The Globe-republican., 1897-09-30
REPUBLICAN, NOTES.

REPUBLICAN NOTES.
Those wretched Ohio editors win NOT
stop talking about John McLean's gold
bond.
The silverites insist that the rise in
wheat is due to scarcity only. But
how about wool?
The farmers are rapidly getting back
the $50 .0OO,0 900 which they lost in tho
value of their sheep under free trade.
Bland, Tillman and Bryan admit that
there Is temporary prosperity. A
year ago they said even that couldn't
come without free coinage.
The Democrats have laid aside their
, usual cry about increased prices under
the new tariff law. They see that low.
tariff is no longer popuar. even with
their own people.
Speaking of the growth of exports Of
manufactures under free trade" will
the Democrats claim the recent foreign
non-prOtective theory?
People who are wondering what the
Democrats will find for an issue in 1900
should postpone their worry, as there
may be no Democratic party by that
time. the way things are going.
| ciates call on the trainers of the Wilson
law to help out the miners? 1t was
clearly the reduction of the tariff that
| caused the reduction in the miners
wages.
Oh, by the way. have the Ohio and
Iowa and Maryland and Kentucky and
Nebraska and New Jersey and New
York Democrats forgotten about the
tariff? They seem to be strangely
silent on the subject
Because it is my deliberate judg-
ment that the prosperity of America Is
mainly due to it's system of protective
| laws, / urge that Germany has now
reached that point where it is necessary
to initiate the tariff system of the
United States "-Bismarck
Mexican workmen, who get less than
half what those of the United States
get, are having a hard time now that
they must take their pay in Accent dol
| lars. The American carpenter gets
| $3.50 per day in good 1OO-cent dollars.
while the Mexican carpenter gets SIPS
in coin worth 40 cents on the dollar.
The real value of the $1.25 which the
Mexican gets is just so cents. against
$3.50 which the American carpenter
gets.
Uncle Richard Bland says the rise
in wheat is due to scarcity, and that
the silver question has nothing to do
with it. Is it not possible, Uncle Rich
ard, if high prices are produced by
scarcity and have no relation to silver,
that low prices were due to plenteOus-
mess and also had no relation to silver?
It's poor rule that doesn't work both
ways. Uncle Richard. We all know
that wheat was plenty and the cost Of
producing it much less than ever be-
fore.
The statistics of the cotton crop for
last year show it to have been S,757 1854
bales. 1t has been sold for about $780,,
OOO, 900, or something more than the to-
tai volume of the greenback currency.
This is more than five times the value
of the annual silver product of the
country. What folly is it then for cot
ton growers to think that their pros
perity depends upon doing something
for silver" when all the silver pro-
duced in the country would not buy
one in five of their cotton bales!-New
York World Dem).
The Republicans have been increas-
ing rapidly in numbers and influence
in all the states of the south. particu-
larly in those on the southern border,
with the exception of two, South Caro-
lima and Mississippi, in which, by con-
stitutiOnal provision. there is a large
Acknowledgement Of cOlOred voters.
The chief cause of this change is the
growth of the Populist party. which is
a white mans party, and has with
drawn many voters from the Demo-
cratic candidates without getting many
recruits from Republican ranks. In
no Presidential election since the close
of the civil war have the Republicans
polled so large an electoral vote in the
southern states as they did last yep
Mr.. Mckinley received twelve electok.4
votes in Kentucky, eight in Maryland,
and six in West Virginia, which, with
three in Delaware, make a total Of
twenty-nine in what was formerly the
solid south In three states-North
Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee-the
contest between the Democrats and the
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