The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-11-01
PROSPERITY.

They assume we have prosperity and
that it came from. the Republican party.
| Well, they are apparently having very
| good markets abroad. You farmers will
bear me out in that. You know in this
country. know across in the othercouil-
ty htey have the agricultural reports OF
this state where you could read them.
| am surprised. i read them and conn
pared them and they do not corroborate
single statement, with reference
to the values of the products of the farm
as compared with those years. There
might be an exception with one product
but the balance is in favor of 90 and
| "a. That is matter that can be deter
| mined by you, gentlemen, just by turn
| ing to the agricultural reports. The mule
| and the horse is also discussed there,
not from partisan standpoint, but for
your information and education, no 9TH
| er claim. Why they speak OF the great
export trade, they are giving now their
| grounds for prosperity. They say and
| sneak Of the MAN. millions OF dollars
1 in favor of the export trade of this
country. Do they tell you how much
they get back from the country that
| comes in here to make our country
! richer and wealthier? Oh, no When you
ask him that question he stops That is
/ as far as he will ever get. He will prob
/ ably say YOU are not telling the truth.
! That is the way they close up the ar
/ gument. Again. they speak of what a
I great nation this has come to be. Oh, the
wealth Of this nation and they draw the
( figures and get so reckless in the ciphers
. they don't know how much they have
I got only they say they have so much
/ money going into foreign countries to
seek Investment. The time has come in
this country, has it, that the trusts and
the monopolies have so cornered and
controlled every branch Of industry and
every place for investment in this coun-
/ try that if we want to get plcae to in
vest our money we have to send It
abroad? That is evidence of prosperity
here, is it?
! I don't suppose we have got any place
in this open prairie country OF ours,
we are so thickly settled we have no
room for investment Have we? Well,
thev don't tell you what the financial
condition of the people in this country
| is, but they say you are prosperous. The
| amount of money outside of the twelve
| thousand have been shipping beef
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being better over there than here. Don't
you think so? That would be the com
mon sense view of it. You know as evil
dence of prosperity that our republican
/ friends, spellbinders, so-called, call your
attention to the fact of the large export
| trade. the balance in favor of this coun-
try. Well, they must have pretty fair
markets across the waters. You know
they have got free trade over there SC
probably you can attribute the good
times over there 10 the Dingiey biii
and I have examined the markets. and
it is wonderful what an elastic thing thi:
Dingley bill is 1t don't work the same
way at all times and it don't work the
same on all animals For instance, Z
steer is worth so much this month and
not so much the next month. Last fall
calf was worth CO and | don't thinl
is worth so much now So it is very
uncertain quantity when it comes tC
calves You know some farmers bough
some steers last fall under the Dingle,
bill The Dingley bill has gone back OF
them and it is going back on hogs il
about the same way. So you will hav
prosperity one day providing you bough
them right under the Dingley bill an,
the next day you don't. So as a matte
| of Iact, there is good deal of snecu
lation about the Dingley bill as to hog
and cattle, don't you think! have her
the various prices of hors cattle and
don't know as | have anv others ~
have of the products Of re farr
wheat, rye. etc. Now It Is not 'hs y
Of one day. but it is the price of the "ea
and o. was panickv year lSe, 4