Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-07-22

A dispatch from Topeka, Kansas,
says that p. b. MaXon chairman OF
the finance committeeof the Farmers
Alliance, is preparing circular to be
sent to Alliance lecturers, fortifying
them with arguments to show that ,
the country is going to ruin at light
ming speed MaXOn attempts to show
that fer 3S2 years the annual gold pro- ,
duct has averaged only 53-lOO per cent.
per capita; that the farmers are get
ting less each year for their products,
and that the increase in population
for the past ten years in the United
States is smaller in pro- ortion than
for any of the ten years preceding.
He argues from this that unless there
is a speedy change, the United States
will be depopulated.
Statements like this come regularly |
every four years, or Oftener, and yet
the country goes right on growing in
wealth and population, even TO a sur
prising degree.
When, semi-Occasionally,t the Seventh
Day Adventists prepare their ascen-
sion robes for the end of the world, or
some crank prophecies the wholesale
destruction Of some city, and advises
the people to take to the bills, sensible
folks go on planting "taters,' get
ting in their winters wood
or summers ice, as the case may be,
and everything moves right along.
Bills accumulate, booms rise and fall,
prlze-fghters challenge each other
and occasionally meet and divide the
gate money, churches grow and free
thinkers increase, the cows come up
regularly, the chickens 60 to roost and
serenity prevails. So-called peoples
movements" must, of course, tOddle
along with the procession, and the
horn-blowers thereof must croak theil
hoarse song about the country going
to utter, tetotal humiliation, wreck
ruin and one thing or another. That
is part Of the program.
I'VE have another OF these "peOpe Is
movements now, that are nearly a.
important as the convention of the
three tailors OF some sad-eyed pre-
cinct Of London. who issued a procla
nation beginning, I'VE, the people. ,
The Peoples party this year-that il
to say, the pied" party, for it is ;
mixture that resembles what the prin
ter calls the "hcll-box," being odd
and ends of everything that ism
necded-is the second Of its KIM
within the last twelve or fifteen years
The last one before this was accouche,
in Toledo on Washington's birthday
1878. Still 1t really meant no relleC
ton upon the memory Of Washington
1t didn't mean anything more tina
than this present one. Indee
the alleged principles of thes
two parties were very niue
alike and many Of their leaders are tn
same with the same old inharmoniou
song to sing. In both cases the con
binatlon was and is of mediocre mel
cranks and self-seekers, with ever 5
many objects in view and none {
them desirable to anybody but then
selves. Their purpose being, for th
most part, that Of winning place an
power, and an elaborate platform
set up to be used as wooden hor e
TO effect an entrance into the Office
The first party started off with such
great hurrah that the present one
not marker TO 1t. 1t put tickets
the field i'm twelve states and polled a
aggregate vote Of 100000.
The alleged evils Of the time wei
loudly proclaimed precisely as is no
done, and the self-styled physician
attempted TO prescribed heroic trea
ment, but despite the efforts Of
horde OF hungry oflice-seeke
the party declined, and in 1Ss
with General Weaver as a candidat
the party polled only about $500
votes in the entire Union, or abol
half what had been polled IN twel
states two years previously. The l
currence OF the same party with
flimsy disguise would look like pc
odical epidemic that the country W
have TO endure. But despite the mo
strenuous efforts the country will 3
cline TO take this second appearan
with anything like the same degree
seriousness with which the first W
treated.
The following table of votes fou