, tobacco, corn, meats, wool and
other farm products.
Ohio farmers who take the time from
their busy and profitable duties to
listen to Mr.. Bryan's $1,000 speech
would like to have him explain how it
is that Ohio wool. which sold at i
cents a year ago, now brings 26 cents,
while silver has fallen 20 per cent.
meantime.
The Argentine Republic, which sold
US about eight million dollars worth
Of wool and hides last year, is cOnSid
Gring d proposition to shut out the one
million dollars worth of lumber. ker-
Osene, and farm implements which we
sell her annually, because of our tariff
on wool and hides.
1.-Two years ago | could see the dan
ger which threatened our beloved
country. [ thought | saw the man
who could avert the danger. | thought
| saw what was in the heart of the
American people, aud SO / gave my
self to the cause Of William McKin
ey."-HOn. NJ. A Hanna.
STAND by the administration of
William Mckinley. That is the only
salvation of our country. By indOrs-
ing and standing by the administra-
tiOn you will spare this nation further
attacks from those who preached an
archy and arrayed class against class
a year ago. "-SenatOr Hanna at Bur-
ton, OHIO.
Il have been a large employer of
men, and | want to say now that l
was the first employer in Ohio to rec
Ognizc organized labor. From that
day ! have never refused to recognize
it. My prosperity is theirs, and |
cannot have it without their cooper
alton. From Senator Hanna's Bur-
ton, Ohio, speech.
CamphOr is mostly produced in jap
an. FOrmOsa. and some parts of China
and the Philippines. Secretary Will
son, the head of the Department of
Agriculture, proposes to give the citi-
Zens of the Gulf States an OppOrtunity
to experiment in this line. He is pre-
parIng to distribute camphOr-tree
Slips to that section, and is thus likely
to add another important industry to
those of the agricultural element.
"This talk of these gentlemen about
prices and accidents and this recrim-
inatiOG about dead and buried speeches
show them to be still cropping about
among the underbruSh, while sensible
men are standing on the mountain top
and behOlding the earth to the very
horizons edge. The view may not be
of the whole round earth. but it is
better than the view from the Jungle
From Speaker Reeds answer to VIM.
Jennings Bryan.
After a great smash like that of
1898 or that of 1873 there is nothing
to do but wait and let the business of
the world settle itself, carefully keep
ing meanwhile the medicine men of
finance with their feathers and rattleS
out of the way of the sick man. When
public confidence is profoundly shaken
it must re-establiSh itself. 1t has
been shaken by causes, and those
causes must be removed. speaker
Reed on the Business Situation.
How are our silver friends explain
ing the increase in value OF our cot
ton crop this year in the face of the
fall of silver? Silver has fallen 20 per
cent. in the past year, while cotton
has 50 much advanced that this year 5
crOp. although very light in quantity,
will bring SO, 900, 900 more to the
farmers of the south than that Of two
years ago. The "eXplanatiOn' which
the silverites apply in the case of
wheat will not do for cotton.
What a striking resemblance there
is between 1896 and 1897 and the years
of our Lord 1878 and 1879. In 1878
the air was resonant with denuncia-
tionS Of the wicked men who would
not issue all the greenbackS which d
suffering people demanded. John
Sherman was denounced on all hands.
Samuel J. Tilden declared that only d
vast central reservoir of coin could
protect us against the failure Of the
proposed return to specie payments in
1879. The farmer was at his worst,
ruined. destroyed, eaten up by taxes
and usury. Down almost to the very
day of resumption the crOaking came
with dismal and damnable iteration.
When the 1St Of January came no
crowds thronged the Sub-treasury cor
ridOrS. Hardly greenback was pre-