Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-26

is very cheap and while we appreciate
tfe kind intentions of every fellow
WHO suggests just how this great reli-
gious WORLD ought to be conducted
and are exceedingly thankful for sug-
gestions as to what we ought to write
about and print, we at the same time
have known people to succeed by at
tending to their own business instead
of meddling with the affairs of other
people. The trouble with many of
the sixteen to oners is just here. that
they have never learned to practice
the simple maxim, mind your own
business Until after VIM. Mckin-
ley is elected president this paper
proposes to puncture some of the 16
to l Stiffness and then if any of you
fellows are sufficiently interested and
have the sponduliX to pay in advance.
for booming western real estate, the
columns of this paper will be opened
to your ads.
A column and half of Independ-
ent space was improved last week by
George G. Dietrich, the erstwhile
brilliant monetary meteor who once
flashed across the financial sky of Ire
go. shedding comet-like shOwer-tail
of gold-dust. finally plunging into a
fog-bank of swine-plague and weather
predictions. Having gotten sin it
himself, he preSumes to be able to
show other people 1.-The way out" 1t
was weak attempt to ridicule Givler
and successful endeayor to miSState
historical facts and manufacture 9TH
erS. If he will confine his remarks to
the weather he will do well, for
even the showers in western Kansas
are more worthy of confidence than
his financial vagaries. Better go back
to representations, Corr. Perhaps
you may get your head in conjunction
with some of those ''heavenly bodies
where brainy men have ample room to
exercise their magical powers. but for
the lands sake let up on finance. You
don't know little bit about it, and
you give your real job away. BY the
way, some of your predictions are still
to be seen on the billboards of Wa
Keeney. Can't you do something to
bring 'em to pass, or put up some new
ones.
We defy any man to produce the
names and the proof that nine ma
tional bankers of New York or any
of bankers from any place in
with any federal officers
produced the panic of 1898. OF all
men bankers suffer most during
panic and they are the last people in
the world who would care to do the
least toward precipitating one. There
is no object among bankers in produc-
ing scarcity of money for the in
crease in interest rate on the smaller
amount will never compensate for the
loss in volume of business. a banker
makes his money from his discounts
and interest and the less money he
has to loan the less will be his profits.
There is less idle money needed as a
reserve when times are good and
everybody prosperous than in panicky
times and, taken all in all, there is no
class of men who suffer as great loss
of profits and as much anguish of soul
as do the bankers during panic. The
Republican party did not concur"
and was in no way responsible for the
panics Of '93, 80 or 81 for neither it
nor its predecessors were in power
during any of those great and serious
troubles The panic Of 1873, which is
the only panic that has ever occurred
during Republican administration,
and it was also the smallest of all the
panics in this country's history, was
due to individual speculation and the
party was in no wise responsible for
the collapse of gigantic schemes
which certain individuals were una
BILE to carry out. As panic followed
each of the low tariffs of 81 and 81
and a certainty of a reduction in the
tariff of '93, it would seem reasonable
to assume that the tariff had some
thing to do with it. If not. pray how
many panics will have to be produced
to make a man incline that way?