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Show H PROSPEUTS OF BUSINESS EH There is no mistaking the fact that HL V" has been vast improvement in H t)-c eas and financial oflairs genor- 9 a. .'e the Wilson tariff law wnt H iot't per iion, and if it bad provided 9 for a 6t.il! nver tariff It would have H ben Mroijrtionately bBtler for busi- Hi We are 1 1 a 1ob3 lo conceive what a Hj republ.can congress will attempt to do H to satisfy the demands of the people H who have been .promised that financial H prosperity would result from republi- H cm sucsess. If they could see that an H! Increase of currency by the free coin- H age of silver would produce that result H perhaps they might give us that, but Hj we have no hopes in tha$-direction. H The money power has always been too H potent for the majority of republican H legislators. H They will not be likely to try to go H back to McKinlevism for the count) y H has had enough of that, hence we mutt Hj depend upon the effects of the Wilton H tariff. It does not go far enough, but Hj we may confidently hope for a gradua Hj increase in business, should we obtain H no other relief. H If this could be supplemented by re- H s;oring silver to its proper sphere as H constitutional money, and it our gov- H eminent would coin all that is offered, H this would giye an impetus to busi- j ness in the United States such as we H have not bad in twenty years. H It would raise the price of silver bul- H lion, which, in turn, would raise the H price of wheat because England must H have silver bullion to buy wheat in H India, and experience has proven that B the price of wheat in India i'b governed j by the price of silver, or in other words H it takes japt as much silver to buy a H hundred buBhels of wheat when silver H bullion is worth $1.29 cents in gold as B when it is worth only 75 cente. As j Bilver bullion rises in price, wheat will H rise correspondingly in the Liverpool H market, and consequently in the H United States and our farmers will be H more prosperous, tbey will be bettt r H able to pay interest on their debts, and Hj redeem some of their mortgaged prop-B prop-B erty, and ?s tbey become prosperous H they will become better customers of B the manufacturers and all classes will H feel the benefit. J The farmers of England are com- Hj , t plaining loudly o tho low prices of H grain, and it is a time of serious de- K J$ preBsion of agriculturists all over the B world. This must be remembered. R High or low tariffs will not change the Hj prices of agricultural products to any H marked extent, for there is but very H little tariff on them in any country; 9j the seat of the disease lUs deeper than 9 tariff can reach. The prosperity of the 9 farmer so far as it can be affected by H legislation depends upon the financial Hg policy of the government, not upon its H mode of getting its revenue. We stren- Hjj nously insist that a rise in the price of 9 silver will be of more benefit to the 9 farmers of both the United States m and Europe, than it will be to the prc- H ducsra of silver, and by and by they H will find it out and when they do they H will see to it that the proper remedy 9 is applied which is that silver be re- Hj stored to its proper place as one of the Hl money metals of the United States and Hj of all other civilized nations. |