The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-09-14
THE BRYANITE AND THE
FARMER,

Our neighbor, the Review, is trou
bled over report which is in keeping
with many other reports the Bryanitei
! circulate from time to time that Sena
tor Hanna is going to provide the Re
publican national committee with {
campaign fund of from twenty tt
twenty-five millions. Of course sucl
stuff is spread for political effect. NJ
such fund will be raised, or has ever
| been thought of. The legitimate ex
penses of the campaign will be met
and they will cost large sum O.
money, but nothing like that. Thost
who publish such stuff do not believ'
| word of it. In connection with this
same story comes the old chestnut tina
Hanna is to take part in booming
wheat. Well, the farmer will not OBJ
ject to his booming wheat and thu
higher it goes, if Mark Hanna is tt
blame for it, the better the farmer
will like Mark Hanna. But the far
mer is an intelligent being notwith
standing the fact the Bryanite some
times talks as though he was not
and he will smile at this Bryanistit
story of Mark Hanna booming whea
on a campaign fund of some twenty
five millions.
But says our friend, the Review
"wheat has remained steadily Low
while everything consumed on thu
farm has advanced from % to so pc
cent. While it cannot be denied tina
those having wheat to sell would lik,
to get more for it than they do, ye
they will readily recall that they ar,
now receiving from 20 to 80 per cen
more for it than they did most of thu
time during the late Democratic period
of step toward free trade, while a
a matter of fact..they are not paying
any such increase for the greater par
of what they buy. But why does ou
neighbor conine its example of tn,
farmer to the one item of wheat
Why is it that the Bryanites are 81
afraid to attitude to other articles o.
farm produce. What is no longer thu
chief product of the majority o
American FARMS. What about tn,
large and ever increasing dairy dis
trict And what about the increased
price the dairyman has been getting
for the product of his dairy this pas
year or more. The advance on hi
product has been equal to or create
than on that Of anything that he ha
to buy that stands among the necessi
ties. And the beef and pork he ma!
have had to sell, or does now, bring
good prices. : The farmer who ha
been exercising the same use of brain
power that the successful business am
professional man does, has been pros
pering during the last two or thre
years and the increases in the price 0
his product has been equal to ana il
most cases. greatly excelled the in
| crease In what he has had to purchase
If this had not been the case how
would he have been able to pay off hi
mortgage to the extent he has, and il
many instances become money loaner
Wheat is still an important item il
the output of the farmer, and probabl.
always will be, but it is less so than i
was, ..and will continue so. 1t is
curious fact However, that i'm TALKING
of the. farmer, the Bryanite never al
ludess.t to anything, but wheat. an,
never recalls the low price of fou
years ago, and is always harping upol
that one article, which is more ant
, more coming to be but one Of man,
sources of revenue on the farm.