Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-09-29
DOLLAR WHEAT KNOCKS BRYAN
Cheap Money Arguments CompIeteI,
RtddIsd.

Chenp Money Arguments CompIeteI
RiddIsd.
Dollar wheat and sJ-cent silver prov
unanSweraole facts TO Mr. BRYAN
Profess satisfaction a. he may in tn,
\ article we print elsewher the facts re
main TO trip him. If he plants himse!
on the assertion that commercial sun
I ply and demand regulate the value Q
both wheat and silver. then Legislation
can affect neither. If he asserts. as h,
was saying from every platform a yea
ago, that Legislation is needed e
add free silver TO our money bcfor,
I prices can advance. the advance ~
Wheat-and not of wheat alone. as h,
Implies. but of all the products of III,
farm-proves that there was no ncces
sary relation between the price ot
wheat and silver. For a brief season
Mr.. Bryan was able to use the fact.
OF "a day 10 back the arguments oi
an hour. The facts of n year break the
back of his pretentious sophisms.
Facts and the demagogue do i'll agree
ne issue OF year ago was whether
low prices were caused by the lepisla
ton which dcinonctiIed silver and coulc
he cured by the artificial remedy oI
remonetiZing silver or whether low
prices were Que TO natural causes and
could only be removed by the increased
demand which prosperity. produced by
honesty and confidence, could alon,
bring. No cant from Mr.. Bryan now
about the law of supply and demand
can alter this issue. When wheat and
silver seemed linked together it wa.
possible To urge that remonctiIing silve,
would restore wheat prices Wheat
has gone mp. Silver has fallen. Mr.
Bryan has to shift TO the assertion that
while wheat may advance alone under
special cause a general advance In
prices can only come through the free
coinage of silver.
Here. again, prosperity is too potent
for Mr.. Bryan. All other prices. even
i'm the brief time since Mr.. BRYAN
wrote. are daily advancing. too. They
are all rising under the very causes 10
which the republican party confidently
appealed, a tariff to stimulate industry
nj home and a sound currency 10
stimulate confidence both at home and
abroad. Prices could not rise. Mr.
Bryan asserted and still rashIy asserts
unless silver was remonctiIcd.
year has passed. The arguments
of the last campaign have been ground
through the iucNorablc mill of fact. II
grinds slowly. but it grinds exceeding
small VIVA, is left of Mr.. Brvan's
argument? Nothing. The plea bnsed
on wheat and silver has gone utterly.
With every week Of rising prices the
arguments based on other low prices
vanish like the diSsolving fabric Of a
dream. Mr.. Rryan'S fling over the In
dian famine. as primal cause, is non
sense, because the current crop is
not harvested until next March and
April, and the failure To which Mr..
Bryan alIudes raised the price of wheat
while he was talking cheap wheat a
year ago to western farmers. Nor is
1t Europe alone which has advanced
wheat. Thanks To Mr.. Bryan's defeat,
our own consumption has risen 20 .OOO.-
600 to sO,OOO,0OO bushels n year. and
TINS has swept away the vast reserves
which once weighed down wheat quota
tons. This demand remains. whether
Europe may want more wheat or less
OF this increased and increasing de-
mand at home Mr.. Bryan saws nothing.
No man likes to read the date ON the
tombstone of his hopes The prosperity
of his native country is the death of
his political ambition. NanUuished by
facts he has no resource but the con-
unued bald assertion that the free coin
age of silver will raise all prices and
yet make nothing dearer. This shadow
can no longer deceive. The farmer has
dollar wheat in gold. Why should he
fool with dollar wheat in jO-ccnt silver?
Mr.. Bryan is unwise He talks too
much. His best course is silently to
wait in the privacy TO which his fell
low-citilens have consigned him for the
chances of another panic. For him
there is no place in the sun of pros
perity. 1t has risen with healing i'm
its wings. The mists of error have dis
appeared. Those birds of i'll omen.
the demagogue, the agitator and the
who haunt every land i'm
hours darkened by depression. have dis
for their works love darkness
rather than light. and to-day all the
land is light. Light of forge and fur
mace, light of open factory and widen
ing store. light over every farm and in
the deepening mine, light on millions
going to their labor with JOY and re-
urning in happiness and cheer with
full wage in their hands. and i'm this
light, which bathes all the land and
gilds its every scene, how poor. how
pitiiul figure is this prophet Of calam-
Ity and priest of disaster, William Jcn-
nings Bryan. croaking that all this
prosperity is myth. the by-product of
Ieath. dearth and deprcs sion. -PhiIa-
delphia Press.
POLITICAL DRIFT.
u Mr.. Bryan can hardly bc blamed