The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-11-02

was" 1t will be seen that the
Bulletin clearly lodges the issue.
1t does not institute a comparison
between the prices of any two per
|iods but it seeks to compare the
highest and lowest prices obtain
able at any time and under any
conditions.
/ AS to the misprint which the
Bulletin claims it made in its arti-
Gle we dare it to produce the copy
from which it was set and prove
the misprint. We have seen the
same article in number of other
democratic papers and everywhere
it is printed the same. 1t is not a
misprint unless some one calls
them down.
The Review has made two asser-
tions and both of these are proven
correct by the Bulletins own adj
missions. First, we said that the
statements as made in the Bulletin
of Oct. 18th were every one false
and untrue. The Bulletin con
fesses that this is true and offers in
extenuation that it stole the article,
made misprint and hattie prices
were set of old prices anyhow.
The Reviews second contention
was that the farmer could buy
more of the necessities of life with
his products today than he could
in 1896. This also is proven by
the Bulletins own utterances and
by the prices, unfair as they are,
which it quotes in its own columns.
Giving the Bulletin the advantage
of every doubt, calling its unfair
comparisons true ones, we still find
that the proposition made by the
Review is true. We propose to
discuss the matter of prices from
the standard which the Bulletin
itself set up. 1t will be remem-
bered that the false statement of
prices in its issue of Oct. IS re-
peated again and again that it took
more corn to buy such an article
now than it did in 1896. The Bull
letin no longer follows this line of
argument. 1t has abandoned the
corn standard because it knows
that On that ground its every state
ment can be proven false. 1t must
be borne in mind that the Review
has not for one moment contended
that the general range of prices is
not higher than in 1896. The
range Of prices was so low in 1896
that the democrats urged that it
would bring ruin to the country and
actually proposed and do still pro-
pose to raise the standard Of prices
by the hysterical hocus-pocus of
cutting the dollar in two. Under
the republican administration
prices are higher. A republican
would be the last to deny it. The
republican party glories in the fact
hat by natural processes, by put
ing into operation the law of sup
ply and demand, it has raised the
-evel of prices, but it also contends
that the farmer and the producer
and the laborer are the men who
have gotten the most advantage
out of the raise of prices. In other
words, if bolts and piping and lum-
Der have risen, corn has risen more.
That if the price of staples has ad-
vanced the laborer is still better
able to buy not only on account of
higher wages but on account of
more steady employment. The
Bulletins first proposition was
then that the corn produced in this
county would not buy as much of
the necessities of life today as it
would in 1896. This is the propo-
sition to which we hold the Bulletin.
This is the proposition which we
denied before and which we deny
again. This is the proposition
which we will prove by the Bull
letin's own hgrues. The Bulletin
gives the price of corn in 1896 as
Az cents and admits that the
! price is eleven cents higher now.
With this as basis we reprint the
Bulletins figures just as it gives
them in its recapitulation of prices.
The following is the Bulletins
statement:
REHABILITATION.
Before The 1900
/ Trust Prices. Trust Prices.
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