Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-10-27
The Advocate and Hard Times.

The editorial efforts of the Advocate
this fall are exerted to try to prove
to the farmer that he is in a wretched
condition. Calamity talk is used with
as much freedom and abandon as Wea-
yer or Sockless Simpson ever used it.
In doing this the Advocate is simply
trying to bend the facts around to suit
its party theories. Organism asserted
that the success of the sound money
cause would mean that times would
become even worse than they then
were undo: democratic rule. Now, in
order to make their party theories cor
rect, all the Advocate has to do is to
hypnotic the people of Audubon coun.
ty and make them believe times are all
the time becoming worse. This it tries
to do by flow of words, flourish of
fancy and a cry of great is Organism
and cheap money"
A few weeks ago tsaid, Everything
the farmer sells continues to grow
lower in price, and everything he buys
goes up in value" The REPUBLICAN
called i. to account for this statement
and disproved it by quoting prices.
Then again last week the Advocate
continuing its efforts to show calamity
regardless OF facts, after figuratiye
and highly poetical article concerning
the depression" in Kansas said, "Pros-
perity! Oh, mythical god of yestermorn,
of thy strengthening locks hath thou
been shorn, hard thy heart and empty
thy horn--this is the god the republi-
cans built
No one has greater admiration for
the faultless rythm and gaudy style
with which the editor of the Advocate
clothes his argument, but we have
always been inclined to think he is apt
to sacrifice truth in these illusions.
Now in the midst OF his gigantic efforts
to make believe that we are in the
midst Of the hardest times we have
ever known we have little hope of say
ing anything that will cause him to
realize his condition. AS a last effort
OH what is regarded as 'gone case"
we will quote from the news columns
of his own paper of Oct. IA as follows:
FARMERS HAVE MONEY.
Keokuk Oct. 13.-Mention has been
made in Iowa papers of the large
amount of money OH deposit III Iowa
banks in some of the leading cities and
towns throughout the state. The same
condition of affairs, it appears, pre-
walls in the smaller communities.
Neighboring farmers alone have $l06.
600 in bank in New Sheridan. Up at
WhittemOre, in the newer portion Of
the state, 100000 in cold cash has been
deposited by farmers this year. This
plentitude OF money is resulting nat
urally and legitimately in Il reduction
of interests rates. In this connection it
is interesting to note that i'll some To-
calities business men are complaining
that the banks are loaning money
cheaper to the farmers than to them.
Now the news columns of the Advo-
cate printed away from home are not
edited for political effect. They are
edited to give facts and not to advance
pet financial theories. From the above
from the Advocate it is plain the far
mers of Iowa are not in half as bad
condition as the editorial! columns
would indicate. We would suggest
that the editorial utterances of the
paper be made to conform to actual
conditions as shown by its own news
columns and as known to all observ-
ing people.