SUPPLEMENT TO THE PUTTING- - RINGS ON. THE RIGHT HOGS.SEMI-WEEKL- Y TRIBUNE.

Friday, September 25, 1896.

KORTH PLATTE, - NEBRASKA.- -

IMS INDIA PAKE.

HkEepeated Assertions Concern-

ing India Wheat Proven

. False.

HON. JAMES BRYCE SPEAKS.

Denials by Members of the English

Parliament and a Prominent

London Merchant

In the speech delivered by WilliamJennings Bryan to the farmers of NewYork assembled at Chautauqua, the In-i- a

wheat fake was revamped by theRiver candidate for president. The as-

sertion made by Mr. Bryan in hisOmaha debate last May that the Eng-Ss- h

speculators could drive great bar-gains in buying silver and trading itfor India wheat to the detriment of theAmerican farmer was reiterated andmbellished by his fervid imagination99 as to create the impression that theiecline of silver has made India theBost formidable competitor of theAmerican wheat and cotton growers.As usual, Mr. Bryan talked at randomwithout taking the trouble to acquaintkimself with the actual facts.

The Bee now has the facts and theSgures that effectually explode Mr.Bryan's India fake. Over two monthsago the editor of the Bee directed a per-soa- al

inquiry on this subject to Hon.James Bryce, who is now and has for

any years been a member of Parlia-ment and was a member of theBritish board of trade. Responding tothis letter, under date of August 1, Mr,Bryce says:

"You are quite right in thinking thatBritish merchants gain nothing at allfrom the closing of the Indian mints.The sharp competition, especially of theHindoo native merchants, cuts downIheir profits and they lose heavily on4he exchange between India and Eng-land in turning into English gold thesilver prices they receive for the goods&ey export to India. The export of foodstuffs from India has not, I gather, in-

creased during the last few years andthe closing of the mints has not increasedit. Manchester aud our manufacturersgenerally complain that business withIndia is unprofitable. Our cotton indus-try is at present greatly depressed. SoBritain at least gains nothing. You will,therefore,-b- e safe in denying that therelias been, or is, any bonus or benefit toBritish merchants or manufacturers."

This letter has been supplemented byFrof. Bryce with an article prepared byfcis brother, J. Annan Bryce, a veryprominent London merchant, who wasfor many years a resident of India. Mr.J. Annan Bryce says:

"For Mr. Rosewater's guidance I haveanado up the annexed statement, whichchows in parallel columns the exports ofwheat from the United States, Argen-tine, Russia and India up to 1ST3 be-fore the fall in silver and rupee ex-change became pronounced. You willebserve that while the exports from theUnited States, Russia and Argentine are

n the whole increasing, those from In-dia are falling off, and that in the year1805 the exports from India were thesame as in the year 1S77. Of course itToes not do to reason on individual years,

zs there may be special circumstances,auch as famines, to account for veryahort years. For instance, 1S78 and1S79 were the years of the great fam-ine in India and 1S92 was the year ofthe famine in Russia.

Pividing the last twenty years into pe-aso- ds

of five years each, you will see thatwiring me last tnree nve-ye- ar periods tneexports irom India have been falling off,while those from the United States, Ar-gentine and Russia have been increas-ing, although all the while rupee ex-nan- ge

has been steadily falling withOver. The figures prove conclusively

as regards Indian wheat, which hassrftvnys been the great bogy with theAmerican silver man, that the India ex-jto-rt

has had nothing to do with thefair rf silver or rupee exchange. Thesilver man would be more sensible if hewere to take alarm at the growing ex-ports from Argentine and from Russia.Bat lie. could make nothing of thc silverargament here, for neither Russian norArgentine exchange depends on silver.Both countries, during the whole of theSriod embraced in my statement, had

basis of their currency and ofoenr&e foreign exchange an inconvertiblepaper currency and not either silver orrold.

