Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-02
PROSPERITY POINTERS.

liver at the Ohio silver camp-meet-
ing? Also, what has become of the
camp-meeting itself? 1t seems to
have been as fiat failure as Bryan's
paid explanation" of why silver and
wheat have parted company
If Mr.. Bryan will apply to the syn
dictate which recently paid him good
round price for his explanation" of
the rise in price of wheat, he may
find opportunity for another 'eXplana-
which have advanced over thirty per
cent since the Dingley law was
framed.
POpOcratic Chairman Jones is evil
IDENTIFY determined that the New
Workers shall not make the same mis-
take that the Ohio and Iowa Demo-
Gratis have made in the preSeSt cam
paign, of endorsing the exploded free
silver proposition. He has recon-
mended to New Workers that they let
the silver question carefully alone.
and Senator German, by the way, is
doing the same thing in Maryland
The Treasury Department has over
S145, 900. 900 of gold in hand, and has
had since the Mckinley administra-
ton came in a larger gold surplus
than at any time for long perion of
years. This is in marked contrast
with The conditions during the Demo-
cratic administration, when President
every now and then to keep up the
hundred-million reserve.
No better evidence of the actual
return of business activity could be
found than the official reports of bank
clearanceS for the week ending Sep
TENDER Is. They show the clearances
to be fifty per cent greater than at
this time one year ago, and seventy
five per cent in excess of those of the
corresponding week two years ago.
They are greater than at any time
since January, 1898.
The Ohio Democrats are good deal
out of patience with their Democratic
friends in Georgia for the haste with
which they have jumped into indis-
criminate assassination of cOlored
Republican office-hOlderS. The Ohio
Democrats hoped to get a considerable
support in that state from the cOlored
votes this year, but, of course, that
posi- bility, if it existed, is destroyed
by this action
Those people who are satisfied with
Mr.. Bryan'S explanation of the cause
in the advance in the price of wheat
might do well to inquire of him about
the advance OF wool. He says the adj
vance in wheat was due to shortage
abroad. There is no record of any
considerable shortage abroad in wool,
yet prices of wool have advanced
sixty per cent since the beginning of
September, 1896, while silver has
fallen twenty per cent in the same
time.
The American Agriculturist says:
1.-The western farmers financial con-
ditiOn is wonderfully improved. Dur
ing the past three years he practiSed
such economy that with slight inn
provement of wheat prices last fall
ana fair values of cattle, sheep. and
hogs. the thrifty farmer gradually re-
duced his debts. With good prices
this fall, he is indeed paying off the
mortgage. The fall in the interest
rate is as remarkable as the other
features of the rising tide"
Last weeks report covering the
business failures in the United States
is more encouraging than any which
has been presented since the upward
tendency of business which came with
the Inauguration of President Nc
Kinley. The entire number of bust
ness failures reported last week was
only 169 which was less than half the
number in the corresponding week of
September, 1893, the first year of
Cleveland's second term, and vastly
less than any corresponding week
during the entire four years of his
occupancy of the presidential chair.
Is it the Dingley law or the fall of
silver which is the cause of advance
of all farm products in the last sixty
days? There has been no occasion in
which silver has fallen more rapidly
than during the month of August,
and no time in which all farm pro-
ducts have advanced more rapidly
than during August and September.
Since the Dingley law went into
operation about the time that this
advance came, it might be well to
call upon Mr.. Bryan for another paid
syndicate article explaining the cause
of this general advance.
Is it that terrible ''money power
that Is destroying the crops all over
the world for the purpose of giving
American farmers higher prices and
thus showing them the falsity of the
wheat-and-silver theory? There is
as much sense in assuming the money
power could control the wind and
weather and graSshoppers and other
causes of foreign grain shortages as it
was to assume last fall that handful
of financiers located in some mySter-
iOuS secret chamber in London or
elsewhere could control the legislation
of the greatest and most intelligent
nation of the world in behalf of the