Decatur Democrat, Volume 40, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 1 October 1896 — Page 2

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“WEALTH, CULTURE, j BRAINS.” . I These Three, but the Greatest of Them Is Wealth, and They Form “the ■ Trinity of the Republic's True and Only Hope,” Our “Rightful but Beleagured Aristocracy.” FOR “A GENTLEMAN” SAYS SO. A lively controversy has been waged in the Correspondence column of the New York Journal for several -weeks, between an advocate of the gold standard svho signs himself “A Gentleman,” and several friends of Bryan and Silvei Restoration who -were quick to take up the lance against the impudent assumptions of the goldite. The dispute, however, is now probably at an end, for upon the publication of the following letter from “A Gentleman” in the Journal of Sept. 24, his opponents doubtless concluded it a waste of lather to devote further attention to him. Here is his i remarkable communication: “A Gentleman’s” Remarkable Letter. To the Editor of the Journal: Were my mind not matured by study and reflection, and so possessed of that balance which renders one superior to the evanescent gales of popular fury. I should certainly be in some danger of losing ray j temper at this time. The extremely abusive .me! unpl asaut letters which you are pleased to publish in relation to my com municatious in your paper—and permit me to say that you' might easily be in a more dignified business than pandering to the passions and prejudices of the mobare but samples of hundreds -that have reached me personally through your office. And what, alter all, is my offense? 1 have said that the lower orders are incap able, without the . instruction of their betters in brain and social position, intelligently to use the franchise. I have said it i is better for themselves and the country that their votes should be controlled by purchase and gentle coercion, rather than that they should be alloyed in their ignofance to go to t.re ballotbox and vote fol | Bryan, free, si,ver, repudiation, national dishonor and the" despoilment of the uppei classes, who represent about all there is oi civilization among us. 1 have said that 1 cordially approve of the measures taken by that broad minded, resolute and patriotic man, Mark Ilihua, to prevent the triumph of anarchy and socialism, which demagogue Bryan's election would be. One would think .from the brutal and scandalous manner in whicli I am assailed on all hands that I personally am respon sible for the following existiiigfacts: 1. The inferior mentality of the average «=» mechanic, farmer and laborer, which in ferior mentality unfits him for that citi zenship he is almost sure to misuse unless he.is guided by those who are his betters in intellect and knowledge. 2. Tile creation of the public safety fund amounting to many millions of dollars which has been contributed by the bes and foremost citizens of the United State: and intrusted to Mr. Hanna for politica use.

3. The action of sensible Republican am gold standard Democratic.einpToyers nLar ly everywhere in giving their employe: light on the question of the money stand arils and causing them to understand tha a vote thrown against the common Filter ests will be punished by discharge. Now, sir, only yokels and elodhoppars who are no more qualified to vote, upon tin financial issue than they are to sit. down a a gentleman s table ami e.miilimt them selves like polished members of. pfiite so

ciet-y,-.can, possibly imsnn<k'rsiahd rny.jpo sit ion. Obviously I did not create tin facts which i have enumerated. I. liavi simply given public expression to my.ap i proval of 1 'acts 2 and 3-. And I am .prun'd to 'say that in this atti tilde <’d apprbvaj I am -in the very .best o ■company. Pa 'ail iny friendly intercourse with Mr. Halma, which has extendet over sotmi y ,i -. i have.never dcuei Eed if him a trace of ( hat most odious-of-, ai characters —tile 'hypocrite. Wha'i' he doe he- does with open,, nianly fri| tkijv - Never in hjsdealmgs with t belabor tin ions in Ips private clqj.ietty as a capii.affetj ha he triickledfor.au instant that he migh receive (liar poor reward ol thw cowarc and trimmer popularity. lower orders invited him tb’war he eve willingly accept oil. tin challenge, ami fo' their blind temerity crushed them. As hi ‘is'lit business, so is he in polities. Tie better classes, who. have- supplied t-lii ' great and brave man vyitl/fumls for th< election ol AFcKiidey and the mainumanc.i of the gold standard and dur natmmc honor, know its--well as 1 do the uses tc which tueir generous contributions are tc be put. So docs our gallant slandarc bearer, our valliant champion against t he hosts of ignorance, poverty and greedMajor William McKinley of Ohio. S< <’■ (Us .wnr«> enlightened portiou of thi ■ -. ’ > ft

