Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1897-08-11
Whole Number, 800.
Duckfarmer to Henfarmer.
Observation-Disclosures,
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print the Beriah-Uriah duel will have
been fought in the seclusion of Briery
Island, just beyond Zubedam. May the
victor win and the vanquished come up
smiling. | was not surprised that q
gentleman who favors aristocracy should
choose an EDglishman for his second and
Highlander for gentleman of honor.
But Bert and Clark are good honorable
fellows and both were agreeable to me.
With our differences settled / will 90
with Beriah on that snake hunt, and
then | will have an opportunity of test
ing his sterner qualities. There is q
snake which has wound it's coils about
innocent persons. No person, however
virtuous; no home, however felecitous, is
safe from Its pisOnous fangs. 1t has
several heads and is vicious. Is it a
Rather? Yes, if you spell it with T.
There is no doubt of your bravery and
ability to face the viper and crush it into
subsection, since you dare face a
gladiator in mortal combat. In all ages,
in all climes this monster has been a
menance to the sanctity of the home
Kings and Queens, and the gallant
OthellO found the reptile coiled upon
their firesides. In the light of Christian
civilization, it thrives with a seeming
abnormal growth, akin to tape worm.
WhomsOever suppresses the monster will
win the everlasting gratitude of human
lty and their names will go down the
ages as immortal. Fame is won by
doing the right which Others fail to do.
There will be glory for US yet, and when
the mists have rolled in splendor, we
shall behold the silver lining.
| have often eaten the breakfast on
Monday that | should have had on
Friday, and fear | may be compelled to
do SO again before the righteous prevail.
Brother Beriah, you are mixed on your
dates. The fabulous prices you quoted
last week never existed in the 70's or the
SOS. 1t was in the early COS, during
the war of the Rebellion and the war the
cause. favor the free coinage of gold,
but as there is not sufficient gold in exis-
tence to supply the needs of commerce
and trade by one-half, / favor the free
coinage OF silver, the same as gold. This
bimetallism, under which this country,
France, Germany and India fourished.
favor man living on the face OF this
earth, but | also favor woman living
here also; in land of liberty, with mar
riage laws; properly mated they 60
through life hand in hand, each cheering
and sustaining the other. To an indus
trlous man the moments are golden, but
life is not worth the living without the
silvery ripple of laughter and good cheer
OF woman. Take away woman and
her gracious influence and man would
return to the brute. Take away silver
and leave US at the mercy OF the gold
barOns, and we return to Egyptian
slavery. do not. neither do the Popo-
Gratis favor division of wealth. They
are not extremists. They believe all are
entitled o the full and free enjoyment of
their honest accumulatiOns. Who are
the Popocrats? They are combination
of Democrats and the party of thu people
for equal rights, and the Populists.
the farmers-yes farmers, honest, labor
iOus planters, once prosperous, now
Disseminated against; now ground
down to the level of the tenant farmer of
England, the peasantry of Europe, by
vicious legislation of the Plutocrats-the
aristOcracy. Where are the merry reap
ers and the lowing herds, that were seen
and heard on every hand around Leeds
Point, in South Jersey, in every country
district in free silver times?
Look Beriah What do you see? De-
serted farms, fields once fertile and culti-
waited now overgrOwn with briers and
''injun" grass. Where is the mail coach,
with its load OF passengers, that drove
up to the hotel twice day for nearly a
century? Ahl no, the railroad does not
bring them now. They don't come.
Where are the sea captains and the ship
builders? Under free silver eighty-one
per cent. of cargOes were carried in Amer
lean vessels now only twelve per cent.
America was once Queen of theses Now
England is mistress. Do you want a
living witness? Converse with Absalom's
father. Where are there young men who
have, during the past seven years, ac-
cumulated a banks account, taken a
''buttermilk girl for wife and built
and furnished a palatial residence? If
there be such he surely would be a
monstrosity. | did it years ago. Now
am compelled to grow two bushels of
potatoes-tO give double the quantity of
any of my farm products to secure
dollar. My debt-my mortgage has not
come down to half price. The interest is
not half price, the same as my products.
The tide of the PlutOcratic English chan
mel has carried me into a whirlpool. In
vain try to stem the current. In vain L
toll for sufficient gold to pay my obliga-
tiOns, but the Sheriff has served the fore
closure papers. There are thousands OF
hard working, laborious, frugal farmers
in this country in the same situation to-
day. They may be despised, they may
be called "repudiators'' and "Popocrats,"
but they are the backbone of the nation.
They feed the nation. Burn your cities
and the farmers can live, but take away
+1< for nd ba off rtQ ~,
death.
Beriah, old boy, you're au "artful
dodger", you have not answered my
question. But I'll forgive you; what
answer but the affirmative could a
truthful person give ? The declarations
of the Bimetalists, or fee silver advo-
Gates, are not theories but established
facts, proven by years of experiment
years of prosperity-by this and other
nations. They are unanswerable. Poll
tical speakers and ''gold bug news
papers lodged the question in the last
national campaign. Seven long years
have gone by since the United States
passed truly and fully under the gold
standard. Again | ssk, have they been
seven years of plenty or seven years of
famine If you cannot comprehend,
ask a Joseph to interpret your dream.
Have these seven dull years, been a re
suit of the tariff? 1t could not be, for
during that time we have had the nigh
est protective (?) tariff and the lowest
free trade (?) bill. And strange, wasn't
it, that the Wilson bill netted more re-
venue than the Mckinley bill If any
one doubts this assertion send to the
Secretary of the U. S. Treasury for an
official report. So it was not the tariff,
what has blocked the wheels ofindustryl
John Bull with his golden crowbar.
What cut the prices of products in half
The gold dollar that has doubled in
value. How is this done By dishon-
oring, demonetizing silver which created
less demand and the price of silver fell.
By making gold the single standard of
value, making silver subsidiary, it cut
the volume of money in half, and the
price of gold went up-it appreciated
it's purchasing power became one humid
red per centum greater. Eugland is a
non-productiDg country. She must
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