Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 31, 1896, Page 7

3 > ADVICE TO FARMERS. By WH. H. Carr & Co., the Farmer's Com- mission House. We are in the midst of an exciting Political campaign; the great cities are stirred by monster demonstrations. The great orators hold forth every night in halls, wigwams, and tents. Po- cal leaders are busy figuring out the ult in advance of the election. Thoy- Sands of men in the employ of the na- tional committees are ascertaining as near as possible how each city ward, how each branch of organized labor, how each city will vote. One thing no man, no set of men, no campaign com- mittee, no political party can tell in advance, that is, how the farmers of the country will vote. The one great question to-day is: How do the farm- ers feel about it? We mention this only to illustrate a point in practical business matters. Agricultural workers are learning their power in politics. They can make or unmake state legislatures. They do it by imitating the metHods of labor in cities, by working together. They do not need local unions. They can work in our grand intellectual union for their common good. They have done it in demanding legislation. They are doing it now in a way that makes leaders tremble. They will act more intelligently and united in the future. They find other things than politics to call for their decision. They produce what the world needs. They are study- ing new methods of giving the fruit of their labors to the world. Recently an army of 100,000 men marched through Chicago's streets celebrating the twen- ty-fifth anniversary of the great fire. The farmers have for years fed a much greater army; not only fed, but made rich, presented with grain elevators, private banks, fine houses, costly lux- uries, the old-time, ever-present army of middlemen. But there is a revolt against dividing profits with this army between the farm and the world’s big markets. This independent action began with this pioneer farmer’s commission house. It is assuming proportions which make the easy money-makers (professional shippers) at the stations over a dozen states tribttary to Chicago tremble. The question: “What are the farmers going to do?” bothers not politicians alone, but all those who have been ing something for nothing. rm- ers are going to ship their own grain —not a few or a hundred, but an army nds. They know how, they it, it pays. That is one question answered by farmers. vyhat a few farmers say who ed shipping: Kk Valley, Iowa, Sept. 29, 1896.— s. H. H. Carr & Co., Chicago, Ill: ntlemen: Your favor of the 24th ant, with account sale and draft tlement for car wheat No, 9092 I arn well pleased with the k you very much for s. You will surely re- number of shipments from Yours truly, FRED KOCK. Marcus, Iowa, Sept. 2, 1896. your ceive this nel ghbor! ‘hood. Gen- H. H. Carr & Co., Chicago, Ill. tlemen: On the two c; of oats I sent to u last winter I made about $42 by shipping it. 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These, besides ma- larial, rheumatic and kidney complaints, are also subduable with the Bitters. A rich discovery of gold has been made near Grahamstown, Cape Colony. Mi TTR The papers are full of deaths from Heart Failure Pececcecceccce: 3 Of course the heart fails to act when a man dies, but “ Heart Failure,” so called, nine times out of ten is caused by Uric Acid in the blood which the Kidneys fail to remove, and which corrodes the heart until it becomes unable to perform its functions, Health Officers in many cities very properly refuse to accept “ Heart Fail- ure,” as 2 cause of death, It is fre- quently a sign of ignorance in the physician, or may be given to cover up the real cause. Sok Que, A Medicine with 20 Years of + « Success behind it - . will remove the poisonous Uric Acid by putting the Kidneys in a healihy condition so that they will naturally eliminate it. r ecocecesoeeoces. GRAIN AND PROVISIONS Bought and sold for future delivery, 2¢ to Se per bu. deposit. Sample sales a specialty. Correspondence and consignments MACON BROS, , 145 Yan Baren Street, solicited..... Chieago, 111. MEMBERS CHICACO BOARD OF TRADE. TORM SASH. SI Sash & Door Co. Minneapolis, Minn. OPIU and WHISKY habits cared. Book seat FREE. Dr. B.M, WOOLLEY, ATLANTA, GA, ars? expe! fe . examiner U.t Pat.Ollice) Deane & Weave S ° ° e e ° e 3 e e ° e e ° e e ° ° e e ° ° 3 ° ry ° e ° e ° ° 9 e ° ° e ° ° r ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° 2 ° e ° e e ° e ry e 10 0000060000000000000000090000000 ecvccceccccccoccocscooss eocece. call Bidg., Wasb.D.c stamicted wi” {Thompson’s Eye Water. Nc Bost Crash Byrn. hiotes Gane in time. Sold by druggists. DOINGS.—From New York World. TOM WATSON’S WALL STREET SNAKE. THIS CARTOON GIVES THE POPULIST CANDIDATE’S OWN PICTURE OF THE MONEY POWER AND ITS CANDIDATE BRYAN. TELLS MARTINSBURG FARMERS THAT “MONEY IS A CREA- TURE OF LAW.” A Truthful Deelaration Boldly and Un- equivocally Made, the Significance of Which Is Comprehended by Thought- ful Reformers. Mr. Bryan voiced good common sense } and the straightest of populist doc- trine on the money question when he talked as follows to the farmers of Martinsburg, W. Va., on the 30th of last month: "My friends, our opponents assume that money is a thing creatd by com- merce and that law has nothing to do with it. I want to say to you that money is a creature of law. You can have as much or as little money as the law permits. If the laws are made by those who want money to be high priced they make money scarce in order that money may be high priced. If you want money sufficiently plentiful to keep pace with population and indus- try, the laws have got to be made by those who believe in having enough money to keep pace with population. (Applause.) Certainly “money is a creature of law.” All populists worthy of the name know that and have known it for some time. Whether the law de- clares that the “creature” shall be made of gold, silver, copper, zinc, tin, paper, leather or any