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THE TOLA REGISTER.
REGISTER, ESTABLISHED 1V&
COCK VXT, ESTABLISHED l&S.
DEMOCRAT, Established ISSG.
ELSMORE EAGLE, Established 18S0.
SAVONBURGH FBOGRESS, Established 1S91.
IOLA, ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1894-
VOL. XXVIII.
No. 39
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PROFESSIONAL AND SOCIETY
DIRECTORY
DENTISTRY.
S. Toaer Office over hvans Bros" drugstore.
Dr. II B. Duncan. Office over Post Office.
ATTORNEYS.
R II Bennett
II. A Ewing
Ewiug& Bennett
Office at Court House.
J. B. Goshom attrney-at-law and notary
public. Office over Coutant's store. Iola, Kan.
CAMPBELL A IIANKIXS,- Attorneys. A. H.
Campbell. Couaty Att'y ; W C Hankins, Depu
ty Cooty Atfy. Office one door cast of post of
ike, up-stairs, Iola. Kans.
Foustst Son attorneys and counscllors-at-law.
Office two doors north of Xorthrup's banc. Iola,
Kansas.
Gard A. Rirtwrti Lawyers. Office In Rsoistsb
buIMlBsr-
W. B. GVover, Attorney at Law, First National
Bank huifcling, liumboiut Kansas.
PHYSICIANS.
W. D. Scott, M. D. physician and acconchcr.
Office in J. II Campbell's drugstore.
J. F Jewell. II. D. physician and surgeon.
Special attention paid to surgery and eye dis
eases. Moras, Kansas.
a H. Boul'on Homeopathic physician. Bur
gory and dleases of women and children a
specialty. Office at residence near Pennsylvania
Central Hotel.
SECRET SOCIETIES.
K. aad I. of fe Iola Council Knights and La
dles of reeuntv nipets the first and third Friday
night of each mouth R II. Bennett.
Cor Sctfy.
G. A. R. McCoofc Pot No. 51 meett the first
Saturday on or before each full moon at G. A.
R. HalL AU comrades in good standing are In
vited to meet with the Pot. II. JI Miller. P. a
McCook Relief Corp, No. 115 meets the first
and third Friday evenings of each month at G
A. R. balL Mrs. M. L. Miller, Pres.
M. E Sraellzer. Secy.
Salem Chapter No. 4, Order of Eastern Star,
meets in Masonic Hall 1st and 3rd Monday in
each month. Mrs. Sarah Crow, M.
Mis Xellie Colboni. Sec
CHURCHES.
Episcopal Services on third Sunday of the
month. Fred E. Stimton, Mtssioncry in charge.
Christian, or Diciples Corner of Broadway
and Sycamore. Sunday school 10 a. m. Prayer
meeting Wednesday nights. E P. Trabue,
paster.
United Brethren Sunday School every Sun
day at t p m , and preaching every other Sun
day evening at first door north of Court House
E H Bennett, superintendent J W. Stone,
pastor
Methodist Episcopal Corner of Jefferson ave
nu and Broadway. Services every Sabbath at
11 a. m. and 7.S0 p. m. aundav fchool at 9--15 a.
m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening
at 7J50. All are cordially invited to all of these
meetings. J. Hunter, pastor.
Baptist On Sycamore street. Preaching Sun
day morningand evening. Sunday school at 9-45
a. in. Prajer meeting Wednesday evening at
7 SO p. m. Young people's prayer meeting ev
ery bunday evening. M. F King, pastor.
Reformed Divine worship in the Christ Re
formed church at 11 o'clock a. m. every Sun
day Evening services every two weeks
&; b&lf past s-even o'clock p. m. Sunday school
every Sabbath at Id o'cIoce a. m. All are cor
diatly invited to attend. L Faust, pastor.
Presbyterian Madison Ave Preaching ev
ery Sabealb at II a m and 7:30 p m Sabbath
choolat9ct&a.m. Prayer meeting Wednesday
at 730 p. ra. veryboly welcoiao W. L.
Squier nosto-
MISCELLANEOCS.
W C T V Regalar meeting every second
and fourth Friday, &t 5 o'clock p. m , at the
Christian church daring the summer
Allen County Horticultural Society meets
evervfeeoad Friday of each month at 2 o'clock
p xn at O A. R hall B F PancoastPrcs
R a Moore, Secy
IeUPnbtfc Library Over Northrup's bank.
