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A COMMUNICATION.
Decorah, Oct. 8,1896.
Editors PrßLic Opinion:
I have been amused, if nothing more,
at the lucubrations of H. A. Bigelow in
your columns. Here is a man for years
posing as a democrat on the ground
that it is class legislation, or fostering
one class at the exjiense of the many,
and yet proposing to enhance the price
of tlie silver producer at the expense of
tlie people. Then lie asks the follow
ing question:— “How in the name of
common sense ran tlie silver mine own
er take ids bullion to the mint ami re
ceive dollars worth one hundred cents
where they are only worth fifty cents
to somebody else?” Why, bless your
innocence, brother Bigelow, you must
have hud a nightmare; that is precisely
what we gold hugs want to know, and
you Bryanites persist you can do. In
your traveling “among the morning
stars” you could surely have gotten
that knot unravelled.
I congratulate you on the latter part
of your article, but will it not disagree
with the lower end of the silver demo
cratic popocratic platform?
Respectfully,
E. Cartwright.
Thk increasing confidence in the
election of McKinley is being shown all
over the country. Business on theC.
M. & St. P. By. is reported better than
for some time, and like rej>orts are com
ing in every duy.
FREE SILVER AND THE FARMERS.
The advocates of free coinage of sil
ver hold out to the farmer the hope
that, in the event their policy is
adopted, the products of the farm will
bring better prices. It is upon this
ground that the farmer is urged to vote
the free silver ticket. The promises
which are made by the free silver
orators t id newspapers to the agri
cultural community as a result of the
adoption of their policy are numerous
and manifold. There will be letter
prices, better returns, more markets,
more money to purchase with, in fact,
all kinds and forms of good things and
desirable returns if we only could get
the free and unlimited coinage of sil
ver. We will have a little heaven
right here on eartli all to ourselves. If
half of the good things which are
promised will come as a result of the
election of Mr. Bryan and a free silver
congress, we will have a condition
here in the United States more con
genial than the fanciful dreams of Ed
ward Bellamy. The glorious predic
tions of that illustrious socialist are
but a faint shadow’ beside the lieauties
which Mr. Bryan’s followers depict
will be here should we open the mints
to silver.
But these are only delusive hopes
held out by the political orator, whose
business it is to win votes and influence
men to support his party, and his party
candidates. Reason shows that they
are nothing else. If there is a demand
in the markets of the world for the pro
duce of our farms they will bring a
higher price. If there is not such a de
mand, and the supply is greater than
the world for the time being wants,
they will not bring so much. That
is a plain proposition. All the orators,
all the i*>litical speakers, all the
speeches, all the tongues, however elo
quent, caunot change the great laws of
supply and demand. They are fixed
by other means than the mouths of
stump speakers.
It is declared that the prices of the
products of labor are fixed by the vol
ume of primary mouey measured up
against thr quantity of products there
are for sale or exchange. But how
can this be if the world only needs a
given quantity, and there is more than
that given quantity to supply the need?
The proper solution of the question, it
seems to us, is to set the wheels of Am
erican industry in motion so that tiie
men who toil have means to purchase*
the products of the farm. This is the
only way to increase the market for
what the farmer has to sell. Buppose
you o)>en the mints to the free coinage
of silver, what good will the money be
to the workmen unless lie has a meth
od of securing it? There is mouey
enough at the present time, if confi
dence were sufficiently established to
utilize it in the industries of the coun
tries. Free coinage will not enable us
to get the money any easier than the
present system does. Where will the
benefit accrue to the American farmer
unless our protective system is main
tained for the purpose of stimulating
industries, thereby enlarging the mar
ket for tiie cereals of the farm?
