Evening Star Newspaper, October 28, 1896, Page 11

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The idea was oppesed by L. C. Bateman, the popu- list candidate for governor, and who abou: th+ only real leader that party has in Maine. He has opposed fusion in any under all circumstances. As a to the national populist conven- St. Louis he opposed the nomind Arthur Sewall and fought with effect for Tom Watson. The spondent asked Mr. Bateman tinues his opposition to f S a direct tendency Mr. £ form, a del tion tion vigor of and ction of Pryan. You ask me why I am so bitterly op- «| to the fusion deals that are now go0- ing on all over the country, with the tion of Maine and one or two other states. I will teil you. I have gone through the fusion furnace once and know only too well what it means. In old greenback days We rolled up a vote of 50,000 for our ticket the first year. We stood on principle then. In two more years we would have swept the state and carried all before us. But the pie hunters couldn't walt. The demo- crats, headed by Arthur Sewall, put up a job to fuse and thus seize the offices. “It soon became a wild craze. Every man Wwauted to get to the dough dish as quickly as possible. Principie was completely lost sigit of in the mad rush. The democrats nominated a bank cashier for Congress in ‘Tom Reed's district and a greenback con- veation promptly indorsed him. And yet they were supposed to be a party expressly formed to destroy national banks. The re- sult could be easily foreseen. Decent men were completely disgusted. The greenback party was completely ruined and the repub- lieans, reeking with corruption, again took command. From that day to this our peo- ple have been suspicious of new parties. “A few of us have labored In season and out to convince them that the coming re- form pirty would steer clear of fusion with the rotten hulk of democracy. After years of devoted sacrifice the people were begin- ning to gain confidence and were beginning to be ready to join the people’s party. Now comes the same old story—fusion. Maine would surely have gone fur a ticket headed by Bryan and Watson. It was all right for us to nominate Bryan if his name could have been associated with that of Tom Watson. But it soon became evident that another bunco game had been put up. Se: all was not withdrawn, according to the St. Louis contract. The democrats took especial pains to say that under no circumstances whatever would he be withdrawn. They thought the “deal” had been made and that it was so strong that Bryan would be elected any way and that the people's party would be destroyed. This would have been the case if our leaders had represented the true sentiments of the party. But the cloven foot was shown too soon. The popu- lists are thinking men, and neither to be stampeded nor sold like cattle by a few men who happen to be acting for the time being as leaders. Watson Ignored and Insulted. “The goods could not be delivered. If Bryan's campaiga had been managed with ary judgment the case might be different. But no sooner was he nominate] than he immediately threw himself into the arms of a class of men who represent nothing but political vorruption in its most odious form. Bids and baits were thrown out for such men and organizations as Hill, Gorman and Taminany Hall. It was given out that Sewall would not be withdrawn, as the democrats had promised us. ‘Tom Watson was studicusly ignored and in- sui This was done to gain favor with the plutocratie crowd which Sewall rep- resented. The first reply to this came from the green hills of Vermont. Next Maine spoke in thunder tones. An unheara-of ma- icrity was rolled up against the pie counter crowd. Sewall’s own ward was for the first time carried by the republicans four to one. “It would have seemed that this lesson would have caused the Bryan forces to have calied a halt. Not so, however. With blind stupidity blunder after biunder was committed Bryan was immediately sent 1,000 miles out of his way to hobnob with the very man who had just been buried beneath an avalanche of indignant votes. To conceive of a more fatal blunder would seem impossible. Then to cap the climax he was hurried off to New York, where ne fainted away in Tammany Hall while praising the members of that corrupt ganz. Just think of Bryan standing up and con- gratulating Tammany Hall on their great patriotism and the noble work that they were doing in the cause of humanity. even sinks beneath the dignity of a farce. Everybody knows that organization to be the most corrupt gang that ever cut a throat or scuttled a skip. Right on the heels of that blunder came the astounding announcement that Boss Boodler Gorman had taken full charge of the eastern end of the campaign. After this nothing was too outrageous or ridiculous to believe. “Fusion immediately began to run riot. The pie counter paupers came to the frout in all directions. It was a wild struggle, with hog trough tactics. The few of us who raised a note of warning were charged with seliing out to Hanna. Men who had fought for principle through long years of obloquy and abuse grew sick at heart. De- cent democrats themselves were disgusted. ‘Today the whole Bryan campaign has de- generated into a wild scramble for fusion and office. There fs no longer the slightest principle connected with the whole move- ment. If Bryan should be elected, the fight over the loaves and fishes would be so ter- rifle as to disrupt the whole combination. Free coinage and all other reforms would be completely lost sight of in the warfare that would foliow. The people's party would be ruined and reform set back for a quarter of a century. The men who have made this thing possible might have taken @ lesson from history. Trace the history of all reforms, and in not one single in- stance were they brought about by an old party fusing with a new one. In the coun- tries of the old world they have