The Owosso times., 1922-02-03
TODAY
"SURE STUFF"
THE SAME OLD BILL
SELF CONDEMNATION

To make sure they're not getting
poison liquor, some thirsty ones
makes the bootlegger take drink
first. If the bootlegger is willing
to drink his own stuff, the foxy
customers reason it must be all
right.
Two veteran bartenders have
just died in st. Mary's hospital,
Hoboken, N. j.. after being blind
several days. They sampled some
of the sure stuff" 1t was wood
alcohol.
If veteran bartenders can't rec
ognize wood alcohol by smell and
taste, what chance has a GUS
toner? Undertakers know.
while directly paying compli-
ments to the intelligence of the
American farmer Mr.. William
Jennings Bryan indirectly inti-
mates that they have short men,
ories and small powers of reason
ing. In an interview in Washing
ton few days ago he said:
1.-The prospects Of the Demo-
Gratis capturing Congress next No
vember are better than in many
years. The reaction against the
Republican party is founded upon
the condition of all farmers, who
represent one-third of the voters
of the country. They are worse off
now than in years, and are blam-
ing the party in power for their
condition.
Now if Mr.. Bryan will turn to
the annual number of the New
York Annalist. published by the
New York Times" an independ-
ent Democratic paper and noted
for its reliable statistical informa-
ton, he will find that the slump
in the wholesale prices of food
commodities began early in June,
1920. That was within few
weeks after the Democratic admin
istration had adopted it's new de-
fiation program as shown by the
annual reports issued by Demo-
cratic officialdom. Early in June,
1920, the independent number in
dicating the relative wholesale
prices of food commodities stood
at 329. BY the middle of Febru-
ary, 1921, before the Republican
administration had come into pow
err, the average of wholesale prices
was indicated by the index num-
ber 1856. This was a drop of 144
points in period of about z
months. During the period from
the middle of February, 1921, to
the end of December, 1921, the
drop in the index figure was from
1S5 to $50, a drop of rs points, in
10 months.
"These are figures from Demo-
cratic source and compiled In ac-
cordance with a plan which the
"Times" adopted many years ago.
The figures were not compiled for
political but for industrial pur-
poses.
Furthermore, the official rec
ords will show that Democratic
policies adopted during the war
were such as to limit the amount
of profits a farmer could make,
whereas they was no limit placed
upon the profits that could be
made by any other industry. After
having thus limited the profits OF
the farmer and at the same time |
adopting policies which increased |
the rates of wages the farmer must |
pay for his help and prices he |
must pay for the commodities he |
must buy, the Democratic admin
istration adopted a policy which |
made the farmer the first sufferer |
from the defation plan which 1T
adopted. The farmer was hit by
the Democratic administration in
both it's imitation and its defiation
programs.
'.In addition to this, Mr.. Bryan
will find in the report of the Fed
eral Reserve Board for 1920, then
under Democratic control. the in
formation that in that year farm
ers were borrowing from the banks
more heavily than ever before and
were not only putting up their
AGRICULTURAL security as collateral
for loans, but, this not being suffi-
cient, were putting up their liberty
bands as well. That was many
months before the Republican ad-
ministration was elected.
"All this is a matter of record
and 1t has been known to the
farmers both north and south, east
and west-the grain growers, the
cattle men, the cotton producers,
and the wood growers--at all
stages of the proceedings.
MIR. Bryan is not at all COM
plimentary to the intelligence of
these agricultural producers when
the asserts that they hold the Re-
publican party responsible for the
plight in which they find them