"Altogether the facts illustrate thesoundness of Mr, Rosewater's conclusionthat the fall in prices of commodities is

se to more economical production andtransport. In India, in Russia and in'Argentine wheat exports became possi-ble net because the exchange value ofTHpee, the rouble or the dollar fell, butBecause railways were built into districtspreviously inaccessible. In India theproviding of railway facilities stimulatedthe extension of irrigation. In theFanjab, for instance, many millions ofacres were brought into cultivation underirrigation as soon as the opening of therailway to Karachi made the exportjios-b1- e.

But in India there no longerremains any large new field to be openedwp, and in most of the wheat-producin- g

districts which depend on irrigation Ibelieve as much water is now taken out

f the rivers as they can give. Ameri-ca therefore need not fear India much3a the future, even if silver and rupeewere likely to go lower, which they are

et."The statistical exhibit accompanying

tils statement is exhaustive and con-Tinci- ng

in support of the conclusionsarrived at by Mr. Bryce. In 1873 theexport of wheat from the United Statesio England was 45.791,606 bushels; fromBassia; 47,040,000 bushels; Argentinemade no exports and India exported afraction over 1,250,000 bushels. In 1877Trfieat exports from the United Statested reached 107,426,666 bushels; fromBnssia, 57,120.000 bushels; from India25,633,333 bushels: Argentine still hadso wheat to export. In 1S93 wheat ex-ports from the United States had reached223,813,333 bushels; from Russia. 109,-375.0- 00

bushels: from India, 27,066,666.bashels, and from Argentine, 42,000,000bushels. In 1S94 Argentine exported85,000,000 bushels of wheat to England,'while India did not increase its export

ver the preceding year. In 1895 thewheat export from the United Statesrma 170.333,333 bushels; from Russia,356.333.333 bushels; from Argentine,42.000,000 bushels; from India, 15,120,-90- 0

bushels.The average price of wheat in Bom-e- y

from I860 to 1875 was $1.20 per

I was passing through Iowa some months ago, and I got an Idea from some hogs. Laughter. An Idea Is the most Important thing that a person can get Into his head, and we gather our Ideas from ev-

ery source. As I was riding along I noticed these hogs rooting In a field, and they were tearing up the ground, and the first thought that came to me was that they vrere destroying a good deal of property.And that carried me back to the time when as a boy I lived upon a farm, and I remembered that when we had hogs we used to put rings In the noses of the hogs.and then the thought came to me, ""Whydid we do it?" Not to keep the hogs from getting fat. We were more interested In their getting fat than they were. Laughter. The sooner they got fat the sooner we killed them; the longer they,were In getting fat the longer they lived. But why were the rings put In the noses of those hogs? So that, while they were getting fat, they would not destroy more property than they were worth.Laughter and great applause. And as I thought of that this thought came to me, that one of the duties of the government, one of the important duties of government, Is the putting of rings In the noses

of hogs. Applause. From W. J". Bryan's Labor Day Speech.

bushel, which was equal to the price ofone ounce of silver. From 1876 to 1880,while silver was going down, the aver-age price of wheat at Bombay rose to$1.49 per bushel. Between 1881 andiS85 the average price of wheat at Bom-bay was 81.10 per bushel, and from 1886to 1890 51.01 per bushel, although silverhad been tending upward. From 1891to 1895 the average price of wheat atBombay was 95 cents per bushel. Hadwheat followed the price of silver it shouldhave beeD only OS cents per bushel.

Cotton exports from India to Europehave been equally at variance withthe theories advanced by Mr. Bryan.In 1874 India exported 1,236,8S2 balesand in 1S75 1,241,526 bales. Duringthe five years following its cotton ex-port was below 1.000.000 bales. In1S79 it was only 641,458 bales. Duringthe five years ending with 1895 the cot-ton export from India has been steadilydecreasing. In 1891 it was 1.028.417bales: in 1S92, 954,000 bales; in 1893,857.771 bales; in 1S94, 797,070 bales; inlS'Jo, ii'lo.WO bales. In contrast withthis the United States exports of cottonhave been steadily increasing. In 1S90they amounted to O.020.913 bales: in1891, 5,820,779 bales; in 1892. 5.S91.411bales; in 1893, 4,431,220 bales; in 1S94,5,397,509 bales; in 1895, 0.965,35S bales.

xnus ic win oe seen tnar tne Indiabugbear has no foundation, but hasbeen conjured up for political purposesby Bryan, Harvey and all the anostlesof silver. Omaha Bee.

