The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-08-18

Who is there TO mourn for the Wilson
law Not one.
The new flag has forty. five stars but
the thirteen strips remain the same.
Some men faslen their dogs in carefully
at night, but allow their boys and girls TO
roam where they please.
During July, Paramount Park, Phila
delphia, was visited by 254, 800 pedes
TRANS and 1853. 336 cyelers.
The horrible plot of the sound money
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 paying OIL
Cleveland mortgages. Wise people
People who were favorably impressed
with the "whcat and silver" theory last
year are now wondering how they could
have been so easily fooled.
That prosperity for the farmers" about
which the silver orators were 80 anxious
last year has come, and that too without
the "aid or consent" OF the silver trust.
The silver shouters are not inquiring
nowadays OF people as to the whereabouts
Of General Prosperity. They know all
about 1t and think the less they have to
say on this subject the better for them
selves
The editors and street corner orators
who are still re.cching the threadbare
assertion that protective tariff breeds
trusts seem TO have forgotten that trusts
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did under the Wilson law, which is now
happily laid away.
MI. Bryan, having been ordered off the
lecture and oratorical platform by the lead
era of the silver party, will now find time
TO go to Mexico and make real study OF
the silver question, something that he has
not thought OF doing 30 long as he could
be permitted to talk.
1t is "A great thing for this country, now
that there is an existing gold standard OF
value, that while we have nm abundance
Of silver, $52l 900, 600, in the Treasury,
we have so limited it that we have the use
OF both money metals wi bout fear OF the
depreciation Of either
The whole world seems to be in league
with the sound money men to capture tn,
farmers of the United States. Not onl,
are wheat and other farm products slll
advancing in prices, but the foreign de
mnnd for our corn this year is far beyond
anything over before known.
The most encouraging feature of thu
reports showing the return OF bushes,
activity is that they como from small a.
well az large places. When every com
munity finds itself busily employed tn,
professional agitator finds his occupation
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Those who had hoped to be able to as
scIt that tho effect OF the completion OF
the Dlngley law was not apparent In bust.
ness circles find that their only method of
making this assertion is to falsify the re-
cord which the country and the factories
and the employees OF all sections are max
Ing.
An Inferior quality OF money always
cheats the Garner Of wages. Capital
knows all the ways and means OF guard
ing against contingencies, aud labor has
not The chance TO do SO. The fact that
the silyes standard OF money is every
where associated with Impoverished, ser
vile labor tells the story.
The Cleveland "Plaindealer," a daily
Democratic newspaper Of Senator Hanna 3
home, reluctantly admits that there Is
some evidence Of returning prosperity. u
1t is moved to this admission by the fact
that single rolling mill in that place
which has been silent for years has start.
ed up with $500 men at work.
Ii is vain for the advocates of FREQ silver
coinage al the ratio of 10 to to deny
That their policy would include the silver
standard, and will they explain how 1t is
that the silver standard Of money the
world over from India to Mexico, and
Chm" 10 Spain inclusive, means the
degradation and abject poverty OF work
ingmen!