l l " Those, at least, Nommmwmm “truth above all things.’ Eptered in the Post Office as a Newspaper FRIDAY OCTOBER 23, 1896. :THE WEATHER—Promises to be' from fair to partly cloudy and slightly warmer, followed ,by increasing cloud- iness and ressibly at night by rain. Lilo-marrow it promises to be cloudy and slightly colder, with rain and high winds on the coast, followed by clear- ing and colder conditions, and on Sun- day, partly cloudy to fair, colder weather, and fresh northerly winds. _‘i Only ll Days More! —dnd Honest Money, Protection,Peace and Prosperity, will again come'to our sufl’ering country, in the People’stri- umphant election of McKinley and Hobart. Tremendous Export:- So large an export, movement in wheatwas as uneXpectedfaswelcome, and it finds both railroads and steamship lines unequal to the] demands upon them. Especially is this true as to the railroads, which cannot furnish cars as fast as they are needed. The railroad blockade is aggravated by the scarcity of steamers and other vessels, which should keep the eleva- tors at tidewater free to receive the grain. ‘ ’ The blockade will not last long, both rail and steamship lines will soon adjust themselves to the demand. The demand for wheat to go abroad is a godsend to the wheat farmers. They for are now getting a. good price for theig’ wheat and are getting it in dollars worth one hundred cents. . The .Farmers in Luck. Thefarmer is in luck this year for once. There isa big average crop of of wheat, 470,000,000 bushels, which is selling for a big average price in money worth 100 cents to the dollar. who sell their wheat n'ow willget good money, and it is not» condeivablel that the- farmers who are l'gettmo or can get a good price in good 2 money for their crops before election . .‘Iill vote on election day to take money .‘J .munerative price. for their wheat which is only half as good as they are getting now. The wheat yield m the brisk de_ mand for it at good prices constitute only a part of the farmer’s good for- tune this year. There never was a bet- ter crop oi corn, and the agricultural statisticians place it at about 2,500,000,- 000 bushels! Corn always sympathizes with wheat in price, for when wheat is high corn can take its place for many uses, so that it is certain that for the unprecedented crop of this year’s corn the farmersare going to receive a re- As wheat and corn constitute the ochief articles cultivated for sale by the grain farmers, the pros- pect is for a year of unusual prosperity to this important class of our popula- tion. No one will be disposed to envy the cultivators of the soil their prospect of prosperity. They have had adversity in the way of low prices and slow sales for some time, and a change will be as welcome to the re st of the people as to the firmers. For when the crops are good and prices are good, the farmers have money to spend, and that means activity in all branches of business. Good times for the farmers mean better times for ev- rybody else, and, but for the uncertainties attending the coming Presidential election, business would be booming already in every line. The tony of fate seems to confront Mr. B-yan in his utterly hopeless con- thsr. When he started he pointed to the low price of silver and the corres- pondingly low price of wheat, and in- sistedthat it was the decline in silver that made the decline of farming pro— ducts. Since he has taken the stump wheat has advanced twenty cents per bushel and the silver dollar has de- clined over four cents in value, thus confronting his theories by the absc- Lutely conclusive logic of facts. If any farmer can be deceved, in the face of the present prices for wheat and silver, into the belief that the value of farm products depends upon the value of the product of the silver mines, he must either lack intelligence or lack in honesty with himself. The price of sil- ver has had no more to do with the price of wheat than it has had to do with the stars in their spheres. Both have been regulated by the inexorable laws of supply and demand, and now that the wheat crop! of foreign countries has been a partial failure, our surplus has called forth largely in- creased pricesfwhile the supply ot sil- ver has continnld‘io be largely in ex. cess of the demand. The result ' is . wheat has advanced; silver has declined; and the only argument left for Bryan and his cheap money advocates has been utterly exploded by rugged facts which none can dispute. ooo_————_ HARRISON ON THE‘NAVY. A New Battleship an Argument for Inter- national Arbitration. Ex-President Harrison, in writing of “This Country of Ours” in the La- dies’ Home Jburnal, reviews our navy department, and tells of the recon- struction of our new navy. “We had no great ship yards, and no. ship builders with the capital, the skilled labor and the experience to fit them to enter this new field," he writes. “John Roach, however, had the cour- age to believe he could create a. com- petentshop and build the new ves- sels. He put everything at risk, and should have had better treatment from the government than he re- ceived. He was fairly Entitled to some of the profits that have since accrued to those who have walked in the path he blazed. “We have now, both on the Atlantic and Pacific, shipyards and builders capable of constructing any ship, and of putting into her machinery of the first efiiciency. We have also great steel plants, costing millions of money and capable of making armor plates of the highest resisting power, and steel gun forgings of the finest qual- ity. These great ship yards and steel plants are convincing proofs that the supremacy we once had in wooden ship building may be attained-if. it has not already been attained—in steel ships. “Practically all this work has been done within ten years, and the secre- taries of the navy who have presided over and directed it; the constrhctors and ordnance officers of the navy who have furnished the plans and designs. and the steel makers and ship build- ers who have executed these plans are entitled to the highest praise. We have always had a navy personnel to be proud of—not a. finished navy, but one on the way. A new battleship is a new argument for international arbitration—for you must have no- ticed that peremptory demands for :1 fixed amount of damages are usually mafia 59011 nations that have no but- tleships nor torpedo boats. It is not our plan, I am sure, to match the great navies of Europe. ‘ Just Like Her. He—She asked me what kind of colored hair I liked. She—That’s just like Maude; she’s always anxious to please—Puck. Another Calf Case. Two farmers of Beech Springs, Va., went to law a short time ago over a calf, valued at 32, which one accused the other of stealing. The litigation caused the farmers $50 each, and the case was dismissed. The next day the calf was found dead in a cave on prop- erty that did not belong to either of the litigants. Seventeen Acres of Wine. One of the celebrated wine vaults of the London docks is nearly seventeen acres in extent. Ti—1E Evsmm GAz-ETE CHECKEld-BQARD BUSINESS DIRECTORY. N ORWALK Pll‘fl IllSlll‘llllllfl Cl]. 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