Hutchinson gazette., 1900-09-27
FARMER AND FREE SILVER.
silver Dollars Coined by the United States
Are Always Worth AZ Mach ~
Gold Dollars,

Farmers meetings are pelnB nelu III
many parts OF the country, ana the key.
note appears TO be excellent crops and
good times, or course, President NC
Kinley did not have anything to do win
the crops, but his administration has con-
trbuted very largely TO the good times
which the farmers are enjoying, They
would not have much 10 rejoice over II
they were paid for their crops In de-
lpreolated currency, Had Mr. Bryan been
elected In 1890 wheat, lnstoad OF ranging
IN the nelghborhood Of so cents n huRhel
might now be- 81 In silver, or It's equiva-
dent, for that II the only kind Of money
that would be current Eighty cents to-
day will buy 50 cents worth Of goods NJ
the gold rate, one dollar Of MT Brynn's
currency would buy about IS cents worth
Iof good'ot the gold rate, always provided
spsculatlon had not advanced the price
of goods at the gold rate, always PROVIDED
Speculation had not advanced the price
mad to sell. The latter Is more thnn
probable
The above is from the festive edlto'
rial paper, the Baltimore American,
of last Friday. There is good deal
more Of the same kind Of rot in the
same article, but the above should
ibc enough 10 surfeit with disgust any
reasonably intelligent farmer That
mckinley is not credited with the
good crops ls remarkable admission
and the first of the kind which has
appeared In the trust-ridden press
But the farmer scratches his head
and asks where his good times come
I'm 0t less than 70 cents Il bush
el on the farm for his wheat
not 80 cents M the Amer.
lean quotes-whilc the goods he
bns TO buy are advanced to 80 and 100
per cent By the trusts, which have
grown up under McKinlcy's admin
istrntion.
The deprecated silver currency
claim Is q bit Of constituencies mem
dacity or ignorance 30 dense that
II might he sliced like cheese. Never
in the history Of this country's iinnn-
ces have silver dollars been depreclnt-
ed or would buy less than gold. On
the contrary the American silver dol
lar from the foundation of the gov
ernment 10 the day It's coinage was
stopped In 1873, was worth three cents
more than gold, and Is now and has
been ever since II was demonetiaed,
worth It's face in gold.
Now where does the American find
any authority for saying zone dollar
of Mr.. Bryun's currency would buy
about IS cents worth Of goods?". Mr.
Bryan never had and never can have
amy currency. Uncle Sam is the man
who issues silver dollars. He coined
and issued Sls,0O0,0O0 last year, every
one equal in purchasing power to
the best gold dollars In the United
States. These new silver dollars
might be called McKinley's currency
IL the method Of designating money
adopted by the American is used. In
1877 the republican congress passed
a law, and Mr., Mckinley signed it
to coin all the bullion silver IN th,
trenscry, l,jOO 600 month. Ninety
million Of these Bryan dollars are
being coined under the law Mr.
Mckinley signed, and every one is rs
good as gold. And If 9OO,0O0,0OO IN
place of 30 of them were coined by
the United States they would be a'
good ns gold, every one Of them, ant
they are 10 to dollars, too.
Had Mr., Bryan been elected in 1896
wheat might have been now 81
bushrl, the American admits, Their,
lis no doubt of it, had n congress o
his party been elected with him. lr
1872, the year before the mints were
closed TO the free coinage of silver
wheat was $l,40 bushel. After silver
was demonetized wheat began Il
fall steadily till II reached 80 cents {
bushel,
Do such papers as the American be
lieve that American farmers can bt
stuffed with such nudacious rot ns sill
yer dollars purchasing only 3s cents
worth of goods while gold dollars
would buy 100 cents worth? Do thes,
city editors believe that farmers ar,
so stupid ns to believe such rot? Th,
United States never has made sill
yer dollar that would not purchase
as many goods aud pay as much deb
as a gold dollar, and we venture tC
say they never will
There has been great increase
80 ,n,1I la, tha lugt thpnA -
amounting to nearly $1,000, 100000 it
the output Of the worlds gold mines
The increase Of money has RAISED
prices Of products slightly in all th,
leading countries Of the world, Murl
Iess silver at Il ratio Of II 70 / hui
been produced in the same time. Had
that silver been coined, prices woul,
have increased in the same ratio thu
The money increased, They Away
have done so, and the United States
silver dollars have always purchased
as much as gold and paid as mucl
debt, There Is no getting away from
these facts.
Silver will be again remonetized
The increase Of the worlds busincs
demands It, and when the mints o
the United States are opened to tn
free coinage of silver they will b
opened in every country in the world
and there will be no. difference il
the purchasing power OF the tive
metals. Then the farmer will sci
his wheat for 81 and upward bush