Show J BOIES ON THE SITUATION r Graphic Description of the Woes of the Agriculturists ARE BUNCOED AT EVERY TURN GOIrD KORi THE RICK BUT SILVER FOR THE POOR t Adoption of the Gold Standard i Means That the People in Free America Will Soon Be Reduced to hit Bondu rc of Foreiam Countries Coun-tries An Arlhtocmcy of Wealth on I ii One Hftuil nnd n Democracy ol Poverty on the Other > WATERLOO la Aug 29A large crowd gathered in the East Side Park in this city this evening to listen to evGovernor Horace Boies open the campaign in behalf of the Democrat1c party t F E Pollans Democratic candidate J j for county attorney presided and r after making a short speech presented the exgovernor In opening his address Mr Boies sadd f that the subject which called the meeting1 together was one which overshadowed over-shadowed every other since the great war It is t jl1ect he continued which interests in the same way all classes of people The leaders of the Democratic party are denounced for the alleged attempt to appeal to class Mr McKindey has token the pains to allege that an appeal has been mode I to the classes and an attempt made to f divide the country on the silver issue By the very nature of things there must be classes The speaker then said that we ARE AFFECTED DIFFERENTLY by the money question The man whose wealth Is money naturally wants the gold standard for that makes his money more valuable bur the man who produces what must be sold for money will if he understands it favor bimetallism cheaper money money which they call if you please depreciated I de-preciated currency is the best for the people because it tends to raise the price of products I said some time ago to a reporter for a New York paper continued the speaker that the condition of the I w < s prn farmer is deploraMe that the prices of the products of the farm are so low that if a man was given the use of the land and was required to furnish fur-nish the cap tal to run it pay the I laborer the same wages he could get in other kinds of work keep up the repairs re-pairs and pay the taxes and to do this hcjl to sell the products of the arm tfor present prices he would find hImself hIm-self WITHOUT A DOLLAR LEFT L at the end of the year I said thait and now I find certain New York capitalists derfaring that a greater amount of falsehood was never included t in-cluded in the same amount of language DTow I did not make that statement upon my own experience aJone but r several years ago the Iowa commissioner commis-sioner of labor made inquiry of over 500 Iowa farmers of the cost of raising one bushel of com They sent him reports i re-ports and Ifrom them he found that it cost 28 cents per bushel to raise corn i In Iowa Today in over onehalf of the states corn Is selling for 14 cents per bushel The eastern capitalists may have heard of instances where farmers have sold f for increased prices during the past five years That is true but farmers r have not sold for higher prices since II the repeal of the Sherman act They i will not sell for higher prices as long f as oats sell for 10 cents per bushel A and corn for 14 cents i The speaker then took up the question ques-tion of prices and said it was all A QUESTION OF PRICES X The honor of the country was Involved I for the reason that the government obligations were payable in coin They Shear no promise to be paid In gold g alone With the gold standard prices i depreciate The speaker said that compared with the value of the pros pro-s ducts of labor one dollar in sil er bullion bul-lion would buy as much as it would in t 1873 while a dollar in gold bullion would purchase twice what it would then What was the true standard of comparison He showed that while > j gold had doubled in value silver had I remained the same as it was in 1S73 f It is the man who must borrow who f bas been wronged f CRUELLY WRONGED i Onehalf of his money has been taken f i away while the money of the money t loaner has been doubled in value The f speaker said that he approached the t platform with fear and trembling because be-cause of the claims that coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1 would drive gold out of circulation but he accepted It because it seemed to be the only way in which the friends of free silver > could agre If it resulted in silver i f monometallism congress could remedy it i If we wait as the Republicans ask I us to until we get the consent of the K other nations to free coinage we will F fasten the gold standard upon the L necks of our people for all time toT to-T come P In closing his speech the exgovernor < gaid that the gold standard was the standar of England He said that if I t we adopt this measure of value we cannot i can-not help out expect that our agricultural agricul-tural lands sooner or ater will come I into the hands of the landlords as the case Is there and that eventually among our own people as among the t people of England there will grow up I an aristocracy of wealth on one hand and a democracy of 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