People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1895 — TO THE MERCHANTS. [ARTICLE]

TO THE MERCHANTS.

Do You Know Where You Are it and Why. Do you know that the dear dollar of plutocracy (goldbugs) means ruin for you and for commission men? pp you know Uie difference between

static and variable expenses? One rarely varies, is stationary, whether the dollar is d< nr or cheap. The other varies with the amount of money in circulation. Let us show you: A man raises 100 acreß of wheat. The yield is 1,000 bushels:, or SI,OOO at $1 per bUßbel. He pays ills static expenses (Interest, taxes, insurance, professional services, etc.,) with SSOO (40 per cent), and you get S6OO. The jobber and manufacturer net all their income from that S6OO, n ; do aloo all village and city interests Now, reduce the wheat to 40 cents per bushel. The 100 acres produces S4OO. Static expenses still takes its S4OO. What does the jobber, the manufactory, the merchant get? What matters it that S2O articles now cost but sl4? If twenty million laborers get on average of $1 per day instead of two, where does the profit of the merchant and landlord come in? Whose battle aro you flghUng? Less wheat is produced than In tho twelve years past. More is exported. World’s crop decreases. Eighteen million more home market mouths. Price, one-third. And you have lost twenty millions under this kind of “protection!” (Cotton, corn afid beef tho same.)—Great West.