Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 19 September 1896 — Page 3

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THE FARMER.

As He Was and

as He Is.

HOW HE IS ROBBED.

Stupendous Decline Farm Products.

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A PERNICIOUS FINANCIAL POLICY.

Evjln of Contract ion—Tho Concentration

of WViiltli --IliKo anil Fall of Gold Tho I Kflcrt of th'.1 Coi/mui) or Silver. Vlmt Golil Monometallism StunlH For. I Ail Honest Payment of Debts—Tho Ilelp Offcrwl by tin- Hallot. \.-

By JOErl E. BEADLE.

Tho accompanying- illustrations a-'e frc.-.n How York newspapers cf recent date. They are published to show the popular idea of the per-

I will invito your attention to two pictures. Twenty-five years ago

American

farmer was a king. 1'oeis .sang about him. Orator* praised hint. Edward rt (t lurid up an oar of gold eii corn before lus audience and eulogized tlio grower in li eloquent •wordsthatstorni• of applause, shook the hall. \V:1(iv(*:1 to read ami quote the old stirring lines telling '••how "the, ernbat tied farmer*

Pteod" at L( ington md Concord, and it wis iv a 11

Truth. .. ag-t ill that tb»-y

were tho. salvation of the land. They'' wero the hard .- yeomanry. the free and independent workers, and even sueli foreign visitors as Do Toeqneville went out of their'

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In defieribe tho happy

condition of the landowning farmer in this country Washington "gloried in lieing a farmer. Onr greatest statesmen passed tiscii vacations on their own farms, amori- their horses and (.-attie. They delighted in rural pleasure, tiiey worked and personally di-, reeled their

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and from a season of this kind of life and close eentact with thv: jvi-.ple they came back to Washington',' wonderfully freshened by having Jivcl c.!o«e to the..-. heart of nr.t.-nr.', mere,: Aini'riean •!'.d ira'T'' ih.'Jiiotiratie dud jniire in ioveij with th*-:r

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N- Y. Pros*.

like this: A long, lean, lank monstrosity. With bones showing horribly prominent through his clothes, a face like a pointed Gothic ff it,, a nose that describes an irregular arc from the lowest point between tho eyes down over the mouth, and on his chin what ia suiiposod to be a

whisker, but looks like a wisp of weather beaten hay. 'I hi* is the funnT of fodiy as the people of the cities are taught to consider hi.n.

Ai wliy toIoh'ingo? Jt is hpfnnp'i ho has Liien systematUsully robbed lor {JO

e^s

His very virtuef have been made the means of his degradation. Tho farmers, and especially the men who till their own acres, are oar great conservative class. They dread revolution. They love their country with an impassioned ardor born nf close contact with tho soil —an ardor of patriotism which some writers have thought impossible in men roare/l in cities. Naturally, iherefore, the northern farmers stood by their government in the great civil war. The Republican party was in power and aequin tl an immense pre«tigo by the successful issue of he conflict. Naturally again, therefoie, the great farmers credited all good tilings to that party. They could not believe that the party of Lincoln and Sumner and other friends of humanity would do aught of iujustn o.

sonality of the American farmer in the gold S 1/ K.'J lghold of the country.

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yrars and has submitted to the robbery and voted for more of it. He is despised because ho has consented to his own degradation.

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Tho Kobbory.

Tho war tariff was prolon^fHl in thn^ of peace despite solemn promises to the contrary. Empires of land and hundreds of millions of money were given ro great, oorporations. Credit Mobilior, the Indian ring, the whisky ring, (he star route ring and scores of others followed in rapid succession, but though tJie farm ers in ur mured they did not re-

Puck. volt. They over

looked the fact that parties are composed of men and therefore subject to chang''. They were slow to believe (hat the grand old party could contain schemers.

