Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1898 — Advance in Prices of Wheat. [ARTICLE]

Advance in Prices of Wheat.

■ I The gold coin in the United ■States is mortgaged ten times over ■b alien creditors. The free coinage of silver, and ■gold at the present legal rajjio'of B 6 to 1 will solve the currency ■{ties t ion. ■ The DePauw glass works were ■told under the hammer at New ■ubany last Tuesday. Where was ■he Dingley Bill? m "’ho most truly represents the Heople of Ohio, the knightly Foraor the plehian Hanna; or the ■k people of Indiana, the seholarjHr, sturdy Turpie, or monopolist ■ Why should the expenditures in |H)gpcr county cost each inhabitant §■>.64, when the same costs each |Hbabitunt of Benton county hut HK.9B? Is the difference in the ■■plity of the article, or in the Blbn.vHio control the expenditures? HH '• e->' —: — rr~“ |BWhile Rome was burning. Nero HHblled; and now when the country ■n the, perils of civil war, sMnrk |Bmoun ted astride the Stock Tiek|Hknd Spinx Grover amuses his ■■pity by angling for mud cat in ■■placid waters of Lake Erie. |H.)ne great reason the gold-hug |Bjkd fought so hard against a war ■KjhSpnin was that they feared it ■■id bring about free coinage. |B “dollar is before the man" or ■■or, or humanity with those ■flows. But lets have no more > Hfltfhc Boston Herald says: Ad§■§ll Dewey is an old time Demo■■paotwithstanding the fact that ■fl {ails from Vermont. This wiil ■3td news to some of our rep.ub- ■ friends, who were Rooking ■La popular hero to draw the |fl||||B of the people from the heH I achievements of Fitzhugh

Spanish Press some time vere loud in praises of Speaker saying' “he is too good a io be an American.” One illustration of the ignorance prevails yon the Continent i the Speaker ■■ is not an Afherican. 0,000,000 "Holier cent, bonds * 8 saddling upon the people a >f mouht to the enormbus sum 0,000,000 at tl|e;';<tiine>|they ue and payabjlf! And tills iic swindle is to dosed upon the people withpretext of excuse other than Befit it will be to the boiulg syndicate of Wall Street! ittriotic people of America, | mos the money-shark-tories, Bady and willing, as did the 4c people in France under liter' disadvantages, to e Government every dollar ty be needed for prosecutwar without the assistance gle bond. Yet in’ th% face 1‘ ,$ facts, the hired elavfe of *ly who rules the House, Kiblican Chniniu disgraceful re of infamy. It remains to uerican Senate >eople—whetho its honored it, or will allow ork*his corrupt 15 and 1846-7 ras involved in n in Congress to offer such a eration, mnch tee it upon the

The phenomenal advance in the market price of wheat is attributed to the war r but. whatever effect that has had, the main cause of the advance is the short crops in nearly all the wheat producing countries of the world, and had there -Wot been an increase in the production, of‘that cereal in the United States' tlie distress that is * ns being shown in some of the countries would be r fnr greater than it now is.—lndian'rfpoHs News. Bro. Clark, who claims that the increased -prices in wheat is all due to the Dingley bill and republican cont’rol in our nation's affairs would confer aj. favor on the readers of the .Journal by reproducing the above arficle. The wheat crop of -Europe" was 37,948,000. below the average, South America 2,(0),000. and Africa 2,200,000. The total shortage of the world’s output of wheat last year was 216,467,000. Was the Dingley bill resposible for the shortage which of course brought about higher prices? Bro. Clark’s articles on the tariff question reminds one of mother Goose’s nursery tales.