Omaha daily bee., 1897-09-06
POINTERS ON PROSPERITY.

Crawford Tribune: And In less than six
months from the day Mckinley wiz. inaugu-
rated wheat reached 81 per hushel.
Edgar Post; There is pay dirt" on every
quarter section OF land In Nebraska, and II
is panued out in the shape OF golden grain
and gold standard live stock, No man will
freeze or starve to death while working the
diggings either
Genoa Leader: When you pin a pop down
he will admit that times have always been
much better under republican adminlstra-
tions than under any other, but invariably
attributes 1t to luck Well, we'll be blamed
II we don't stick to the party as long as its
luck holds out, anyhow.
Kearney Hub: Nebraska is the greatest
agricultural state in the union this year.
Tho United States leads every other country
on the face of the globe in the matter of ag-
ricultural production. Consequently Me-
braska is ahead of the world this year as a
crop producer. OF course we bear the hon
ors blushingly, while willing that the world
should know all about It, -
Sutton Advertser-News: John Rausher
sowed ten acres of winter wheat last fall.
Results-i00 bushels of the best quality Of
wheat testing nearly sixty-three pounds to
the bushel. A part of this he has sold for
SO cents, making the proceeds of the ten
acres worth 1882. or S32. 20 per acre. Gov
ernor Holcomb will not use such statistics
in his effort to prove that farming does not
pay in Nebraska
York Times: Up at Stromsburg farmer
sold his wheat paid his mortgage and float
ing Indebtedness, bought his wife a new
range and sewing machine took 500 to go
to Buffalo and give himself and his poor
tired wife an outing, and had $500 left
When he had finished all the business he
wiped his brow with his shirt sleeve and
remarked, 81 voted for Bryan last fall but
I'm id glad he wasn't elected
Norfolk News: One delightsome condition
of the advances taking place in farm produce
is that they have come while the stuff is in
the hands of the farmers Usually the
speculator manages to repress the price until
the crop has been drawn out of the pro-
aucers' hands into those of the middleman.
Now the extra profit goes into the hands of
the men who are best entitled to it-who
need 1t most-and to whom 1t will do the
most good.
Fairbury Enterprise: Our populist friends
hardly know what to say about the high
price of wheat and the low price of silver.
1t is claimed by some that wheat is so high
as to make the price of flour a hardship to
the consumer while others say that wheat
ought to be worth S1.50 bushel. Perhaps
it would be, If we were on a silver basis.
1t would take more than two Mexican dol
lars to buy a bushel of wheat, yet nobody
wants to sell his wheat for Mexican dollars.
Hastings Tribune: The man who howls
calamity now ought to be bucked and
gagged There is no occasion for his lamen-
and gives other people that tired feeling
that marks the appearance of a calamity
cryer. It has hurt Nebraska more than the
drouth or hot winds. Now we want to en-
joy our prosperity. We want to see the
people happy Even the popocratic editors
may get rid Of the blues. There is nothing
more painful than to see editors shaking
with political ague. The clouds on their
classic countemances should be swept away
by the wind in this "(s)wheat bye and bye" "
Nothing can reduce their cheek or lessen
their gall, but the sunshine of joy over
returning prosperity might get into their
hearts by way of their stomachs. But no!
The peoples gain is their loss. They grow
rich fastest when people are in financial
Distress and so they justified in wear
| ing sack cloth and ashes at this time.
| Norfolk News: Republicans on the plat
| form in Nebraska last fall almost unani-
| mously used the argument that supply and
| demand created value and the free silver
| sheets with one accord hooted the idea and
! claimed that value was produced by legisla-
| tion. Today these same calamity editors are
attempting to throw all credit for increased
prices on United States products to the crop
| failures in other parts of the world in order
| to prove that the present republican gov
| ernment is not responsible for them in any
| degree, and while they are doing this are
| knocking the everlasting stuffing out of their
| campaign arguments for 1896. Republican
| papers. on the contrary, are free to admit
| that these failures are responsible to de-
| gree for the increased prices of farm prod
| ucts but insist that the demand and conse-
| quent value is largely augmented by judi
cious and favorable legislation, which is
proved by the fact that supply and demand
as well value has always been noticeable
under republican rule, while the contrary
has been the case under a democratic re-
gime Besides there have been no failures
in foreign countries of the iron, steel, cot
ton, WOOL meat, labor and other items that
are in demand and commanding higher
prices in this country than was the case last
fall and the republicans claim that the in
crease in values of these are directly re-
sponsible to the passage of protective tariff
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