To vote for Mr. Bryan’s ticket is to
vote for something indefinite. There is
no logical assurance given by him and
his followers that a larger market will
be given to the wheat or the pork we
have to sell. They promise more mon
ey, but no more work or a more extend
ed market. It is a desire for something
which animates men to purchase. Ev .
en if they have a desire for a thing
and have not the money to secure it,
though they see millions of silver dol
lars but across the way, and have not
tiie chance to earn it, they cannot se
cure that thing. Tiie mail who toils
must have a chance to get the money,
then he may and will purchase tilings
which lie desires. This he must do
from tiie farmer and producer. This
is tiie very system which will benefit
tiie farmer. As Major McKinley lias
said: “It is a great deal better to open
tiie mills of the United Btates to the
labor of America than to open the
mints to the silver of the world.”
Place us upon a basis of prosperity and
our farmers need not worry for the
want of a market.
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MISTAKES OF FREE SILVER MEN.
Freeport, low'a, Oct. 9, 1896.
Editors Public Opinion:
In answer to several requests from
friends w r ho wish me to reply to
the free silver arguments that have ap
peared in this paper from time to time.
I would submit the following:
It should be observed that the
writers seek only to defend themselves.
This is contrary to the usual custom of
those who advancr new theories upon
the people. It would in? more fitting
for free silver men if they would en
deavor to prove that our finances are
in a had way, and to show how an un
limited stream of cheap silver suddenly
flooded upon us would put us on a
sound financial basis again. One
writer admits that it would be a great
help to tile mine-owner and argues that
by helping the mine-owner we help
nearly our entire country. To show
how impossible this is let us look at a
few’ facts from a common school geogra
phy:
Silver States. Population.
Colorado .’. 412,108
Montana 132,150
Nevada 46,660
Idaho 84,385
Utah 200,906
New Mexico 153,503
Wyoming 60,705
Total 1,006,706.
Chicago 1,000,850.
The above in itself is an item of in
terest outside of politics as it shows
that the entire population of the seven
silver states is not as much as Chicago.
Now suppose these states are in a bad
condition,as Bryan claims,and that free
coinage would put them in a prosper
ous condition. Are they of more im
portance than the same number of
people in many of our large cities who
are pleading against it for their pros
perity? No well informed farmer of
lowa will deny but that the city of
Chicago is of one thousand times more
importance to him as a market than all
these states. The writer further claims
that if we had free coinage of silver we
would see thousands leave here to sup
ply the increased demand for miners.
How can that be? Have we not free
coinage of gold? And there has been
no “crime” committed by a republican
congress against coal or other minerals.
Yet there have been thousands thrown
out of employment among that class of
miners.
These facts all unite to prove that
the success of this country never has or
never will depend 011 one mineral. If
it does we had better fail. Bryan
would lead us to believe that all we
need for prosperity is the free coinage
of silver. He says all other laws can
wait. Can any true American believe
that our country is so weak that it’s
prosperity depends 011 how much we
use one mineral? One writer asks how
the dollars under free coinage will be
worth one-huudred cents to the mine
owner and only worth fifty cents to
anyone else. 1 have not heard this
claimed by any of our leading sound
money men. Yet to answer the argu
ment, it could occur in the following
way: Under free coinage the mine
owner could present silver that he now
sells every day at fifty-three cents and
in return receive a coin stamped one
dollar; this tiie law says is legal tender
in payment of all debts, so lie could
compel his workman and all others
that he owes to take it in payment.
After they had tiie dollar it would still
l>e worth one hundred cents to pay old
debts; but no sensible merchant would
take it for more than it was really
worth, which would be about fifty
three cents. If any silver man thinks
it would Ik* worth more let him go to
any silver market and buy a few
thousand ounces; lie would certainly
make more than we farmers who sell
our oats at thirteen cents.
C. F. Stinson.
M. K. Conference.
Ye editor attended the M. E. Con
ference over Sunday at Independence,
arriving home yesterday afternoon.
Tlie appointments of adjacent charges
for the ensuing year are Revs. F. P.
Shatter, fresco; L. L. Lockard, De
corah; F. M. Robertson, Presiding
Elder, Decorah District; S. R. Fergu
son, Waukon; J. Hilburn, Burr Oak;
M. W. S. Perry, Frankville. Dr. H. H.
Green will again take up the pastoral
work, having been assigned to lowu
Falls. At the time of going to press we
were unable to obtain a complete list of
appointments, but learned of the above
over the telephone.