THINGS TO REMEMBER.

Nine Point About Sliver and Protection.

First That there is not a free coinagecountry in the world today that is noton a silver basis.

Second That free coinage will notraise the price of American wool onecent while foreign wool is coming in freeof duty and is crowding American woolout of the home market.

Third That there is not n gold stand-ard country in the world that does notuse silver along with gold and keep itssilver coins worth twice as much as theirbullion value.

Fourth That the free coinage of silverwill not start a single factory in thiscountry, when under the Democratic tar-iff the products of foreign labor areshipped into this country cheaper thanthey can be made here.

Fifth That there is not a silver stand-ard country in the world that uses anygold as money along with silver.

Sixth That free silver coinage willnot create a demand for labor whenDemocratic free trade makes the supplymany times greater than the demand.

Seventh That there is not a silver-standa- rd

country in the world today thathas more than one-thir- d as much moneyin circulation per capita as the UnitedStates has.

Eighth That free silver is not goingto increase the price of nor the demandfor farm products so long as the Ameri-can workingman, who is the principalconsumer, is kept in idleness by trans-ferring his. work4o the hands of foreignworkmen through the medium of freetrade.

Ninth That there is not a silver-standar- d

country in the world where the la-

boring man receives fair pay for hisday's work, and it is largely these men'sproducts that have come into this coun-try by tiie grace of Democratic freetrade, and wiped out the prosperity weenjoyed prior to 1893. ZanesviUeTimes.

Free Silver and Degradation.Labor, today, has reached its erisis.

This is a very simple proposition, toanyone who looks at it with commonsense and reason, but one on whichhangs the fate of labor. If labor votesfor Bryan and free silver, it votes awayone-ha- lf of its wages. It will vote itsorganizations and unions out of exist-ence. For degraded labor that is a. drugon the market, too poor to save a penny,too feeble to lift its head against wrongand oppression, cannot maintain an or-ganization against power and wealth.It will vote its children into ignoranceand toil from their earliest years. Itwill vote its women into the tilling ofits fields, into drudgery in brick yardsand into slavery in the very mines whichsilver men will operate for their ownadvantage, at the expense of everyonem me uniteu estates wno worKs forwages. It will vote itself into bondagefrom which it cannot escape in our dayand time. The statistics of every freesilver country in the world will nrovethis proposition to be true.

Mi rmm mmA Household Truly Homelike and

Entirely Free from AllOstentations.

NOTES OF A VISIT TO CANTON.

The House Where the McKinleysHave Made Their Home for

Twenty-fiv- e Years.

Sojourning a few days recently nearCanton gave opportunity for a charm-ing visit to that new center of attrac-tion.

Canton is alive with enthusiasm, thecourthouse, business places and privatehouses are decorated with flags, por-traits of Maj. McKinley, national colorsand various national and patriotic de-

vices.It is easy to recognize the McKinley

residence by the lawn, whichis wornbrown and bare by the delegations thatcontinue to come from all narts to Daytheir respects to the future occupant ofthe white house.

Never before have women taken suchan active interest in the presidentialcampaign, and never before since thenomination of President Lincoln havewomen's hearts been so stirred overthe condition of the country, and whilemany are interested because of themain issues of the campaign, all areinterested in the Republican nomineefor president, because of his standingas a man and a citizen, and his socialand family life.

The residence of Gov. and Mrs. Mc-Kinley is homelike, and free from os-

tentation. A porch extends along theentire front of the house, some fine oldtrees cast a grateful shade UDon thelawn, and beds of flowers attract thesight We Btep into the softly carpetedhall, furnished with easy chairs andcolors restful to the eye; a momentmore, and we are received by Mr. Mc-Kinley.

