Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-10-06
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER & 1897
ADMISSIONS OF GOLD ORGANS.

PEELED to pay fancy price for evil
dence Of returning prosperity result
ing from the higher price Of wheat
and the sympathetic nse Of other
commodities. -....
They have been compelled to get
rid Of tie remains Of several car loads
Of exploded theories and arguments.
They have been driven to applaud
what they have heretofore denounced
"depreciated" dollar-@cheap mon
ey"-For the dollar will not buy re2r-
1y so much wheat as it bought wili-e
ago, and it will buy only half as much
wool.
In fine, the gold organs have been
compelled to take refuge In the ar
guments winch the free coinage men
have been employing, to-Wit: that
higher prices are an evidence Of
prosperity; that low prices are an
evidence Of hard times; that prosper
ity to be real. must begin with the
farmers ana those who depend ON
their; that tHe PROSPERITY of tile farm
ers and their dependents can only
come from profitable prices for their
products; and that even when the
dollar cheapena or depreciates with
respect to only two products of the
farm wheat and wool the result is
beneficial.
The Constitution is very glad 10
see the gold organs climb over the
fence and take position with the dem
ocrats on these elemental and basic
propositiohs-not because the admis-
sion is of any real Importance. but
because it presents these organs in a
more ridiculous attitude than they
lave ever occupied before. impossible
as chat may seem.
A few months ago they were show
ing that higher prices would be
very severe blow to the workingmen.
and to all who depend on wages.
They presented long columns of win
dy arguments to prove that the COM
fort OF tile wdge eafners depended on
low prices; that the low prices then
prevailing were the natural and in
evitable result of the progress Of civ
iizaticn and enlightenment, and that
higher prices were the result of "de-
preciated" currency, dishonest" dol
lars.
And yet, the moment that the dol
lar depreciates with respect to wheat
and wool, two PRIME necessities to
the working people the windy argu-
ments Of the gold organs explode like
inflated paper bags in the hands Of
naughty schoolboys-they explode,
and that is the end of them. There
fore, owing to the depreciation of the
dollar. we have new and a better
condition. We are to have higher
prices for food and winter clothing,
even if the working people do not
get higher wages.
Thus it falls out that the argu-
ments OF the democrats arc proven
to be sound, and the result is ap-
plauded by those who denied abso
lutely the truth of them. We have
higher prices for some of the products
Of the farm, and the result is a dis.
tinct note of prosperity, to which
the whole country is promptly re-
sponsive.
But how much better it would be
for the country il the symptoms OF
better times now apparent had some
thing more substantial behind them
than dependence on continued failure
q tho wheat crops in Europe, India
and Argentina. Should those coun.
tries he blessed next year with even
average crops Of wboat, the present
price OF "nr wheat cannot, OF course
be sustained. But Notwithstanding
tho fact that such prosperity No We
are enjoying is entirely providentia,
ia character. we should make thp
most Of il and rejoice ut it.. While
so doing we should strengthen and
- q :. e.EkhuL