As we go on. and our credit gets worse and worse. the premium must necessarily be larger and larger. Our farm products. which we export and upon which we must rely to bay gold and pay for what we import. are depreciating in price in foreign markets year by year as the competition with silverstandard countries increases. See under what disadvantages our farmers labor as against the Asiatics. Take Russia. for example. which is on a silver basis. The Russian farmer has a hundred dollars of taxes to pay and the American farmer has a hundred dollars of taxes to pay.
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