Weekly Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 27, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 31, 1896 Page: 3 of 8
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A GBEAl SEWSPAPER.
The Weekly State Capital during
this campaign has been a surprise to
all cf cur iimierte list of ivUcrifctrs.
It bss contain.d w.tk y fxiu sixteen
to eight., n rfg.s. every r (-'e ,ul1 °'
lite rtiding matter ard «cv<iti.e-
mects. Etd all Ibis fast lucvrt <f
rend'tg reatLr for t\> erty fve cents
per yt 8r. tjiibfcrit.) s have t t i n com-
irg 'n at ed alaimirg rate recently.
The list hts grc w n so large that it has
almost cxerreaehfd cur jress facili-
ties. great as they are. If the list con-
tinues to increase between row and
January, as it has in the last three
months, we will be cf inpelled to add a
perfecting press to our machinery, to-
gether with a full newspaper stereo-
typing outfit. This Weekly now
reaches every postcftice. frcm the larg-
est to the smallest in Oklahoma.
The subscribers are not ecifred i
republicans; democrats, populists and
independents, as well as republicans,
seem eager to subscribe for and read
it. Let every man who reads this
item remember that on Ncvember .1,
is the last day on which this weekly
can be had at twenty-five cents a year.
When we put the price down to this
insignificant sum for the campaign we
stated that after November 3, the
price would go back to the regular
subscription rate, fifty cents a year
So if you want the greatest paper in
this territory for twenty-five cents a
year, mail your quarter and your name
to us between now and November 4.
Low of 25c a bu. on an
avt* of 45o.uoo.ihk> wheat
a vear.
Total bo* for * ye ra
1.800.000.ooo
Loss of 1 r>c a bu on an
ave of 1.5UO.OOO.OOO bu.
corn a year.
Total bu. for 4 years
5.000.000.000
Ave. loss of $2.00 s hun-
dred on 50.000.000 hod*
eadh year; ave. wt. 200 ftt
each.
Total No. hops for A
years .... 200.000,000
Total wt 4o.uoo.ooo,ooo
LoM "f $1.50 a cwt on
8G.ooo.000 head of cattle
each vear; average weight
800 !U.
Total number of cattle
for t years 144.000,ooo
Total weight of cattle
115.200.000.000
Loss of ll6c a lb on ave
product of 9,000,000 bales-
of cotton yearly; ave. wt
of bale 500 ! •: .
Total No. bales for 4 yrs
30.000,000
"Total wt 18,000.000,000
Loss of 15c a bu. on ave.
crop of 7o0.000.000 bu. oats
yearlv.
Total No. bu. for 4 vears,
2 800,000.000
Loss of 30c per bu. on
ave. crop of 300.000,000
bu. potatoes J early.
l otal No. on. for i y( art,
1.200.000,000
Lost of $2.00 per ton on
50.000.000 tons of hay
veailv.
Total No tons for 4 yrs
200.000.000
Los* of 20.00 per head
ai IV on 15.000,000 hd.
ot hoi-.es
Total No. horses in 4 vrs
00,000.00 0
VALI'R AT
1892
TRICKS
VALVE at
FK ICES
MM E
total
I gf poll
4 YVAR8
four dollars a barrel. The price in that country of for- tho viilne .,f
eign flour was §i>,50 a barrel. You see it was ut- ! Under 1
*1,170,000.001
I M .Ml .n.nrinumni HHOIWBett, wnerenv W0 WOUl(l fill
,r. errer uie otuer prounerrf nT tne worm in the frenc haye fty )(1 for Hj] we buv abroad and receive silver
and German markets. The Spanish tariff on flour was at coinnK,; vfli„e fl.r M we abroad—thus reducing
our exports one half?
„ iri the Bryan idea, the silver countries wotild
terly impossible, without reciprocal treaties, for the Amer- continnp ,() 1(lk), ou"r ,(1 nn(1 §i|ver bv w..i«,|lt__Bt bull-
ican miller to pet his flour into that market and i(m valne_while we woul(1 h(. compelled to take theirs
compete with the cheaper article of other countries. hy (.onii) for t, won,(i throw (Wir F;lvor into our
$150,000000 But the reciprocal treaties redu «d tin* tai l on Lour to uiints amj ollt fixl 1 legal tender American dollars
one dollar a barrel, which pave the American^ flour pro- therefor) nnd w, wouW get M0 m.iprocal benefits.
*1,800,000,000 *000,000,000 ! $900,000,000
ja.000,000.001' $1,300,000.(00
ducer an advantage of three dollars a barrel over the
other flour producers of the world; and this is the way
the output of American flour was so greatly increased.