other substance, it is absolutely certain that it could have no existence but for the “fiat” of law calling it into being and establishing the quantity, character, shape, size, etc, of the material of which it is composed. Mr. Bryan evi- dently realizes this fact now whether he ever did before or not, and realizing this fact the people may safely confide in his ability to shortly discern the folly of the theory of redemption money. The idea that one “creature of the law” must be redeemed by another creature of the same law in order to make the “redeemed” as good as the “pedeemer” when it is all alike cre- ated for the same purpose, is so su- premely ridiculous and inconsistent with good sense that no man of spirit and judgment will harbor it for a mo- ment. The people can have money enough to transact their business prop- erly on the very, same terms and in the game way that they have postage stamps sufficient to answer their mail requirements. If the goverrment should farm out its postoffices privi- legeg and prerogatives upon the same terms it does its money furnishing functions to a few corporations, the people would have no right to expect that they would be permitted their present cheap postal facilities. Under present conditions the government will transport one hundred pounds or one hundred thousand pounds, of second class mail matter from New York to San Francisco at the uniform rate of one cent per pound, and it would charge the same rate if the matter was to be carried one or one thousand miles, If this same work was done by a pri- vate corporation for private profit, the public, the great unthinking, burden- bearing public, would readily perceive the injustice (?) to the corporation, in the demand that it should carry the poor man’s pound as cheaply as it car- ried the rich man’s ton or hundred tons, and to bother itself about carry- ing it one mile at as low a rate per mile as it would the enormous products of the rich a thousand miles would be deemed by everybody as exquisitely ab- surd. It is plain enough that if this business was left to the merey of pri- vate corporations, as so much of the people’s business is, including the fur- nishing of the paper money necessary to carry on their trading, postage stamps and postage faciltiies would cost anywhere from five to ten times as much as at present, and the service would not be anything like as satisfac- tory. The redemption theory of money is nothing more nor less than a clumsy attempt to call in the assistance of na- ture in limiting the supply of money. It is “clumsy,” because the gold, or gold and silver, of which the theory holds the redemption money must be maie, while produced in certain lim- ited quantities, may, netertheless, be, by the law creating money, divided in- to such infinitesimal money units as to ereate an absolutely unlimited supply ! of gold and silver money, to say noth- ing about the volume of paper money which might be based upon, and re- deemable in, these depreciated money units. The law which declares that twenty-five and eight-tenths grains of standard gold shall constitute a dollar, might as easily declare for any other number less than that and it would be just as effective if it declared for the hundredth part of a grain as it is now. Then is it not correct to say that the redemption theory is a “clumsy” one? And does it not depend entirely upon the well-known abhorrence of the peo- ple, or their lazy disinclination, for the investigation of economic questions for its continuance? But can anybody give a good reason why the accidents of nature, or any other power, should be invoked to limit the supply of money in any other way than that in which the supply of post- age stamps is? Postage stamps are “creatures” of the government and are provided in amounts limited only by the demand by the government direct to the people for their express benefit. Money is a creature of the government that is as essential to the welfare of the people as postage stamps are, but instead of the government providing money direct to the people it only pro- vides it to those who are fortunate enough to be the possessors of a cer- tain kind of metal, or to bankers who can put up evidences of its own in- debtedness, and the consequence is that 70,000,000 people are absolutely de- pendent upon a few metal and bord! owners for their supply of money. This condition is not only wrong, but it is largely responsible for the ‘hard times” universally complained of. The same money ideas obtain in this na- tion as prevail all over the world and while a change in the plan of providing this nation with money will not, of it- self, bring entire relief, it is safe to as- sume, since otner nations provided as this one is are even in a worse condi- tion than it is that a change is neces- sary. The fact that W. J. Bryan has publicly prociaimed the doctrine that “money is a creature of law” inspires all intelligent, thoughtful reformers with renewed confidence in his ability, courage and honesty. THOUGHTS ABOUT MONEY By “Cranks and Anarchists.” The poor man who takes property by ane } } i] + HT force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor pay a@ dollar twice as large as_ he bor - rowed is lauded as a friend of sound currency.—William J. Bryan. Banks are more dangerous to the lib- erties of the people than standing ar- mies.—Jefferson. If the Americans adopt our banking and funding system, their liberties are gone.—Sir Wm. Pitt. By the eternal, we will see which is to rule—the money power or the peo- ple!—Andrew Jackson. . Gold is the most useless metal in the world. Fit only for plugging teeth and ornamenting fools.—Dr. Franklin. I have met and conquered all the al- lied armies of Europe, but England’s paper money sent me to St. Helena.— poleon I. The theory of intrinsic value of money has been abandoned by the best writers and speakers.—Encyclope- dia Britannica. Whoever controls the volume of money of any couniry is absolute mas- ter of all industry and commerce.