Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-09-25

shaken it must re-establish itself. 1t
has been shaken by causes. and those
causes must be removed. Speaker
Reed on the Business Situation.
How are our silver friends explain
ing the increase in value of our cotton
crop this year in the face of the fall of
silver? Silver has fallen 20 per cent in
the past year, while cotton has so
much advanced that this years crop,
although very light in quantity, will
bring $25, 000,O0 more to the farmers
of the South than that of two years
ago. The explanation" which the
silverites apply in the case of wheat
will not do for cotton.
Now that the soft coal strike has
been practically settled without
blood-shed, it is proper to call atten-
tion of those who are scolding about
the interference of the courts in mat
tiers of this sort to the fact that the
use of the injunction has doubtless
been very valuable in preventing dis
turbanceS. 1t has saved the cffuSiOn
of great deal of blood by preventing
the congregation of those whose as
Semblage would have worked them
into IA condition almost certain to re-
suit in violence.
"Prior to the passage of the Dingley
tariff act we had scenes like those
which preceded the first day of 1879.
The offererS of the patent remedy
stood by and jeered. They Knocked at
us when our fear came. But when
the due legislation had been had and
there was no further change to be
looked forward to; when business had
reached It's sound basis and there was
| a reasonable chance to calculate the
future. there came repetition of the
phenomena of 1S79."-Speaker Reed
in New York World.
Another proof of the generally i'm
| -n6 ll,,-i iS- In,
the enormous increase in the output
of pig-irOn. When business generally
| is good the demand for iron is good.
1t enters into the production of arti-
cleS for the farm, for the railroads.
building, for sea-going vessels, and al
most every business enterprise, and
has rightly been dominated business
barometer In October of last year
the weekly production of pig-iron in
| the United States averaged 1I2, 900
! tons. The average weekly output for
September of this year will average
about 10000 tons. That is the diff
| ference between protection business
and free-trade idlcness, protection
prosperity and free-trade adversely.
What striking resemblance there
is between 1896 and 1897 and the years
of our Lord 1878 and 1879. In 1878
the air was resonant with denuncia-
tions of the wicked men who would
|
suffering people demanded. John
| Sherman was denounced on all hands.
Samuel j. Tilden declared that only a
vast central reservoir of coin could
protect us against the failure of the
proposed return of specie payments in
1879. The farmer was at his worst
ruined, destroyed, eaten up by taxes
and uSury. Down almost to the very
day of resumption the croaking came
with dismal and damnable iteration
i When the LIST OF January came nc
crowds thronged the Sub-treaSury cor
ridors. Hardly greenback was pre-
Sented and we got back to the cur
rency of the world without move
ment or Il jar. From that moment
! prosperity began. '-Speader Reed in
New York World, September u.
The proposed action o. the Argen
tine Republic in placing Il tariff OF
100 per cent on our kerosene and farm
implements, l23 per cent on wagons.
and 100 per cent on yellow pine is not
Il subject for great anxiety. We
bought from Argentine last year ovei
nine million dollars worth. and heI
statesmen will probably see that they
are biting off their own noses if they
go into d commercial fight with !;
country to which they sell vastly more
than they buy of her. The total value
of our sales to Argentine last year o1
the articles she proposes to thus
freeze out" was Il little over one mil
lion dollars. While her sales to us O
hides and wool amounted TO about
eight mill on Go lars. She will have
an inter sting time If she attempts /;
commercial and tariff war of this
sort. OF course the United State.
does not want to lose any of heI
foreign trade, but when it is remem
bered that our sales OF the articles il
question to Argentine last veal
amounted to only about one thou
sandth part of our total exports, it i.
not matter for serious anxiety. ever
if the proposed action is taken.
Owing to over-crOwGed and baC
ventilation, the air of the schoolroon
is often close and impure. and teach
ers and pupils frequently suffer from
, lung and throat troubles. TO all Suci
we would SAY. try Cham berlain'
Cough Remedy. For coughs, colds
weak lungs and bronchial troubles Il,