The saint- advantage was given the American producer in
the South American and other countries, and in return
for this advantage '.he United States gave to the countries
$800,000,000 ^th which it made treaties equal advantages against other j.rtulu'^-s annually more r
countries in our markets for tlmse products which were nlnnnfH..|ur.,,i w Ye- \b
needed and which were not produced in the United "anntanur,
States in sufficient quantities to meet the home demand.
Koclprocity Advantages I'.qualh Divided.
$4,608,000,000
$2.880,000,00( -j $1,7V!8.000,000
31r itryaii Ignores lU'riprority.
Under the Blaine idea, we would give an immense ad-
vantage to these silver countries in return for their ad-
vantages to us. The silver countries of the world are
mostly the free trade countries; but one of them, India,
raw material than she buys of
t of them annually ships out
about all the silver and g"ld they produce with all that
they can in any way get. The loss of silver standard coun-
tries, one of which the Bryan act proposes to make of
the United States nnd they propose to give us free trade
$1,530,000,000 $1,200.000.000 $270,000,000
$840,000,000 i $420,000,000 j $120,000,000
Kns«la
China
India
Me x ico....
I oluml'i.i
lioli* ia....
$000,000,000 j $240,000,000
$600,000,000 I $400,000,000
import? \r\
told
$ 218.780.220,
i5i.8ea,8i9
. 429.220.K04
ao.287.4M>
12,1 H9.25H
12.500, OOO
.. lo.877.42M)
10,052.163
cr>st !n
Silver.
S02.72&.' :<d
858.440,'
57,546,'j:<0
24.378/ < H
25.000.oo0
21,754. *
20,104.: -ti
Ecuador
i Tin- silver countries have no gold to pay In. They
$3,000,000,000 $1,800,000,000 $1,200,000,000
VAl.ru AT
1892
pricks
VALl'E AT
PRICES
SINCE
Loss of $20.00 per head
annually on 2.000.000
mules.
Total No. Mules in 4 yrs.
8 000,000
Annual loss of 5c per lb
Of course you hate to believe it, and
Horner's friends will be surprised
when they learn it, that C. G. Horner j on i.&ou.ooo.uoo itLs out
is not only making the campaign over j t('.rrotal No lbs 1)Uttcr for 4
Logan county with Judge Perkins, | y*ar 6.000,000,000 $1,200,000,000
but he evidently sleeps with the judge I Ave. loss annually on;
$480 000,000 $320,000,000
1802; in I8 r>, a8,2 b,ouo
sheep valued at $05.ooo.-
ooo; showing an annual!
I loss of 80^02,0001
try farm houses where they are com-
pelled to stay all night. We under-
stand that a democrat says .lack ear
ries a nose-cover for occasions of this j o on^nnujl (Produc.
wool worth 32c in 1892
and 1hw:i. and 10c since
kind. He told a democrat on the dead
quiet that he had taken a good many
$200,000,000
' Do you hear an> 'alk l>v Mr. Hrvan or his followers along will" silver nioiiometallism—isappalin". The im-
of mttiiig anything in return tor the immense advantage P°rt#tion of the leadio8 '"ilv,'r *nd the InoreaMd
thev declare will accrue to the silver countries of the cost of thnn on amount of payments in silver, is esti.
world by a raise of the bullion value of silver to the coin- mated as fol.ows: ^
age value? Not at all. They propose to raise the value
in the markets of the world of the nine hundred million
dollars of India silver—to double its pres ' value— and
what does the Cnitod States get in return r Nothing.