been brought about by revolution; in America by new political parties. The Vitality of the prohibition party is due to the steady refusal to fuse with any old party. Its growth has been slow, but it is solid and enduring. The Mad Greed for om. “With a cause ten times as popular and as just, the people’s party could have af- forded to have waited for another four years. But the mad greed for office when once started only gains by what it feeds upon. Like the man-eating tiger that has once tasted blood, it wants nothing else thereafter. This insane and outrageous business is not the work of the rank and file of any party. It is the deathly work of the leaders. The rank and file of flo party will indorse it. A noble cause with a. brii- Mant prospect has been ruined and will go down in disaster. As for Tom Watson he has been treated In a manner that should bring the blush of shame to every decent American. His exalted and unselfish pa- triotism prompts him to stick to Bryan even when he knows that it only means is own ruin, ‘Today the leaders of the combination are Watson as a decoy duck to bring 9 Bryan. If the latter is elected votes Watson will be thrown aside like a squeez- ed lemon. ‘They will have no use for a true man like him. Decent men of all parties now see and admit that this fusion racket has become a bunco game. Devoted silver men like Bland, Morrison and Boies are silent. They are too self-respecting to take part in a campaign that was insti- in deception and that will end in Look at some of the democratic nomina- tions. They have nemirated gold standard men for Congress wherever they think that they can be pulled through. Here in Maine they have a full set of gold bug eiectors and yet are shouti{g for silver. Such hypo- is erough to make a heathen blush. Remember that for this hypocrisy Arthur Sewall is responsible. He supported four bug electors for Congress up to the day of election. For appearance saks he had the gold bug candidate for governor pulled dewn, but the Congressmen and electors were allowed to stand. This is only a fair sample of this: ‘reform’ cam- paign all over the country. It is sicken- ing even to talk about. But yet, in spite of all this treachery, hypocrisy and du- plicity, I would urge every populist and true reformer to vote for Bryan. Person- ally he is all right. His errors have been made by listening to the advice of time servers ard office seekers. The larger the pure populist vote is the more likely he will be to carry out reform. We have nothing to hope for from democracy; we have much to hope for from Bryan. ‘To have McKinley elected will be a public calamity. This is no time to be churlish. Let us elect Bryan and then fight it out with the democrats. I have confidence in the great common people. Deceived, out- raged and betrayed, they will yet win this battle. Good and true men will yet rise to lead the hosts of reform. That reform will stand like a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night to guide and inspire the toiling and outraged millions. While 1 have completely Icst faith in the great majority of our national leaders, I have not lost feith in humanity.” eee SANG SONGS AT CANTON. An Inspiring Scene on the Public Square Yesterday Afternoon. There never was a more inspiring scene than that witnessed on the public square of Canton, Ohio, from 4 to 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon. Thousarfds of persons, includ- ing the ladies from Norwalk, many of the visitors from Boston, West Virginia and Maryland, and Cleveland, gathered in front of the handsome court house on Broad pub- lic square and sang patriotic melodies, in- terspersed with music by the bands of mu- sic, frequent cheers and the waving of flags, banners and campaign parasols, with which the women’s delegation was sup- plied. “America,” “Yankee Doodle,” ‘The Star Spangled Banner’’ quickly followed one another. Nor were “Dixie,” “Mary- land, My Maryland,” forgotten. Both were sung as lustily and patriotically as was “John Brown's Body” and ‘Marching Through Georgia.” The affair was entirely impromptu, and ended at 5 o'clock with “Home, Sweet Home,” from both band and the vast audience which had gathered first as spectators and then as participators in that great patriotic concert. The demonstration was full of beauties and features. It was notable for a large gathering. It was notable for the wide range of territory represented by the visit- ing delegations. It was notable for the varied interests of the people who came. The demonstration began in earnest at noon with the arrival of a party represent- ing three states, and it continued till dark. All that time the McKinley residence was surrounded by an interested crowd shoui- ing and cheering for the nominee and ap- plauding the splendid delegations which marched up the street. All that time the air was filled with the music of bands. and at no time was the street leading to the Mc- Kinley home without a line of men and wo- men, either marching or waiting orders to march. Visitors From Boston. After these came the New England dele- gation, under the bannérs of the New Eng- land “Sound Money” Club. This party oc- cupied a special train of six sleepers and two dining cars, and was on the way from 2 o'clock Monday afternoon till 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The party came largely from Boston, but a number of other New England towns were represented. It was composed of former democrats as well as republicans, and one of the men pre- sented to Major McKinley was intrdduced as one who had for over fifty years voted nothing but the democratic ticket, but who this year will vote for McKinley and Ho- bart. The visitors were introduced by Frank W. Rollins, ex-president of the New Hampshire senate. Many relics and me- mentoes of the visit were brought for Mrs. McKinley from Boston, from New Bedford and from historic Salem, including whales’ teeth, twigs from a tree planted by Gov. Endicott in 1628, and a gold witch spvon. The party remained in Canton till 6 o'clock, and then went to Cleveland, where a stop of two hours was made, and from there It went to Niagara Falls fora short stop, the schedule being to reach Boston at 7 o'clock Thursday evening. The Women’s Club. No prettier sight has been witnessed in the whole campaign than the reception of the Women’s McKinley Club of Norwalk, Ohio. This club of some three hundred members is splendidiy organized and drilled, and when on parade carries cam- paign umbrellas on which portraits of Mc- Kinley and Hobart are conspicuous, They were commanded by a chief marshal, Mrs. A. T. Bloxham, and their evolutions well may attract the envy of voting clubs. A nm committee of Canton ladies met isitors at the station, and together with the Canton troop of horsemen es- corted them to the McKinley home, where Mrs. William R. Day and Mrs. orge B. Frease introduced, respectively, Mrs. L. C. Lavlin, who made the introductory ad- dress, and Mrs. George Titus, who present- ed a large cluster of yellow chrysanthe- mums to Mrs. McKinley. The latter, ow- ing to illness, could not receive the visitors. The major’s mother and sister, Miss Helen McKinley, however, were at the house and extended a most cordial welcome to the callers. When Maj. MeKinley concluded his address, to the accompaniment of the Norwich band, the women united in singing @ campaign song to the tune of “Red, White and Blue,” waving their handker- chiefs all the while and producing a most striking effect. “ Then came a visit of five or six car loads of insurance men from Cleveland, who were introduced to Major McKinley by A. R. Manning. STEPREN 10 ONE, FREE AND UNLIMUTED }-Phe Farmers and Free Silver -Figures Concerning the Rise of Prices--- Points in the Great Debate. ‘To the Editor of The Evening Star: The fact that during the past few years the farmers have received less for their products has naturally created discontent among them, and for that reason a special appeal is being made to them by the advo- eates of free silver in the present cam- paign, it being asserted that free silver will increase the price of their products. Having shown, as I think, conclusively, that there 1s no truth in that assertion, I riow propose to show that the condition of our farmers is not near as bad as has been represented; and on that point I will let them and others speak fpr themselves. Of course, the farmers, in common with all others, feel the effects of hard times or a stagnation of business. With the closing of our factories and the general falling off in all kinds of business, at least a million, and some estimates say two millions, of persons have been thrown out of employ- ment, thereby greatly lessening their abil- ity to buy as much of farm and other products as when employed. That, with the decreased foreign demand, fully ac- counts for the falling off in the price of farm products, and they have no more ground for complaint than other classes of the community, for all suffer alike from the hard times. Sut, notwithstanding the fact that wheat, which is the staple farm product of the great northwest, has sold for less of late years, st is not at all certain that our farmers have realized a greatly reduced profit. The cost of producirg wheat has been largely reduced of late years. One only needs to compare the methods of the pres- ent day with those of former times to be convinced of that fact. When I was a boy on the farm such things as gang plows, cultivators, grain drills, mowers, harvesters and automatic binders were unknown. Then everything had to be done by hand. Now nearly ev- erything is done by machinery—so much so, in fact, that, as one writer has recently said: “It is more proper to say that we manufacture wheat than to say that we raise it.” When Mr. Bryan asserted on the floor of the House, in 1802, that “inventive genius, which has multiplied a thousand times in many instances the strength of a single arm, and enabled us to do today with one man what fifty men could not do fifty years ago,” and thge “that is what has brought the price “own in this country and everywhere,” instead of the demon- ctization of silver, as he now asserts, he but reiterated what more prominent demo- crats had better said years before. Said Senator Beck, in discussing this matter in the Senat “Look at the great harvesting machines of the present day, the reaper, the mow the hay rake and the thousand things that have been invented since the Senator and I were boys, when a cradle was the best implement we had to cut wheat with, and a common scythe the best to cut hay with; we could then perhaps cut an acre a day now with a machine we can cut ten. The Senator perhaps may have had to do it, as I hau, and J never have been clearly recon- ciled to the fact that those things were not Invented twenty years sooner. When I see a fellow riding on a mower and another boy on a rake, one cutting down ten acres a day and the other gathering it up, when I had to sweat from morning until night to mow.an acre, I still feel aggrieved that these inventions were not made a little sooner. “But, Mr. President, the compensation 1s that these are cheapening processes; they apply to all branches of manufacturing in- dustry; they are not confined to any partic- ular country. International patent laws equalize all that. They are bringing down the price of things all over the world and are adding to their production. So with nearly all other things, the cheapening Processes of new inventions everywhere are progressing now until everything is cheapened. Human inventions, new modes, new devices, intelligent skill in producing everything brought down prices every- where.”” Said Senator Vance: “Our vast and fertile plains are the granary as well as the wonder of the world. In addition to all these advantages, which are the gift of nature, our