Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-11-03

SO loudly about. the charts which show
ed that silver and wheat always rose or
fell side by side. Where are the ora
tors who told you that the hard times
were the result of the crime of 1873,
that good times could not come again
unless you had the free coinage OF sill
yer at 16 to /, that ii Bryan were de-
feated and the gold standard establish
ed in this country, times would grow
harder and harder, mortgages wcald
multiply, the farmer and the working
man would lose his home by the the.l-
sands, failures would stalk through She
land in an eve increasing army, that
oats would fall to Elk n q busiei
and that wheat would within siS
months be selliug for twenty eentsg
Where are the people who tod ab"lt
the money famine, about the money
power which was boarding all Ito gold
of tho world and which would il yoa
electde Mckinley wiring yoar last hard
earned dollar from you? They are
gone. All gone. They DO not aey any
thing about it this year. They DO not
like to discuss The subject.
And the reason Is III shining as the
sunlight OF prosperity which has since
1896 risen over the eastern hills and
which begun to wars into enthusiasts
life the blood OF South Dakota The
people of this state would not sop and
listen to q repetition of the old calani-
ty silver CRY. Their own experience
brings them the rSfutasion OF those
-.-a~A .l. - - ~ fEn darn 0eN UFtnE
They have watched the course OF
events. They saw tho election OF Nc
Kinley restore confidence throughout
the business world. They saw failures
steadily and rapidly diminish. They
know that the first act of the new ad-
ministration was to call congress In
special session and dispiace the disas-
trous cvcnue tariff under which We
had suffered so deeply with he enact
mert Of. the first great Republican
promise. the Dingley bill. They saw
hat the stimulus OF that bill iishlel
the fires which had SO long been dead
in the mills. They heard the rcneWei
hum OF Tie looms whc1e for four years
the cobwebs Lad gathered. They mao
the rattle OF the dinner pail as 4 miil on
men left the soup houses u charity
Kitchens and went back TO honest toll.
They found that when the weekly ray
day came around the army OF working
men rot an increase in wages. Ihny
feund that a million Families which
had been living on the cheapest anu
scanticst foods. again came into TN,
farmers market and bought nat ana
beef and pork.
A year and q half have rolled arounu
and the people OF South Dakota kho"
the result. They know that under tnS
restoration of confidence and the en-
actment of the ~beneicient Republican
tariff the balance OF trade has tufncS
i way. Whereas. under the lass adj
mlnistration we sent abroad two hun
bred million dollars for goods moft
than we got fro-a the outside world
since the advent of Mckinley we have
received nine hundred millions mors
than we have seat. While under tht
Democrats we rlade a loss OF two hun
dred millions, under the Republicans
va have In less than half the time made
a profit OF nine hundred millions. Wha'
before we were buying abroad ant
sending our hard earned dollars iol
across the sea, now we are manutaetur
ing al home. And while we have bull
UP during the past two years u grea'
additional home market for all that oui
farmers have to sell, we hnd no IN
crease In the goods we have TO buy.
But the people OF this state have
seen not only u foreign trade grow Il
a point never hitherto reached ant
commanding a profit whose splendid
PROPORTIONS have never hitherto beer
approached, they have seen a groHtf
In II internal commerce or sneh da2
cling size that the mind cannot grass
1t. We have read IN the newspaper
about the increase OF traffic In tn
railroads. We have read in the com
mercial reports about a constantly aug
menting trade. But when we group tn
statistics ali together we are amazed
The bank clearings of the country are
the surest Euage OF the business done
In the nine months ending on Septem
Der l OF this year those clearings SHOW
a business transacted in this country
thirteen billion dollars greater than II
the first nine months OF 1896. Think o
what that means In creating an incceas
cd market for your products.
They talked about. needing more
n Today there is in circulation
in the United States 1897 eco 900 more
than two years ago. The money which
was boarded by the people IN old stock
ings and broken sugar bowls and holes
liz the ground has fowed out from II
hiding places md Sa57. 100000 has goni
into the avenue OF trade. From across
the sea there have come TO Us Sla&. AL
400 IN gold end the government raintl
nave PIT out $I5.000.C00 OF the yellov
metal. is there q money famine today
Every one knows that interest rate.
were never so low.
.Shey told you that falling price.
were The result Of the gold standard
that prosperity could never come Unit
the prices rose and b would neEcl
dee .asgeneral rise Ia prices execp
through the free coinage OF silver. Le
M see. R~radstroets il admitted 10 b,
an unbiased authority. 1t il a non
partisan record or statistics. upoi
which business men of all parties rel,
for their calculations. Bradstreets Ia.
compiled Il record which, stands ont II
letters az FIRE which must pcrmcate htI
brain ufseveu the silver mine owner
MHt 1UM HAL .WHfAN