On top of all the rest comes a financial system which has added 80 per cent, to the value of money and depreciate'1 the price of the farmer's products in like proportion, and at the ]e i.«-f sign-: of a revolt, on his part ho is nnunced a traitor. It is assumed as a matter of ha W a re should strive for a rise in-"' stocks,that manufacturers phould lobby for a higher W tariff, that the Pacific Railway companies should evade payment of their debt. All other men cani, •IneKo. vote and lobby to raise the price, of what they own and be good Christians, bu at is get

tho bare hint that the. farmc to vote for restoring silver to a little, boiler price for his crops, the country rings with frantio cries of rago and dennnciation. The farmer has submitted too long

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He has lost the respect of those.

X? who have, robbed hint, and it is

N. v. World. much to be feared that great part lie has lost his own self respect. His poverty has become is reproach.

Th! .Afiliation of Abundance. "But there has been so great an increase in production. Now, why should the farmer complain that prices go down as tho size of the crop goes up? And how can you prove that elevating the condition of the farmer will elevate that tif other laborers?"

that prices have fallen

I-IlTIllll. majority of

hogs in •ni'.n are

yet fid. th-eenl of the we-, selling id 'A a pound or-lo.si wlien bat a year ago sold ni ti. there Ijeen overevt5dr.:tii"n in '!k lows? The ce:i^vt 5 will show you Vhc-y are less ^numerous in proportion to popuia'ion than tiiey were, and yet, the price is going steadily downward. I there an overproduction of land?

fast that

ho gets very much less money for a very big crop than ho formerly got for a small one. Thus tho bounties of Providence are turned into curses and ho is coming to look upon abundance as an aflliotion. Let, mo call your attention to eonie figures. In 1861 tho farmers produced -1 Hi,-is 1,000 bushels of oath and received therefor §198,1!I8,9?0 in ^S:i they produced o71,!J0\!,400 bushels and received for it $187,0-10,204 in 18R9 they p: c.ducod 751,515,000 bushels and received $171,781,008, and so on down, the amount rising as tho money received for it fr II, till IS'.i.T, when they produced .VJJ,448,-

J7 bushels of y-5/! oats and received fi.f, j|] therefor *103,- lit*--Cf)5,)'!8. And iho

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population lias ^-2?. increased 70 per cent. In 18 10 wo produced I,«9J,y000 bushels of coin, v.orth ?.fi01,8:J!), 0!'" in 1 Kits 1 I-i 1 bush 1 s, v.'inh §ri«l,rf5r»,027, aTirl i:i 2,151, 1 as, 580 l.u.si ifIs, v-(,'r( 5 0 7, 5 9,100. O verpiodviCtion, .Iiu Ik ". you say, bat divide the bushels by tho population each year, and you will find that-per capita the increase was quite small, and in such years as 1800 and 1894, when the crop was very short and the number of bushels per capita very .much less than the average of several years ago, the pricu per bushel was still low.

Tb« Drrllne In V:iluo.

Since 187 0 the production of hay in tho United States has increased in almost, exact, parallelism with the increase of ji.i.iitiation, and yet the aver-

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ngo value

N. Y. Pn?P9. ton has declined from

$13.82 to &•>.35. This last is the farm prico as reported by the agricultural department for July nevertheless, on the day I write this hay is selling in New York city by retail at SIS per ton, which is a beautiful illustration of how your city consumer "profits" by the loss of t. .e farmer. Wheat, is supposed to he an exception because our rivals in other countries are producing so much, and yet the figures are significant. Li 1881, for instance, 383,280,090 bushels wero value:) at $45(i,S80,427, and in 1895, 107,102,947 bushels at §237,038,998. And vet tho world has not. as much wheat- as it wants, and not much more titan half as much as it would buy if it had the wherewith. Thcro is evidently

Judgo. something the matter that cannot be explained by that handy phrase "overproduction."

Has there been any overproduction of fat hogs.? Every farmer knows that ther" is just now a great scarcity, almost a hog famine

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It is impossible to raise the agricultural fill, Of auy Without raising all tho other classes who depond on labor for l.ift.-. a living. Tt, is not absolutely impossible to press down the agricultural laborer and yet leave the city laborer unaffected, but it is very unlikely. Tho fanner, however, does not complain that gets less per pound or per bushel when the crop is big than when it is small. What he does complain cf, and what ho has aright to complain of,

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the

xr:w r:-*rr,i'. .\ N. Y. ll.'vaid.

