The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-04-20
coSrInENcE.

CONFIDENCE.
According to the theory of the fnan-
ciaI free hooters who are now debating
the laws as well as controlling the
policy of both Rld parties. the only
thing neededin @countryss1s epnfiss
dence ana q furthar Increase of the
nationafdeIt Ii. view of4tha4aeEthat.
about 100000 men are out of employ
ment, their children clothed in rags
and crying with hunger, wheat lower
than it has ever been before and sink
ing lower every day, as well as general
stagnation Of business throughout the
AeetlntTy lit is aifsga8 TO- imagine how
eonfdenceeanab e$restored until some
thing is dene to- command it.
F. Confiderce IN the financial wreclers
who have been having things their
way has been growing less for years,
until now it has almost dwindled away,
and will probably never be restored to
that degree it once attained. Tt will
doubtless be well for the country if it
does not.
There is another kind Of confidence,
however, -Gu1G 10 Jdh1ll8 0SSp IOOO
among the people They have begun
to realize that the professions of friend
" interest heretofore manifested by
the great financiers ~ for the dear
people, is something akin to that of the
fox which kindly volunteered his adj
vice as to how-t the chickens should
construct their coops so as to prevent
depredations on their safety by foxes
and other varmints. The difference
between the people, however, and the
corded that the chickens acted upon
the advice of the fox, while the people
have constructed their financial coop
according to the great financiers.
There is a growing confidence among
the people that hereafteFthey will have
to conduct their own affairs in their
own way if they secure protection for
their own interests. The first thing
business man would do if his expendi-
lures exceed his income, would be to
curtail his expenses. In this connec-
ton it is singular that not a single one
of these great financiers ~ has sug-
gested so simple a remedy for the pre-
vention of deficit. On the other hand
the policy has been to go steadily on
increasing the expenses. Railroad
corporations, factories, mine owners,
farmers, and every other class of per-
sons engaged in industrial enterprises
have Topped off some of their expenses.
But no such proposition has been seri-
ously urged by those whose duty it is
to manage the affairs OF the govern
ment. One great step toward restoring
confidence among the taxpayers, the
farmers, and others who bear the bur-
dens of government would be cut OF
% per cent. in the salaries and other
expenses of the government. Then the
people might believe that the men who
make such professions Of friendship
for their interests were sincere. AS it
is everybody seems TO be actuated by
the spirit OF Artelnus Ward, who was
so patriotic that he was willing to sac
ritice all his wife's relatives on the altar
of his country. Everybody seems to
be willing that expenses may be cut
down providing it does not affect their
own interests. Even Cleveland, the
great apostle of revenue reform, is per-
fectIy willing to have his own manu-
facture of pulp interests protected.
Confidence can never be fully restored
until the affairs of government are
IL
and. financial e-booters who seem to
have formed an alliance for the pur-
pose of plumber