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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1893
Page
8
Long denunciation of corrupt politics and calls for honest elections, removal of pernicious laws, and a united reform movement. Advocates forming a new party from reformers and supporting equal rights, with women suffrage as a potential catalyst and a platform to purge Mammon worshippers.
A discussion warns that repeal of the silver law could depress prices for wheat and cotton since silver’s value governs purchasing power. If silver drops to 70 cents or lower, exports from India would set Chicago prices around 53 to 35 cents per bushel for wheat and ten pounds of cotton per ounce of silver would pressure American growers to deliver cotton at silver’s value, altering export flows and local markets.
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