OpeH every Satnrday from 1 to S p. m. Stock
aad membership ticket for sale at the room.
Mrs. Win. Knapp, Librarian.
T. S. Stover Abstracter of titles. Has a com
plete st of abstrao books for Allen county. The
Ottly one wfcn makes investigation of titles a
specialty. Iota. Kaaas
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WORLD'S FAIR .
COUPON HO. 28,
Briti;; or send this coupon to The
.Register office accompan
ied by (
10 CENTS IN SILVER
ami receive No. 23 of
the World's Fair Portfolios.
They are now ready for distribu-'
tiou ami are t orth twice the am't.
Don't miss them !
Caf" Do nosend s lamps.
I f oniered by mall enclose one cent stamp
wiih dime
v&
Ui bUFr, GW& Optician
IOZA. h
KANS.
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Silverwae Jtw "t. Go"3 Jpectarle?, Rinps, etc
MnMoal I r - .--. '-trices, and supplies.
First t .ass N atch Repainnz
Leader in Low Prices
H
Mates Suits io Order
and guarantees a fit
Prices, SS to SIO a Salt.
Oorxfciv TCroTj-er A KmegeKa Meat Market
YOU CS.TJ CURE THAT COUCH WITH
For sale at Campbell's DtuS Store.
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EKert's .Daylight Liver Pills ; I
sic. ' . -' tu. rj ( tjes SMc Headache J
Jms-irkiX. i 1 rr ila. sP Ililuouslllsandl
lhsonl rs d : sr -mac' . Liver and BcweL. I t
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L. L. NORTHROP. President. J. n. VANNUYS, Cashier.
ESTABLISHED XX? 1869.
L. L. NOTHSW
BANKING HOUSE,
Iola, Kansas.
Individual responsibility larger than any Bank in Southern Kansas.
A General Banking Business Transacted in all
its branches.
Dealer In foreign and domestic exchange. Collection made at all accessable
points and proceeds remitted on day of payment. Liberal
diacountB given to customers.
LOANS MADE AND NEGOTIATED ON IMPROVED FARMS.
GEO. A. BOWLUS. President.
SIRS. W. JL IIARTMAN. Vice-Pres.
BANK OF ALLEN COUNTY,
IOLA, KANSAS.
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Transacts a Genera!
Exchange cm Kansas City, Chicago and New York.
Makes collections in
NEGOTIATES FIBST MORTGAGE LOANS Oil WELL IMPROVED FARMS,
Correspondence Solicited.
Broom Corn,
Crass Seed,
Grain & Hay
WILL SHIP FROM IOLA,
If COAX,
The Famous Black Diamond, Lone Tree, and
"Wier City Coal ; also Strip Coal, at cheap
competition prices.
"Will sell you anything you want, and buy anything you
have to sell.
HAY PRESSES, PIANOS, ORGANS, SEWING
MACHINES, Etc., Etc., FOR TRADE.
A. W. BECK.
Can show you some bargains in
REAL ESTATE,
Improved Land
CALL ON
Do You Wantto Feed Your Crop
THIS IS THE SEASON TO FEED I
FEEDERS are CHEAP!
AND OUR TERMS ARE REASONABLE.
Write, or Come In.
Siegel, Welch & Glawson, fc,
ROOMS 141, 142, 143 StOCk EXCtl3Ilge,
H. 51. MILLER, Cashier.
a E. BENTON. Attorney.
Banking Business.
all parts of the United btates
WANTED !
LaHARPE OR MORAN.
or Raw Prairie.
IOAJVS OR
isc:sxj;ra;n:oe :
KANSAS GITY, MO.
LEGAL NOTICES.
Road Notice.
(G F. Robins etal).
Stub of Kansas, Aimcn Conjmr. as.