population, un- der the stimulus of free institutions, has developed more industrial energy and more inventive genius than any other people upon earth. Their labor-saving inventions form an epoch in the history of our race, and have multiplied the productions of human labor beyond the dreams of the poet. The statistics show, and candid men everywhere admit, that the best-trained la- bor to be found in Christendom cannot equal our skilled workmen, measured by the amount and quality of their work.” A writer in the North American Review of October, 1891, in speaking of our agri- cultural capacity, &c.5 says: “We use implements that cheapen the cost of production and make the labor of harvesting seem like the sport of the fairies in the story book.” ' One only needs to visit the great wheat fields of the west and the Pacific coast to be convinced of this. During the world’s fair at Chicago a del- esation of the foreign judges visited Da- kota to witness and report upon our meth- ods of producing wheat, and they were greatly astonished at what they there wit- nessed. It was harvest time and they found on A. R. Dalrymple’s farm 130 automatic har- vesters and binders at work; on Oliver Dalrymple’s farm 140 and on. ‘the smaller ms all the way from nine to fifty of these same machines busy cutting the wheat, each cutting and binding twenty acres per day. In an address to them by ex-Gov. Short- lidge he said that— “By the adoption of improved farm ma- chinery he had reduced the cost of rais- ing wheat to from $4.50 to $5 per acre, and the cost of harvesting to half a cent per bushel.” It must be obvious to any one that when this 1s compared with the cost by former n.ethods, wheat costs much less to produce, and. therefore, can be sold at # less price than when produced by the more costly methods, and still pay a fair profit. The same is true of all other farm products, oats, corn and even potatoes, all of which are planted, cultivated and harvested, on all large and medium sized farms, by ma- chinery. Even hay is now cut, loaded and unloaded by machinery. The trouble is that people think only of the present. They do not stop to compare the present with the past, and see how much easier and cheaper they can produce things than formerly. If they Gid tere would be far less discontent. Another important fact that is ov2rlooked is that everything the farmer uses or buys has been reduced in price much more than his wheat or other products have been. For instance, take the reduction in price from 18S) to 1800 of the following articles, as given by Senator Wilson of Iowa, who represented an agricultural constituenc: Price in 1880. steel beam walking plow ing cultivator. Farm wagon. Barbed wire, p Iron nails, per keg. 00 Stcel_nails,per keg (not made). oes Horse shoes, per keg 0 Cook stove 00 Chains, pe 22 Sugar, ‘sramlated, 12% Kerosene, 150 test 25 t, per barrel. 25 Flour, per ewt. 450 Musi os Calico. oT Carpets, 3 pe reduction. Dry goods, general reduction 23 to 33 1-3 per cent. Boots and shoes, average reduction 831-83 per ent. “Furniture, 25 to 50 per cent reduction, And as he very properly added, “The main factor ‘in reduction ,has been invention. In that period of time thousands of inventions i 2 or have been made and applied, Machine la- bor. has. taken the miace .of hand. labor. New processes have succeeded old.. The more. invention increases the productive power of man, the lower prices fall. There is hardly an article mage that has not been cheapened in the last ten years by inven- tion. In spite of combines and trusts, the people have received many-of the benefits of American inventive genius. Taking everything into congideration, comparing the change in the priggs of articles he buys with that in the price‘of the produce te sells, the farmer is better off today than in S80." Bass A still more complete showing is contain- ed in the following table from the Ameri- can Agriculturist of July 25, 1896: A heavy decline in ‘prices of what the farmer has to buy has occurred since 1891. But the great report on prices of the Sen- ate finance committee, concluded in "92, has not been brought down to date. Taking 100 to show average wholesale prices in 1860, the range of value before and since that year is stated in the table below: RELATIVE AV. PRICES COMPARED TO 100 FOR tH. "40 '50 "03 "65 ‘70 *75 "80 "85 "91 112 60 50 62 28 109 100 Calico prints. SS Carpets Drillings Horse “blankets 96 112 107 Leather 131 106 1 Print cloths. iH) 361 114 56 ‘Takings. 452 188 132 4 69 Bar trou. 1S] 134 104 103 69 Copper pigot: 3 Vig lea kaily Manilla rope. Amerlean rope Cross-cut saws: Hund saws. thes, Shovels, Aj Doors, pine. Hemlock bo », Hoo Lin i boards Pine shingle [Aue vitriol Brimstone. Quinine. 1g 4 17 0 7h 200 100 L109 "90 Te 19S 7 W. C. DODGE. ge an’s View. To the Editor of The Evening Star: It is an incontrovertible fact that the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 by this country, indepe ent of the rest of the world—while the real ratio is 33 to 1—will reduce this country to silver moncmetallism. It will give us the same monetary system now in effect in Mexico, China, Japan, India and a ma- jority of the South American countries, while the principal and leading civilized and commercial nations of Europe, with whom we have our largest trade relations, will continue under their present gold monetary system, and gold will continue to be the ultimate and primary standard of value for the commercial world, notwith- standing any intermediary, just as it now is, and just as it now measures all values, even in silver monometallic countries, for is not the very silver which they use first measured or found by, itg comparison with gold? Now the question is whether silver mono- metallism is a good thing, beneficial or desirable in the face .of gxisting facts, and the experience of silver MOnometallic coun- tries? q And the question te be decided at the