Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-11-01
Average. .$O.6315
A dec1ino of % cents nor h11Sha1
Average, 3 years. .SO.S2A

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An increase of 10 cents per bushel.
elm face of this long record it requires
a good deal Of assurance to claim that
the farmers friend.
cit is a well established economic fact
that falling prices and prosperity never
did and never can co-exist.
"The market record of price shows
clearly hat under Democratic SUI
premacy we always have falling prices
and hard times, with farm products
falling much lower than the general
list.
"It also demonstrates that under Re-
publican supremacy we. AVE rising
prices, better times and general pros
perity, with farm products keeping pace
In rise with the general list, or rising
faster and going higher.
cit is quite useless in this campaign
to discuss what might result should
Populist principles have.a trial. Except
the mid-road fragment in the North
west there is no Peoples party in the
North. 1t has been destroyed by fusion
with the Democratic party.
H'Your choice, then, if you are to have
q S1lO1SS, Is bCI"CCA lax 1SCpuO11SLAA
party-rising prices. prosperity and fair
treatment-or the Democratic party
falling prices, adversely and discrim-
nation against our interests as a class.
'"The first political demand of the
Populists and the paramount issue was
for a larger volume of money, to not
only stay the downward trend of prices,
but to give us gradually rising prices
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| Kinley we have increased our currency
one-third without disturbing a single
industry, and prices have advanced
during the three years to the enormous
extent of SO per cent.
Gwen if the Democratic party were
In the habit of keeping their platform
promises (Which they are not) what do
they p in the way of relief to
warrant you in giving them another
chance?
Are you willing to sacrifice 20 per
cent Of all the provisions you produce
that they may once more be enabled to
tinker with the tariff?
Are you willing to sacrifice 40 per
cent of the breadstuffs you raise to
give them another chance to trifie with
free coinage Of silver, when the Con-
g~ressional Record shows that during
the sixteen years they controlled the
house of representatives they defeated
sixteen free coinage bills, and during
four years of control of the senate de-
feated thirteen free coinage bills?
"Are you willing to sacrifice 43 per
cent of the live stock you raise that
they may have a chance to experiment
with the trust problem for which they
offer no logical solution. and voted
against their leaders policy of a con-
stitutional amendment giving congress
greater power to deal With the trust
problem, and when in power did moth
ing to control or suppress? .4 ..s ,
Are you willing to sacrifice % cents
per bushel on every bushel of wheat
you raise that the Democrats may in
dulge in their peculiar netho5 of giving
freedom, Justice, equality, an untram-
meled franchise and local self-govern-
ment to the natives in the Philippines
In view of their strenuous efforts to
suppress the negro franchise in the
South?
GAS the market record quoted proves,
the Republican party has been and is
The friend and guardian of the farmers
interests and can be trusted in the
future.
stThe same record proves c~onclusively
that the Democratic party has been in
capable of, or unwilling to, guard and
protect our material interests and they
should not be trusted again"