People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-08-26
Wheat and Silver.

ampaign that the price of wheat /
gulated by the price of silver. W.
nave been unable to find him AM
concluded to offer a liberal reward
Tor photograph Of him.
When the gentleman offers hi
reward We may be induced to ran,
sack his own files and call upor
him for his photograph for exhlbi-
ton. A glance back at our incom
plete summary of his silver utter
anceS of 1895, printed IN the VOICE
in August, 1896, reveals that When
Richards was "going daft" on the
silver question, sending 10 Atlanta
for map plates, ETC., to prove hi.
position, and quoting quite literally
and approvingly from that great free
silver cham Jion, the Kansas City
Journal, to prove that the only
salvation of the Republican party
was to champion the tree and I'm.
limited coinage of silver at the ratio
OF Is to for the United States
independent of any nation on earth,
ne gave space on his editorial page,
May Is, 1895, to this remarkable
and pointed utterance from his Re.
publican godfather, the aforesaid
Kansas City Journal (RepubIican);
WHEAT AND SILVER.
Amid the believing bulls and growl.
ING bears of the grain pit, tie price Of
wheat has gone up a lew cents, and
then rose the howl Of the gold
trust organs: Where now is YOUR
argument that silver and wheat
sympathize with each Otherm And
as cotton gained a few points the
echo is heard ~ the cotton question
as well. A fact is a hard thing TO
get over. As people in the general
DO not have time to look up the
answer to all the falSehoods afl0at or
to the deception practiced by the
money lenders newspapers, it may
answer all this noise and confusion to
look at the market quotations for
March and April, which cover the
period that the Japan. China treaty
was influential from its indemnity
demand of 30O,0O0,0O0 silver then. on
the price Of that metal. For example;
On the 7th day of March last silver
quoted in New York at 6Os cents an
ounce; cotton uplands at 81 cents
And on the same day wheat for Nav
delivery sold in Chicago at 53I Der
buShel. So much for that date, an
il may be we'll to fix the figures in
mind, so the next can be compared
with facility.
On March 18th just three weeks
later, silver rose H. 81 cents an ounce
while cotton went up to Is SIC. and
wheat to 55t cents. Or, in round
numbers, close enough for comparison
silver rose cents, wheat 2 cents
and cotton cent. Then once more:
On April %, only a little over an
other three weeks interval, silver
sold for 81 cents, cotton It and wheat
1915. The same relative prices
almost TO fraction.
We shall not preach sermon on
these remarkable parallels, but use
them simply to puncture the gas
pouches of the gold organs and the
repeaterS of assertions they only
know about from sound. The cam
paign OF education" has begun, and
the recent rise IN wheat has been
seized upon TO break the crushing
force Of the facts OF the gold standard
on the price of farm products.
AT the same time this has been 60
ing on, and for all the years since
1873, a silver dollar buys the same |
amount Of cotton in India and Mexico |
that it always did, and does so to-
lay. So that the Manchester spinner !
buys dollars worth of cotton and |
wheat at BOmbiy with bis 60 and 50 |
'ent silver bought of our mines, and |
has the margin to beat our farmers |
~. That is bed rock business fact. |
With this information perhaps the
editor of the Mail can find the
photograph. And while he is
earching let US remind him that
When India and other silver coun.
ries raise some wheat to sell, and
continue whereby they
IAN get dollar for 80 cents worth
II wheat, as compared with the
American farmers standard, the
American farmer will again hide
)ut.
We advise our farmers to pay eff
heir mortgages, and save their
money for a rainy day rather than
70 into speculations on the future,
or as sure as water will run down
ill the same low prices, more in.
ensihed, will return to plague them
when their silver-country competi-
ors get on their feet again. Another
,ood fortune such as we have been
neir to this year may not return in
fifty years, and long ere the year
1900 shall roll around, when McKin-
ey comes on the rack again, the
ruth of our prophecy and Of our
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