Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-19

Reports from the farming regions
continue to show that the farmers
are reducing their mortgages. This
is hard on the silver theorists but
good for the farmers.
The railroad men who stood like a
stone wall against free silver and
anarchy last fall are now reaping their
reward in increased employment and
improved conditions. So are the
farmers.
1t is generally reported from reliable
sources that the Canadian government
has abandoned its scheme to compel
miners going into the Klondike diggings
to pay royalty offrom Toto Is per cent.
upon all gold mined by them.
The Ohio Democrats viii not at
tempt to preach free silver and calam-
ity in the vicinity Of~that Cleveland
rolling mill which recently started up
with $500 men after an idIeness Of
years.
The silence of the silver orators is
becoming oppressive these days. 1t is
in marked contrast with their chatter
of year ago. But come to think of
it, the contrast in the relations of
wheat and silver is quite as strongly
marked.
1t is estimated that this years ex-
portation of corn will reach 200 900, 600
bushels which is several times greater
than was ever before exported in any
single year. viii the Democratic
statesmen and statistician credit this
to the low tariff rates of the Wilson
law.
There is still one class in the United
States who are out of employment.
This is the professional calamity Shrek
ers. Probably.they might find employ
ment in Mexico now, judging from the
dole1ul reports which have come from
there since the recent drop in he nice
Of silver.
Can it be possible that the money
kings" Of Europe are responsible for
the failure of the crops abroad and
the advance Of wheat in the face of a
falling silver market q? This is about
as the theory of last year that the
money kings were the cause of the
adoption Of the gold standard by all
the great nations of the world.
The professional fault-fnders are
not finding the welcome ears that they
did last fall. People are too busy
now to listen to complaints that they
know are not founded on fact, and
they are suspicious Of men who offered
them a theory which would not hold
good even for one year.
Calamity platforms do not go well
with advancing prices and increasing
prosperity. The Democrats of Ohio
and Iowa are already recognizing that.
but, having made their platforms are
now doomed to stand upon them until
they and free-silyer cause go down to-
gether. 1t is too late to swap horses
now that they are in the middle of the
stream.
Apples are useful in nervous dyS-
pepsia; they are nutritious, medicinal
and vitalizing; they aid digestion,
clear the voice, correct the acidity of
the stomach, are valuable in rheu-
matism, insomnia, and liver troubles.
An apple contains as much nutriment
as a potato, in a pleasanter and more
wholesome form.
The contrast between Republican
and Democratic prosperity is strongly
marked. People who remember the
general smash in business of all sorts
during the first year of the Cleveland
administration and then compare the
reyiving conditions which mark the
present period Of the Mckinley ad-
ministration will probably not regret
the change which the voters made
through the election of last year.
Farmers in Northern Wisconsin are
warned against trading horses with gangs
of horse traders now infesting this sec
ton. They travel with lot Of old brok
en- down animals, diseased and useless.
They are kept "doped" and for the time
look very respectable but after few days
working they fall to pieces. Farmers in
Chippewa county have learned to
know to their sorrow, what it is to buy
or trade with these horse sharks.-Ex.
In a country turned down from the
gold to the silver standard as those
metals ORC rnlatad II, tho D,orl-o+ -