The reception room, on the right ofthe hall as one enters, is used as anoffice, aud here at all times of the dayMr. McKinley receives news and tele-grams that are communicated directlyto his residence, of such matters as per-tain to and arc of interest to the cam-paign.

While he talks his secretary occasion-ally hands him a telegram which hereads without interruption to the conver-sation.

Mr. McKinley will remain in" Cantonmost of the time until after the elec-tion in November. It has been his in-

tention to take a short trip to some pointon the sea coast, but he has decided toremain in Canton. "I have no wish,"he said, "to shut myself away from thepeople."

Speaking of the activity of the womenin the campaign, he said: "I am gladthe ladies --have uch confidence in me."

I was glad to respond: "We do havegreat confidence in you, Mr. McKinley,more than it has ever before been ouropportunity to express."

"Would you like to meet Mrs. McKin-ley? Mother is one of our family, butat present she is away on a visit; andalthough she has reached the age of81. she is in excellent health."

Any anticipatd pleasure we may havehad in meeting Mrs. McKinley is morethan realized. Seated in the handsomeparlor, where all lights and colors har-monize prevailing harmony impressesone first and last in the McKinley home

with some dainty crochet work in bluezephyr in her lap talking with a ladyvisitor, - is the future mistress of thewhite house. It is easy to say of thiswoman who will be the first lady in theland, now that she is approaching herzenith, that she is one of the loveliestwonien we have ever met, but such isthe oft-repeat- ed verdict of the many.

At first glance we recognize Mrs. Mc-Kinley. from her pictures recently taken,the shining hair parted in the center ofthe forehead, rippling softly over the j

beautiful brow, a sweet, almost girlishface not a line or wrinkle marring itssmoothness the incaruation of womanlysweetness.

One who is sensitive and observant,neea never to have heard one word of Mr.McKinley's family life to understand therelation Mr. and Mrs. McKinley occupytoward one another, and while the pleas-ant morning conversation proceeds, weseem to feel through the atmosphere ofthe room every word of the spirit and ex-istence of the happy wedded life perpetu-ated, which Browning expressed andpainted in his "By the Fireside."

We are looking at and discussing pic-tures of Mr. and Mrs. McKinley, whenone of the family, taking up one of Mr.McKinley, which from the view of theface shows the deep thought line extend-ing the length of the forehead, remarks:"Mrs. McKinley does not like these shethinks that line looks like a scowl." Weall smile and quite agree with her, thatthat picture does not "do him justice,"and we think what picture could por-tray him as he is, the charming person-ality, the kindly, genial manner, theclear, perfectly modulated voice, thebright blue eye, and clear complexion,and the fine smooth skin that a wom-an might envy? While his pictures can-not portray this, they do show with fidel-ity some qualities of the man whosesplendid constitution has never been im-paired by excesses, the erect form, thebrown hair, that shows but few tracesof silver; the broad, full forehead, deepset eye. clearly cut features and square,massive jaw, the features and ' bearingone might look for in the hero of thebattle of Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek,where he was breveted major by Presi-dent Lincoln.

Mr. McKinley's passionate love offlowers is recognized by his friends.

"Are not those roses lovely?" raysMrs. McKinley, calling our attention tosome vases of rare red roses, upon themantel and brackets; "but I love these,"glancing at a bouquet of sweet peas onthe pretty table beside her. "The rosescame in such a beautiful wooden box.The name of the giver is not here. William," addressing Mr. McKinley, and,taking up a card and reading. "To Mr.and Mrs. McKinley, from your devotedfriend, " "The magnolias were sentfrom the South." As Mr. McKinleyrises, our eyes follow him. and we catcha glimpse, through an

.open door, of a

J S A 1 1 - tuamty coucu in wnite ana goia, ana

there is a baby asleen in there."So gentle is the step on

.the thick car- -

A A. 1 A. x 1nets mm it couia not awaten tnelightest sleeper, and holding the greatsnowy, waxen blossoms for our inspec-tion he says, the recollection, perhaps,suggested by the thought of the littlesleeper in the adjoining room, "Wecommenced our first housekeeping inthis house over twenty-fiv- e years ago.Here our little ones were born andpassed away, the old home's endeared tous by many pleasant, hallowed mem-ories'

The silken flag that adorned thechairman's desk at the Republican con-vention at St. Louis is .draped on onecorner' of the piano. The gavel usedby the chairman on that occasion, abeautiful piece of carved workmanship,was shown us. "It is said to have beenmade from a piece of one of the logsfrom the log cabin in which AbrahamLincoln liyed. It is a pleasant thoughtto a lover of relics and to the patriotic,"says Mr. McKinley.