the rightful but beleagured aristocracy of his unhappy country—the aristocracy of wealth, culture and brains; three in one. one in three; the trinity of the republic’s , true and only hope. And if the better classes and the patriotic portion of the press utter no demur against the wise employ ment-of money and I of guiding coercion for the furtherance of a righteous cause, why should I be made I the object, of vile and insensate detraction because I join my approval to theirs? Sir, things have come to a pretty pass indeed w-heu a gentleman who chooses to interest himself in public affairs cannot do so except at the cost of becoming a target for the foul missiles of the insolent and unlettered mob. But let me tell these ruffians of the pen that in spite of their I cheap protestations of independence and self-ownershin they will do as they are I bid on election day or take the consequences. I am not to be deterred from I voicing my opinions and doing my’ duty because the hoots of a crowd of mudsills who are not worthy to brush a gentle man’s coat go up against me. Neither will the great hosts of honorable and determined men with whom I ain allied in in terest and sympathy be balked of their high purpose by the roars that come from t.h« throats of the “many beaded monster,” as Shakespeare, who waa a gen tiemanat heart, not wi.hstauding his uni fortunate social position, so aptly denominated the rabble. The wealth of this nation, sir, is in arms Bryan, the demagogue, may spout his her esies and rhetoric from a thousand stumps, and his followers may cheer his low appeals to their rudimentary brains.and lean pockets, but all will be in vain. The wealth of the nation, the nation’s natural ruler and guardian, has the power to de- : feat him and his schemes, and that powei ; will be exerted, never fear. In the lan I guage of Mark Hanna, now the patient. | silent, scornful but never idle recipient ol so much frantic and impotent abuse, “McKinley will be the next president; if we can’t elect him one way/we will another. lam, sir, yours, with a measureless co. tempt for the hard-handed and soft-header j illiterates wi ose insults have appeared in your column.' and rained upon me by mail. New York, Sept, 23. A GextlEM.an. IN 1 g® Based on United States Census," 1890. f .. • Cents Per Day | Average gross- per capita income of ■ those who depend on the farm for a living 25..Average net per capita income of those who depend on the. farm for a living 10. C Cost of keeping a pauper .it public expense 28.3 Price paid to the state of Illinois for the labor of a convjct 39.4 s THE COLD FACT The agricultural population of the United States are compelled to live on an s income below that provided for paupers, and receive less for their labor than ie paid for convicts.— [From “The Condition of the American Farmer,” by H. E. Taube neck.] Hope to Get It Back. The rich boodiers are not going to pul $20,000,001) into the present campaigr Without hope of getting it back. Thi election of McKinley means the contin nance of rhe skinning process and an increased iiatiomd coupon cut

tens may be ’further Enriched. —“Ex change. _ ■ ... 'l ire 'fluty. Employ*- .-v< rywhere' are being in timidated -m the interest Os the goldoppression. I ‘ -re has never been a~prdsr dential ye;-r in which the Art ten car. citizen’s d, ■p, 'himself'and his country has been pk.than it is now-—St Louis Posi i i patch. ' . . -Jf. '• iioHt'sf Mbuey. “The llmmbhcan party stands foi himest im.,' says Mr. McKinley Just now n i- standing to hold up pco pie, and g a holiest money. Thii kind of s'., jjig i‘pr.hopest money wil , get it a tail’: Ulna's Idea. , Whiit «' arfi , D.nja wishes to im , press upmi the people i s '’that the issui must be .. 'lysed calmly and nitelli r ! gently and ihaf everybody who believe: - I in free sjlvepis a liar and anjinarchist I —Detroit, News, i ... II ■ . » Don’t I org'.it the Congressmen. ( There must be silver congressmen at ■ well as a silvempresident if the money y <— *■' •‘‘Jj'i '■ to T>q

