The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-09-30

Editorial Notes.
The calamity shriekers are not taking
their vacation among the farmers this
year. The farm weather is altogether to
chilly for them.
1.-THE Republican party is responsible
for the prosperity which we have with us.
make the assertion from the standpoint
of a business man Mark Hanna.
MI Bryan informs the palpitating pub
lie flat the foreign famine is responsible
for the increased price of wheat in the
face of the fall of silver, but says nothing
about the advance in cotton, tobacco,
corn, meats, woods and other farm prod
ucts
Ohio farmers who take the time from
their busy and profitable duties to listen
to Mir. Bryan's 81, 500 speech would like
to have him explain how it is that Ohio
wool. which sold at II cents a year ago,
now brings 26 cents, while silver has fallen
20 pei cent. meantime.
The Argentine Republic, which sold us
wool and hides last year is considering a
proposition to shut out the one million
dollars worth of lumber, kerosene, and
farm implements Which we sell her annual
~. tccarse of or tariff on wool and
hides
stand by the Administration Of Will
liam Mckinley That is the only saliva
ton If our country. By indorsing and
standing by the Administration you VIII
slalc fills nation further attacks from
those who preached anarchy and arrayed
class against class a year ago LSena-
to1 Hanna at Burton, Ohio
1.-TWO years ago l could see the danger
which threatened our beloved county
saw lie opportunity for rescue. 1 thought
saw the man W no could avert the danger
though; l saw what was in the hearts Of
tile Amelican people. and 50 l gave my
self to tbs cause OF William Mckinley
Hen N A. Hanna
81 lave been a large employer Of men
and wait To say now that I was the frs
emI loyel in OAo 10 recognize organized
labor. From that day have never refus
ed to recognize it. My prosperity j.
theile, and 1 cannot have it without theil
CO. q Grafton" From Senator Hanna's
Burton, Ohio, speech.
Camp hor is mostly produced in Japan
Folnosa, ard some parts of China anC
the Philippines. Secretary Wilson, the
head Of the Department of Agriculture
proposes to give the citizens of the Gull
States an opportunity to experiment il
this line. He is preparing to distribute
caml hoI tree slips to that section, and is
thus likely to add another important in
dustry to those Of the agricultural ele-
ment.
Nv hat does W. j. Bryan say now? He
tries to explain that silver and wheat are
on divelging lines because of famine
abroad. Only few States are interested
IN silver mines and the price of silver.
Compare the few mine owners with the
million of tanners and wheat-g growers
who ale interested on the other side
of this question" From Senator
Hanna 5 speech on the opening of the
Ohio campaign, September II.
This talk of these gentlemen about
prices and accidents and this recrimina-
tien about dead and buried speeches show
them to be still cropping about among the
urdelbush, while sensible men are stand
ing on the mountain top and beholding
the earth to the very horizon S edge. The
view may not be of the whole round
earth, but it is better than the view from
the jungle. From Speaker Reed
answer TO VIM. Jennings Bryan.
-'After a great smash like that of 1893
on that OF 1873 there is nothing to do but
wait and let the business of the world
settle itself, carefully keeping meanwhile
the medicine men of finance with their
feathers and rattles out of the way of the
sick man. When public confidence is pro-
foundly shaken it must re- establish itself.
1t has been shaken by causes, and those
causes must be removed" Speaker Reed
on the Business Situation.
How are our silver friends explaining
the Increase in value of our cotton CROP
this year in the face of the fall of silver?
Silver has fallen 20 per cent. in the past
year, while cotton has SO much advanced
that this year crop, although very light