— James A. Garfield. Avarice says: “I will oppress the weak and devour the fruits of his la- bers and I will say it is fate that has so ordained.”—Volney. Bank paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be re- stored to the nation, to whom it be- longs,—Thomas Jefferson. The bank is the union of the govern- ment and the money power—a union far more dangerous than church and state-—John C, Calhoun. The present system of finance robs labor, gorges capital, makes the rich richer and the poor poorer, and turns a republic into an aristocracy of capi- tal.—Wendell Phillips in 1870. Anything upon which the govern- ment places its stamp and declares it a legal tender in payment of all debts and taxes is money, no matter what the material may be.—Henry Clay. I believe the struggle now going on in this country and in other countries for a single gold standard will if suc- cessful produce widespread disaster in the end throughout the world.—James G. Blaine. — If a government contract a debt with a certain amount of money in circula- tion, and then contracts the money vol- ume before the debt is paid, it is themost heinous crime that a government can commit against the people.—Abraham Lincoln. Man is the only animal on earth that will quietly suffer for food among plen- ty. He is the only one whose brain is so small that he will see his tender off- spring suffer with cold where there is plenty of material to keep him warm.— Inter Mountain Advocate. My friends, unless our children have more patience and courage than saved this country from slavery, republican institutions will go down before moneyed corporations. Rich men die, but corporations are immortal. They are never afflicted with disease. In the long run they are bound to win with legislatures.—Wendell Phillips. Place the money power in the hands of a combination of a few individuals and they, by expanding or contracting the currency, may raise or sink prices at pleasure, and by purchasing when at the greatest depression, and selling when at the greatest elevation, may command the whole property and in- dustry of the community. The bank: ing system concentrates and places thi power in the hands of those who con. trol it. Never was an engine invente better calculated to place the destinied of the many in the hands of the few. John C. Calhoun. “Yes, we may all congratulate our- selves that this cruel war is nearing close. It has cost a vast amount 0 treasure and blood. The best blood o! the flower of American youth has been freely offered upon our country’s altar that the nation might live. It has been, indeed, a trying hour for the re- public, but I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safe- ty of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggre- gated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of the war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless.”— Abraham Lincoln. The God of “Sound Money.” Gold is the king of kings, the mon arch of money, the emperor of specula- tion, the unmoved spectator of Turk- ish atrocities, the General Gomez of revolution, the W. C. P. Breckinridge of morals, the managing editor of the daily press, the fashion-plate of society, the god of greed, the mascot of supersti- tion, the great-grandfather of aristoc- racy, the chief slave-driver of human servitude, and sole manager of the millionaire’s campaign for “sound money.” More blood has been shed to gratify the greed for gold than for all other causes on earth combined. Kings are but mud without power of gold to back them. Speculation is but a boy’s game of mumble-peg without the expanding and contracting properties of gold. Turkish atrocities are only “danger- ous” as they threaten the stability of English gold investments. Morals are but dross compared with the gorgeous raiment that adorns the front pews of the great churches that are dedicated to oratory and hired music. The daily press is but a jJumping- jack on two twisted strings between the thumbs of gold-owners, Society is but a butterfly dance over a field of new-mown clover, when gold ceases to be king. Greed becomes a hog trying to swal- low a barrel of slop, when the shining treasure it hoards and gloats upon be- comes worthless. Superstition becomes a fairy story of ancient dark ages, when people behold that the golden god they have wor- shipped is deaf, dumb, blind and powerless in the light of wisdom. Aristocracy puls off its coat and goes to work when it can no longer juggle with gold. the As Garfield said, the men who contro. the money of a country control its government and trade. England con- trols the gold of the world, hence she can control the government and trade of every country on the globe that has a single-gold standard financia) sys- tem = nae ~~ — Patents Issued. List of pateuts issued last week to Northwestern inventors: John Berntsen, Albert Lea. Minn., bread-raising apparatus; Frederick W. G. Boettcher, Duluth, Minn., display aj-paratus; Charles E. Brennan, Min- neapolis, Minn., combined single and tandem bicycle; Oliver A. Burns, Min- neapolis, Minn., can-opener; Evariste Dore, Minneapolis, Minn., sled; Ward B. Drummond, Minnea Minn., folding fire-hose trestle; James H. Hart. Mendervyille, Mont., primer for blasting fuse; John E. Luce, Minneap- olis, Minn., electric band; Samuel J. Turner, Minneapvlis, Minn., pauts leg guard, T. D. Merwin, Patent Lawyer, 910, 911 and 912 Pioneer Press Building, St. Paul, Minn. Woman’s Writes aad Believe in Woman’s Writes? Of course we do. Who could help it when women write such convincing words as these: “For seven years I suffered with scrofula. I had a good physician. Every means of cure was tried in vain. At last I was told to try Ayer’s Sarsa- parilla, which entirely cured me after using seven bottles.” —Mrs. Joun A. GENTLE, Fort Fairfield, Me., Jan. 26, 1896. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla ..cures.. anthemums live longer flower after being cut. 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