Show A NEW DODGE thic inventive genius of the gold bugs is something astounding in fact it is to be admired on the same score that one is captivated by the sophistry of a lawyer pleading a bad cause these gold worshippers wor shippers seeing the spread of the free silver sentiment in illinois iowa wisconsin and the great northwest are saying through their sub subsidized press and through their speakers that the people of those states never were more prosperous or richer than they are now that the whole country is in m a fax far better condition now Dow than it ever w was aa since the civil war they point to the harvest of wheat and the promising fields of ca corn rn and ask of the farmer and laborer what more do you want and then they argue that it is all the result of having a sound financial policy and an honest dollar if ever an outraged people we were re confronted with a greater degree of gall and chicanery we never heard beard of it ever since 1873 the date when silver was stricken down by these men everything in the industrial line has stead down real estate steadily fly gone h has as shrunk shrank fully fay fifty per cent agricultural agri cui products have declined 31 seventy five per cent labor has not only had its price cut cat in two but its demand has become so slight that hat on one et h naif u of the laborers are idle and many who are voak on half time tolk jo to farmer about tu will point you vou to his crib of 15 cent corn and his granary of 40 cent 1 wheat the laborer will tell you of I 1 recent reduction in his wages and of the threatened foreclosure for closure of his little home the merchant will also add his big statement as to the falling failing off in trade owing to the forced domed economy of his cu customers st omers his inability to collect his bills from those formerly good and cutting of prices by competitors who are vainly striving to keep from making an assignment for the benefit of creditors while all these conditions are increasing the government it self is selling bonds to get sufficient i funds to pay running expenses and i yet these apologists have the cool effrontery to tell the people that they are not suffering that everybody is prospering and that the i goose hangs high this nw dodge wont take with the mass masses gentlemen for they know better this sort of political hypnotism will not catch votes for mckinley or adv any other candidate on a gold platform rm the single gold standard has contracted the currency and all lines of business and prices have been redu A d in proportion Thel the illusion of trying to convince the industrial classes that thai their condition is al all I 1 that their hearts should desire is imaginary you yon might as well say to a starving freezing man my dear sir you are not hungry or cold why you have abundance here to eatrou have bread and meat you have fruit and vegetables you have milk and 1 wine you are not cold you have a blazing hearth and a supply of fuel you have plenty of clothing and to spare you need not shiver and chill when the winter winds blow through your empty home do the mckinley bill posters or the cleveland cuckoos think for a minute that such stuff will fool any one this dodge is a failure from the start and no one but a gold bug or an idiot will believe a word I 1 of it |