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Show ! and business remains in the same comatose state, despite the constant con-stant reiteration of the gold-bug press that "confidence has been 1 1 good citizenship. How long shall . it bo before honest toil will receive its just reward? How long before the farmers of New York and of the United States will see that it is low prices that is accomplishing-their accomplishing-their ruin? How long will they be deceived by glib-tongued politicians poli-ticians who seek to perpetuate the 'existing disastrous conditions? Nearly twenty-four long years, have passed since the people's money was surreptitiously de stroyed. For twenty-four long-years long-years the same industry-choking; influence has been at work. Every victory of the money power has been followed by giving the screw another twist. Each year has brought harder times than the year preceding it, until now, hard Dressed bv dfihts. and infprpcf nnl restored." The dire effects of the single gold standard have been as keenly felt by the farmers and wealth producers of this State (New York) as by any class of people in this country, and if they would i avert the dangers that threaten to overpower them they must disentangle disen-tangle themselves from the blind leadership of party politics and meet the issue side by side and shoulder to shoulder without regard re-gard to pact affiliations. Each spring an ever-increasing number of farmers find themselves n n o Til r 4--Y tv-1 - if li taxes, the people are making their last stand. If we would be saved, we must save ourselves. High tariffs and low tariffs have failed to bring relief. One thing more remains to be done. The money 1 of the Constitution must be restored re-stored to its old-time position as primary money. Free coinage must be given to both silver and gold at the ratio, of 1G. to one, and then, and only theny will prosperity prosper-ity shine upon our shore and the people receive an equitable return for their labor; F. C Brown in Silver KnighlL uu(-uiu iv jxivyu tuo maximums ui their creditors and pay their interest, inter-est, and are forced to surrender! their homes and . become tenants. According to the v census of 1890, of the 226,632 families occupying farms in this State, only 97,509 owned thir homes free of incumbrance, incum-brance, the remaining 129,123 being be-ing tenants or living on heavily mortgaged farms. Owing to the great drop in prices and consequent conse-quent hard times since the census it is safe to say that the number of mortgaged farms and tenant farmers has enormously increased during the last six years. In many cases the farms mortgaged would sell for no more than the amount of the debt. In this great agricultural agri-cultural county of Washington, a large majority of the farmers are struggling against constantly appreciating ap-preciating mortgages, absolutely without hope of solvency if the present times continue. This in a condition that ought not to exist in a Si ate with so many natural advantages ad-vantages and' resources, and where the soil is so fertile and productive. The depreciation of farm lands lias been so great that places which formerly sold for $12,000 to $115,000 can now be bought for $3,000 and: $4,000.' The prices of produce have fallen at even a greater ratio, and' the farmer who, twenty-five years ago, sold his wool for 90 cents a pound sold last fall for 12 cents a pound. Rye has dropped from 80 cents and $1 to 80 cents a bushel. Potatoes, the principal crop o the farmers in this section, . in spite'of the light vield, sell for but 22 cents per bushel . Other things have fallen asmuch; and yet in; the face of this calamitous drop in prices taxes have risen; making it more difficult for the tiller of the soil to meet his obligations, The prevailing prevail-ing low prices "make it impossible for one to pay for a farm, out of the proceeds of his own toil, no matter how industrious and economical eco-nomical he may be, and ho must ultimately give up the object of his highest v ambition the place he would call hi 3 home. To have a place one may call hia own, humble though it be,, aids in the makinof A Dolefal Picture. Now that the election is over,. and the excitement of the cam-'paign cam-'paign has subsided, the people should lay aside all partisan feeling feel-ing and carefully examine their own situation. ' As we look around the horizon of the industrial world in vain endeavor en-deavor to find a ray of hope, we see nothing but the sombre indications indi-cations of more distress, more want, more suffering. The "wave of prosperity, so confidently predicted pre-dicted by the men who sought to fasten the gold standard upon the people seems as far distant as ever. , The times continue to grow ptendilv worse; banks and commercial com-mercial houses, continue to fail, |
