The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-05-11
WHEAT AND SILVER.

| May wheat sold at Chicago yesterday at
| $3.50 bushcl the highest price since 1917.
This. too, without the free coinage OF silver
and wlthou. any corresponding rise OF silver.
we used TO bear that cheap silver meant
cheap wheat, hut We have now cheap silver
and hlRh-prlcod wheat The Bryanitos tcld
us we could never ngain have dollar wheat
while VIC have the gold standard and silver
struck down" but hero we are with $ia0
wheat. the gold STANDARD still prevailing and
silver sim excluded from free coinage IN the
mnts Of any civilized nation except Mexico
who says now that silver Is the farmers
friendg If silver were true To the farmer "
would rise In sympathy with wheat and oth
things But no; II lags behind. Indifferent
Mr.. Bryan ought TO give II u nudge. Bali
moro sun.
These remarks from one OF the leading
Eastern papers are quoted here moi because
any RECITATION Of their false logic AMI
wild conclusions is really needed but in
order to show the desperate and unfair at
tempts Of the godbug organs to play upon
the ignorance and preiudices OF their
readers.
We should expect such alleged argument
from the stump orator who had no oppo-
rcnt near to question his assertions, bur
IL is matter for surprise to see prominent
papcr prostitutng it's columns to such
stuff The fact only demonstrates that the
poldbug press is continuing that policy of
Misrepresentation and sophistry that was
INDUCED with such apparent success in
1890.
The readers OF the Baltimore sun may be
influenced by Iuch a line of attack upon
silver, but intelligent people will not he
IL. 4 "a M Gil
bullion In Europe and an unprecedented
demand for silver coinage, think you that
the price Of silver would not 20 ur? II the
world wanted silver more than anything
else Just now, and this country had the
only. aud a limited, supply, where would
the price per ounce go? If added to this
extraordinary demand there WAS the other
feature Of large corner In the bullion
whore would tho price stop? II under all
these circumstances, coinage were free and
footing with the gold dollar, would not
silver show identically the same rise that
wheat is showing In the face of hungry
Europe and short supplies?
These godbug organs point to facts but
fail to explain the causes. Mr. Bryan con-
tended that under natural or ordinary
conditions" silver and wheat would rise or
fall together. and over a long period this
| relation was observed. For two years
past governments everywhere have con
tlnucd TO fecreaso the demand for silver
and II has gone down. During the SAINT
time an extraordinary demand for wheat
has existed Crops have failed Throughout
the world except in tho United states, an
orr prices have gone I'm accordingly Wa,
! has stepped in to still further push M FOO
products. until the natural relations be
tween silver and wheat have been utterly
dcsiroyed--by a combination OF accident
and design.
1t looks almost Hike matter of super
erogation to answer such silly remarks as
these OF TIE Baltimore Sun. but MS lonr
n the roldhugs resort 10 such means t.
lead the public into false conclusions i
may not he out Of place TO point ont how
desperately solicltous their organs are tt
deceive