There were also some beautiful bad-ges, used during different presidentialcampaigns, one a white satin badge usedduring President Tyler's campaign,bearing his motto, the design of whichwould have done credit to the finest oftoday, with all our modern accessoriesof art.

Mr. McKinley is, as it has been said,"the deliverer of a new gospel towomen and children in making protec-tion and the tariff plain to them," andwe may add, that is his blameless politi-cal, professional, religious, domestic endsocial life, he has also revealed a newgospel to the young men of our country.

Mary Stuart Coffin.

Bryan's hope of success is groundedwholly on the late P. T. Barnum's the-ory that a fool is born every minute.

Paste it in your hat that free coin-age and free trade, the great pair ofpanic-producer- s, go hand in hand in thiscampaign. You can't support the onewithout voting for the other.

Mr. Bryan is too confidential with hisaudiences for dignity almost plaintive,sometimes, in his appeals to them to saywhether or not he looks like an

FARMERS m TARIFF

Home Demand Supplies the Chief

Market for AgriculturalProducts.

WHERE THEIR INTEREST LIES.

Effect of Curtailing the Purchasing

Pover of the Men Employedin Factories.

We export about one-thir- d of thewheat grown in the United States eitherin the form of flour or of wheat. Weexport only about 5 per cent." of ourcorn crop. The exportation of othergrain is as a rule trifling in quantity, al-

though the very low price of oats for thepast two years, owing to heavy produc-tion and a falling off in the home de-

mand for consumption by street railway horses and driving horses, has ledto a considerable foreign movement inthis grain. Of our meats we probablyexport about 10 per cent., although exactstatistics are not available on this point.

hgures are sumcient to make itplain to the intelligent fanner that thehome market is his great market, andthat any causes which reduce the homedemand for provisions directly injure thefarming interest.

Besides the staple articles of grain andmeat, there are a multitude of farmproducts for which there is no market atall except the home market. This in-cludes the whole range of perishablefruits and vegetables, and also includesto a very great extent the dairy products.Other important items are poultry andeggs. All thrifty farmers know the valueof home markets for such articles asthese, and know, too, that much of theprofit of farming comes from the minorproductions of the farm.

If we are to have increased home con-sumption of farm products we must havelabor generally employed, and at fairwages, in the towns and cities. To keeplabor well employed it is absolutely es-

sential under the present conditions thatwe should have protective duties upona large range of foreign-mad- e articles.This is no longer a matter of theory,about which intelligent men dispute. Itwas held for a time by the advocates offree trade that the superior intelligenceof the average American workingnian andthe superior quality of the machinery heused would be a sufficient protection toinsure our own markets tor our ownmanufactured-produc- ts. - This is a de-lusion which no intelligent man now ad-vocates. The extension of commerce bysteamship lines all over the world, thelaying of submarine telegraph cables,the world-wid- e habit of travel, the cheap-ness and convenience of transportation,and the general spread of intelligenceby newspapers has put the entire civ-ilized and semi-civiliz- ed globe in closebusiness relations. Our ingenious labor-savin- g

machines are being introducedinto China-- and Japan, and no importantimprovement is made in inventions inthis coutry that is not immediatelyknown in all parts of Europe. The skilland producing capacity of the' mechanicsand operatives of other countries areconstantly being increased by the sharp-ness of competition and by the introduc-tion of new methods and machinery.Labor all over the world is tending to acommon level.

