The Falls City tribune., 1908-08-28

and forced into the lists C unem-
pioyed. The home market of the
farmer was 10 this degree destroyed
and AS "a direct result the bounteous
crop of Nebraska corn was marketed
at an average price around ten-eents
per bushel--a price below the cost of
production--whilc live stock and other
products of the farm found an equally
low market. Distress was apparent
and real-Nebraska farmers were
suffering from the application OF
democratic theories n practice ap.
piled TO the business affairs of The
country. But light came through the
clouds and a promise Of better things
IN store. With the inauguration of
Mckinley IN March, 1897, the bust
ness Of the country showed immedi-
ate evidences of revival and hope and
confidence returned to the farmer, the
workiugman. merchant and manufae-
turer. A republican congress quickly
restored the principle of protection
to American industry to our tariff
schedules, the act received instant
approval Of a republican chief eXecu,
tive and the march of prosperity and
progress had begnD; a march that
still continues after carrying our
country 10 the heights OF prosperity
in competition with the nations of the
earth. Since the days of democratic
theories and practice passed away the
Nebraska farmer has known no ten
cent corn nor $3.50 hogs, mis- homo
market has been broad and ample.
The markets of the world have been
opened to him through wise repub.
lican legislation and administration
md today the Nebraska farmer as a
direct result is a creditor of his fell
low men with ready capital of mis-
gwn to expand and extend mis- oppor,
tunities. Can any reason be found in
this experience to warrant the ex-
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plishments for Bryan and democratic
promises
1t is but human to FORGET the ills of
the past when better days come and
TO most people and very rightly so.
the general distress of that period
remains but an unpleasant memory.
Yet in the face of the fact that again
the decision must be made in which
the same dangerous conditions are in.
yolved it is but the part of wisdom
70 recall exactly what they were, tneif
scope and extent. A conservative
writer has since penned the accurate
history of those days in these words:
Never in American history was the
distressing as when the republican
party met in convention in June, 1896.
business confidence was gone. labor
was idle, capital retired, farm values
%shrunken and the sheriff with his
~fC1eclosed mortgage sales the only
active man in rural communities.
That convention. planting itsel,
squarely upon the side of national
honor and business integrity. nomi,
mated a man whose whole life work
was summed up in his trenchart
declaration, open American Mills to
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Bryan's nomination the issue was
squarely joined and presented to the
American farmer for settlement, ono
candidate Offering a debased cur,
lency, a cheap dollar; the other
standing for sound money, protection
to American industries and full EN-.
p'oyment for labor at American
wages.
THE Vote OF the great farming
states of the west elected Mckinley
and all the world knows that pros.
perity for the farmer followed"
No American farmer, unpleasant as
tee recollection Is. should ever for
get those days and the hardships
they entailed, nor should he forget
that relief came. not as a lucky
chance or happy accident, hut from
the deliberate adoption by the Amer.
lea" people of the principles and
policies Of the republican party and
the election of republican candidates
to inaugurate those policies and give
to them vital force and effect. Good
crops sent by a bountiful Providence,
marketed at good prices by virtue of
republican policies. has solved all the
bitter and grinding problems of hard
times" and all but the lesson taught
by that disastrous democratic expert
ence may well be forgotten. The les,
son should remain a permanent and
valuable memory to the western
farmer and when tempted through