IMPROVED HARVESTING METHODS.
The old-fashioned methods of reaping the yellow fields of wheat has also been ousted by the conspiracy of the late improved harvester and binder. The old fashioned cradle has been decradleized. Why not form an alliance all over this country to recradleize the cradle, and make common warfare against the up-to-date binder? Even the old McCormick reaper has been dereaperized and the succeeding invention, the header, has been deheaderized, and who shall not say in this onward march of progress, in this wonderful advancement of our civilization, in this age of discovery and invention, that sooner or later the up-to-date binder of to day will not be debinderized by the inventive genius of some American citizen? (Applause.) Now, let us see, fellow citizens, what the so-called crime of 1873 has done for prices of various commodities. One of the stock declarations of Mr. Bryan and Mr. Harvey and their cohorts is that prices should be restored and wages should be increased. One of two things is very apparent, either the framers of the Chicago platform did not consult the statistics of the United States, or else they imagined the voters would not. "Coin" Harvey and the silver advocates generally seek to establish their position by quoting statistics of average prices of certain great commodities like wheat and cotton claiming that prices commenced falling in 1873, and their decline has continued ever since. These arguments are those of the delusionists and must crumble before the evidence and the facts. Let me say to you that prices did not commence falling in 1873, but in 1864-5.