Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-12-18

The country is soon to enjoy pros
porous times.
The goldbugs say there is to be ~
business boom all along the line.
Who Is going to create that boom!
is the question.
Will the goldbugs manufacture a
business boom?
If they do 1t will be the first one
they ever created.
cinch on the money going to boom
the times?
1t takes the trade of consumers to
create a business revival.
Moneyed men are not going to SOW
their dollars broadcast all over the
country.
That is the only way a rush Of
money in circulation can be secured
at this time.
The masses of the people have no
money to turn into the channels Of
trade.
A boom in the business of the money
loaners and usury grabbers is not an
indication of good times.
Good times and revival of trade
can only come by the capacity OF con-
sumers generally to buy goods and
consume them.
The money gang will not bring
trade to the merchant. The masses Oh
the people must be able to buy the
merchants goods to make mercantile
business prosperous.
How do these goldbugs intend 10
get money out in the hands OF the
farmers and laboring men? DO they
propose to use their money to increase
the price of production and the wages
of labor?
If the money gang should do this 1t
will be the first instance of the KIND
on record. They will not do it.
Then how is money to get into the
hands Of the masses of the people
and out of the hands of the bankers
and money grabbers?
1t can only be pulled out OF the
money vaults by means of loans.
Who is able to borrow money even If
they had the security to put up de-
manded?
What business can person now
engage in that will justify the bor-
rowing of money? There is no profit
in manufacture because the masses OF
the people are too poor to consume
the goods.
There is no profit in the mercantile
business for the same reasons. IL the
farmer cannot get an increased price
over the present quotations for prod
ucts he will be forced to reduce rather
than increase his expenditures.
If the laboring man cannot get an
advance of wages he will be forced to
continue to live as close as he can
and consume even less than he has
for the past few years because his
expenses increase as his family in
creases.
The manufacturer cannot increase
the wages of laber because the price
on his manufactured goods refuses to
advance, for the simple reason that
there is a limited demand for them,
result of the inability Of the masses
of the people to consume them.
Now, will some goldbug take his
mind off of the yellow metal long
enough to reason on this subject and
solve the problem and tell the people
who is to be instrumental in bringing
about good times under the gold
standard?
The only solution possible is that
good times caNnot come and never
did come under a contracting system
of finances and the gold redemption
policy forces a continued contrac-
ton of the currency. Not only that
but a gold standard system results in
continued appreciation of the stand
ard, the redeeming money, which is
gold only, and as that standard appre-
ciates wages and products must de-
cline in price. 1t is as natural for
gold to appreciate and for labor and
products to depreciate under gold
standard system as 1t is for flowers to
bloom in their season or to wither by
the north winds breath"
Then who is to cause the business
boom promised? Whence cometh
this prophetic boom? Wherefore Will
there be a boom when the conditions
are foreign to its appearance? Will
some of these good money people"
please explain the cause and source
of the business boom promised if Nc
Kinley was elected? An anxious com
monality would like to know.-South'
ern Mercury.
TaIIer,a OniniOn.