The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-09-11
POLITICAL DRIFT.


times TO rise while silver continues 10
fall?
DWheat is still climbing remorse,
lessly toward par measured In gnu
prices, while silver is on lis way " ~
cents. viii even study OF spanish
euable Brer Bryan to explain these re-
lentless facts? = Louisville courier
Journal (Dem.).
OUnless silver stops its DOWNWARD
course, that party of patriots VINO re-
Gently sailed for japan to obtain argu-
ments in favor of the white metal VIII
scarcely be able to present much en-
enlargement to the cause in time ior
the autumnal election of 1897.
yIt is a little curious that Mulhails
statistics should show the very
spot which was selected by the silver
ties as their basis of operations last
year-the prairie states-to be the
most PROSPEROUS spot on earth, as reck-
oned by the production OF 1000 per
capita.
cyThe assertion of the free-silver
orators of last year that prosperity
could not come to the people OF INC
United States without the free ana UNI
limited coinage of silver does not read
very we'll in parallel columns Just now
with the double-leaded announcements
of prosperity which the frankest anu
brayest of those journals are now pup
fishing.
GA free trade paper says the receipts
from customs for the first four days of
the Wilson bill were S3,25o.o00, while
the receipts under the new law for the
same time were but Sl,62l,5OO. mat
free trader must at least admit that
the consumer is not paying much tax
Just now unless the importers who hlled
| up their warehouses are collecting 1t
ST. Louis Globe-Democrat.
u Some of the democratic papers are
! greatly concerned lest President Nc
kinney should bring the presidential
Office into discredit by making speeches
| for Mr.. Hanna N the Ohio campaign
| this wear. They will doubtless feel re-
Iieved when they discover that Mr..
Hanna has enough friends to look after
his interests without taking the atten-
ton of the president from public BUSH
ness.-Chicago Tribune.
DWith wheat selling at more than
one dollar per bushel in New York mar
kets, where il was worth only 65 cents
a year ago, those tables which at
tempted 10 show that wheat and sill
yer keep pace as 10 their relative value
seem rather absurd now. Especially
is this the case when it is remembered
! that silver was worth 65 cents an
ounce in New York on August of last
wear. and is now worth SIS cents, one
year later.
l-y"rhe evidence accumulates with
each days advices that the long-con.
tinued depression in financial circles
has passed. and thanks to five years OF
forced economy and cessation of spec
ulation, coupled with to-day's album
daut harvest at remuuerative prices ia
the agriculturists, new prosperity Is
coming TO the people. From Address
of Comptroller Eckels (Dem.) Before
American Bankers Association, Au'
gust is, 1897.
UThe accounts of assumptions Of
, work and advances of wages which the
; dispatches bring from many places il
, different parts of the country MAKE
very pleasing reading. 1t is reading
which will become familiar from thi
!. time onward until everybody who cal
, be induced to accept work has 1t ant
> prosperity is fully restored. Nobod.
can tell how long the prosperity will
n last, but for a few years, at least, tn
, country is likely to have as good time
q as it ever knew in the past.-St. Loui
r. Globe-Dehocrat <~
Q OThere was al advance in price
O of corn, oats, rye, hay, potatoes, wheat
II beans, cotton seed oil, hemp. beeve:
n bacon, lard, rice, eggs, mutton. cottoI
!. tobacco, wool and other articles Q
d farm production during the month G
e July. Commenting upoa this fac
d Bradstreets says: This is evidence c
lie a heathful ground swell of demand fo
IS staple products and emphasizes III
r, radical improvement in the situation
.e the American agriculturst who ha
n had no such opportunity to reap
s. large share of the rewards Of labor fo
I'd years"
Id UThe warehouse-certificate schem
wherein certificates based upon II
s. bullion value of silver may be used,
he now the only hope of ex-Gov. Boies,
a. Iowa, as a basis of currency. He sal
tn months ago, as did many of those WI
of last year supported the free-coinage-o
# silver idea, that the day for that pro
ne osition had passed. In his last prop
sition, made public few days ago,
'r- suggests that the only method of ma
in ing silver useful as basis for curren'
u is its deposit in warehouses and the
ur suance of certificates upon its bulli'
X value. This might be good scher
It's IL silver did not have an uncomfortat
at way of taking a drop every now al
IRE then.
iet UFree silver and free trade havil
U.s. lost their charm with the people of t
1e- United States, the democratic leade
'ar who recognize that they will soon
INT out of job unless they find some M
Eet rallying cry, are now looking for 9th
m issues. This is indicated by recent {
seS IL H..