They propose to rais" the value of the tiftv million dol-
jnco.ooo.ooe ]nrs"of silver in Mexico to double its value in the markets
of the world, nnd for which we would receive nothing in
fMtvn. The\ proposs to double the value of the silver have to scramble to get gold with which to keep up gold
iooooooo« of Japan and of ('lima and of the Central and South interest ou their obligations held in England, Germany
American countries—all of the silver countries—-100 per and France. Eveiy dollar purchased by them cost them
cent, in purchasing power in the markets of the world— two silver dollars. Japan, under a high protective tariff
nnu m tne meantime not add a cent to the purchasing —a war tariff—put oil several years before the Chinese
power of the silver dollar of the United States, which is war, for the purpose of raising immense sums with which
as good as gold in internal trade and not used at all in to build a large navy to whip China, is becoming a man-
external trade. In other words, the theoretical "bimet- facturing country. This tariff made the cost of manu-
ullists" propose to add to the value of the one billion of factured wares so high that manufactures were nt once es-
silver dollars in Ihe silver using nations of the world 100 tablished in Japan, and under this accidental war tarilf
per cent.—to make the one billion dollars which are now Japan is doing what the United States did under the w r
worth half their face value, worth one billion dollars in the tariffs succeeding our civil war, she is becoming the chi f
world's markets—and without a cent of benefit to the manufacturing nation of the Asiatic countries. She s
United States in return. becoming, instead of dependent, self-sustaining. So, by
And what value can be added to the coined silver of manufacturing her wares at home and by keeping her
the United States by this attempt of the silver monomet- metallic money at home she will soon realize a perma-
5.70o,go<>.ooo s[|igtg (0 rajse the price of silver bullion to the coinage nent metallic basis, and become one of the enterprising,
value of the silver dollar? Not a penny could be added progressive and really civilized nations of the world. To
to the value of the silver dollar because"it is now as good this point she is very rapidly approaching —and has
as gold. done it through high tariffs.
Is it Not a Suicidal Policy? "Raw Material" Countries.
tot A I.
loss FOR
4 YEARS
J100.O00, Ou4
doses in his life, but this dose of sleep-
ing w ith Perkins was the hardest one
that he had yet tried to swallow, but
that he was out for county attorney,
and that he proposed to oe elected if
he had to sleep with every negro in
Logan county who would consent to
Tote for the Perkins democratic ticket,
for a vote for that ticket is a vote for
Horner. And all this gang now hug-
ging Perkins and his ticket are demo-
crats-men who heretofore have
damned the negro and wanted him,
especially Perkins, run out of the
country.
$3.r)5.840,000 $177,020,000
$&,7ou,000
Total
American
U. Emmett Stewabt has added to
his reputation for ability and good
sense by the excellent manner in
which he lias shown up the records of
this county in his canvass for county
clerk. He shows the wonderful econ-
omy of the present board of county
commissioners and other officers in a
way which pleases the people, and
which they cannot gainsay. His fig-
ures are copied direct from the rec-
ords and he presents them with a
clearness easy of comprehension. His
speeches are local and full of figures
and facts. Whatever prejudice may
have existed against Stewart two
years ago, has been completely elim-
inated by the excellent manner in
which he has conducted his office and
his mode sty and agreeability to all
who have had public business to
transact in the clerk's office. He has
the esteem of every republican and
democrat and populist
any
carefulness in the administration of j cent, proht.
his office.
Now what would be the sensible thing? Ts it a sen- j ISut the other Asiatic, Central American and soi th-
sible policy—is it not imbecilic-—to offer an advantage to em countries are producers of raw materials. They buy
$n7,Bjo,ooo another country without an advantage to this country in their manufactured wares in l'aris, Berlin and London.
return? The idea of Mr. Blaine was for an even ex- For every dollar bought, measured in gold, they areoom-
change between countries. That free trade upon an pelled to pay two silver dollars two hundred silver cents
equality upon the things which free trade can be atlord- for one hundred cents of goods sold upon a gold basis,
ed is the only method by which A.nierica can hojte to Suppose the I nited States in return for their reception of
maintain its high wage scale upon the farm and in the our silver at coinage value, and in the making of recipro-
factory and yet compete with the cheaper wages upon cal treaties between this nation and those nations, should
the farm and in the factory of foreign countries. His offer the manufactured goods of the United States in re-
policy was to give nothing to a foreign country without turn for the goods of those countries, priced upon a go.'l
$12,000,000 a wider and better market for American products in re- basis, and the balances of trade, whatever they may be, tc
turn. The wisdom of his policy was exemplified in the be paid in silver at coinage value, there would be a grea
addition of a dollar a hundred within a year upon the advantage to each country of the contract. For in
$4i 8,000,0001 *840,000,0001 $68,000,000 price of pork and beef by extended markets in Germany stance, those countries, instead of paying two silver dol
and France, by an acceleration in the price of wheat by lars for one doltar of English, trench or German goods
an extension of the manufactured product, American measured in gold, would then come to the factories of
flour, into Mexico. Central America, South America, and the United States and buy the goods of our manufactur-
Spain. The Democratic policy has been to lay down the ers, dollar for dollar, in silver, it is understood that the
bars for the cheap farm products of the world and the average price of wages in the United States are at least
goods manufactured by the pauper labor of other couii- 3<1.^ per cent, higher than that of the countries fioin
tries in order to get cheaper flour, and pork and beet for which Asiatic, Southern and Central American countries
the American laborer, and cheaper manufactured wares are now buying their manufactured wares. We would
for the American farmer. The people of the 1 nited therefore be compelled to charge them l.o i.^ for what,
States in various ways have seen the disaster of such a measured on a gold basis in London, 1 uris or Berlin,
policy. They now have a forcible demonstration of it. would be but 100 cents; but these countries will pay the
Partial attempts at it have lost us the foreign markets United States in silver instead of paying 200
built up by Blaine's reciprocity treaties and at tho same cents in silver tor a dollars worth of goods bought of
time reduced the conditions of the American laborer so England, Germany or France, and measured in gold.