“OVER-PRODUCTION” FALLACY EXPLODED Ths Favorite “Argument” of the Gold Standard Advocate Is Riddled Beyond Repair by Governor Altgeld. FACTS VERSUS CARL SCHURZ. < — ...... The Indiana farmer who finds his products of every kind lower at this time than at any’ other in the history of farm productions and, yet, is offered the spacious argument by Republican and other gold standard orators and writers that it is the result of over-pro-duction will find a very full and convincing refutation of of the facts in a speech delivered by Governor Altgeld of Illinois last week. In his tour over the country in the interest of the maintenance of the gold standard, Carl Schurz has attempted to account for the fall in prices of all kinds of property by ignoring the fact of gold appreciation and attributing it to the increased production of the things which are now so abnormally low. The Indi ana farmer knows that the prices of horses, for instance, have not been reduced because the foals have been abnormally increased, or that his wheat crop this year brings him less money at the mill than it did last year because he has raised more to the acre or had sown a greater number of acres, thus increasing his product. But when the Republican or the gold standard orator, which is practically the same person, tells him that the crop of the world has been increased and this increase controls the home market, he has no figures with which to meet the statement and, though he may question it, he is put at a disadvantage in the argument. Governor Altgelu has supplied the figures and in a powerful speech has shown that there is not only no over-production in this country or in the world, but that the production is less than for several years and that the population, the consuming element, is constantly increasing. Answering Mr. Schurz on the question of farm products, the govemo’ said: The Price of Wheat. “In attempting to account for the fall in price of property, Mr, Schurz selects wheat as an illustration, and he attempts to show that there has been a great increase in the annual production of wheat; that we have not only opened the whole northwest, which is producing wheat,

but that our farmers have to compete with the wheat of India, Argentine Republic and of Russia, and he assumes that therefore the price of wheat had to fall. There are three things to be said in answer to this. First, the increase in production does not produce a fall in price, provided there is an equal increase in consumption. This is self evident, and Mr. Giffen, the statistician of the British board of trade,has on different occasions pointed out that for more than 13 years prior to 1873 the increase in the production of nearly all commodities in the world had been greater on the average, year by .year, than the increase has been in any year, since 1873, and yet, as he says, during all of those years prior to 1873 prices kept constantly rising, notwithstanding the enormously increased production, while since 1873 prices have been steadily falling, notwithstanding the fact that the ‘ increase was not as great as it formerly was. “The second observation is that wheat has not fallen in price any more than all other commodities. It has fallen no more than all property has fallen; has fallen rip more than wages. It is not contended that Russia, India and the Argentine Republic have entered into competition in the production of all other products which our people put upon the market. “These two points show that Mr. Schurz is entirely wrong in his theories. The third observation is that he is entirely wrong in his facts. “The truth is that there has been scarcely any improvement in machinery for raising and. harvesting wheat in the last 20 years, and the statistics show that there has been very little increase in the production of wheat in the United States in that time. More is raised in the northwest, it is true, but very much less is raised in the central and eastern states. I have endeavored to get the most reliable data on this question from the reports of the various boards of trade and the government reports, which are recognized as the highest authority obtainable oil this subject. The government reports show that the wheat crop for 1878 was more that 420,000.00(1 bushels, and that for the year 1896 the crop does nor exceed 400,-000,000 bushels. In fact, if the increase in population is considered, the wheat crop lias constantly grown less in proportion to thd'consuming population ever since 1878. The wheat crop thi,s year is about 56,000,090 bushels short of the Average since 1878, and 20,000.000 less than what it was that year. So that in spite of the opening of’the new fields in the. northwest there has been no greatly increased production of wheat hi this country, and

when cdiupui’P-d with the consuming , population there has been uii actual j falling oil, yet 20 years ago the., price of , wheat was more than twice what it is - now. “Again, hi referring to the foreign ! wheat, be endeavors to makb the im-| pression that there has been a great increase in prouilctem, and artfully selects a recent year of the highest produefi'm and compares that, with an earlier year having the lowest production. The iact is that the world's wheat crop has remained substantially the same for Id years.- In -1880 the world’s production of wheat was 2,280,000,000 bushels. In .. 1885 it was 2,108,000,000 bushels, andj that was the lowest crop of a number of i years. ion ' crop W:;-> y< j v , . ~, 2 5b3,000,000 bushms

