The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-04-13
SOME SOLID FACTS
ABOUT FREE SILVER AND PRO-
LECTION AND PRICES.

Figures Don't Lie, Therefore the Follow.
ins Facts are True-They are Bitter Pills
for Many to Swallow. si'
The farmers of the country will be in
terested In some figures which are incl
dentally but necessarily presented by
That chief organ Of the silver trust, the
Silver Knight Waterman" This pub
llcatiOn is owned by Silver Mi llionaire
Stewart the most active and persistent
OF the calamity walters, who never
misses an opportunity of telling the pub
lie what sufferers they are under the
gold standard, and how impossible it is
Tor the farmers to prosper without the
Tree and unlimited coinage of silver.
Protesting, as it does, to be newspaper,
the Silver Knight Watchman necessarily
reports some of the current features of
the weeks developments, including i'm
portant features of commerce, markets,
&c, and here, in its presentation of
these facts and conditions which can
not be ignored, the Night-Watchman
destroys the entire structure of arpn
ment which the calamity walters have
washed with their tears during each
succeeding year that they have determ-
lned to trick the people of the United
States into aiding them in behalf of
their free-silver scheme.
Examined in the light of the constant
assertion of the silverites that PROSPER
lty cannot cOmetO the farmers without
the free coinage OF silver, and that
prices OF farm products AMI prices of
silver keep pace, the figures presented by
the Knight Waterman in its issue of
FEBRUARY "a, 1893, are to say the least,
interesting. 1t shows for instance, the
closing price of wheat in New York on
FEBRUARY 2l, 1893, to be $1.031S per
bushel. When Mr.. Bryan was nomi-
mated and assured the farmers of the
country, as did all his associates, that
farm products could not advance with
ont the free coinage of silver, wheat was
worth 643s cents per bushe
The market report of the Night Watch
man gives the price of corn in New
York, February 81, 1893 as 35% cents,
which is just five cents bushel more
than 1t was on April /, 1897, showing AM
advance OF nearly twenty per cent. iii
price in less than IL months without the
free coinage of silver. The same report
in the Night Waterman gives the price
OF oats in New York at 3024 cents per
bushel. When Mr.. Bryan was noInina.
ted in 1896, the price of oats in New
York was 211a cents, gain of nearly 80
per cent. without the free coinage of
silver.
Mess pork is quoted in the same mar
ket report of the Night -Watchman at
SlO,25 per barrel. That highest author
lty on prices, Bradstreet, shows that
mess pork in New York was worth $500
per barrel on October 1, 1896, just at the
lime Mr.. Bryan, Mine-Owner Stewart,
he Night Watchman and other advocates
we're assuring the farmers that products
'ou'd not advance except through the
rec coinage OF silver. Yet there is an
ldvance of nearly fifty per cent. in 16
months.
Beef, family is quoted by the Knight
Natchman as $ll.75 per barrel in New.
sork on February 81, 1893. It is shown
" Bradstreet to have been $500 Der
'arrel on October II, 1896, another in
rease of practically so per cent. within
d months without the free coinage of
liver.
Racon, the Night Watchman assures
Is readers, was worth in the New York
markets on February 81, 1893, 53a cents
er pound, while Bradstreet's shows that
n October |, 1896, it was worth 81
ents pound, an advance of more than
U per cent. in Is months despite the fact
nat the country has not been given the
rec coinage of silver.
Lard is quoted at 5.4 cents per pound
galnst AZ cents at the date of Mr.. Bry-
MS nomination, an advance of 25 per
ent' without the free coinage of silver.
Butter was quoted on February 81. ,
SsS, at 20 cents per pound. against Is
ents on October |, 1896, shortly before {
ne people OF United States rejected the
rec coinage Of silver, an advance during
hat time of 80 per cent, despite the
act that the free coinage proposition
'as so rejected.
Cheese, which at the time of NJ. Bry-
MS nomination was quoted in New {
Ork markets at 656 cents per pound, is 1
lOwn by the Night Watchman to have {
cen 81 cents on February II, 1898, and
'ithout the free coinage of silver.
A considerable space is also devoted in
he Knight-Watchman to reports of the '
altimOre markets, which, of conrse
ractically agree with those of New
ork in staple articles. These reports
note wool, unwashed at 20 and % cents
er pound, an advance of about 50 Der ;
mt. in the IS months since the Watcl :
ian and ita aaaociafao ,unro do.I.