Show THE HOLDUPS HOLD UPS the commercial advertiser of new york la Is not of only very bitter in its advocacy of tile the gold cold standard but it 11 lias has it a way of 0 stating its opinions which are decidedly exasperating it accounts aico unta readily for or the fall nil in agricultural products in tile the fol loNIng edito ill one on of the main arguments rolled upon hy by free gilliver leaders 4 to influence western Vo stIL and southern farmers 14 1 4 that tho the adoption of 01 tile the single sold gold standard hux has caused a heavy beavy rail fall lit in the prices price of agricultural pr lots a and nd that tile tho solo rim dy for or th these low loss prices jq is to 10 be found in free coinage of t ivor lot us wo pool what bics tics have to bay any on this point in VH thin country 2 A of 0 chnat and lout it bear mir it produced luhcs Lu bu hc an all Inere acte of 0 80 cpr cont in isau it produced 28 1 hea i of 0 oats and lat last year it 1 ll 11 0 bushen mi increase of at sul per CV cent airl in n it produced ico buH tila of harly r ly and last year it pro toi dual bushels bUM holn an of oc neatly 40 per pc r cent lit in IS it produced 21 N tons tona of 0 hay and cast year ll it produced tons on un an increase of nearly ext per cent in ili r 0 it produced bales of cotton and airl I 1 1 isi year it prod produced ed vi bales balchi an aft increase su of ocr COO ue per cent during tho the same In interval torval the population 0 of f the united staten increased rom from to lo an increase of only about 70 per berti cent to I 1 it U any wonder r thoi thal agrico products product a havo havis temporarily fallen in fit exclia ni ngo value when rhen the increase in production hut has so onor enormously outdistanced the increase in tho elio power of at bonu m atlon 7 bear in n mind rise also that prices generally pene rally have fallen alien at elio pame time ARil AgIl cultural find and appliances ns aro are cheaper clothing Is F cheaper everything that gee boea into elio cont contraction ruction of houses and barns is iq cheaper the c coat t of transporting commodities 1110 modi dit ties to market it iq cheaper against overproduction no currency kl 41 stem can guard if wheat cotton or hay Is 14 produced in double the tl 0 quantity that t tho be market markel tva warr antii ants tho the prices for or them will declines decline economic laws law cannot lie defied it Is careful to pick out the years in which there were row poor crops for a starter aul wul nil lit in the modern years to I 1 ck cucut cut those that hall hail tremendous crops jt it ignores the tat fact ta t to too that hat there I 1 ich its bin such dri at tot i it ic C the worlds trade as was waa never dreamed of it ignores the other tact fact that with the price ot of products falling falling failing in the ilchert valleys of 0 tho the bastein states and while a great increase has been going on in population tien there has been a steady decline in the value of land it ignores the fact that across the water in Ln england gland tho the agricultural depression has about destroyed that class of 0 people that the estates will not pay any more tile the rents they used to that many and many it a gentleman in england who lived on the rentals of his land has during the last five years been obliged to let his hl tenants alone and not exact a quarter from them it ignores another tact fact that as the p people eo pie have grown poorer they have ceased to eat cat bread in a measure the estimate Is that there are two bushels per capita per tritium annum less wheat eaten b by y tho the people of the united states than there was twenty years ago it Is unnecessary tor for the advertiser to wado through all that space to elaborate upon a point that la Is no point after all it could have done it much more quickly by ii imply saying the real money of this country Is reduced to six hundred millions or less dollars it Is owned by a few people and those few people with that six hundred millions for a club are holding up the united states and reducing the people to beggary ask the commercial advertiser what aou would id happen if 1 one halt half of the six hundred millions were to be thrown into the sea or shipped out of 0 the country and it would instantly answer that the result would be a great fall in prices anil and infinite distress among the people and betit exhausts its brains to prove that the he throwing away of halt half tills this worlds money twenty years ago had no effect whatever the nation will drop on these holdups hold ups after 0 w while bile and abate them |