Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-12

and working men were thrown out o.
work. This is largely the condition
of affairs to-day.
Absolutely ard actually the money
quest On has nothing to do with the
coildi6. II CO Gle country to-day
American lao,i, g the best and high
esq d ced labor in tee world. Out
5 Se D New leland, America pays
neatly tsV3-ti is Nc re to labor than
any oti .. 5Fy IN the face of the
globe, and n moley worth 100 cents
everywhere. LabJr represents nine
lis d gile w-rl1's manufactures.
tn De az the c3se, under free trade,
we cs1 pny meet 0Ae competition of
oofer 1ii5a. es bv eq laling the price
o. lzoor. japan last year sent us A
m rs o. Ter manufactured pro-
ducts, . .ght > US mill ms and of
EcrGla co millions. One OF the larg-
est c36.Jl IL of the world is at
Eokon, employing 1900 hands, nearly
all working as 9 cents day, Mexican
money. Again sole leather trunks
are sid in London at S23, S24: in New
York at S23 a2G S25; Japan sells them
il ST. FTa1c co. az 81 and 50. Russia
has built 1900 miles of railway
{ .Ic1ga a co lJry similar to our Da-
kotas. she new exports wheat. The
Argentine Republic and India, with
Russia, are practically supplying and
tine price o, wheat for
the world. The competitions that
America must meet under free trade
is tie lowest free labor of the world.
India is our competitor in cotton,
wheat and rice. The average earn
ings CT an 1nGia farmer and his family
are $40 a year. The average earnings
OF an American labor is $342. The
OF money in 'sgOld bug" Eng
land is $3.50 per capita; in the Unit
ed Stetes S25. 81. The national debt
of Great Britain is 800 per capita,
United States $13. Great Britain has
1 pauper for every 80 Inhabitants,
United States in y. Bricklayers in
Great Britain get SLIT per pay, Unit
ed States 50; carpenters IN Great
Britain get SIPS per day, United
States SO. So ON through the list of
labor. Our government collects less
than Sc per capita in taxes; Great
Britain S12 per capita, but why enum-
crate these on all matters of statis-
tics.
At the time of the St. Louis con-
vention government bonds and stocks
were at fair July prices Island
selling at IA. This is a fine repre-
sentative of the granger roads and
new government As at S1.1S. To-day
Rock Island touched 50, and new gov
to Sill.
In anticipation of free silver every
bank in the country is boarding gold.
Why? Not banker in this country
but knows that with the unlimited
coinage of silver without being re-
to this country, that it will
be an impossibility to retain the ratio
of gold and silver and that silver will
be worth it's bullion value and no
mere. In all sincerity and candor the
depression in this country is caused in
my opinion from natural causes.
First, trying to compete with the
cheap labor Of the world; second, the
development of the resources of other
that have come in competi-
ton with us; third, by unrestricted
While changes might be
made in the form of our money, it is
an absolute certainty that no relief
can come by flooding this country
with depreciative money. And as
95 per cent Of the business of the
is done by checks, 1 see
no reason to advocate depreciative
money unless it is for the purpose of
one-half the debts of the
country.