The Stale nfKania, to uhom U may concern;
WHEREAS. Application has been made by
petition to the Board of County Commis
sioners of said county, for establishing
a county road, as follows, to-wlt Commencing
at the S E corner of sec. twenty-one (21), town
ship twinty-three (23) south, ranee twenty (XI)
east of the sixth principal meridian, running
north one mile Also; commencing at the N" E
corner of section twenty-two,CH)township twen
tv three (23) south, ranee twenty (20) east of the
sixth nrinciDal meridian, runninc west two (2)
miles onthe north side oi section twentytwo(22)
and twentr-one fill. Said roads situated in Al
len county. State of Kansas, United States of
America saw roaas io oe tony :eei wioe
And hercas, II. P. Fowler. O. O Myers and
J C IJeattr Tlewers. and O. DoWltt, county
surTcyorof said county, hare been ordered by
said County Commissloacrs to Ticw, survey and
establish said roaa
Therelore. you are hereby notified that said
viewers and surveyor will proceed, on the isth
day of September lbM. at la o'clock a m., at the
place of boeinnlnsrol said road, to view, survey
and locate said road, and perform whatsoever
other duties as arc required of them by law:
and unless yuu then file a written application
with saidiewers. rivinc a description of the
premises on which you claim damages or com
pensation, your appucauon tor tne same win oc
barred.
itness my hand ai my office in Iola, in said
county, this 20th day of August. ISM.
James Wakffielp,
County Clerk.
Sheriffs Safe.
(First pnbltshed August 3, 1S3L)
BY virtue of an order of sale, dated the 30th
day of July. 1S34, issued out of the district
court in and for Allen county, Kansas in
an action in said court wherein F C Pres t was
plalntltC and W Illiam D. Matthews and Martha
A Matthews, bis wife, L D Matthews and L.
A Matthews, his wife: S L Matthews, Levi
Robinson. Elnora B. Claiborne, Joseph Cahn
and Isaac Ilachracb, partners as Joseph Cahn &
Company, George J Englatmrdt, Robert Win
ning. Jobn A. Johnston, rartacrs as Englehardt
Winning A, Company. Charles C Rainwater.
Simoi L Boogher and John B Morris partners
as Rainwater. Boogher A, Company and C II.
Crabtrce, G. VT. Matthe-rs, P C. Padgetand M.
B Padget were dciendants, I will on Tuesday
the 4th day of September, 1SL between the
hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p. m. at the front door of
the court houe in the City of Iola. in said Allen
county. Kansas 0er at public sale and sell
to the highest and best bidder, for cash in hand
all the right, title and interest of each and every
of the above named parties in and to the follow,
ing real estate, in said State and county, to-wit:
The cast half of the north east n.uartere.'i of no
' of section thirty-six .S6I towushlp twenty
three ill range nineteen T19J east of 6th p m.
Said property will be sold as directed by said
order of sale, without appraisement, and sub
ject to a prior encumbrance of the principal
note for $67o.l0 and interest as set out in plain
ttll's petition and belonging to a stranger to this
SUit U. C. ACSIIERMAN.
:-. Sheriff of Allen County.
Brnnlsley. Gregory A F'annclly, attorneys.
Kansas City, Mo
SHERIFF'S SALE.
First published Aug. 1S31
BY VIRTt'E of an order of sale issued out
of the District Court of Allen county,
Kansas, whs rein Albert Hromer was
plalntili; and James Paddock and Margaret Pad
dock his wife, and J. W. Bowlby and Emily
Bowlby his wile. J, F. Corrlgan.T J Becbe,
Assignee of the Farmers Loan and Trust Com
pany of Kansas, a corporation, and T. II, Ste
vens, The Fanners Loan and Trust Company ot
Kansas, a corporation. Orlando F. Casteen. II.
Llewelyn Jones and P G Walton. Trustees,
and O F. Casteen, F. G Hobson and Levi 8
Gould. Assignees of the Farmers Loan and Trust
Company of Kansas, a corporation, were de
fendants, I will on
TUESDAY, SErTEMBKK tTH, A D. ISO I,
at 1 o'clock p. m. of said day, at the front door
of the Court house in the aity of Iola, in Ithe
county of Allen, in the State of Kansas, offer for
sale at public auction od sell to the highest
bidder, fur cash in hand all the following dc
scribed real estate situate in the county of Allen
and State of Kansas, to-wik The southeast
quarter of section twenty-four, and the north
half of the northeast quarter of section twenty
tire, all in township twenty-three south. Range
nineteen east of the Uh P. M.
Said property will be sold as the property of
the abore named defendants and without ap
praisement, to satisfy said order of sale.
C O ACSHEBMAV,
Sheriff ot Allen county. Kan.
Chas 0. Ebwik and T. S. Stover, attorneys
for plaintiff. (33-33)
Sheriffs Safe Under Execution.
(First published Aug 2L 1S94 )
State ot Kansas, Allen county, ss.
