Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-08-02
BRYAN, A FAL Sc PROPHET.

DIN AN, II TAISE FNU1dEle
Bryan prophesied in 1896, that if
Mckinley and the Republican party
were successful and put in power for
the next four years that dire disaster
would come over the Nation. He
told us that,
Wages will be decreased.
Hard times will come upon us and
over the land.
The price of wheat and other farm
produce will go down and the price Of
gold will 20 up.
Mortgages on our homes will be
foreclosed by the money power.
Shops and factories will close.
Commerce will be paralyzed.
We will export no goods and we
will import from foreign lands all the
goods we use.
The farmer will be enslaved and
liberty become dream.
Thus will ruin, want and misery be
with us.
Yes, and he also told us to remem-
ber what he said for it shall come
true.
Now, where is the fulfllment of
Democratic prophecy? The cold
facts prove Mr.. Bryan to be false
prophet. None of the disasters that
were predicted have come true. On
the other hand, the predictions and
promises of the Republicans have
been strikingly fulfilled. Let us
make few comparisons. First, let
us take the matter of prices on farm
products and we will find that there
have been substantial advances on
nearly everything raised on the farm.
Even wheat, the price of which so
directly concerns the farmers of the
Red river valley, and which we would
all like to see still higher, has COM
manded a much better price during
McKinley's administration than dur
ing Cleveland's. Looking over the
files of the SHEAr, we find That in the
first issue for August, 1896, No. 1
Hard wheat was quoted at 46 cents
while today it is IS cents-a differ
ence of just 10 cents. The fact is,
that wheat prices have ranged about
20 cents higher under Mckinley than
they did under Cleveland. Corn
was worth % cents in 1896 and 40
cents in 1900. Oats was worth 18
cents in 1896 and % cents in 1900.
Rye sold for 81 cents in 1895 and
81 cents in 1900. In June, 1896.
the price Of live hogs, in Chicago, per
100 lbs. ranged from $2.7Oto go;
in June, 1900, from $4.1O to SIS. 20
"a very big difference. Butter was
about five cents, a pound higher in
June, 1900, than in June, 1S96..
Sheep and wool have practically
doubled in value. In Warren to-day
the price OF wool is 1921 cts, while
in 1896 it was but ITO cts. Every
sheep is worth about $1.35 more
than III 1896. Cattle range about
one-third higher now than at the
same time four years ago. Mr.. Phil
strom, the butcher, tells us that a
steer that could be bought for 500 in
1896 he must now pay about $50
for, and a Calf then worth S. 90 is
now worth from 81 to $14. Cotton
also has been looking up, the price
being / to 2 cents per pound higher
in June, 1900, than in June, 1896
boon to the southern farmer. The
advance in prices Of farm products
have been very substantial and salts
factory to the farmers under this Re-
publican administration.
Every laboring man knows that he
has had more work and better wages
during the past three years than in
the days of Cleveland, when free soup
houses and Coxey armies were in
vogue. The mills have been opened.
In all the great industrial centers
there has been ceaseless activity and
labor has found it's reward.
The value of our manufactures in
1896 were $9,4O2, 900, ,OOG, and in
1899, $12,777,O78,755. Wages paid
in 1896, $2,229, ,O16, 900, in 1899,
$3,O56. .635, 200.
Instead OF hard times the country
has been blessed with greater de-
gree of prosperity than it ever had
before.
Our commerce has not been paral-
yzed. The foreign trade OF the United
States for the fiscal year just ended
amounted to almost two and one
quarter billion dollars, and was the
largest in our history. Our imports
were $849, ,714,329 and our exports
81 1,394,479,2 ,214, leaving a favorable
balance Of $544, 764,SS5. The ex-
ports OF domestic products, consist
ing principally Of cattle, hogs, pro-
visions, breadstuffs, cotton and min.
eral oils, amounted to $765, ,351, ,79S
in 1900. Our exports Of breadstuffs
alone amounted to $253,223, ,525 in
1900. Under Republican admins
trations and protective tariffs. our
exports of farm products have con-
stantly increased, for the benefit of
the farmer.
On June /, 1896, the total circula-
tiOn OF money in the United States
was 81 ,521, ,584, 1883, a little less than
$50O,0OO, 900 being in the form of
gold and gold certificates. On July