Show THE FARMERS INTEREST IN FREE COINAGE I 1 in the discussion of this question in town village vil laze camps camp home and congress even the interest oi 01 ten millions living on the farms of america seem eem to be somewhat overlooked they have been from their landing on plymouth rock bock to this time a brave intelligent tell igent liberty loving people in the battles of the revolution and of the civil war they were the nations 18 support and dependence this thie question is big enough to and does touch the welfare and happiness of every class clase in america we protect the manufacturer by tariff legislation organized labor to a degrees degree but not national national and state legislation but the farmer and his best interests can only be protected by legislation concerning the money of the country from 1873 to this time the government line has not only jailed ailed to procure for him bim good legislation but has directed all national legislation against him by legislation it has ball i tighten d the chains about him a d by executive action of officials it it if rivet irig them in 1878 with silver at and wheat at per bushels bushel with cotton and other aarm products in tiro pro port portion iOD the farmers of america were contented and happy from that time to this the decline hug has been continued and gradual until wheat cotton anti ani other products are reduced in price below the actual cost oi of production to the farmer and boc cause a use their exports sire are sold on silver money markets of the world secord the the miner and laborer is a borrower ot of money the same kind and irom from the same source england at and d eastern american cities they are alike interested teres te in the debt paying as well as the purchasing power of the dollar by vicious legislation the value ot of tho the so called honest golu gold dollar has been appreciated while in the borrow borrowers erso bands in some cases 20 80 30 even 40 per cent i ot by specific act making it so BO tut cut by legislation as effectively se curing that result by casting down and destroying the price of evry every ev ry commodity ot of produce and aind labor tha gold dollar h 0 thus become to the the most dishonest dollar coined by our government to repay the dollar mortgage that bush els of wheat would buy then bushels of wheat to buy now tue gold gola with which to replace the money and cancel the mortgage empet experienced fenced financiers teach us that no legi timofe busin business eks will return a profit be yond a ten per cent rate of interest and taxes oo on the investment providence the auld scarcely save from when added to that an increase of 20 i 50 per cent of the value of 0 the principal in the hands bands of the borrower those conditions the borrowers br b rowers heart must heco i e discouraged diacou raged and his arna anu weakened third the farmer and laborer can procure loans joans only when the g ald do dollar is ie cheap when it is begging investment in the western farm an home they are then induced to lo borrow to buy the ane adjoining 80 acres build or repair the house or add to the herds Payday pay day emes is called in it ii has baa so appreciated that the old loan joan cannot be extended ext endea or a new one placed at any rate of interest the hon bon at gold v ollars must be paid eveia ev u at the price of the increased herds anu improved buildings and increased acreage together with the home this is not imagination it lb IH the voice of court records all over the agricultural states elates court records can not be impeached and are therefore better than sworn testimony they turn oo oa the lights they make statistics I 1 have at my desk a weekly publication lea of a nea newspaper paper labed ishou in a 9 good county of one ox of the very best agricultural states in the union and of the date of aug 1893 in which there are published 21 notices of maloof bale of lands under mortgage foreclosure u re there are five other papers published in the same county that doubtless contain each near abe same number that is ib noi doi an isolated instance it is a condition obtaining in many ot oi the abe good even the best agricultural states in america anat condition has existed exi steLl to a similar de urea afee or three or four years lust last past multiply that result by the number of counties in a state and you can approximate the result in n new hampshire Maryl maryland acid and virginia Virmia la even in the shadow of our beloved nations capital are uncultivated and abandoned fiolle farms farmis that are begging purchasers at prices below belch the first cost of the improvements prove ments made on anem and that chat condition conditi made so BO by legislation the farms farm or of america we west t and east are rapidly drifting from th ane farmers farmere who made them and ought to retain them into the hanus tf f syndicates that in many cases cameo are composed of the men who control the banks backs of 0 f the lender and abe legislation tit nr both boi rower aud and lender it has bus been americas prid i and boost boast that its people were homeowners homeowner home owners owner in england but 1 io in 20 scotland Scot lanu 1 in 30 mul ireland but 1 in 79 own their homes they have come to A america merl to secure liberty and home this thie wholesale dritt drifting ing of homes from their owners ought to appeal to the patriotism patriotism of every american heart the unexampled bravery of americans americana on every battle field has been because in every war they drew me he gaber ember and shouldered the musket in defense defence of he humble and happy homell defense of the ahme h ime shadowed by the oak planted by the husband and en shrouded by the vine planted ind tended by the lovli g hands of wife und tind chil I 1 let them pane bips from the ownership of those who made them into corporations and syndicates the borne makers maken become tenants only in them by unjust legislation and the bugles alarm will sound in vain for arve br ve defenders of our nation in future hours of peril in every agricultural and mining state and territory in the union a generation of hardy noble pioneers plout ers have expended