Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-07-20
M'KINLFY PROSPERITY.

come upon the country there is mon
ey to spare Ill the vaults of the nation.
u, cXcbcquer Such money as is ohere
is taken from the pockets OF the pen
pie. who need 1t far mere than the
government needs it. but there is q
certain class of people who assume
that the government IS Il rich bene-
ficence totally apart from the people,
and they fancy that because in their
eagerness to prevent the harshcr
burdens Of taxation proposed by the
Dingley bill citizens of the United
States have FASTENED to withdraw i'm
ported g"nds from warehouses AMI to
fill their stores with such rs they
need, and thereby accumulated duties
in :hc tr"asurv. the fact is evidence of
prosperity. These are persons who
To- X to the golu reserve as Il sort of
fetch and to large treasury balance
as not only temporal but also eternal
saliva ion.
What prosperity is there in the very
81 SniiiGant fact that many good banks
III Chicago passed their dividend in
July and that others reduced the
amount so pail? The management
by these bankers is prudent, but it is
not Il manifestation Of prosperity
Prosperity does not show itself III that
way. Prosperity does not shorten
sail.
Nor is prosperity seen in the fact
that great number OF coal miners
throughout the United States have
concluded to walk out rather than be
subjected to the further reductions
and har,lships by mine owners who
enjoy IL protective tariff on bi'unIin-
oTs coal. There is no prosperity in
the fact that Sl5OO00 workingmen
have quit. while unnumbered thous-
ands have no opportunity for work.
One may speculate il he choose up
on the time when prosperity will pre-
sent it self, but whose asserts that it
is here now is stupid. When pros
perty comes the people who need it
greatly will know that it is here.
There need come no ghost from the
grave of the treasury department to
tell us that prosperity has arrived.
Prosperity is not thing thGt can be
made by governments any more than
by indivi iuals. though both may TN
make it by foolish intervention, by
rarine, by idleness, by living on the
fruits Of other peoples toll as govern
ments do aud do properly when they
conline themselves strictly to the dis
charge Of an ascertained function Of
government, and improperly, disas-
trously, when they assume that gov
ernment is some great uecromancy
which. by cxacting tribute from the
people for the benefit Of a protected
class. may make prosperity. They
make prosperity for the protected
class, but what OF the infinite mum Der
Of the unprotected?
Republican leaders are very anxious
to impre IS upon the pc pple that pros
pc "ity has arrived. The people will
believe it when they see it. The have
had the same old assurance from the se
same old rarity leaders so often and sc
uutruthful that they are through with
them. Prosperity by the election oI
Mckinley; prosperity by the inaag
uration Of Mckinley; prosperity by
the appointment Of Reid rs envoy t.
the queen; prosperity as the re suit OF
MciNnloy's visit to the exposition al
Nashville; prosperity because the
secretary OF the treasury is certain
that it is here; 10! here is prosperit,
and there prosperity. but the onl,
visible evidence of prosperity con
sists in passing dividends and in lock
ing out labor. Chicago Chronicle,