Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-03-08
Some inconsistencies Noticed and
Commented On.

Come Out from among tn IN and be ye separate.
| I'D Cor. VII7
Come out OF her my pei 10, thoty not par
takers Of her sins.--kev. VITA.
Though rigorous winter now holds
almost the entire country IN its icy
grasp, the agricultural outlook might
perhaps be more encouraging than it
was month ago, when the hopes Of
farmers and planters to be determined
simply by the weather of the season.
But the prolonged depression Of the
great agricultural interests in the
United Stated has of late been deep
ening, as the market prices of their
products have shown Il phenomenal
and apparently ruinous downward
tendency. Thus state of things might
be borne with patience were there a
sure prospect Of its speedy termina-
ton, But foreign advices afford no
reason to hope that the present prices
Of wheat or cotton will be greatly in
creased by augmented demands for
them abroad at no very early date
NetU York Herald.
Of course the market price of agri-
cultural products has shown a phe-
nomenal and apparently ruinous
downward tendency" Hasn't every
newspaper in the county except those
blinded by the golden glare Of Wall
street, foretold that the denonetiza-
tion Of silver would cause further
fall in the price Of agricultural pro-
ducts. There is nothing "phenome-
nap about it. 1t could have been
foreseen by any one with his eyes
open. A decrease of the circulation
medium decreases prices paid for
products of human labor The Her.
aid was among other eastern news
papers that shrieked until it was
cToss-eyed for the passage of silver
repeal. Now, it is wondering in q
manner that it almost infantile, what
is the matter. Topeka State Journal
FEBRUARY 81, 1894.
The above clipping show the view
Of the present depressed condition Of
financial affairs which is entertained
by leading journals in different parts
of the country. Characteristic they
are, too. The Herald depends upor
foreign advices" for its index as tC
the future "hopes Of farmers" neve
once, apparently, pausing to vote th,
fact, that while farmers and plant
ers," are unable to dispose of wha
they produce to any advantage tt
themselves, at the same time thou
sands Of people, who would gladly
buy the products Of the farm anC
plantation, are literally starving tt
death-thousands of them in New
York City. Witness the following
from the Southern Mercury Of Feb
uary %, 1894,
The court records of New Yorl
City for the year ending September
LIST, 1892, shows that there were is.
sued during that period, 29,720 evlc.
ton warrants. Those out OF work to.
day in New York are numbered by
the hundred thousands, and those
who are slowly starving to death, or
who are being driven to sin by hun
ger and cold, would make an army
so great as to appall the most brutal
natures.
Realizing the position taken by the
metropolitan dailies, one can at least
conclude that the Herald Is consist
ent in being at least careless in re-
gard to the welfare Of the farmers
and planters" and faithful to shylock
in trying to palm off the old chestnut
about foreign" markets.
But what shall one say of a paper
like the State Journal, published in
the center Of the greatest agricultural
region IN the world, and in addition
to that, in midst OF the most intensely
American people in the United States
American in their ideas OF govern.
ment, in their ideas Of production and
distribution, in their ideas of all the
great questions of the day. We say
what shall be Said Of a paper that
will talk like the Journal does and at
the same time advocate republican
ISN'T
One is driven to say that it, too, is
a part Of the same machine, lubricat-
ed by the same kind Of oil and driven
by one Of the same drivers with the
4 New York Herald.
Can On editor be honest, who will
say such things aud still continue to
whoop for the republican Tor demo
cratic party? No. 1t is only done to
create sentiment and hold voters who
are honest, bnt who do not believe in
gold bugism, McKinlpyism. aud many
other of the isms Of the 6. o. p, to
their allegiance to the rotten old hulk
which has become so water (?) soaked
that it is now fit only to sink in the
deep gulf Of oblivion. The State
Journal knows this, but yet it will