The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1897-09-15
OF THE SILveRITES.
stupid Hypocrisy of Bryanites and
Popuiists.


The Nebraska silverites, democrat, re-
publican and populist, have managed TO
make a fusion of similar character TO
that made by the same parties in Iowa.
Each faction held separate conventions
and adopted separate platforms, but
made a coalition on the ticket. The plat
forms, of course, all declare for free
coinage of silver at sixteen to one
without waiting for the ala or consent
of any other nation"-not even of Mex
leo, who would doubtless be glad 10 do
all she could for us under such circum-
stances. None of them has anything
to say of the hardships of the Ameri-
can farmer this year, but, curiously
enough, express great sympathy for
farmers abroad, by deploring the
scarcity with them. The populists, with
undisguised devoutness, say:
I'VE are thankful to Providence rather
than to any man for the measure Of pros
perity with which our state has been
blessed, and we attribute the rise in wheat
to foreign scarcity rather than suppose 1t
TO be the result of dear sugar or an in
creased tariff on straw"
1t is something TO have the populists
admit that our present prosperity is
the work of Providence. Had Bryan
been elected last fall all these bountiful
crops which have blessed Nebraska and
other states would have been ascribed
to him and to the establishment of free
coinage at sixteen TO one.
The silver republicans are not so de-
vout, but are more sympathetic and al
truistic:
1--WE recognize in the bountiful crops OF
this country and the entire failure of the
crops in competing countries a special ad-
vantage to our people by raising the prices
of farm products, but we deplore famine
in other lands and want prosperity that
does not depend upon the adversely of the
balance of the world"
They cannot rejoice in the good for
tune of our farmers, because they pre-
tend to see behind it the gaunt specter
of famine in other lands! We have but
little patience with such foolish and
false pretexts and CLOSES. The truth
is the advance in the price of wheat
and the fall in the price of silver have
so disconnected and dumbfounded the
silverites and so completely overthrown
their arguments and theories that they
are like drowning men grasping at
straws.
The American farmer must not be
glad Of the higher prices offered him
for his wheat because his competitors
in other countries have not raised as
large crops this year as usual and there
fore cannot keep the price down!
This is a fine argument to address
to people who so long have suffered
from low prices because of these very
competitors!
Instead of recognizing the infleXible
law Of nature in these movements
prices governed by supply and demand
these silverites whine and weep over
the sad fate of our foreign competitors
in the wheat markets of the world, be-
cause they have no wheat to undersell
oursl
What sort of support should the peo-
pie give to a party like this?
Surely the eyes of the farmer must
be opened by this time to the stupid
hypocrisy of Organism and populism.
Last year, heartbroken because our
farmers had no markets for their sur
plus, this year heartbrolen because
they have great and rising markets and
other wheat-eXporting countries have
not!-Chicago Times-Herald.