The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-09-19
CAUSES JT2

The m~oncy-wlsc tell lis that pros
porous times are coming. That money
Is going to be plentiful. That
business is going to be more brisk.
That the great wheels of IN are
going to whirl again. That enterprise
and successful venture are again o
resume their delightful sway.
Possibly this may prove true.
But what has caused ii? Behold
what vicissitudes four-fifths of the
world must pass through that the other
fifth may prosper. A rigorous winter
with its storms sweeping from the
North sea to the Mediterranean and
driving its keen shafts of suffering into
the souls Of the people. Waves of
disaster that strew their pathways with
ruin. Failure of crops and the means
of livelihood over Europe and portions
of Asia. Famine in Russia where en-
tire communities are fleeing from star
vatlon. Gaunt hunger and pale-faced
want staring the poor of Germany IN
the face. Subjects of Victoria and
Humbert, and citizens of France look
ing solely to American grain fields for
lifo's necessities which only these can
supply.
Fortunately, the American farmer
has enough and To spare, and the de
mand for grain beyond the great blue
ocean being strong and active, %Europe's
gold flows hither To he exchanged for
Americas wheat and corn.
Had the American corr and wheat
crop failed this year, vain would have
been all legislation. Vain would have
been royal edict or ukase of autocrat.
Vain would have been the great yellow
heaps of gold piled up in vault of bank
or money lender. Vain would have
been the wealth of the R~osthchIlds and
Bleichroeders. Vain all pomp, all
power, vaunted riches and dreams of
ambition to stay the tide of wreck and
disaster that would have overwhelmed
half the civilized world in Il vortex of
ruin.
Possibly.not in the history of civilian
ton was the grain supply of the world
ever shorter than IT was ON the first
day of last May. Never, perhaps, has
such u condition existed rs that which
confronted Europe on that day. Only
u hope between it and Widespread
famine with all the horrors attending.
and that hope the fields of waving
wheat and rustling corr of the United
States.
1t was appalling to contemplate.
IL was Europe's want, her dire
necessity, and Americas ability to
supply, that is bringing Europe's gold
to II shores and restoring prosperity
to the people.
And yet republican newspapers, and
orators, servile tools and hired attor-
neys of plutocracy, have the %effrontery,
the brazen cheek to point to present
cheering signs OF better times as the
result of republican administration.
Prosperity may come, and it may
stay. But to the people the INTELLI-
GENCER would say, let il not, like the
soothing tanning of the vampires wing
it sucks its victims l~ife-blood, lull
them to sleep. 1t will be the sleep of
The issues that were a living princi-
pie yesterday, a month, a year ago are
not dead to-day. Prosperity may for a
while conceal from us our needs, but
returning adversely will bring them in
full view again. The reefs and shall
lows of ocean may be hidden from
in the flow of the tide, but the
ebb will again expose them and show
that they are still there.
While prosperity lasts, the forces of
will be at work and strive
1T all times to make the people forget
full of their danger, and less vigilant in
their watchfulness. But the people
must abate not one jOt or title the
guardianship of their rights.
External vigilance is the price of
Liberty"