Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-06-21
FOUR LINERS
ON TWIN CITY, STATE AID Ma
TIONAL POLITICS,

Meat and Pith of tho Silver Question.
Why Silver Restored Means Dollar
Wheat and More-A Nut Which tho
Gold Press Cannot Craok-Gold Begins
to Go Abroad Again-Twin City Letter.
Business and Politics-Mayor Gray's
Work iu the 'OId stin'' Yards-Points
Hero and There in tho State Reform
Administration-G.O o. p. Hustling for
Next Years State Candidates-Knute
Nelson's "Fighting F.ce"-Mr. Towno
With Moroton Frowen-Auti-Imperi rial
ism to tho Front-Stato Note and Com
Reform Press Bureau.
ST. PAUL June IL. 1899.
Thr gold standard press are very
''fip" in sneering at this Bureau for re-
marking that dollar wheat and more
is what we are AFTER" but not one of
them can show why free coinage will
not accomplish it, nor answer the fol-
lowing:
Free coinage would, as it formerly
did, destroy the destructive competition
with us in the worlds markets of great
nations that now do and will continue
to do business with a money cheaper
than gold. With free coinage it would
no longer be possible for their growers
of wheat to sell it for so cents bushel
in gold and take this gold and buy a
dollars worth of silver and coin it into
that much of their money, with which
they can then pay double the debts,
taxes and fixed charges that our farm
ers can pay with their bushel sold in for
eign markets. The closing of our minis
to silver is responsible for this enormous
difference in the debt paying power
of a bushel of wheat for our own farm
ers and those of silver using countries,
whose product of which regulates the
market price of every bushel sold in the
United States. The discrimination be-
tween the two metals has forced the
dollars apart until gold buys twice the
silver that it did and should now.
When an ounce Of gold would buy Is
ounces of silver instead of more than 80
as now, then SO cents in gold would buy
just so cents in silver, and the power Of
the bushel of wheat to pay debts, taxes,
and the fixed charges would not fall
with the prices of products, such, for
instance, as are fixed by the trusts and
monopolies, custom and law, but would
be the same everywhere. Is this not
true?
The wheat growers of silver countries,
who are our principal competitors
abroad, can sell bushel of wheat for
the same amount of silver they always
could, for they can get it coined into
about as much money as formerly. But
we can't get it coined into money at all
any more, and can convert it only into
one-half of the gold money we could
once. This gives them their old profit
able price and gives US the ruinous half
prices of recent years, and has made
this mightiest of our farm industries
very Improbable, unless we happen to
have the unprecedented crops of the
last two years and they have a wheat
famine at the same time. We can de-
stroy this ruinous competition only by
open mints, for thereby and thereupon,
the old ratio between gold and silver
would he restored. Is not this also true?
And the foregoing are among the rea-
sons why the money question is not
dead, neither sleepeth.
When anti-imperialists are feeling
badly at being called names, let them
read this:
when die wish but two words
written on my tombstone: 'In6del-
Traitor Infdel to church that can
be at peace in the presence of sin, traitor
to a government that is a magnificent
conspiracy against justice. wendell
Phillips.
The Chicago Democrat thus concludes
most just and charming comment on
our great leader, and the certainty of
Bryan's nomination and election next
year:
william Jennings Bryan is not only
the logical candidate of the Democratic
party-he is the ideal American man
hood, worthy successor to Washing
ion, Jefferson and Lincoln"
When last heard from Hon. Charles
A. Towne was in London, guest of the
great English bimetallist, Hon. More
ton Frewen. Mr.. Towne is said to be
making great success of his foreign
mission and may be expected to bring
home material of great value. Espe-
cially will he no doubt be posted Oh the
Indian minis question.
The managing gentlemen are profuse
in their assertions that no politics is ex-
pected, in the coming of Mckinley to
greet the return of the Thirteenth.
Well, why not make it certain by invit-
ing Mr.. Bryan?
Let no one be disturbed about Colonel
Ames and Lieutenant Colonel Fried
rich. Both will come marching home,
in their proper places, with the noble
Thirteenth.
With 1000 census appOlntees next
year, most of them Republicans and
with 10000 strikers let loose by the Nc
Kinley blow at the civil service, it will
behoove the people to be up and doing to
offset their work for 'Me aud McKin-
ley"
There is marked similarity between
the present situation with the Ohio Re-
publicans and those of Minnesota last
year. Nominations have been made
under false pretenses of harmony"
and everybody has gone home to sulk
and vote for the other fellow at the
polls. Why not the opposition all unite
on Golden Rule Jones2