In two-thirds of the

country east of Illinois you can today buy thousands of splendid farms at what they were assessed for in 187o, and in some of the finest, uts of New York state they will sell you good farms at the assessment of 1800. Farmer:: do not I complain at reduced prices for products of which there has been a very grout productiou, but the figures show a decline, though not so great, in articles of which then id an admitted scarcity and that I the general decline is very much great-

or than can be accounted for by the amount produced.

Stnrvinc Midst, Plenty.

But as a matter of fact is thcro any overproduction? Have mankind more brcadstuffs than they can eat and more cotton than they can wear and more pork and beef than they want or nioro shoes than they need? Why, tho largest, wheat crop ever raised only amounted to three bushels per :capita for the people of the civilized world, and, deducting seed and tliat mado into wliis-

N. Y. HoruUl. ky, little over two ImshuN per capita was left for bread. It has been repeatedly shown that the world's cotton crop is still 8,000,000 bales short of the world's Consumptive demand. Our own agrioul[\'.nitmuoU on 'i tn prige.J

LOOAL NEWS.

All the township schools with the exception of Clark, open on Monday.

U.W.Morgan

whs

a judge in the

speed department at the State fair this wee It.

All (he barbers of the city have reduced the prico of hair cuttinj to 15 cetit=.

Ihcre lire thirteen divorce eases on the docket in Fountain county this term of court.

Lawson btimiley. of Madison township, dieci on Monday morning from kidney troubles.

The t. larks Hill Sanataiium has closed for 1 he season. TH-ru is some talk or running it as a hotel.

lbe republican national committee has distributed oi.UUO lithographs of Cov. McKinley in this Slate.

Hi. Henry's minstrels drew out it large crowd, Tuesday night, and the entertainment was received with satisfaction.

1'ranl llallowell is selling oil' hts household goods ai d, after the State elrction, will move to the vicinity of, IJ.dla". Texas.

Illrs, Samuel 1 rentor, of Montgomery county, ago So, and over 50 years a Montgomery countyite, last, week first rode on a railroad.

Dr. Tucker, who has been [en tor of one of the M. E. ehuiches at Terre. Haute during the past year, was changed from that city to Lebanon.

Passenger conductors on tho P.ig Four are again uneasy. Lanf Tuesday two of their number were dismissed on the Chicago division, and it is slated that others are likely to bo relieved.

Most of the ministers attending the annual conference at Terre Haute havo lvturneu. Few changes were mado in appointments in this county, most of the miiiihteib being returned lor another year.

At the last term of commissioners' court licenses to retail liquois were granted to the following persons: IJ. H. Allen, C. F. Calej, John Berry. Clias, Anal.il--. Albeit Mulileisen ami Samuel rabatn.

Morgan, th Monon brakeman in jured some weeks ago at Linden while coupling cars, and who was ''oportod as doud, is alive and in a fair way of recovery. He was taken to Bloomington his home, this week.

Tho horse, Que Allen, will not nave hereafter the local netting spoils to wager their money on hnn to the extent as rormerly. Jn the races last week several hundred dollars was lost in bettit!_' on "Que," another animal being too swift for him.

A man named Taylor, from Lafaj' tte, who sells goods at county fair.-, fell from a freight train on Friday night wtiih,'ii: an intoxicated condition, and had his right foot mashed by the wheels of a car passing over it. lie was fallen his home.

After Tuesday next, Covernor Matthews will nevote four days of each week up to November in stumping the State for the Brian ticket, lie has a great many pressing invitations fiom Oluo ami Illinois, but will confine ids eilorts chii lly to Indiana.' 1 he Kankakee iinvr Improvement association discussed 1 ns for in ,king improvements, which, it is said, will reclaim 50,000 acres ot land in the Kankakee valley, now covered by water. Representatives wore present troiri all counties traversed by tile KanUekee river, and prospects are now regarih as favorable tor the straightening of ihe river to the Illinois State liue. It is proposed to begin work next spring.