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I sell cut stoue, window sills, water
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No. .34
MR. BIGELOW ANSWERED.
Editors Public Opinon:
As Mr. Bigelow has responded to
your invitation for discussion of the
issues on the democratic side and asked
several questions, I would like to ask
him some. The question of finance is
not only the most delicate, but the
most important that can come before
the people, and should be settled, not
under spasmodic impressions, or pre
judice, but under sober and careful
reasoning. Thus these discussions, in
a friendly spirit, are a good thing.
It is argued by the democrats that
this country is big enough and rich
enough to get along independent of
any other nation, but they don’t seem
to realize that the world moves; that
the vast railroads, fast ocean steamers,
and telegraph lines that run through
every hamlet and encircle the globe
with electicity have caused the civil
ized nations of the eartli to become one
enormous family of near neighbors,
and that it is impossible for one family
to prosper well without the aid of
others. Now Mr. 8., you are one of
those wild claim that we are independ
ent of all creation. I want to ask you
that if the great flouring mills of Min
nesota had no market for their pro
ducts but their own city, how long
could they run? Or how could any of
the great industries of ours, farming in
cluded, succeed on a home market
alone? How can we deal with our
neighbors abroad with unsound money
any better than we can with our
neighbors at home with such mouey?
But the question arises, what is sound
money, and who is the judge? No
one knows whether a horse is sound or
not, not even an expert, or the man
who reared it. The democrats seek to
make great capital out of the fact that
there are some very wealthy men in
this country and that concentrated
wealth is a serious matter, and that
farmers and the common people are
great sufferers thereby. Now let us in
vestigate how wealth is used. Sup
pose a farmer is worth a quarter of a
million of dollars; he might employ a
dozen hands, but a manufacturer with
that much capital would employ five
hundred hands. The fanners don’t
consider who ultimately consume their
products. It is not the rich, but the
laboring classes. George Gould doesn’t
eat any more than the laborer. Farmers
caunotsell their products to oue an
other; they must be sold to a non
farming class of people, and the great
er part of these are in the employment
of the wealthy. But a little more about
what the ricli do with their money.
Don’t we know that they build rail
roads, telegraph lines, manufactories,
vessels for mercantile trade, open up
mines, and furnish employment for
millions of people? They never would
have been rich had they not realized
the value of the nimble sixpence.
Now, Mr. 8., if you should fall heir to
a few millions what would you do with
it? Would you hide it away for fear
that someone would call you a gold bug,
or would you use it for the benefit of
humanity and the world in general, as
others do?
The republican party stands for sound
money the world over. It stands for a
national credit sucli as its preeminent
intelligence and enterprise demands.
It stands for file permanent prosperity
of this whole country. It stands for
honesty and fair dealing with all men,
millionaires included. It is evident
that Mr. Bigelow is better posted on
gardening thun on finance.
N. C. Elton.
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Affairs at the Court House.
Judge Fellows came in on the train
Friday to hear arguments in the Van
Norman-Schooumaker foreclosure case.
The arguments consumed nearly a day
and a half. His honor will deside the
case during vacation.
Other matters of a minor importance
were attended to, and the court ad
journed at 5:30 Saturday afternoon.
James Brady, of Boston, Mass., was
sentenced to the penitentiary at hard
labor for three years for burglary.
Fred Wagner, of Frankvilie, was sen
tenced to two and a halt years for lar
ceny from the person. Bheriti Christen
left yesterday for Anamosa witli
the prisoners. Gustave Spinner
was sentenced to three years at reform
school for arson.
Card of Thanks.
We desire to express our heartfelt
thanks to those who so kindly assisted
us during the sickness and burial of
our loved one, Mrs. Lydia Beunet.
L. E. Bennett and Children.
Byron Clark and Wife.
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C. H. Clark.
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