How can tho American farmer compete with the that where he ate tw oloaves of bread in 1892 he is now Thus by purchasing their manufactured wares of the
passage of Gortnan bill
Total No. lb* of wool
1,112,000 000
Ix s«« on 1.500 000 bu
castor beans reduced 5t
l>er cent, by reduction ot
tariff
Total No. bushels castor
beans in 4 yeears
6.000,000!
Loss on broom corn J
flax, fruits, vegetables and
other products not enuni-i
era ted above, at the con
servative estimate.
Total loss for four vears.
#3,000,000
Loss of 2c per doz on
80.000,000 doz eggsannu-
allv.
Total No. of e^jzs in 4
years 3.401-. 000.000
■ _j
r.aa.a02.340,000 1411.222,720,000 |$i2.sei,02tf.ooc
Average total loss to each farm for the four years $3,220.4C
Home Market the Only Hope.
The only hope of the American farmer is in the build-
ing up of the home market. Every dollar s worth of
products of his raising, which are forced abroad, must
compete with products, the net cost of raising which is
50 to 100 per cent, less than it costs him to raise his.
Fanner Cannot Compete With
Foreigners.
"breech-clout." ten-cent-a-day labor of India which pro- "impelled, by lack of labor to earn the money to buy it, 1
duces wheat as good as ours at a net cost of eleven cents to subsist upon one loaf, thus destroying hty percent. <1
a bushel? It costs the American farmer forty cents a of the Home consumption of the products of the Amen- c
United States they would Bave (50!f cents on every two
dollars. A suit of clothes which costs a Mexican mer-
chant $5 in London, costs him §10 in silver when ^.t gets
to his country; the $5 suit measured in gold cohts $10
measured in silver.
By such treaties as these the United States, Instead
If we are to raise the value of the silver of foreign of paying '•> these Western and Southern countries from
wlio have had this country can sell their crop for one-third less than countries to the value of our own-make it as good as gold two hundred and seventy-five to three hundred and fifty
hance to know his courtesy and I the American producer and yet make from 50 to 100 per for foreign purchases in ouri
j i • • - j ixt rtoinnir rrnin r.rnriMnn itit. iucu nit L ^
In other words, it would become an exchange of
bushel to raise his wheat. The immense wheat planta- CBI1 farmer.
tions of Australia produce wheat at twenty-two cents a Let Us Get Something III Return.
bushel. It is produced in Brazil at eighteen cents a
bushel. It is very plain that the producers of wheat in
nnnntrinQ tr rnlnn n t ntn \j ri 11 — - ■ ■ uu ^V/V/V4 ,lu - *
markets—let us demand some- million dollarb a year in gold, as our balances of trade in
^ thing in return. Wo are receiving from England, Ger- their favor, would pay these balances in manufactured
The cotton raisers of India, and of Egypt and other many, France and the other gold countries of the world wares. _
— . J African countries, raise cotton at a net cost of two cents yearly balances of trade in gold of from two to three goods instead of an exchange of money for goods.
The sight of .1. 1). < 01s, an o < ^ u , )-)e(.aua0 (h'0 laborer who produces it gets hundred million dollars a year. We are buying from What Blaine Would Have Done.
line Arkansas 1 eroocra , a m.> ^ twenty cents a day It costs the Ameri- the Asiatic, Central American and Southern countries
sprung from the loins of confedeiac^ j jocund to produce his cotton. So from one to three hundred millions dollars a year more Had Blaine lived and been kept at the head of th«
on,,, «* <****. *. ■««.«
Old confederate ancestor, countries -an sell their cotton at the.net cost of pro- paid Old Mexico $13,000,000, and in 1893, $7,000,000 tliy with him, by just such plans « th.se-
turn over in their graves. If there is duction in the United States and yet make 100 per cent.
mybody on earth, politically, that De-i progt Corn is produced ill Australia, India and South chase of products of that country. TV e
' ' J " ' America at a cost of about seven and one-lialf cents a 1892, for Cuban sugar $.">6,000,000 it
Dushel.