J. S. Judd, ")
vs
B. G. Culver. J
BY virtue or an execution to me directed and
delivered, issued out of the Fourth Judicial
llLtrtt viv tt thi, Qfa nf rinin Ittfnfr
in and for Franklin county, in said State I will
on
Tuesday September 23, A. D. 1894,
between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and four
o'clock p. m of said day at the court houe in
tola in tne county ami s'aie aiorcsaiu, oner at
nubile sale and sell to the blehest bidder, for
cash in band all the right; title and interest of
the above.named defendant In ana to the fol
lowing described real estate to-wiu The undi
vided one half (i) of southeast quarter V-i) of
section nineteen (19) township twenty six (26)
range twenty in Allen county, Kansas.
Said property levied on and to be sold subject
to a mortgage of $700 and interest at 10 per cent
from Nov. 1; 1S33 as the property of the above
named defendant C. C Ausiiebxan,
bherlff
Sheriff's office Iola, Kansas. August 17. Is3t
(3s-42) W H Clatk, attorney for plff.
PUBLICATION NOTICE.
(First published Aug. 17, 1KM )
State of Kansas to Henry Helser and Sarah E.
Heier, his wife:
You wilt take notice that you have been sued
in the District court in and for Allen county.
Kanos. by S, II. Standart, an assignee, and that
unless you answer to the petition filed in said
suit on or before tho 25th day of September 1S9 i
said petition will be taken as true and judgment
rendered against you accordingly, foreclosing a
mortgage executed and delivered by Henry
Helser and Sarah E. Helser to crippen. Law
rence and lompany dated January ISth ls'Ji on
the following described real estate in Allen
co. Ks to-wit Lot one (1) and the son th half of
lot two (2) in block forty seven (17) In the city of
Iola. and for the sale of said real estate, without
appraisement, to pay the debt secured by said
mortgage
Witness my band and official seal this 16 day
of AngustlSJt
h S. PRANK L. TRAVIS,
(37-39) Clerk of said Court.
Beardsley, Gregory, fc Flannelly atty's for plff
DO YOU INTEND TO BUILD A.
SOUSE, BARN
OR FENCE?
THEN REMEMBER THAT MY
LUMBER YARD
IS THE MOST COMPLETE IN AL
LEN COUNTY, AND THAT MY
PRICES ARE AS LOW AS THE
LOWEST.
L. L. NORTHRUP.
DR. WINCHELL'S
ITEETHING SYRUP
t Is the lest medicine for all diseases incident tn
children. It reguUtesthe bowels; assists denti
tion, cures diarrhea and djsecteryln the worst
fonns;cures canker sore throat : is a certain pre
ventive of diphtheria; quiets and soothes all pain
invizorates the stomach and bowels; corrects all
acidity; will cure griping in the bowels anil wind
colic. Do not fatigue jourself and child with
sleeples-. nUhts when it is within your reach ti
ure jour child and save your own strength.
Dr.Jiique'it German IForm Cakes
destroy worms & remote them from the system
Prepared by Enmert Proprietary Co., Chicago, IIL
For sale at Campbell's drug store.
JCST ARRIVED.
W hat is the little one thinking about:
Very wonderful things nodonbt.
Unwritten history.
Unfathomed mystery!
Yet he lauehs and cries, and eats and drinks
And chuckles and crows and nods and
winks.
As if his head were as full of kinks
And curious riddles as any spbynx.
Who can tell what a babv thinks
Who can follow the gossamer links
By which the mannlkln feels his war
Ont from the shores of the great unknown.
Blind, and walling, and alone.
Into the light of day?
Out from th: shores ol the unknown sea.
Tossing in pitiful agony,
Of the unknown sea that reels and rocks.
Specked with the barks of little souls
Barks that were launched on tho other side.
And slipped from Heaven on the ebbing
tide!
What does he think of his mother's eyes
What does he think of his mothers hair
What ot the cradle root that files
Forward and backward through the air?
What does he think of his mother's breatit
Cup of his life and couch of his rest;
Now he thinks he'll go to sleep
I can see the shadow creep
Over his eyes In soft eclipse
Over his brow, and over his lips.
Out to his little finger tips.
Soltly sinking down he goes!
Down be goes I Down he goes '
See! He is hushed in sweet repose.
J. (i. Holland.
Editorial Notes.
