The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1891-11-20
PRFSIDENTS PRoCLAMA TON.

IMAM kSRlYlnS Gay 10 &c ttCiu NUTS
day, November 26. The text of the
document is both dramatically in
volved, and rhetorically clumsy. The
Impression conveyes that the writer
was either mentally or morally
embarrassed.
It says that sit is very glad in
cident of the marvellous prosperity
that has crowned the year just draw
ing to a close; that its hearty and
re-assuring touch has been felt by
all our people and that every
home has felt its comforting in
f1uence."
This statement is a little off as to
fact and smacks of the campaign, and
means in effect, Calamity bowler
you are a fraud"
We will quote authorities and ask
no one to take our ''iPse diKit" on
the subject. In the same issue, Of
the same paper, and of the same
date, we find an item of news from
Ehe presidents own state; Danville,
Ind, November l3: Cramps of all
sizes and descriptions are over-run-
ming this part of the state"
In an article on pauperism in the
North American Review for April,
by Prof. Richard T. Ely, he says:
+'The estimate of 100000 of pau
pers in the United. States in hard
times can not be regarded eKtraVa-
CANT" Again he says: zone hundred
millions of dollars q year must be
regarded as a conservative estimate
of the total direct and indirect
pecuniary loss to the country On
account of pauPerism."
How does this agree with the
sentiment of the proclamation
In the New York Herald of the
fore part of April we read "there is
now on the average round
million of men, a vast army, con-
stantly out of work. Competition
has cut down the wages of the
laborer aud employment is uncer-
tain" Is the New York Herald
misinformed, or over sensitive on
the subject of the condition of the
masses?
We quote from .Bradstreet's on
the failures in the United States for
the first three months of 1891;
''Number of failures 3,401; total
liabilities $44,34S,7S3; excess of
number of failures over the first
quarter of 1890-75; excess of liza.
bilities $1O,534, 4s2; per cent Of
excess 32S These liabilities are In
excess of any first quarter of any
year for the last ten years" Il
Bradstreet a calamity bowler? Hai
prosperity come to call our peopl,
and to every homer" Who is {
fraud?
Again, Robert G. Ingersoll in
speech in Illinois early IN the yea
says: 81 do ask for the remonltiza
ton of silver. Silver was demonit
lied by fraud. 1t was an imposition
upon every solvent man; a frauC
spon eSery honest debtor in tn,
United States. It assassinated labor
It was done in the interests o
avarice, and should be undone b.
honest men,"
Did Harrison undo this wrong; ant
If not is he an honest man2 The las
congress would have righted thi
wrong but for the known opposition
Of Mr.. Harrison, and the hal
measure, lame as it was, which b
finally did reluctantly sign, accord
ing to the report of Secretary Foste
10 the bankers congress recent,
held in New Orleans, was what
saved us from panic and fnancia
wreck, in the late Barring Brother
and bank of England embsrrass
xnents.
Again, we quote the language o
Rev. DIR. w. 8. Rainsford in tn
Forum of April, 1891: ''The poo
forget the church, because the rio
in our great cities have first forgotte
the poor; she has disassOciated hersel
from them"
Il seems to Us that Mr.. Harriso
has neglected, IN his proclamation,