The Winslow mail., 1900-12-20

Caused by contracting money! and
the injection of about 632 900, 900
vicious sixteen to one silver dollars into
circulation.
l refer to the years Immediately
subsequent to the reinstatement OF
silver in the later '7O's.-
Take market reports on all our
staples for the years 1881 to 1884 in
elusive and even later and compare
them with present Mckinley prosper
ity prices. Here are few:
wheat-1SS1, s1.16; 1882, s1.1S; 1888, s1.O1;
1894, 90c per bushel.
Corn-1SS1 501kc; 1882, Csc; 1888 SIC; 1884,
sic per bushel.
Barrel pork-18S1, $1645; 1882, $3.50; 1883,
$3.50; 1884 $3.50 per barrel.
Best heavy hogs-1SS1, Sc. rs; 1882, IS. .25; 1883,
$50; 1884, $3.50 per cwt. gross.
Best heavy cattle-1S81, $3.50; 1882, $7.75;
1883, s6s5; 1884, S.25 per cwt. gross.
Now these prices are the average for
the whole 12 months of each year in
question, and are specie, bimetaliic
prices. They are higher for the entire
four years by 161a cents per bushel on
corn (this is more than corn realized
farmers in 1S96); 81 cents per bushel
on wheat; $5.40 per barrel on pork;
81 per hundredweight gross on hogs,
and over 81 per hundredweight
gross on good beeyes than pres
ent prices on the same commodi-
ties, while in favor of present
prices we have shown that the money in
circulation has been inflated by more
than $2,O00,000,000, and the general sit
uation stimulated by every device
known to unscrupulous manipulators,
while the whole world if not actually
engaged in war is so nearly in that
condition as to cause them to purchase
from us the most prodigious lines OF
war munitions and commissary sup
| plies during the century. No later than
this month the Russian government
| placed in Chicago an order for 5000, 900
pounds of beef. We have been sending
| horses, mules and cured meats to Af-
rica, rifles, armor plate, vast commits
sary stores and cotton goods to Europe,
and an immense line of railway supplies
of every character all over the world.
| Mark Hanna recently said: "We
have done 81, 100, 100000 more business
during this Mckinley administration
than during the balance of the CEN
tury," and still prices are lower on the
average on farm produce by over SO
| per cent. than in normal decades under
| bimetallism.
1t is useless to attempt to dodge the
| cold proposition that contraction of
| the volume of money circulating in
country, of whatever character it may
be, even inflated paper, or a contrac-
| ton to a more costly standard, al
ways depreciates the value of prop
erty and labor. Common sense and
past experience proves this in every
case. A vast number of voters in
| this coming election are neither too
old nor too forgetful to remem-
ber how nearly values were annihilat-
ed by the contraction of government
paper after the war of the rebellion
and the return to specie payment
| (which the republicans sought to
make gold) in 1879. We have called
attention to the reaction in the early
sos, caused by the reinstatement of sill
YER and coinage of some 600000,00O of
it; and again to the decline in the COS
to a point which meant ruin to prop
erty owners and producers when all
silver legislation was wiped off the
statutes, and it was made evident that
values must be measured and debts
paid in gold alone.
Now 1 say to the farmers and pro-
ducers of this country to look this
matter squarely in the face. Sup
pose President Mckinley is reelected,
the gold standard firmly established
and money owners, who have been
given this arbitrary power by repub-
licans, begin to use it, which they
will surely do when they have sue
ceeded in goring the country to their
satisfaction.
Their first move will be to retire
the greenbacks, contracting the pres
ent volume of money by $35S,000,0O0;
| their next to contract the bank cur
rency, and then demand payment OF
debts, taxes, interest and expenses in
gold.
A Chicago meat syndicate handles
all your meat, and this syndicate gets
all government contracts, foreign and
domestic. 1t would be useless for any
outsider to bid A grain combine
handles all your grain, having so COM
pletely monopolized all market facili-
| ties as to prevent your shipping and
| selling on your own account, except
your salesman retains your local deal
er's profit. a coal combine sells you
all your coal. An iron combine sells
you all your nails, wire and hard
ware. a lumber combine supplies your
| lumber and limited number of de-
partment stores in large cities sell
seven-eighthS of all the merchandise
of the country, and during this Nc
kinley administration these combines,
which positively control these lines
| (and all others), have marked up
prices from so to 800 per cent, While
you have been permitted to realize
less than 33 per cent. of the legitimate
advance on your produce caused by
failures abroad, demand for war sup
plies and temporary imitation of the
supply of money in this country.
(This latter influence to be withdrawn
as soon as your votes are secured In
this election.)
But the most menacing OF all these
influences is the money trust. which
this republican administration has
given full power to control the volume
and character of the money of this
country