Show I I INTERESTING FACTS AND FIGURES FIGURE s Bradstreet has bas published a table e showing the decline in prices from 1890 to 1897 of one h hundred different different differ differ- ent eat staple products of the toe United Unite d States and the general average o of f ff prices prices' quarterly for six and a half hal f years It is is A m mathematical demonstration demonstration demonstration demon demon- that under the gold standard standard standard stand stand- ard the decline has been gradual and steady Without giving th the e details quarterly it will be sufficient to mention that the products which h would have brought in 1890 now bring only 74 There is n no 0 mistaking the lessons taught b by y Bradstreets Bradstreet's reliable figures figures Every class of producers and non producers pro pro- will be able to account fo for forthe forthe r the financial condi condition ion in m which they find themselves It ma may be safely stated that falling falling fall fall- ing fag prices mean ruin and decay Slowly rising prices mean enterprise e prosperity and development The farmer who his property y to to pay a balance of purchase money or or improve his estate expecting to meet hi his obligation by the products product s of bf his farm finds that by the decline 1 Ji l tom i i i V J i y R r y S f of prices it will require one half more besides the interest to remove the incumbrance Debts have bave swollen more than 50 p per pe cent Every bond national state or municipal has had a c corresponding increase in value Taxes have bave practically doubled as it requires s twice as mu much much h of staple commodities ties to meet them If lE the wages b have h Ye been maintained or have not greatly declined it has been because organized labor Jabor resist resist- ed The products of the farm the mine nine loom the factories of of- of every of-every every every kind have fallen lanen below the cost of production Tens of thousands thousands' have been driven into bankruptcy Millions of our country me men are living Jiving in enforced idleness and suffering suffering suffering suf suf- fering because unable to supply themselves with cheap food and clothing The gold standard means confiscation It is the most outrageous out outrageous out outrageous and damnable system of robbery ever devised by any m asso association elation dation of devils Cincinnati Cincinnati En En- En |