The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-21
HOW EACH MAN CANCEL
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The Lawrence journal, noticing
the fact that w. d. Kelley, of Phil.
adelphia, has been travelling South,
and found money terribly scarce
there and business stagnant, and
that he therefore is going to urge
upon the next Congress an increase
Of the currency, says:
Mr.. Kelley is man of sufficient
intelligence to know that the coun-
try is full of money for those who
have anything valuable TO exchange
for 1t. Did these Southern people
who had no money haYe any cot
ton! If so, they can get money for
1t very quickly. Did they have
rice !! Rice will bring money. Did
they have wool, hides, butter,
cheese, wheat, corn, pork, cattle,
horses-any or all OF these things?
1t so, they can get money. We re-
peat there is an abundance of mon
ey for those who have anything to
exchange for ii.
This is the exact and only solution,
in each and every case, of the great
money problem. Each man must
cure his own financial weakness.
The government can't give a man
money because he needs it. Take
q farmer for instance. He is hard
up, and needs money. How is he
to get it. Land isn't very valuable,
and this is well, for where land is
sale able it readily brings high pric-
es, and poor man cannot buy it.
We hope land in Kansas will always
be slow of sale, and so keep cheap.
Nor can the farmer afford to sell
his plow, or wagon, or work person,
or stock cattle. These, with his
land, constitute his capital, and it Is
by making with them that he pro-
duces that which he can afford 10
part with, and can always get mon
ey for. Nor can he afford to bor.
row, for the borrower is always the
servant of the lender. The only
way a farmer can. really afford to
get money is by selling what he pro-
dnces by his labor and intelligence,
and 1t is therefore his necessity and
interest to be just as industrious,
skillfnl, and judicLous, as God has
given him the power to be. He
can get money by raising good
crops, good cattle, good fruit. He
should not expect to any other way.
To raise these things, and to take
care of them, when he has them, so
that they will bring good prices,
should be his chief object and en-
deavor. If he does this, he will
have money, whether others do or
not, or whether the government in
creases or decreases the supply of
currency. There is no other adj
visable plan. Labor, good care,
good management, continuously
working upon a Kansas farm,
will bring the owner of that farm
money, will finally bring him into
easily circumstances, as sure as the
sun rises and sets, and the seasons
come and go. That this is so,
thousands of cases in Kansas
prove, and our readers in
this county can readily name
many Of their neighbors who
have weathered adverse seasons
and all discouragements and finally
secured COMPETENCY in this coun-
tY.
Cease trusting to politics or to
parties, to an increase of the cur
rency, or to ''better times" for mon
ey. Money can be had by each and
every one simply in exchange for
the marketable products of labor
and skill, and labor and skill pay in
farming, if they don't in other avo-
cations. Put them on the farm,
and the farm will return products
which will bring money even in the
dullest times.