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If Kt'ic is in to.

bust health, and hat slept well, and is r.i the top of his condition at his departure from Greenland, .his ships will reach

Newfoundland, lint, take out Hric and put in a stroiiKer man TJiorn or Thorfin and the ships with jnst as uch ease will reach Labrador and New England."

I£ in so as 'right. The stronger a man is the fuller his chest is, the sounder his heart and brain and lungs arc, the further he will sail on the ocean, the highei he will sail in his

balloon, and the deeper he will dive into the intricacies of his business or profession. A man's glory is his strength. The world has small use for weaklings, and, it must be said, sickly people have little u-e for the world. lint, sickness is generally an unnecessary evil. It is almost a crime against nature to be ill. If you are ill and feel repentant, anxious to undo the mischief, take Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. Ilon'l be despondent because your grandfather died of consumption or bronchitis, or some other equally frightful throat or lung trouble. There is no need of hereditary consumption. Purify your blood with Golden Medical Discovery," then take more of it to thoroup'hiy strengthen and build up your whole body through the purity and strength of vour blood.

There is nothing miraculous about the Discovery." It is a compound of curatives skillfully blended. It will cure gS per cent, of all cases of consumption if it is honestly used.

Would you know yourself? Send 2i one-cent stamps to cover cost of mailing ow/)', and get Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser. In the reading of thjs book of

ioo

S pages is a medical education

It is a complete family doctor book, written in plain language that everybody can understand, and profusely illustrated. Address,

orld's ispuxsarv eijicxl

ssociation

663 Main St., Buffalo N

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for [infants and ChiSdren.

& Fries

Vice-l'i esident Stevenson does-not like bloonvrs. lie says ho is willing to be behind titnc'i in this matter, and prefers skirts.

Personal-

"''FR1CE—'Our H.\t)-fniir piige medical n.ference bonk for men and women afllicted with any form of private disease peculiar to their sex, errors of youth, contagious diseases, female troubles, etc. Send two two-cent?,'stamps to pay postage to tho leading spi cudists and physicians of this country,

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Oo You Know

R-iU'iimu Godfrey's t"nrli 1. ir.nny

im?c* rejiieillcs for eliikhvn urn mi

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Opium

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without bbelu•••?/•••

Yon

KLtiott

That it has been :n us** for neai'ly t'lirty years, ami that- in re (Jastoriii is nc *. of nil other remedies for children combined

Do Yoti Know that tho Patent Ofllee Department of the United States, and Of other countries, liavo issued exclusive right to Ir. Titcher and his assigns to uso tl»o ^*ord CastOT*in," and its fonntila., and that to imitate them is a Ptato prison ofTenso

Do *7*ju Know that one of tho reasons for rantinj this government protect ion was because Castoria had been proven lo he aTbsoIutcly linriuloss?

Do Yon Know tha- 35 ttvora doses of Custom on* furiiisliod for 35 centn, or one cent r» do so

Do Yoti jtnoiy thai when possrnse.! or tU'i.". perfect prrpanulon, yoi:r children may be kept \\r)l, and that you may havo unbroken rest

tlioso tilings are worth knowing- They aro facts.

Tlio fuc-sSmilo

person Slicyck ,:y

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trig you bout for I beliovi any person can do as w.-li as I have if they onlv I'or try. J.)i V/i lady witiii -, one. l'lie Mound Cit\ Dish Wabiior o., rjt., Iy.'U.s, ., will „'iV« \ou all mi -•-.

instruction!?, so you

can bcijin work ai. o:u:e. Tho l)b,h Wiisher docs splendid work: and can wash ami dry the dishes in two or throe niinutcs wiihout putting your| hands in tho v. at or at a!i. 'i'ry this busine sand let us Know how you succeed. Kl.IZAr.HTI! C.

t'-.fit, Paregoric,

so-cm

'I Soothing Syrups,

of opium

aim

morphine?

,ir.» nfvln^ n-'tri-min

countries Urifi.jisth »re nut. iH?rmittMl to sell norootfcfl

P" Ynr T~*'i vs. y'ni shouM not jx r::.it nny medicine to ho given your unless you or vn: jiiiyf kucw tf lint.