November elections is mot between gold monometallism and ,himetallism, but be- tween gold monometaltism and silver mono- metallism., 1 It is not necessary ta discuss bimetallism, because bimetallism is of doubtful utility and desirability, even wpre it capable of accomplishment. > J ‘That bimetallism 15 a practical impossi- bility we have but to revert to history. Practical bimetallism means the concur- rent and indiscriminate circulation and use of hoth gold and silverias money at a cer- talm xed ratio, andcthat the commercial and money value of the two. metals shauld always.and at all times be unvarying and the same, and history tells us that such 2 condition never obtained or existed in any age or at any time or in any country on the face of the earth. Now, sinco bimetallism is out of the question entirely, the real problem that confronts us, as we said before, and the only question to be decided, is between the merits of gold monometallism, as adopted by the leading commercial nations of the world, and silver monometallism, as in effect in Mexico, Japan, China, India and the other silver monometallic countries. We want to say in passing that we do not pretend to claim in comparing these sy. tems that silver monometallism is the cause of existing conditions in the coun. tries using that system, and that gold monometallism is the cause of the civiliza- tion, the enlightenment, the advancement the prosperity and the power of the count tries using that system. But, on the cone trary, what we do aver is that the condition now prevailing in “silver countries” and the condition now prevailing in “gold coun- tries” would be precisely the same as they now are were their monetary systems just the reverse, and that the medium of ex- change, whether gold monometallism, sil- ver monometallism or bimetallism, does not cause the civilization or the advancement or produce the wealth and power of nat tions, any more than your bushel measure your yard stick or vour scale balance and that you might adopt, by the consent of the people who are to use the medium of exchange—any known metal, paper, wood. leather or anything you are a mind to: but on the degree of civilization and enlight. enment depends the selection, and civilized nations discard tin, paper, wood, beads or wampum in their selection of a medium of exchange, and select that commodity which is best sulted and which answers all the requirements of a medium of exchange among civilized communities. ‘ {The (Fequirements of ame change are, value—above all thing - fore everything else, a medium cece must have value; you could never exchane it for something of value unless the parsy you are negotiating and exchange with recognizes and knows that your medium has value equal to that which he is about to part with. The other requirements are compactibility, portability, durability, di- visibility and stability. What known sub- stance In all the world best answers these requirements? What does, goes without! saying. There are other metals and other things that will answer, these requirements to the best of their ability, but their abil. ity is limited, and there is but one best answer. The second best answer to these requirements is silver; and it can never, and never will, be anything else but second Now, having established what the best medium of exchange is, and what the sec- ond best is, we come to the question why we are opposed to the change from a gold te a silver basis, and it is not solely and simply because gold monometallism is the best monetary system!fart medium of ex- change known to civill@#i man, because the second best would: be good enouzn if we had it and could get no better, but also because the change cau not, cannot and will not add one iota to ofr wealth, power, peace or happiness or’4e Productive of one solitary good or benefieidt result. It will not end the existence of a single trust we now have, or prevent the creation of new ones; it will not thake one million- aire less or prevent thefrmnultiplication; it will not reduce by ofte! #ent the value of any millionaire’s possesstons; it will not prevent the concentraticnzof wealth in the hands of the few, or remedy an existing evil. It will not reduce ‘the income of a single coal trust, sughr‘ffust, cll trust, or any of the 300 and ode trusts we now have; but, on the contrary, willzpnly add to their already ill-gotten gains} by raising the price of their commodities to meet the de- creased value of the dollar, while only pay- ing wages and taxes at present rates; thus resigning an advantage to the enemy and trusiing to his mercy not to use it to your Gesiruction. Not only are we opposed to it for what It will fail to do, but also for what it will do—for the panic it will pro- Guce—for the deficiency it will cause in our treasury, by increasing governmental ex- penses, which will have to be met either by increased taxes or bond issues, for the cutting in half cf the value of the small savings possessed by the millions of. poor, which they were ablevby self-denial and privations to lay aside for a rainy day, and many others too numerous to mention. And last, but above all other reasons, because it ‘dium of ex- is'a scheme which absolutely and beyond ccntravention guarantees an increased cost of living, without the same incontrovertible and absolute guarantee of an increased in- come in exact proportion to the increased cost of living to that body of American tellers whose sole income is their wages. WALTER G. EISINGER, L street northwest. —_—_— Wheat and Silver. To the Editor of The Evening Star: An article has been reprinted in some of the eastern papers, in which the Denver Times professes to give comparative prices of wheat and silver, and says: “It is evi- dent that wheat has not been overpro- duced, but its price is due to the price of silver.” Like most of the alleged statistics of sil- ver advocates, the figures of the Denver Times are