sents a bushel to produce corn—ami tne yieiu must oe uuu |«^uicuid ui yum ■ !• «« -a .... , u ... „ n,.
stead of keeping the gold at home and paying the silver paying these Western and Southern countries-- the mar
liois has heretofore hated, it is
negro. Now you can bnd him almost
any day with his arms around the
negro brother. Nichols, and hanging
onto each other like cooing lovers
This ought to disgust democrts, as it
by adding
'old. as her balance of trade due from us for the pur- silver financial reciprocity to tariff reciprocity treaties,
We paid to Cuba, in he would have had a high market in the United States
- in g0],|. In other and abroad for every dollar of American farm products,
It costs in the United States at least twelve words, we are receiving from the gold countries of the and he would have extended by millions of
roduce corn—and the yield must be world payments of gold for our balances of trade and in- least enough to even the stances o .k -
rery great if it does not cost more than this.
How does the American corn raiser compete with countries, in silver we are transferrin;
this gold to silver
kets for the manufactured wares of the 1 uited States
Jhe foreign corn raiser excepting at a ruinously*low rate? countries in payment of our balances of trade in favor of And in doing this we would not have Un i- kej t « mi o
A late report of the Department of Agriculture—and this them, and they 8
intz a campuJKu tuc ucgiu miv>uu o. i i i n . , , , 1 i • i
knowing that every vote for Nichols it, report was written by a democrat—was forced to admit ing the gold inte
a vote for Deltois—using the poor that the immense increase in the production of corn, tions
ought everybody else. ~ C nd they L t aki Lf t he gold thi, received Ipaj. five cents of market in Liverpool or any tl-.her^i
Nicho18'1 • ■ ■ ;-'erest to England or-os their gold obliga- countries of the-world. They do not buy of us as ala-
campaign for the negro
They buy of us only through necessity, and when
we will sell as cheaply or cheaper than the producers of
negro as a stool pigeon to catch votes cotton and wheat in foreign countries, and the great in- Kind of "International Agreements" Needed. " . . , ]jH South America" Africa and
for Deliois,4he non-taxpayer, to the j crease of cattle in South America, and the very low 1I,( ln'' , , .< .« r.c..
Habuy Obav has been among the
men who have been bitterest against
negroes in Guthrie. He hates them
worse than he hates sheol, and yet
now, we are reliably informed, he is
the man who is furnishing the where- market for his products at a decent price
with to keep Morrison on the 1'erkins 0[ production ? The first way is by the restoration of npon
democratic ticket He tlvnks that U^e reciprocity treaties undeT which the foreign
the " ' -
fk. - - - -, ,
countv commissioner in the hrst (lis
trict,' This is a sample of what demo-
cratic negro-haters will do with the
foreign cost of the production of these things, would, in . The sort of "international agreement." we need are other countries J1"B7
five years drive the American farmer out of every market with the silver standard nations of the world-and there to one hundred per cent. I. s i th n t , tost | r
f 4] ^ . 1 are thirty of them, containing a billion of the people of tion in the United States, r. nglancl l as but
o^ , u, wui ^ the world—whereby we shall buy of their productions ciprocate with—little that we need an A d© not produce.
t&i How Shall A\ 0 Make n Good Market? what we need and do not produce, and they shall buy of Germany and France need our pork and beef, and main
How then shall the American producer maintain a our productions what they need and do not produce, laying things we have, and we need may things they an. ot er
■above the cost down the tariff bars therefor; these good- to be sold gold countries have, and we could, therefore, 11111k |
the world's gold basis nnd the balances of rocal treaties with Germany, France, Holland, Austria-
markets trade be payable in silver at coinage value. Under Hungary—and with England toa limited extent- am ot u r
cTvote* Morrison will get wil be saf-lf^ ^cultyalp^acti^eVe'enia^ged'inonejear sixty "<* «•'" United States would keep at home gold countries and I >a lancet ^ ^the
ent to elect Crav as democratic million dollars The tariff of Germany and France on the goid it receives from gold countries and make a mar- from these countrns always come o it way. ii
- - ^
reciprocity treaties the tarilf on our pork and beef in States benefit other countries immensely and get m re- nre upon n ^ . ^ " g
these countries was reduced to one dollar a barrel. Thi*!twn no benefits for our own? Would you hava tU fo pay in, is the height!, of national folly.
1 gave the American producer an advantage of S2.S0 a
negro when they have a chance to use
him. Hut Gray will get beautifully
fooled
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