Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-08-12

| FtaNSeed
Flour, best pat per Ioo lbs I S 90
| Flour, second best patent..... | 70 20.
| Corn car.......'... ......,............,.. Is IS
| Oats, car ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Is 27
btan per observation-disclosures. 90 900
| MijdlingS......... ....-...., 900 10 90
;,SpI ,,,.a, '''.''''--.-' 900 ~
chicago markets
| No cred wheat ....................... S6K *
| No. cash corn......-................ 26h S2L
No. cash oats...,.................... IS 3zI
1t will be noticed that of all the
commodities quoted silver is the
only one which has fallen in price.
The others have gone up from IS
to 100 per cent. What has become
OF the law" Bryan and his organ
used to lay so much stress on that
silver and wheat and other agricul-
| tural products were so tied togeth-
er that if the former fell in price
the latter must fall too? The mar
ket reports of the World Herald
| contradict its editorials of 1906.
1t is proper to ask what has be-
come of the contention of the
Bryanltes that there could be no
advance in prices Unless free COLL
age at the fraudulent ratio of rs to
1 was secured, and of the future
contention that if the gold standard
was retained there must be steady
decline in prices? The Bryanites
chartered necessarily about the
"appreciating gold dollar They
alleged that The prices of the
farmers produce would fall, and
hence he would be less able TO paw
his taxes and clear off mortga ges.
Those statements won many a vote
for the Bryan ticket.
There is not a farmer in the
United States who does not know
that prices of breadstuffs and pro-
visions have advanced greatly
since Bryan was nominated, in
spite of his prediction that they
could not advance. The farmers
OF Nebraska have paid off mort
cages amounting to many millions
of dollars. So have the farmers of
Kansas and other states. BRYAN
predicted that those mortgages
could not be paid off if the gold
standard was retained. Neverthe-
less, they have been paid off. If
the farmers still believe that the
gold dollar is "appreciating in
value they ought TO have lost
their fear of "appreciating" dollars
when they get more of those dol
lars for their products than they
did two years ago.
This argument that prices had
fallen because silver had been
demonitIzed and would keep on
falling until the gold standard was
given up was one great cause of
the strength of Organism among
the iarmers--especially those west
ern farmers who had suffered the
most from the decline in prizes.
That argument has been disproved
by the memorable logic of facts.
Therefore, the Bryanite stump
speakers this fall will be unable to
use much of the material they
used i'll 1896. If they venture to
talk of silver and wheat as rising
and falling together they will be
laughed at. If they aSser. that
prices cannot advance under the
gold standard every farmer will
contradict them. What can those
StumperS do except insinuate to !
the debtors in their audiences that
tree coinage means a debased legal |
tender coinage disable in the paw
ment OF gold standard debts? But |
there are not as many debtors to-
day as there were two years ago.
The good crops and the high prices
paid tor them in gold value money
have wiped ont much of the bur-
densome Indebtedness of 1896.