grossly, if not intentionally, in- correct. They are given below, in connec- tion with the prices quoted in’ the United States Statistical Abstract for 1895, pages 42 and 383. Denver Times. U. S. stat. abst. Wheat, Silver, Wheat, Silver, fine. bushel. oz. fine. $1.31 $1.30 wo 87 7 78 63 63 66% 58 & After correcting the Denver man’s er- rors or misrepresentations we find that in fourteen of the twenty-three years in ques- tion wheat did not decline with silver. It made its greatest gains while silver fell. In 1/4 wheat rose 12 cents, while sliver fell 2 certs; In 1876 wheat rose 12 cents, hile silver fell 9 cents; in 1S7S wheat rose nts, while silver fell 5 1 in 1s! t rose 1 cent, while silver fell 7 cen wheat rose 2 cents, while silver feli 10 cents, while wheat rose 10 cents, while silver fell 1877, wheat fell 7 cents, while silver ros® 4 cents; 1890, wheat fell 7 cents, while silver rose 11 o 3; 1895, wheat fell 9 cents, while sil- at fell 14 cents jonary; 1NS4, mained 8 cents, while S89, “wheat remained sta- silver while silver wheat fell 6 tionary lver_ remained rose 5 cents, while ver at is now rising, while silver falls If the greenback prices of IN7-78 were reduced to gold values, which are the only uniform standard of rison and rep- resent the purchasing or exchange value of wheat, the result would be still mere striking. If, in addition to this, the reduction of freight charges on mounting to more than @® per c 1 were taken Into consideration, the home’ prices of wheat (the above are export prices) would make an even better showing, as compared with si at did not che r. pen with silver. It while silver declined, and we might claim, if we were as d of sound arguments as our opp at a fall of silver make: at rise, in the pric Senate report No. 1,2¢, s I, page 107), that the average price of wheat, corn, barley, rye, oats, cotton, to- baccd, hides, beef, pork and mutton, taken together, rose 2.1 per cent between 1860 and 1891, the last year covered by the re- port, which was made in March, 18%. The Senators who made it represent both po- litical parties and both sides of the money question, and, so far as it relates to mat- ters of fact, it was unanimous. Agricultural prices have not fallen, as a rule, except during the present silver panic. It is the prices of manufactured articles that have declined, owing to improved methods of production and the constantly increasing intelligence and efficiency of our labor. It is what the farmer buys and not what he sells that has fallen in price. In the same period, 1860-1891, the wages of labor increased 68.6 per cent, as shown by the same report, volume I, page 180. Labor would like to have this crown press- ed down a little harder upon its brow. Under free coinage cheap dollars would be scarcer and harder to get than good ones are now. PAUL WEBSTER EATON. SS SS Curiosity to See Bryan. To the Editor of The Evening Star: Many perscns seem impressed by the crowds that rush to see and hear the free silver cardidate. Heé himself is quoted as “sure of election” because of these crowds. As others in his position have thus been deluded and at the last fearfully disap- it not be so with the present 2?" Vast crowds awaited on Li Hung Chang. Curiosity was the spring of their conduct. It will probbaly be so in this case. It is no evidence of votes. Let me give you a little “straw” as to the mat- ter. I received a letter from a bright young man of twenty-two a few weeks ago that confirms the probable estimate I have given of these crowds. ‘This young man, I may say, is of exceptionally good judg- ment and fairness—his name would to mul- titudes in this our city be sufficient testi- mony as to both judgment and honestr. He uses in the letter these words, viz: “Well, I have seen the Hon. W. J. Bryan. Last week he passed through here— Newark—cn his way to Brooklyn. The train stopped a moment and he came out on the platform to make a speech. I was within ten feet of him. Just as he took off his hat a little boy in the crowd shouted, ‘Hurrah for McKinley.’ Bryan said: ‘I notice that all the shouting for McKinley is being done by small boys, who can’t vote, but when they grow old enough to know what the gold standard means they won't shout for it.’’ The train then pulled out. “I don’t imagine he made many converts here. “In the crowd, numbering perhaps 500, I did not Fear a single man say that he was going to vote for Bryan. I heard a number express themselves.”’ CcIVIS. ee Did Not Change the Standard. To the Editor of Ths Eveaing Star: - Mr. Bryan makes many false representa- tions. One of his followers repeats to me a question of his: “Why did the act of 187: change the standard” of coinage? That act did not change the standard, nor do any- thing about the standard gold or silver dol- lars. That act and the persons who framed it have been blamed for what it does not contain. At that ume no silver was being presented at the mint for coinage into dol- lars because the bullion commanded a premium of 3 per cent in the foreign mar- ket, and so the act did not provide for nor mention the standard silver dollar. It did, however, provide for a large quantity, say, $60,000,000 worth, of fractional silver coins, whose standard had been reduced in 1853, to keep it from going out of the country. All that had been coined had gone with the sold during the war and paper scrip was in circulation until specie resumption, which the act of 1873 was made to provide for. Then silver took its place and the scrip was withdrawn from circulation. The silver bullion was purchased and coined by the government into silver pieces at the rate of about $45,000,000 a year for several years. The weight and fineness of the standard gold and silver coins of one dollar or more have not been changed since 1! The gold dollar has been our standard of value ever since 1834,since the silver doilar, so says the history, “bore a premium over the gold dol- lar