The frontispiece of Jc. Clurc's
Magazine for September is a charm
ing portrait of Mrs. Robert Louis
Stevenson, and tbo opening article is
a no less cbarming relation, by Mr.
Stevenson, of bow, soon after tbeir
marriage, be came lo write "Treasure
Island." and of tbo unusual condi
tious under wbich be executed the
work. Pictures of tbo houses and
scenes in which the Stovensons lived
at the time, and several portraits of
Stevenson himself, accompany the
article.
In bis examination before the U. S.
Strike Commissioner Monday, Eugeuo
V. Debs said: "It was not the rail
roads, or the army, but the power of
tho United States Courts that beat
us." That is a frank admission
that the strikers were violating the
law. If they had not been the courts
could not and would not have touched
tbem. In what position does this
declaration of the chief oflicor of the
strike leave that party which made
such indecent hasto to sympathize
with the rioters and condemn the
railroads and tbo soldiers? Mr. Debs
himself does not blame either the rail
roads or the army for bis defeat, but
lays it all upon the courts.
Mrs. Lease was billed to mako
a speech in New York last week, but
she wrote from (hQ State Insane Aty-
lum, to say that her health was hope
lessly broken and that she could not
mako any campaign speeches this fall
Mrs. Lease has been ill now for near
ly six mouths, and during all that
time, instead of going homo to the care
of her husband and children, she has
lived at one of the State Institutions,
boarding at the expense of the State,
and attended by physicians paid by
the State. And she draws her salary
from the State all this while, with
regularity and dispatch. Will some
Populist kindly take space in the
Register to explain how this con
duct onthe part of Mrs Lease fits in
with the idea that the Peopl'es party
Is tho party of honesty, economy and
reform ?
The trial' ot Professor Ely. of the Wiscon
sin University, for heresy, reminds us Kansans
of the political adventures of the board of reg
ents that "convicted" Professor Cantield at the
Kansas University, two or three years ago.
vttaxca Journal.
But the Board of Regents at the
Kansas University didn't "convict"
Prof. Cantield. So far from doing
that, In the very midst of the fight
against him it raised hir salary from
$2500 to 53000. Did that look like a
conviction"? Prof. Canfield left
Kansas and went to Nebraska because
Nebraska offered him au opportunity
for wider work and $2000 a year high
er salary than Kansas could give him.
Everybody who cares to know the
facts in this matter could have learn
ed tnem by this time, and the stale
lie that Canfield was driven out of
Kansas by Republican intolerance is
only repeated by those who do not
want the truth to be known.
Mrs. Lease is not the only mem -ber
of the State Administration who
boodles board and lodging off the
Stat. Topeka papers say that W. S.
Wait, the treasurer of the Board of
Charities, has not been home since
last spring but lives at the Topeka
Insane Asylum, where he has a room,
eats food paid for by the State and is
waited on by attendants paid for out
of the State treasury. This Mr. Wait
by the way, is the Reformer who had
his niece put on the pay roll of the In
dustrial School for girls, as a teacher,
although there was no vacancy. But
worst of all, the girl was of unsound
mind, utterly incapable of holding a
teacher's position if one had been va
cant. Nevertheless she drew pay
from the State for several weeks.
These statements are not Republican
lies, dear Populist brother. They are
acknowledged and admitted facts.
Some time ago the charge was
made that Dr. Pilcher had emasculat
ed a number of the boys In the Im
becile Asylum at Winneld. The
charge was such a foul and terrible
one that the Register did not even
allude to it, believing that it must cer
tainly be false. A few days ago, how
ever, Dr. Pilcher published a letter
over his own signature in which he
frankly admitted that he had per
formed the operation, and attempted
to justify himself by saying that it
was necessary to prevent the boys
from harmful practices. Dr. Pilcher
invited investigation and the Win
field Courir,- accepted the invitation,
and we give In our supplement this
week the result of its invpstigation.
It is a terrible story, a story of
barbarous and cruel outrage upon
helpless and feeble minded child mn.
Tho man who committed it ought
to bo in the penitentiary, and in a
great many States he would be.
And the Administration which ap
pointed and sustains him ought to be
defeated in every precinct in Kansas.
