Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-10-07
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men there are urging steps looking to the
adoption OF the gold standard.
Mr.. Bryan is SO busy studying Spanish
that he has not had time to explain the
advance In the price OF wheat.
Ex-Candidate Bryan, In an article in the
New York World, says: Those who
favored free coinage may be wrong" Can
1t be possible, Mr.. Bryan?
The advance in the price OF wool and
sheep will soon bring back to the farmers
the 10 million dollars loss in the value of
sheep which befell them under the Wilson
law.
! The more the coal strike Is studied the
more apparent it becomes that the reduce
ton in coal tariff by the Wilson law is
responsible for the low wages which caus-
ed it.
If anybody croaks about the light re-
ceipts in the first month of the Dingey
law, remind him of the enormous importa-
tons of the months which preceded its en-
actment
| Did Mr.. Bryan demand that 81 800 he
is to get for his Ohio speech in gold coin
of present standard weight and fneness'?
| That is the habit OF his masters; why not
Bryan, too?
| The farmers are too busy to listen to
| free silver speeches now. That species of
| pastime may do for free trade times like
those Of the past three years, but not un-
der protection.
1t now takes two ounces of fine silver
to pay for a bushel of wheat. One year
| ago one ounce of silver was equivalent in
the markets OF the world to just about one
bushel of wheat.
"Comrade Mckinley" was cordially
greeted by the old soldiers at Buffalo. He
is the first President who served in the
ranks as private soldier and will proba-
bly, be the only one.
Why don't Professor Debs and his as
sociates call on the trainers Of the Will
son law to help out the miners? 1t was
| clearly the reduction OF the tariff that
caused the reduction in the miners wages.
oh, by the way, have the Ohio and Iowa
and Maryland and Kentucky and Ne
| braska and New Jersey and New York
| Democrats forgotten about the tariff?
They seem to be strangely silent on the
subject.
Advices from abroad show that the for
eign rye crop is as badly off as the wheat
| crop, and as rye is largely used for bread
| in European countries, this development
| indicates a still greater demand for Amer
| lean wheat.
| The calamity shriekers Of last year have
not told the farmers yet how it is that
wool and wheat have advanced 90 per
cent in price since their shrieKs of last
| year while silver has meantime industri-
ously fallen % per cent.
The British goldbugs again have the
American farmer by the throat. This time
it is in the shape Of 100000 English SOW
ereigns, or over 100000 coming into
San Francisco from Australia in eX-
change for American wheat.
With an increase of so per cent in the
value of wheat in the past year, and a fall
of % per cent in the value Of silver mean
time, the gentlemen who were exploiting
the wheat and silver theory last year are
now seeking for new occupation.
Professor Wilson does not seem to be
much in demand as campaign orator
among the Democrats this year. His
name is a little too suggestive of the re-
cent bitter experiences Of the working
men and farmers Of this country.
The old Democratic gag about in
creased prices under the new tariff law is
not being heard this time-the reason is
that the average Democrat knows that
protests against protection are not longer
popular.w with the people Of this country.
One remarkable development of the
opening months Of the new tariff law is
the general qualification with which it is
accepted irrespective of party. Even the
Democrats are emitting the usual talk
about increase in prices under the new
law.
Because it is my deliberate judgment
that the prosperity of America is mainly
due to its system of protective laws,
urge that Germany has now reached the
point where it is necessary to initiate the
tariff system Of the United States."-
Bismarck.
With several shiploads Of gold coming
in at the western ports from Klondike,
others from Australia, and many more
coming in at the East, in payment for
their golden grain, the farmers are not
spending much time listening to free silver
speeches this fail.
That little group of despairing states
men who sailed for Japan some weeks
ago in search OF the true facts with refer
ence to the decentralization of silver by
that country have not yet favored the
people OF the United States with the re-
suit Of their investigation.
The continual fall in the value of silver
is causing great distress among the labor
ing people OF Mexico. The dollar in which
they are paid is now worth only 40 cents,
and they get only about half rs many of
them for a given amount OF work as do
workingmen in the United States.
The calamity orators are in trouble
again. The recent statement of the con-
dition OF the national banks Of the United
States shows the individual deposits to be
the largest in their history, amounting to
the enormous sum of S1,I10, 4S0,536. IL
this is Mckinley calamity, let's have more
Of it.
blessed is the country whose soldiers
fight for it and are willing to give the best
they have, the best that any man has,
their own lives, to preserve it, because
they love it. Such an army the United
States has always commanded in all her
istory."-Presdent Mckinley at Buff
falo.
Get Good Money for Wheat.