Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-04-14

The hills and the lanes and the meadows
Are in shades of emerald dressed,
And the robins nest in the orchard
Is awaiting the robins breast.
The grosbeak calls from the topmost bough
With a soul of love in his voice,
For the wintry gates are opened now
And Heaven and nature rejoice.
Albert Ralph Hager.
The money in circulation in the
United States has increased 500, 300;
AS since the adoption Of the Chicago
platform, which declared in effect That
nothing but the free and unlimited
coinage Of silver would give the
United States an increase OF her cir
culating medium.
The gold in the country has IN
creased nearly S13O,00O,OOO since the
adoption of the Chicago platform ana
the total coin in circulation has been
increased S246, 1873, 445, and all TINS,
despite the assertions that our clrcu-
lating medium could not increase
without the free and unlimited coin
age of silver at 16-tO-1.
The money in circulation in the
United States today is much more than
at any period in the history OF the
country. The highest sum named IN
the official reports Of the treasury
department, which give the tgures
for July 1st Of each year, in 81 800, oO0,-
7O8 on July !, 1894, while its tlgures
show the circulation on April /, 1870,
to be 81, 1856, 058, sos.
The claim of the advocates of free
coinage that there could be no
material additions to the circulating
medium of the country without Ine
free and unlimited coinage OF silver
shows up in poor light in view OF the
fact that the money in circulation, as
shown by the official figures or the
Treasury Department, has increased
S246, 1873, AS in the tWenty-One monJhS
since the adoption OF the Chicago
platform.
The Dingley law in its eighth
month. March, showed gain in earn
ingS over any preceding month in It's
history, being 30 per cent greater than
in its first month, while the customs
receiDtS of the eighth month were
nearly $50 per cent in excess OF those
Of the first month. The total receipts
of the treasury during its first eight
months were more than $40, OOO,O 900 IN
excess of the receipts Of the first eight
months were more than S2O,WO,OOO IN
excess of the receipts OF the first eight
months Of the Wilson law.
How are the free traders, who in
sisted that the new duties placed upon
hides and leather by the Dingley law
would increase the prices Of boots AND
shoes, going to explain the facts That
all grades of boots and shoes are sell
ING at less prices today than they solo
at under the low tariff Wilson law:
The quotations of the Shoe anG
Leather Reporter, an accepted author
ity, show that practically all grades
of shoes are WhOlesaling AT lower
rates today than they were January /
1897, not a single one in the entire llS1
showing any advance since that time
That the Dingley law is working tC
the advantage of the farmers in the
reduction of importation of the class
of articles which they produce, as wei
as the increased prices which they OBJ
tain through increased demand fol
their products, is shown by the fac1
that the importation Of articles o
food and live animals in the month OF
January 1898, under the Dingley law
was more than $1,000, 900 less than il
the corresponding month of the pre-
ceding year under the Wilson law
being about twelve and a quarte
million dollars in January of the pre-
sent year against about fifteen and
half million in January of last yea
under the Wilson law.
The importation of wool in the pas
six months under the Dingley tarlf
law was only 81, 900 pounds agalns
73,l95,0 600 in the corresponding ST
months of the preceding year, unde
tIo VJ;lcD,, low while in the Si'