The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-08-23
THE OUTDOOR.
Sam Jones on tho Uncertainty OF the Polit-
zeal Situation.

sam Jones on Tho Uncertainty or the PoIt-
ical Situation.
In common with others who think
have been more or less disturbed by
what / see and hear as relates to the
future of our great country, know not
how much a disordcred liver may hive
to do with these forebodings and dis
trustful anxieties ut times. Some days
the outlook is gloomy; other days |
feel that there is q chance yet for our
country. Some days it looks like u
revolution; some days it don't. Some
days it looks like financial disaster and
absolute bankruptcy to the whole
business; other days it looks like com
merce and agriculture and the govern
inent will move on in the even tenor of
their way.
We have now before us three months
OF agitation with its declamatory and
inflammatory speeches. This is said
TO be campaign OF education II the
blind lead the blind the whole business
will fall into the ditch. After hun
dred years OF experience with their
succession OF successes and failures,
triumphs aud defeats, mistakes and
miscarriages, still we survive. ! be-
licve this country will survive Mckin-
ley, advocating the gold standard and
protective tariff, can do NJ least as well
for US as Harrison did the four years
lie was in, though the people may b. as
much dissatisfied with him and the
things he advocates at the end of four
years as they were with Harrison and
his crowd Bryan, with his agrarian-
ism, free silver, etc, if they should
come into vogue in November by voice
of the people, doubt if they will ut
terly ruin and disrupt the country.
Az much as l am opposed to the FREQ
and unlimited coinage of silver sixteen
n one, yet | nm sure we hive had worse
things than these 10 contend with in the
past history Of this country. lam surc
of this fact, our barns are full with corn
and wheat, our fields with cattle, our
pens with hogs. The election of either
candidate will not affect the quantity or
quality OF corn and wheat and oats and
cotton and cattle and hogs, and really
these are the things we live on. We
Il.
backs and clearing house certificates.
| believe in the personal integrity OF
both Mckinley and BRYAN. / believe
The crowd running with Mckinley hayo
tho money. the eXrnriencc. and largely.
the brains of the country on their side.
whhc BRYAN and his hosts have orator.,
and theories and debts md dissotisf,n.
ton on their side. No living rnan. CAV,
predict with any ccr+at,,tv tho ros,i. ~
the Noyember elecrions II sce,,s no.
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