in the London market of from 1 to 3 per cent’ during the period “from 1834 to 1874, and the double standard only existed about a year or less, while the silver dollar was at par with gold and bore no premium in the London market, which was after the act of 1873 had become a law. No law has ever been made to establish a gold standard, but circumstances beyond the control of law have made gold the single standard ever since 1834, excepting as above stated. Nobody wishes to get rid of the gold standard, as Mr. Bryan charges, except the advocates of free and unlimited coinage at 16 to 1. The republicans propose to maintain our siiver doilars equai with gold at a parity of 16 to 1 by a limited coin- age, and by the tacit or written agreement of the government to support it, until by in- ternational agreement they can get the na- tions of Europe with whom werhave to deal, to adopt free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, or near that, when, per- haps, the price of silver will go up, so that we can have a double standard. That will not get rid of the gold standard, but will give us both a gold and a silver standard. Free coinage by the United States will not create a demand for silver in this country, because only about $60,000,000 can be circu- lated, while the rest, whether coined or not, would have to be stored away. The use of the metal, not merely its coinage, as com- pared with its supply, controls its value. (volume ii wash-board can’t last. Here is a picture that women will wonder at, one of these days. They won't understand what the woman is doing. Even now it looks queer to the users of Pearline to see a woman doubling herself up over a wash-tub, This old-fashioned, back-break- ing way of washing clothes by rubbing them to pieces over a It isn’t sensible. The way that is surely taking its place—the easiest, quickest, most economical way—is washing with Pearline. No soap with it—that’s entirely needless—nothing but Pearline. RR LY McKINLEY AND KENTUCKY |» == Effect of the Treatment of Secretary Car- lisle on the Result. The Congresst 1 Situation Analyzed Sil: © Men Have Chances in Four Districts. Correspondence of the Evening Star. LOUISVILLE, October 27, 1896. If there was ever a doubt that Kentucky would go for McKinley it has been dissi- pated by the events of the past few days, and now even the most conservative esti- mate the majority of the Ohio man at from 8,000 to &X). Of course, the assertion that Kentucky will go republican meets with a prompt denial from the most reasonable of the silver men, while the wildest of them still claim the state by 30,000. However, it is apparent to even the novice in politics that the friends of silver are making their last stand, determined to die in the last ditch. The disgraceful treatment of Secre- tary Carlisle at Covington had as much, if not more, to do with clinching the repub- lican victory in Kentucky than any other ene thing, and on the morning after the outrage had been pegpetrated it is no ex- aggeration to say that a shudder went through the entire commonwealth. Other statements to the contrary, Carlisle has as many warm, true and loyal friends in his native state as any other man in it, and the insult offered to the state's distin- suished son was considered as a personal affront by many of the best citizens, who announced their intention of using every honorable means to wipe out the dishonor by defeating the candidate whose followers had s0 degraded themselves and their state. The fact that Carlisle was egged by a few fanatical hoodlums in his native town should not be construed as evidence that confidence in his integrity, brilliancy or honesty is on the wane, and those who hold to that opinion would speedily forsake it could they see the tremendous ovations that are being tendered him every day and in every town through which he passes. Only One Man Approved It. But one man has been found, in the entire state, who has openly approved of the Covington outrage, and that man is W. D. Reed of Louisville, a brother of ex-Mayor Booker Reed. All others, irrespective of party, have hung their heads in shame, and in public and in private have condemned it as a disgrace to the state, which will re- quire years to erase. John S. Rhea, free silver nominee for Congress in the third district, undertook to answer Carlisle after the latter had spoken at Bowling Green Saturday night, and made a number of utterances which were accepted by the crowd as tacit approvals of the outrage, he, among other things, de- nouncing the Secretary as a traitor and a falsifier. But the Kentucky people are aroused, and those who would otherwise have voted for Palmer and Buckner, or who would, perhaps, have been persuaded to get in line for Bryan, will now vote solidly for McKinley. A detective has been employed to look up the inside history of the Covingtcn affair, and it may be that there will be a sensation sprung before the election which will shake the old state to its foundation. The Congressional Fight. The silver men have practically given up the fight for Congress dn all the districts except the first, second, third and sixth, where they still believe there is a fighting chance. In the sixth, however, R. P. Ernst and his friends are making all the capital that they can out of the Carlisle outrage, and the men who have known the distin- guished Secretary from boyhood are arous- ed. It is now sald to be a settled fact that A. S. Berry, the democratic incumbent, will be beaten by 2,500 or 3,000 votes, and’ that Ernst will win an easy victory; and all because of the cowardly assault on Carlisle. In the eighth the silver men have practical- ly abandoned the fight, and Judge Davison. the republican nominee, is running away from John B. Thompson, who is a brother of “Little Phil,” who was concerned in the Breckinridge-Pollard case as one of the former's attorneys. In the seventh, Col. Breckinridge will