O.vK thing is certain: Ifthe'Le
welling administration is being lied
about, it is Populists and not Repub
licans who are fining the lyine. It
was Mrs. Lease and Lawyer Smith
and Senator Taylor, all Populists,
who said that tho administration was
boodling the dives and lotteries of
Kansas City. (And a jury agreed
that what Lawyer Smith said was
true.) It was a Populist who brought
tho charges against Warden Chase,
and against the Superintendent of the
Insane Asylum, and against the Su
perintendent of tho Deaf and Dumb
Asylum and tho Imbecile Asylum,
and against the Topeka Police Com
missioners. In short every serious
charge agalnet the Lewelling Admin
istration rests upon the voluntary
testimony of Populists Is It likely
that these people would lie about
the officials of tbeir own party?
demonetization and prices.
Editor Iola Reoistf.r: Yon Invite some
PoDulist to show through the columns of your
Daner whr it is that wheat Is cheapened by the
demonetization of silver while corn,etc is higher
In price than tor tome time.
The problem is so easy of solution that I am
surprised that one of yonreagacity and ability
should ask it. The whole nuestton hinges on
the supply and demand of money and grain.
heat is an article of universal consumption in
all Caucasian countries, consequently its valu
is regulated by the markets of the world. But
corn and oats are purely local cereals, therefore
tne aemana lor mem - local ana tne price is
fixed by the supply and demand in the localities
where they are extensively used.
Wheat is produced largely in countries having
little money, consequently cheap labor. But its
nricc is fixed by the supply In Liverpool anil
fixed on a qold baii.
free coinage oi silver in mis counirywouia
increase the volume of money and thus add to
the local commodity value not only of wheat
but also of all other cereals and other property
The same reasoning applies to cotton for the
same season, viz: Its value is fixed in a gold
tanuaru market, that is r.ngianu.
Very Truly Yours.
Chris. S. Hitter.
The foregoiug would be a very reas
onable reply to our query if the state
ments therein contained were true.
But unfortunately for his argument,
like so many statements made else
where by our distinguished contrib
utor, they are not true.
Take the statement, for example,
that corn is a purely local cereal, that
we do not export any of it and so the
price is regulated entirely by the home
supply and demand. Now the Gov
ernment reports show that in the year
ending June 30, 1S92, the United
States exported 542,570,421 worth of
corn and corn meal, nearly one-fifth
as much as the total value of our
wheat and wheat flour export. We
have no exact figures of last year's or
this year's exports, but a paragraph
in an exchange states that during the
last fiscal year our exportation of
wheat and flour fell off twenty-five
per cent, while the exportation of corn
and corn meal Increased twenty-two
per cent. Corn meal now enters into
the German army rations, and it is
otherwise more generally used in Eu
rope than it ever was before (thanks
to the Harrison administration), and
our judgment is that this fact will
raise the price of it Instead of lower
ing it, as our contributor seems to
think is the case with wheat. Now
the theory of those who hold that de
monetization of silver ha? lowered the
price of wheat is that if a single cargo
of wheat goes to a foreign market,
then the price paid for that cargo sets
the price for the entire product con
sumed at home. If that theory holds
good for wheat it must also apply to
corn, and so the price ot all the corn
we consume at home must be regulat
ed by the price "fixMl on a gold basis"
which is paid for the $42,000,000 worth
we sell abroad. And this being the
case we maintain that our query. "If
the demonetization of silver has kept
wheat down, why has it not also kept
corn down ?" remains unanswered.
If demonetization of silver and a
contracted currency are responsible
for the decline in the price of wheat
then we should expect to find that
price declining steadily ever since the
alleged demonetization took place.
But such is not the case. We have
before us the record of the price of
wheat in the Chicago mn ket, and we
find that the highest pri reached in
1S73, the last year before ihe demone
tization act took effect, was S1.2S-
But the next year the highest price
was 51.301, and three years afterwards
the price was $1.76J. And beginnm
with 1S7S there were four years when
the lowest point reached was 51.32.
while the price ranged from that to
51.43J, and that was no longer ago
than 1SS0. And it was no longer ago
than 1SSS that it struck 52.00. The
prices we have given are the highest
I prices reached during Hie year nam
ed. Objection might i mado that
J this price was speculative. Well
then take the lowest pi ice, and we
find that in 1S73, while silver was
still "a3 good as gold" wheat sold aa
low as 8U cents, while in 1874 the
lowest price reached was 83J, in 1875
.83, in '76 $1.01 J, in '78, .81 J, in '79, .80 ,
In '80, .Dog.. In fact, we find that in
just half of the 18 years following 1873
the price of wheat was higher than It
was In 1S7S. Is it-not absolutely un
true then to claim that the demonetiz
ation of silver has lowered the price
of wheat? In 1877 the highest point
reached by wheat was 51.14. In 18S0
the highest point reached was $1.43;.
