The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-05-18
cLEvELAND'S soPHISTRIeS.
Progress That Il Rulnous to Nstionz(


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Prosperity.
President Cleveland is remarka BILE
person. In his recent veto message Of
the seigniorage bill he rescued from
nnOcuOus desnetuds some startling dis
coveries that deserve to be set in gils
frames and posted where all can see
| them The first of these remarks BILE
discoveries is as follows:
mo. 1-Our recovery has. neverthe-
less, steadily progressed"
This reminds us of the boy In the
district school when the teacher ons
day gave him an example. IL was the
old familiar story of the frog in the
well: HE climbs up two feet during
the day time and slides back a foot al
night" The inquiry was: "How many
days will it take him to reach the topY
In this case. however. the teacher set
it little different for the purpose Of
testing the pupils ability. He made
the frog climb up two feet during the
day and slide back three feet during
the night
The boy worked all the forenoon, all
during the incoming. and all the after
noon. At various times the teacher
asked him II he was in trouble. NO"
he said, ~ am doing first rate. 1 UNI
derstand the problem, and I'll get II
after awhile" Four o'clock, closing
time, arrived, and still the boy was
oiphering. The teacher stood over him,
and surveyed the vast amount of fig
ures covering both sides of the slate
and all the white paper he could get
hold OF. The boy looked up from his
work, blushed, and triumphantly ssldi
well, teacher, l haven't got II
through, but have done we'll I've got
him clear into hades and tomorrow III
finish him."
If Cleveland's recovery In progressing
in the same direction as the frog, the
explanation of the Coxey movement and
the general unrest throughout the
country Is made more clear.
His second discovery Is: "Confdencs
Is to such an extent reinstated as to pro-
duce the most encouraging results"
Our comment on this Is that there
are strikes throughout Pennsylvania
and all the coal countries of the United
every city. populists, Coxeyites. and Q
general class of unemployed working
men who are talking of marching on
Washington to cause legislation In
their favor. This sort OF confidence
and these results are not such as to
tend to produce an abiding trust in the
future, or faith In the sta bility OF such
government as we now have.
His third proposition Is: 1.-THE whse.s
set in motion"
They may be set in motion. but most.
ly and like the frog, they are going
backward. There are no industries Ia
this country, and there are no farmers
except, perhaps, a very few, who are
finding in these days fair equivalent
for their labor, their capital and their
skill
His fourth is: "Our recovery being
50 well under way. nothing should DO
done to check our convalescence."
If we are to convalescence in thu
fashion it would be well to have tbs
hearse al hand, as this sort of convass
escence requires a funeral sermon
From his eyrie in the white house he
thinks he knows the condition of the
country. As he has not been west Of
the Mississippi his eyes must be those
of faith While we are convslescine,
while the wheels are slowly set in mo-
ton. while confidence is producing
such encouraging results, trains are be-
ing seized, the militia Is ordered out in
various states, and the wise every.
where are thinking with anxiety what
is TO be the outcome and whittier We
are drifting