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Do Yon TCv v.'astor*a ft purely vugttt.'ihlo pit»p:»ration, and its ingredients is j. with every l*»ttio

!nat. Ca^ioria is tl»» pnyscriptinn ^f tlit* famous iJr. Siir*"*.

iirnatnro of wi'appor

Children Cry for Pitcher's Castorla.

Tliiit yon will o'ct flic Host WotKiiiitusliip •i'sinJ Roasotialilo ^l'rices at the

W. S. RICHARDS, l'lopticior. •No. i2S W. Main St.

A Great -tl.'mnce .to -Mak'i Money1 want to toll •on of my AVOiehTflll

siieci-ss. lieing II poor irl and need-

on every

Tlio (Irancl.*

Style,

Quality,

Fit.

Tlio Ui^lit Sliticli', I he "11 i^rlit Toes ami Plight Prices atfft

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0ftvhrel*-bnt

one SW

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ins money badly. I tried tho Dish i^- ,, JJ'--Washer business and havo oloared ©2:0 U) S BSarlH^ evi-ry month. It is more money than -4} 1 'i'or had bol'mc and 1 can't lie tell-1 avi?i

I &-?) Comfort s», I? s-i/-}

diets :tell on si^ht ovrry Fitnnd

Co.,

70 Deai born St Chicago, III.

May 2- ]r.

Young men of PitMnirg, Kas., have formed a club on agreement to kei their heads shaded ouri'ig the summer.

Old pt '.wis.

Old people who require medicine to regulate the bowels and kidneys will find the true reined in Elccliic Hitters This medicine does not st iinulntc and and contains no whiskey nor olh rinloxicant, but acts as atonic and alterative. It acts mildly on Ihe stomach atid bowels, adding strength and giving tone to the organs, thereby aiding Nature in the ei loniiance of tlioj l'unctions. Electric I'itters is an(.\collent appeli/er ar.d aids digestion. Old people find it. just exactly vim! they need. 1'rice !i!1y cents per bottle at Nye & ]5ooc*s

ug store.

Hood's .Sarsapnrilla jmritios theblood, overcomes that tired feeling, creati an appetite, and gives rctrcslung sleep,

it rastr.'.'u'n hold ITCOH.

rtt(i iint Denier* havo than*

i3~O/s.!0t l-'reo I

C. II. KAK««

CO. ttalcrr«^rilirA(JO.

Not one part but every part of HIRES Rootbeer tends toward making it the perfect temperance and healthgiving drink.

Mfuloni.lr br Th# Chart" ft. IHro* Co., Phllmtrlphla. A 'Ite. packago wakes 5 gallons. Sold everywhere*

I Ir'.ast Main Snoet.

Antl all kinds of it at

'Zcio'ler & Reinian's

The. New Diuiiir Koom

now open. Ice Croain, nnc C'akes and Confections i'or socials, (iiriie etc,

011

short notice. 'J he

largest, newest and best house in the rit.v. Open at all hour-.. No. ^15•21 7 Main St.

VANTKP: several iniM'woiiby -men or !/idi»»-: In travel in India lot: cstfjl-Iisbed, fiibil)!" linusi'. S

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ninl 4\\:«»iihob.

Kiic

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r«'!\*icimv and 'Jt acl-

.-!u*t»f.*•! »miv

'I !i« Pi-minlon

-ninpany«' bird ii"i»r. O Iia M!dg (*li cago,111.

ASTHrflA-?iiRTFAnNEVERF'IDH^EIIDFHEENSYOUCbottli'ASTH3TAT.SNBmniltrialTAi?T'SDR.willUUlitU:wo

mJdropH, Tho DR.

TAFT

BROS. M. Co., Rochcshir. Af.Y.

$1.50 Reading and Magnifying Glass for

Size'iy, In. tlmmetcrby

^9 W/B r,in.long. .Semt money

orplatniw. If notButisfactdry money wilt be refunded.

E. J. S. VAN H0UTEN, Manufacturer of Cut Lenses, 74 Park Place, New York City.

Pitcher's Castoria^