Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-10-03

A statement of a CORRESPONDENT of
ore of the Indianapolis papers from
E. hany Park needs particular notice.
The Bryanesque Henry Warrum Is
made to say: How about the farmer
VINO finds the market he sells in in
crease 10 per cent. and the market he
favorite method of these Democratic
orators to ask questions and never
answer them thus leaving the false
/ impression which they desire their
! bearers to receive. AS the question is
/ left thus suspended in the air, and is
/ probably reverberating among the
hills around Bethany, / desire few
! Lines to answer the question, and, as
a preliminary remark, merely by way
Of parenthesis, | wish to say that the
impression sought to be left is abso-
/ iutely false. 1t is one of the ideas
! that have been generated by Demo-
cratic campaign speakers on the stump
and from dry goods boxes, that the
purchasing price of articles has gone
up higher than ever before, and far
more than the prices of what the ordi-
nary man has to sell. Even if this
were true it might be answered by the
| farmers answer made the other day in
! Noblesville, in speaking to an asser-
tion of that kind with reference to the
price Of binding twine. The dealer
told him, "Now. Mr.. Burke. you see
what your Republican policy has
brought you to- see how much more
you have to pay for your twine than
you did in 1885," Mr.. Burke answer
ed, Yes but the twine | am buying
now | pay you cash for, and the twine
fought in 1896 is still charged to me
CT your books" and that is as good a
Republican speech as will be made this
year.
Now for some figures from the Sen
a'e report, the bulletins of the Depart
Tont of Labor, and our old friend
uNlDtth, w ulSDlON Illo DOlu ciSSCl-
lion of Mr. Warrum. Sauerbeck is the
same statistician who was SO freely
quoted by the Democrats in 1896 to
move that the prices of silver and of
v'reat were bound together with hoops
&C steel, and he should new be good
authority for them.
The reports take 1860 as the basis,
1)c, and express the rise or fall of
pr es as compared to that. From
Tie farmer has to buy, that, in 1898
Cthe first year of Glorious Grover),
clrths and clothing, as class, was
5S.9 of the standard assumed; 1894, 90
1895, so; 1896, S7.2; 1897 S2.3; 1898,
sos. and 1899, SO.7. We thus see that
cloths and clothing during Cleveland's
administration was 9l.5, while under
McKinley's it is only S1.3. In house
goods the average price for
Cleveland's late lamented administra-
tion was S3.7, and fer McKinley's first
three years it was 1915 for drugs and
chemicals, Cleveland's administration,
S4.9 and for McKinley's, S63; metals
and implements, Cleveland, S1.1, and
Mckinley, SO9; fuel and light, Cleve-
land, 1902, and Mckinley 95.4; lumber
and building materials, Cleveland. 906,
and Mckinley, S7.9; food (ffty-three
articles), Cleveland, 93.2, and McKin-
ley, S32 All articles, Clevelands ad-
ministration S92. and for McKinleys,
S99. Food from 1910 to 1858 was
cheaper than in 1860, but during Bu-
chanan's early administration it cost
more than in 1860. Cloths and cloth |
ing varied slightly from 1910 to 1860 |
but every other article mentioned |
above was higher previous to 1860 than
it was then. From 1860 the articles
wore nearly every year above 100 up to
1883, and the average of all from 1910
tC 1884 was never below 100 except
{, rec years, and since 1884 it has never
Lton above 100, reaching the minimum
in the first year of Mckinley. Under
food is included everything that could
possibly enter into the food materials
'H7t any farmer or any one else, would
h2y-beans, bread, crackers, butter,
2Eoe:e, coffee, eggs, fish, fruits, lard,
n ats, milk, molasses, rice, salt, spic-
es. starch, sugar, tallow and others.
I'rder cloths and clothing is included
everything that goes into the wearing
2rcarel Of men and women, and also
includes carpets. We thus see that
.1cd is a great deal cheaper under Nc
iinley than under Cleveland, and that
al articles are almost 6 per cent.
cheaper
Now, let us see as to what the farmer
Eas to sell, and we shall See that the
S1lmer is still the favored class under
Republican administration, he gets his
supplies cheaper and sells his products
at higher price. Beans, during Cleve-
lands administration, in July 1896,
were worth $1.15 a bushel, under Nc
Kinley, July, 1899 Sl.35; butter. July,
1896 IA cents. JulV 1900 1Q. chaaea