Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1899 — What is the Matter With This? [ARTICLE]

What is the Matter With This?

We will sell you buggies and carriages 25 cents on the dollar cheaper than you have been paying heretofore. Besides we will take your old buggy or anything else you have to trade on a new rig, at all it is worth. We have some second hand rigs and light harness that we will sell at any old price. When in town drop in and see us and we will prove to you that we do what we advertise. Worland & Landwerle g The new buggy and carriage 'Nrm next to Short’s livery barn.

Something more than $200,000, 000 in gold is piled up in the United States Treasury vaults. Is it to be wondered at that hungry democrats are anxious to get into office again and get to work reducing this amount? Maryland’s democratic candidate for governor is the president of a national bank. He is one of that list of national bank presidents which the sentiments of the Chicago 1896 convention indicated should be interred in their own vaults/

Here is continuity of purpose: Bryan in 1§92 .Free Trade Specialist. Bryan in 1896 Free Coinage Specialist. Bryan in 1900 Anti-Trust Specialist. Bryan in 1904 ...........Any Old Specialist.

Reciprocity is proving itself right Free trade according to democratic idea has always proved detrimental to the country’s business intrests but reciprocal freetrade, essentially a republican doctrine — in fact a policy of the illustrous statesman Blaine — has and is now amply proving itsel most advantageous.

Those Denver steam whistles which the inhabitants of that city are complaining mabout as nuisances, are one of the evils of a Republican protective-tariff administration. When Republicans are in power, factories are always running, whistles blowing, chimneys smoking and like misfortunes worrying the people.

Silveriters do not like Dun’s Review and Bradstreets so well as they did in 1896. Then they held copies of these commercial journals in either hand and went around reading out of them about the depressions in business, failures, etc. These of course were the result of the gold standard. Now they avoid these journals as the devil does holy water. Last week’s Dun’s says: July failures have been smaller than in any other month of which tber is record excepting May. The number of failures was 33 per cent less than in any previous July. London again recognized the financial power of this country. The Bank of England virtually admits that it cannot draw from Niw York the gold it needs,

The country is getting so used to the return of the old prosperity that it seems to take it as entirely as a matter of course. Everybody knows it as the simple truth that business is better than ever before this season, men are at work, wages are generally higher, foreign trade is immense and crops are good, factory shutdowns are unheard of, strikes are only for increased wages and not against reduction in wages, business failures are wonderfully few —in fact, the country is on the crest of a wave of prosperity as high and deep as was the trough of adversity in 1896. That that trough was a genuine one will be attested by men of all classes —bankers, manufactures, merchants, employees and workingmen. And if the silver theorists could not secure the adoption of their proposition in 1896 with the country’s vitality at its and the people lookingror a “savior,” can they now really entertain the insane idea of being able to convert to their fallacy these millions of men who have seen republican and sound-money promises fulfilled and democratic and silver prophesies falsified?