be an easy winner, and in the ninth, tenth and eleventh the re- publicars are more aggressive than ever, and those districts invariably give big re- publican majorities. It is in the first, sec- ond ard third that the fight will be made for political supremacy in the forlorn hope that in these three districts, which are ad- mitted to be overwhelmingly for silver, that such a big majority will be rolled up that the republican majorities from the mountains will be unable to overcome it. In the first district Charlie Wheeler, the free silver nominee, will win by from 6,000 to 10,000 votes; in the second, Dr. John B. Clardy, the free silver incumbent, will have all but a walk-over, with a majority of fully 8,000, while in the third it is believed that John Rhea’s majority over Dr. W. Godfrey Hunter will be 2,500. Thus, allow- ing liberal estimates, the free silver men hope to come to the fourth district with a clean-cut majority of about 20,000, In the fourth, John W. Lewis, the republican in- cumbent, will win, but the free silver men say that he will get a small majority over Dave Smith, and it is variously estimated at from 800 to 1,500. The Louisville District. In the fifth—the Louisville—district the silver men concede a majority of 3,000. N. B. HILLIKER. [In fact, this district will go for McKin- You will find one coupon Inside each two ounce bag and two coupons inside each four ounce bagof Blackwell's Durham. bag of this the coupon—which gives a list of valuable presents and how to get them. 2 Waiter ns, the republican cumbent, by nearly 10,000, In the sis Dick Ernst will win, as before stated, 1", while in the seventh Col. Breckin- will go in 4K, In the eighth, Davidson's majority will be about while in the ninth, Sam Pugh will be r turned by 6,000. In the tenth, J. W. Lan ley, republican, will have no rolling up 4,000 majorit while eleventh, Dave Colsom, the republican in- cumbent, will go under the wire by 11,0 rrajeri Last year it gave Bradley a majority of 12.077, while the fifth gay him 3,769, making a total of 18.846 majo: ity in the two districts alone. Thus it will that if the fifth and « tricts do as well for sound mon: did for Bradley in 1 that the 20,000 mz jority claimed by the silverites in the three distr will be all but wiped provided an even break in ail even the silver men them- eventh dis- is others, which selves do not claim. it Silver Chairman's Admission. Chairman Urey Woodson of the silver national committee said today that he be- lieved the majority for Bryan in the state would be cut down some by the Covington affair, but that he still believed the silver men would carry it by about 6,000. When it is taken into consideration that Mr. Wood- son himself, only a few weeks ago. was claiming the state by 20,000, the slump in his estimate is in itself remarkable. For a time the silver men were taking all the money th find on Kentucky going for McKinley. They wanted to bet even, but some of them were w’ ng to go as good as 6 to 5. But that day has past, and your correspondent yesterday saw a well known republican of the “Purchase’ bet a bright, crisp $10 bill against a hand ful of silver and some small change—prob- ably $10 in all—that Kentucky would go ™ putlican. But, of course, this was a bi such as one sees only occasionally. The gold men are now offering 7 to 5 that Mc- Kinley will carry the state and can find no takers, —__ Stealing Lead Pipe. Howard Burnett and Harry Courtney, young colored men, pleaded guilty in Crim- ital Court No. 1 tcday in three cases of robbing houses of iead pipes. Because of their previous good character, and in v1 of the fact that they have been in jail about four morths, Judge Cole gave them but two months in jail, suspending sen- tence in the remaining two cases. _— Robberies Reported. Mrs. M. Watson, 307 14th street north- west, complained to the polize this morn- ing that a quantity of unwashed clothing was stolen from a shed in rear of house. A willow baby carriage belonging to Mrs. ©. A. Danforth was stolen yesterday from 7th and M streets southwest. The residence of L. Tignor, Gs southwest, was entered by Sneak th several days ago and a black plush cap with a fur collar, was stolen. ——»_ To Enforce Judgme Eliza J. and Cornelia Denver, executrices of the late Arthur St. Clair Denver, have filed a bill in equity against Sargeant P. Krut to enforce a judgment of $417.39, the amount of a note said to have been given the decedent. The complainants allege that the defendant has been allowed the sum of $1,000 in a case before the Court of Claims, and they ask that Knut be en- Joined from receiving from the Secretary of the Treasury a draft for the amouut, and that he be required to indorse it so that the judgment can be satisfied out, of it. Attorneys Chaney and Garrison repr: the comp nts, and they subsequ dismissed the suit, Judge Hagner hav refused the petition. Sees He Was Wanted. This morning a party of young colored men essembled on the cobblestone 1 ment in Temperance alley and were gaged in a political discussion tective Lacy joined the party In the party was a stranger and he was ing of big republican majority that Will be rolled up at Orange Court Hous: ‘aVhat is your rame?” the detective ask- ed the stranger. “Minor,” he answered. inor White?” querie es, sir. “Come teke a walk,” said the detective, showing his badge. “That's good authority,” said White, he went with the officer to headou: The priscner i at Orang House on a charge of shooting Alexander Thomas. He admits the shooting and says he did it in self defen: In conversation ene when De- the officer. Court with the officer the prisoner said he had been drinking, as had companions, and wher. the others jumped on him he snot Thomas threi gh the arm. The prisoner is held for the Virginia authorities. sAlways FIRST Gail Borden Eagle Brand CONDENSED MILK For the leading brand. 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