The Paducah daily sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1896-1898, 1897-08-09

tective tariff is breeder df trusts
seem TO have already forgotten that
trusts never nourished in this country
as they did under the three years OF
the Democratic tariff, which the peo-
pie in their might wiped from the
face Of the statute books by their
vote Of last November.
Despite the continued fall in the
price OF silver, western farmers are
scrambling for cars with which to
transport their grain for which they
are getting large prices. The thous-
ands Of cars which have been lying
idle in car shops and upon the side
tracks since 1898 are ny one of
them now being pressed i4to service,
and thousands OF others are demand
ed and cannot be had, while the
prices for the grain which they are
to transport have greatly advanced,
while silver has steadily fallen. OF
course there is no real significance in
these two concurrent events, but
Bryan and others would have had us
believe last fall that wheat and silver
rose and fell together.
Word comes from the states in
which active political campaigns are
on this fall that the gold Democrats
are making rapid inroads in the ranks
of the Silvercratic party, and will car
ry off thousands upon thousands OF
men who last year voted the Bryan
ticket, but who now see from the de-
velopments since that time the folly
and unwisdom of the silver cause.
Somebody has expressed anxiety
lest Mr.. Bryan and his followers
should have difficulty in finding
something to say in the present cam
paigns. They will have plenty or
their hands, however, if they attempt
to explain how it is that wheat has
gone up 23 cents per bushel since
last falls campaign, while silver hs'
dropped 10 cents an ounce in The
same period. 1t is noticed that silvel
men are slngularly silent on this
point.
The wild screams of delight with
which the silver people at first greeted
the Maryland Democratic platform
have materially subsidized now that
they discover 1t is practically an er'
dorsement Of the Republican posi-
ton of 1896 since it expresses the
greatest pleasure that President Me-
Kinley and the Republican Congress:
have done precisely what the Repub'
lican platform promised to do-taker
steps to bring about an internationa
conference on the silver question.
The people who supposed that Mr..
Bryan is at all embarrassed in hi:
free coinage theories by the fact thai
the value of silver in a dollar ha;
fallen from SO cents in the last cam
paign to A cents at the present time,
evidently do not understand Mr..
Bryan. A man who could have the
assurance to urge that the govern
ment ought to permit everybody 10
put SO cents worth of silver into a
coin and pass it for dollar eau just
as well argue in favor of that privi-
lege for "A or "a cents worth OF
silver.
President Cleveland's order re-
quiring consuls to turn over to the
government the fees which they had
usually been collecting for their own
benefit has been modified by Presl-
dent Mckinley in the case of those
consuls whose salaries are $4,000 per
annum or less. The modification
does not apply to consuls already re-
ceiving salaries above $4,000, and
hence destroys the value of many
columns of able criticism which the
Democratic editors of the land had
prepared to hurl at the head of Pres
ident Mckinley bad he made the
order a general one, as they hoped,
for political reasons, that he would.