The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-01-12

Tame grasses ,,.,.....,... s,0tS, aS5
Pralrie.graSB ....l 1905, sSS
WOOL clip........s....... ........... yLts0
Cheese, butter and mllk....,..... bss9, f62
Poultry and eggs sold........ll.,. $780, gI
siaqsS.sr ] !; u. s7.7ste7s
horticultural and garden prod.
ucts ard wine.,.! .,....., ..,... Il ,f2e,S60
Honey, beeswax and wood ..S.... sosiO5I
Total value OF products. &. 1, .,isG, 3s5, IS
Total value OF live stock ..,.......o ioIt, $50
Grand total. ~. i. sou liO,iis
lis enormous total. Of values embraces
Ttwcnty-four varieties OF agricultural
products ana flve kinds Of live, stock, the
greatest quantities. 81 products being
the crops OF wheat, 5i,e2e,6oi bushels;
corn, 152,liosss bushcls; rye, 2s,isl,2s
bushels; Irish and sweet potatoes, 81
a2, $50 bushels; cotton, 1l9s,sS2 pounds;
broom corn, 1o,4ls,lSo pounds; wool, clip,
762.16 pounds. Theremainder OF the
products were In smaller quantities,
making up the total values as shown in
the table. 4 <.
twill be remembered that in the nrgu-
ments that were adduced from the condi-
tons In Kansas by the calamity silver
ties great etress was laid upon the all
legged fact that the state was mortgage
ridden, and that the farmers were groan-
ing under q mountain OF debt, for which
the gold standard was held responsible,
while the money power was held up us
the vampire that was sucking the life
blood from tho agricultural interests OF
the state. Free silver, It was held by Mr..
Bryan, OF Nebraska, and the Papullstic
statesmen who were the principal pro-
ducts OF Kansas when other crops were
tscant, was the only remedy that would
cure the ills. Nature and Natures law
OF supply and demand had nothing to do
with It. The situation was wholly due
to the wicked gold standard and lack
OF cheap money. When the sound money
men declared that there was plenty OF
money, and all that was needed was
bountiful crops and n demand in the
market for them to bring the money.
into the agricultural. regions OF the west,
good prices for products and prosperity
for the farmer, the claim was snecred
at, and even to this day Mr.. Bryan Is
setting up the absurd claim that the ag-
ricultural communities are no better of
than they were eighteen months ago.
In Kansas alone the enormous value
.ot.the crops, and the great demand for
them at good prices, give the lie to these
calamity walls, and every claim made
by the sound money advocates has been
verified by the fact that there Is no lack
of money among the farmers, due to the
demand for their products and their re-
celpt OF good one hundred cent dollars
for them,s while sllver's price is far be-
hind in the race with the price OF wheat.
The deposits In the banks have been
largely increased, ,andNthe report OF the
state bank commissioner of Kansas,
which is incorporated in the circular re-
ferred to, shows that the Indebtedness
cancelled has been $50, 100000, OF which
s25,o00,000 represent mortgages lifted
and $4,000, 900 represent notes in bankthat
have been paid.
What is true Of the state of Kansas Is
true of the other great agricultural
states of the west. where the cheap money
demagogus found the richest field for
the propagation Of their: theories during
the hard times, and where the natural
laws of trade have. demonstrated the ut
ter absurdlty OF, the claim that an alb
sence of cheap money was the cause OF
the ills that were complained of. The flow
of money into the west as the result OF
the operation Of these laws has been suf-.
flcient answer to the demagogues, while
the farmers have been made to see how
near they came 10 becoming the victims,
Of too much faith in the demagogic argu-
ments Of financial quacks.
In view Of the grand total OF $3.50, no.
z143, which represents the value OF the
crops and farm animals at the end OF
the year 1897 in this one state: in the
handsome bank balances, and the pay:
ment Of 100000 Of Indebtedness, all in
one hundred cent dollars, good the world
over, the people of Kansas have time to
reflect upon how much worse off they
would have been II the dangerous and
absurd financial arguments of the finan-
cial theorists had prevailed.
General Manager Burt, of the Ohio