Yet silver was demonetized just as
much in 1880 as it was in 1877. How
then is the rise in price to bo account
ed for? If one takes tho ground that
the di n'iue in the price of silver is re
sponsib.c. and alone responsible, for
the decline of wheat does he not nec
essarily tie himself to tho proposition
that every time silver goes down
wheat also must go down? And
when tho market reports show that
this has not been the case, what is he
going to do about it?
Mr. Ritter says that the same reas
oning that applies to wheat applies to
cotton. We export cotton, ho saysi
therefore the prlee of It is fixed in a
gold market and therefore tho price
has steadily decilned. Now the facts
are that for 17 years after the act of
1873 the price of cotton fluctuated only
a fraction of a cent a pound. We
have before us the prices from 1877 to
1800 and during those years the low
est price was 9.28 cents, in 1889,
and the highest wa3 12 03 cents, in
18S1. Isn't It just as reasonable to say
that the demonetization of silver rais
ed tbo prico In 18S1 as to say that it
lowered it in 1SS9?
There is one statement in Mr. Rit
ter's letter which we aro very glad to
see. And tbat is the declaration that
the prico of corn and oats Is "regulated
by the supply and demand in the lo
calities where they are extensively
used." That is an admission that we
have never before been able to torce
out of a Populist. Heretofore all those
with whom we have argued, have
scouted the idea that supply and de
mand had anything to do with prices,
and have declared that the demone
tization of silver, the contraction of
the cunency, the plutocrats and the
trusts and combines determined the
price at which tho farmer should sell
all bis products. This admission of
Mr. Ritter's is, therefore, very re
freshing, and really looks a3 if there
were hopes of his complete mental re
covery.
But since he admits tbat the price
of corn and oats is fixed by the law of
supply and demand "in the localities
where they are extensively used,"
can he not see that to bo consistent he
must admit that tho same law regu
lates the price of wheat and cotton "in
the localities where they are exten
sively used," that is in the whole
world? It he will study statistics
with that theory in mind he will find
it much easier to account for the fluc
tuation in the price of these commodi
ties than to try to account for tbem
by the fall in silver. Consider for ex
ample, the enormous increase in pro
duction of wheat in the United States
during the past 20 years. In 1874 the
total production was 281,254,700 bush
els. It 1893 It was 515,948,000 bushels.
Is it any wonder that the price should
be lowered when the quantity to be
consumed is nearly twice as great?
And this is not all. During the past
20 years railways have been built in
to the interior of India and Russia,
two of the greatest wheat countries in
the world, and enormous crops which
tormerly never got beyond the pro
vince in which they were grown have
now been added to the world's sup
ply. And along with this opening of
great wheat producing countries baa
come astonishing reductions in land
and ocean freights. In 1874 it cost 28
cents to ship a bushel of wheat from
Chicago to New YorK, while in 1893
the rate was 14 cents, just half as
much. The reduction in ocean
freights has been much greater, al
though we are not able to give exact
figures. But putting all these things
together the enormous increase in
the wheat acreage of the United States
(22,000,000 acres in 1873, 34,000,000
acres in 1893) the building of railroads
bringing the yield of India and Rus
sia into the world's market, and the
great leduction in co3t of transporta
tion it is easy to 3ee that the decline
in price is due solely to the relentless
operation of the old law of supply and
demand. At least that conclusion
seems to us to be inevitable. Wheat
is lower now than it was in 1873 be
cause there is more wheat brought in
to the world's markets now in pro
portion to the number of consumers
than there was then.
Since we have started out on these
questions perhaps Mr. Ritter, who
maintains, we believe, that the Popu
list party is the only true friend of
silver, would like to point out to the
readers of the Register the record
that the Populist Representatives in
Washington have made on that ques
tion, showing us the character of the
bills they have introduced in an effort
to carry out the pledges of their par
ty? And perhaps he would like to
show how the demand for free coinage
may be reconciled with the demand
for fiat money? Any contributions he
may desire to offer on these subjects
will be published with pleasure sub
ject only to the limits of reasonable
space and considered with courtesy.
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