gieir energies and exhausted exhaust ea their means ili ID developing the barren labs of the agricultural states into fields of if grain aud and lovely gar gardena derke ot of flowers and iti in the discovery and development ot of mines milieu of fc ilver in the pi or of that silver that thai from prehistoric timea time was used need as moue mone that with gold wa made money by the constitution find and laws jaws of the he united that was planted by the all wise boil in the creation ot of our world in about equal quantities with gold that put it side ty by eide in the moun tain gulch imbedded bedded im it together in tb the t tame ame granite ruck and interspersed it along the ibe same mountain streams it has been separated only by man by legislation in defiance def lanue of the laws of god and man and tor for the purpose of wronging nine tenths of the best beat element of the american people not satte satisfied fled with vicious legislation insult has been openly heaped on injury through execute ve officers of t the government for instance the secretary of the treasury has paid bonds in gold alone that by law and express resolution of both houses ol of congress should have been beau paid in silver the at act a t of march 1869 provided and declared that the faith ot or the united states was solemnly hedged to the payment in coin not gold or its equivalent of all the line in terest te rest bearing obligations of the united states except in cases where the law authorizing the issue ot of such obligations eions shau bau expressly provided that the same might be paid in other curre acy than gold or silver nine years thereafter on jan 1878 the following resolution was passed by the senate anc i tion foon ater fter concurred in by the house kipust 4 that all bonds of the united states issued under gaii acts of uon con kress referring to those issued under the above act are payable principal and interest ut at the option of the gov eru ment in silver dollars of the united states and that tu to restore to jtb coic ge such silver coin as a legal tender lu iii payment ol of said bonds principal aud interest is nut not in violation ot of the public faith nor in derogation of the rights ol of the public creditor in excel 9 of the laws demands in defiance of jaw and solemn resolution ahry have continued the payment in gold only it if the secretary of the treasury nad had exercised the discretion kiven given by the law an J 1 ought and coined lour four millions worth ot of silver j ier or month aud and paid it to the bonu holder accordi g to 10 law according to contract according t instruction even by resolution silver would today be practically and to all beneficial effect the voices too i f mil lions ilona of american freemen would not be heard in the streets of chicago new york or anywhere crying for bread and that voice would not be answered anywhere by club or railroad pinel to the for bread brand cry Ameri americana cang will not accept stone for five years they have listened to the voice of political conventions promising relief on that line but in each case the voice of the convention has baa been Jaco jacobs birs sweet voice while the hand f legislation and executive officials has been tile the wicked hairy hand of esau american can history affords no case of chain fastening of 01 american freemen atle chains always sn an p before being fastened tuey they are snapping now low all over this thim land aud and no power on earth will ever be able to rivet them the heart of the ameri an veople is honest just mat pali ent conservative and ig ift rigby 0 on 1 this question or and while their vui voice it 19 being raised giloly it is resolute and deman s relief they are awakening and calmly viewing the conditions con blonti by bv which they are surrounded they art are as to the best beat methods method of re liet her they do not know exactly th the method to be pursued but must avoid divided action they must not scatter organized furcel furce Eo they must not attempt to lumber into platforms church creeds or extended detailed statements stat emente of ethics unites united action on a platform of free silver and of election of all officers by direct vote of the people allowing no MILD man in the government to got get beyond he hearin ir of the voice of the people or beyond beconi dg their power to 10 recall him by the ballot ought to be had bad such an in or now exists and has hag twice adopted a national platform and in bacri convention st rii louis and omaha they were as true to the V interests 01 the people on these thes 0 ques needle to the dort north h pole bol the breath of life has been b breathed into their platform declarations declaration 9 by the he voices mad and votes ot of their tives lives in congress they have brov proven true to the interests of their all coup tit ants anis while their voice Is a ilke hac the voice of one crying in the wilder ness nt ss to lo make the paths straight chev r have made straight paths as they went out and in before the people whom p they represent would it not be hetter better to unite fortunes with the our party formed on these lines by the farmers ot 0 the agricultural state who have cryst alfted their ide ideal into national platform in full a accord witti with the interests of laborers and an d mine value owners on vital questions can we afford under any Conditi conditions ouk to divide lorce force thereby lottin letting w opposition ioB retain what it now lk has andi uses adversely to 11 all interests of W wu at w t and south the money ch changers angero can call not b be driven out of the temple as am christ drove the them ii in his hie time by whips whip and t bourges co urges but it must be done by the more modern and improved method of the ballot we can not divide fore forcen 4 aud and win any victories in i this battle I 1 have always lived in a strictly agricultural country and most of my loy life on the farm and the views 1 have taken are from that standpoint I 1 am very certain that I 1 am right in my conclusions and very much desire to sw se concert of action by all ah elements affected by this legislation very respectfully fully submitted J K B |