Now the thoughtful farmer will readilysee that if we were to keep up the abili-ty of our own shop and factory popula-tion to consnme his product in liberalquantities we must maintain an exceptional rate or wages, it through suchfree-trad- e legislation as Mr. Bryan andhis followers advocate we are to lowerour American wage-earnin- g population tothe standards of living prevailing in themanufacturing countries winch competewith us, then there would be a greatsurplus of farm products in this countryfor which there would be no home mar-ket. We must put up a tariff wall tokeep out a flood of such articles as wemanufacture in our own country, or wewill soon be deluged with cheap waresand fabrics from Japan and China as

well as from the low-pai- d labor countriesof Europe.

The farming industry is unquestiona-bly in a depressed condition today, andthe cause is not far to seek. Look atthe hundreds of silent factories withtheir smokeless chimneys, all over thecountry, from Nebraska to Maine, andform, if you can, an estimate of theimmense multitude of people formerlyemployed in these establishments, whoare now eking out a poor living as bestthey can in other vocations, many ofthem, no doubt, in farming and garden-ing, where they have Decome competitorswith the men who formerly suppliedthem with food. If the free-trad-e move-ment led by Mr. Bryan goes on to itsnatural conclusion, whole lines of in-

dustry which have survived the Wilsonbill will be ruined and hundreds of thou-sands of employes will be thrown outof work.

The conclusion ought to be plainto every thoughtful man engaged in ag-ricultural pursuits. We cannot afford toreduce our wage rates to those of for-eign countries. We must make for our--

,

selves all articles needed for our ordi-nary, every-da- y uses, importing onlysuch luxuries as foreign countries havespecial facilities for producing. Tarifffor revenue only means the ruin of thefarmer, and tariff for protection meansa well-employ- town and city population, and good home markets for everything the farmer has to sell.

CAMPAIGN NOTES.

"I would willingly defend free tradewith my life." said Mr. Bryan in his firstspeech in Congress, and as he is nowdefending free silver with his tongueonly it is easy to see to which policy heis most devoted.

Democratic orators and organs mayevade the tariff, but the workingmen othe country cannot, for to them it presents the unavoidable issue of work andprosperity or idleness and poverty.

While the Popocrat demagogues areshouting "Down with the rich." theRepublican party advances with the cry

Up with the poor, and proposes theenactment of measures that-wil- l nrovidework for the workers and prosperity.for all.

Sam Jones is nothing if not expressive. Me declares that he would ratherclimb a ladder with an armful of eelstnan to undertake to fuse with the mid

The workingman does not want scheaper dollar. He wants steady employment paid for in dollars as good asgold.

The simplest way to elect McKinley Isto vote for him. Mr. Bourke Cockran observes to his fellow Democrats, and thatremark contains all the wisdom of allthe ages.

The one question Bryan never answersis the simple one, "How about freetrade?"

The Bryan party. .is made up -- of allkinds of factions, led by all sorts ofcranks, and if it should get into office itcouldn't work together.

In denouncing wealth the Democraticorgans are consistent with their party,for it has done everything it could tomake the people poor end keep them so.

The Republican pledge to promote thefree coinage of silver by internationalagreement offers the only solution of themoney problem which good business mencan accept,-- and for that reason even theDemocrats among them are working withthe Republican party this year and willvote for McKinley.

Any Popocrat who believes that Bry-an can carry Kentucky when Palmer is anative and Buckner a native and a resi-dent of the Blue Grass state, doesn'tknow the Kentucky nature.

It is easy to see from Thomas B;Reed's speeches down in Maine that heis perfectly serene and happy. But thenhe usually feels that way. He was bornso.

Mr. Bryan errs in saying that it is idlecuriosity that draws people to his xneefaings. It is both interesting and profittable to study a man who, in this civilizedcountry in this age of the world, ap-parently thinks that wealth can be cre-ated by legislation.

"What gain would we make for thecirculating medium," asked the lataJames G. Blaine eighteen years ago, "ifon opening the gate for silver to flowin, we open a still wider gate for golfto flow out?" Th question is still uanswered and still timely.