Want Higher Prices

As the campaign draws to a close, it may be well to see what has come out of the mass of argument with which the country has been deluged. A few things may be granted: 1. That under free silver prices will be higher. The orators on both sides agree to this proposition. Who would benefit from higher prices but the man who has something to sell. Who has something to sell? The producer. Who is the producer? First, the farmer. He produces from the soil that which sustains the life of the teeming millions of the world. Does he want higher prices? Who else is the producer? The laboring man, who works with nis hands and fashions that which is of use for the comfort of mankind. How will he get higher prices? By increasing the consumption of nis producís so that there is no longer an overproduction. How can the use of his products be increased? By giving the farmer such a price for his products that he can afford to buy the comforts of life. 2. The producer should be for free silver; the non-producer for gold. This is true if the non-producer looks at it from a purely selfish standpoint. The producer is interested in getting a higher price for his products. The nonproducer on the other hand is interested in lowering the price of these products so that he can buy more of them for a given amount of money. Business men who 'sell to the farmers and laboring men are interested with them in higher prices. 3. A gold standard lowers the price of products. The price of everything, excepting taxes, interest and fixed charges has fallen steadily for twentythree years, under low tarilï and high tariff. The gold standard has been in use twenty-three years. This is because gold has raised in price. 4. Gold has raised in price. Why? Because the use of silver as standard money was discontinued and golu has since been required to act as the sole standard to measure wealth. Because in the past twenty-three years more gold has been coined into money than was produced in that time. Let the consumption of any article exceed the production and its price gqes up. 5. The millionaires, the trusts, the corporations, the bankers and the stock gamblers want a gold standard. This is shown by their unanimous support of McKinley, no matter what has been their previous political faith. They benefit by manipulating gold, or by faliing prices which increase the value of their money, by decreasing the value of what their money will buy. 6. The farmers are interested in getting better prices for their wheat, their corn, oats and other products. When such Republicans as ex-Governor Luce leave the Republican party because it goes in with the bankers, the millionaires and trusts, it is time for other Rc-publican farmers to put on their thinking caps. The farmers have nothing in common with the men who seek to sustain a standard of money which lowers the price of their products. 7. The laboring man's interests lie with Bryan. United labor is almost solid in his support. The labor leaders, who have devoted their time to the study of the labor problems, are fon Bryan, irrespective of their past political beliefs. The capitalists understand this as witness their great efforts to coax, cajole and coerce the laborers to vote the capitalistic ticket. 8. The interests öf the country merchant, or the business men in the smaller cities lie with the farmers and the laboring men. When these have money, the business men can sell. Give the farmer higher prices for his products and prosperity once more returns to this country.