The Yale expositor., 1897-09-17

The horrible plot of the sound-mon-
ey men to ruin the country by putting
up the prices of farm products still
goes on.
The people are utilizing the first
fruits of Mckinley prosperity in pay
ing off CleYeland mortgages. Wise
people!
People who were favorably impressed
with the "wheat and silver" theory
last year are now wondering how they
could have been so easily fooled.
1t is great thing for this country,
now that there is an existing gold stand
ard of value, that while we haye an
abundance of silver, 1921 ,000, 900, in
| the Treasury, we have so limited 1T that
we have the use of both money metals
without fear of the depreciation of
either.
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The manufacturers and the farmers
are now engaged in race to see who
shall show the greatest evidence of
prosperity. Come to think of it, that
was just what the Republicans claimed
last year-that prosperity in manufac-
turing and prosperity in farming went
hand in hand.
So
The most encouraging feature of the
reports showing the return of business
activity is that they come from small
as well as large places. When every
community finds itself busily employed
the professional agitator finds his oc-
cupaton gone and the country pros
porous.
An inferior quality of money always
cheats the Garner of wages. Capital
knows all the ways and means of guard
ing against contingencies, and labor
has not the chance to do so. The fact
that the silver standard of money is ev-
erywhere associated with impoverished
servile labor tells the story.
The whole world seems to be in league
with the sound-money men to capture
the farmers of the United States. Not
only are wheat and farm products still
advancing in prices, but the foreign de-
mand for our corn this year is far be-
yond anything ever before known.
1t is vain for the advocates of free
silver coinage at the ratio of 16 to tc
deny that their policy would include
the silver standard, and will they ex
plain how it is that the silver standard
, of money the world over, from India tC
Mexico, and China to Spain, inclusive
means the degradation and AFFECT pow
erty of workingmen?
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The Cleveland "Plalndealer," daily
Democratic newspaper of Senator
Hanna's home, reluctantly admits tina
there is "some evidence of returning
prosperity" 1t is moved to this ad
mission by the fact that a single rolling
mill in that place which has been silen
for years has started up with $500 mer
at work.
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The men who are "silverites" il
theory are all "goldites" in practice
Not only do John Mclean, Senator
Stewart, Senator Jones, j Ohm p. Altgeld
and "Vlce President" Sewall compe
their creditors to pay in gold, but now
the Tammanyites who are trying tc
stand upon a dllapidated silver plat
form have issued lot of new bonds oil
their society payable in gold.
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Many persons seem to be Of the opin.
ion that premium of 1876 in the City
!, of Mexico on gold signifies that 1876 cts
in silver are equal to 100 cents in gold
The meaning is that two dollars and
thirty-fye cents in silver equals gold
dollar. This is what the silver stand.
ard does for Mexico. We hear Of the
sudden rise of goods in Mexico, but
not of raise of wages. Will the
workingmen of Ohio and Iowa give
particular attention to that point? II
concerns them.
Orator Bryan is not so busy these
days as he was at this time last year
The New York Democrats bought hi:
silence and absence with click and
promises" the Ohio democrats have
given him notice that his presence will
harm their cause in that State; the
Maryland Democrats have no place
for him in view of their straddlinp
platform, and his own managers have