This year the world’s .production is ISO,000.000 less than last year, and the total production of the world is smaller than it lips bean for six years, yet wheat is lower than ever before. In addition to this the crop of rye, winch, together with Wheat , furnishes t he bread of the world, is iMMO.OOQ bushels short, yet in spit of that fact the price of rye has fallen steadily wit h that of wheat. It may also bo remarked that we havo the smallest oat crop that we have had for a great many years, and yet oats is worth loss than one-half what it was several years ago. Now, why is it that with the wheat, erpp of the world 120,000,000 bushels short and the population increasing enormously, the rye crop 1 10,1)00,000 short, the-price has reached thedowest point that it has ever reached in the history of the country?” predicament” OF INDIANA REPUBLICANS In 1890 They Praised Republican Legislation In Behalf of “Free Coinage” and Said It Had “Raised the Price of Farm Products.” GOLD RINGS IN THEIR NOSES NOW A Republican speaker recently congratulated his audience that the Republican leaders in the present campaign were not only united, but that there are some Democrats who are assisting them in the effort to elect McKinley. This statement Was based upon the evident purpose of certain gold standard Democrats, who have abandoned the principles of Democracy, to vote for Palmer and Buckner, knowing that every vote thus given counts a half vote for McKinley. "But the speaker neglected to call the attention of his auditors to the fact that the Republican party has assisted in the education of its constituency in the value of free coinage to the industrial classes, and especially to the farmers, for hardly six years have elapsed since the Republican party went before the people of the state with a platform that gave silver as generous an indorsement as it has ever received from the Democrats. This was immediately following the passage of the Sherman law and that utterance has come back to haunt them in the present campaign and demonstrate to the people that the party has stultified itself by bowing to

the will of the corporate interests and adopting a gold standard platform. In their platform in 1890 the Indiana Re-, publicans declared: “We cordially commend the action of Republicans in congress on the nubject of free coinage. The law recently enacted was paHseil in spite of persistent Democratic opposition. Under its beiuficent influence sliver has rapidly ap proached the gold standard of value, farm products are advancing in price, and commerce is feeling tile impulse ot increased prosperity. It will add mon than 1550,000,000 annually of sound cur rency to tiie amount in circulation among the people, anil is a long, yet pruden step toward free coinage;”—- Indiana Re publican platform, The in congress ojmosea the law because they regarded- it as i> makeshift and were in favor of fret coinage out and out. The law providet for the coinage of $4,500,000 per uiontl or $54,000,090 a year and this, the Re publican platform declares, caused silver rapidly to-hpprouch the gold standard of value, caused farm products t< advance in price, and caused commerce to feel the impulse of increased pros perity. Those are precisely the thing: that the advocates of free coinage saj will result from Bryan’s election am the sober, sensible producer, who is interested in the advance in price 61 farm products, the manufacturer whost prosperity is dependent upon therevolv ing wheels of commerce, and the labor ing man whose welfare is dependent upon the increased prosperity of the country will find in this utterance of the Re publican party only six years ago a truth which is today denied by them at the behest ot the moneyed interests of the country. But if the coinage of $59,000,000 per annum bought as bullion causer these blesshigs to result to the people, they may well expect greater prosperity to flow from the free and unlimited coinage of the same metal, at a fixer ratio. vIt is no longer a party secret - that Chairman Gowdy of the Republican state central committee sent several o the nominees on the state ticket to Mar'; Hanna at St. Louis to argue against the adopt ion of a gold standard platform They were' commit-sieried to say to McKinley’s manager that the placing o> the word “gold” in the national plat fdrig. would ‘dose Indiana to the party Among the members of the state ticket thus solicited was Attorney Genera Ketcham, but he refused to go. Other: did visit Hanna, but appealed to Jiimii vain, for corporate interests dominated the convention. And it was forth- ! same reason that members of tin

Indiana delegation, after General Lew Wallace was selected as the representative of the state on the committee on resolutions, held a meeting and serious ly coiisiitci'i.i the propriety of takim him off that committee. These, men are now going before tie people of the state with a_ lie upon then lips and in she face of all their utter ances in favor of stiver, utterances that extend over a period of' 20 years, thej clothe oinage wifi) all the ill.which they once declared and ''whirl time has demonstrated to belling to gold monometallism. Teach Them a Leiutom There is hn.lldo'z.ing bv th A ii: ... (, ,< ■ i ui be taught t wholesome lesson ut tab poils.

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