The silver star., 1897-08-26
Prosperity, Mckinley" and Other
Brands,

Prosperity, Mckinley" and Other
Brands,
We can vote our country prosperous.
But it is very essential that we under
stand clearly whom we moan when We
say Country" We have been voting
for one kind Of prosperity for long
time, even before the MCKINLEY brand
was on the market. Our mistake has
been in not asking the 'advance agent
to tell US whose prosperity they repre-
sented.
II a burglar is employing your wife's
jewelry box, and filling his trousers
pockets with the contents Of your safe.
prosperity to him means ruin to you,
and your success means the burglars
death. So. in the larger affairs Of our
nation, the kind Of prosperity hoped fol
by the plunderers of the people means
ruins to their millions Of victims, while
good times for the workers, the farmers.
the merchants, means hard times to our
despoilers.
We have now the best times the world
has ever seen. Mr.. Rockefeller, or Rob
afellow-one is his name, the other
ought to be-has an income OF forty
thousand dollars day, and it is increas
ing. No country in the world has ever
produced 30 much; never were there
barns 80 bursting with grain, or ware
houses 80 filed with clothing, furniture
and jewels; never before 30 many men
making from five to forty thousand dol
lars day.
This great national joint stock com
pany OF ours. with its seventy million
stockholders. is doing thriving bust.
ness and making barrels of money.
There is only one Objectionable feature.
1t is that after the labor Of these sew
enty millions of people, their genius,
their suffering and their sweat, are con-
iverted into wealth. tho dividends are
given to few hundred men, while the
rest OF us pay the assessments.
We do not need better times. Any
body who wants to make more than forty
Thousand dollars day is a hog. The
real issue is not whether we shall have
hard times or good times. prosperity or
panic,in tho abstract, but it is whether
that prosperity and good times, now mo.
nopolized by the few. shall become the
inheritance OF all.
II select company Of burglars and
safe.b blowers were to enter your village
and relieve number of your merchants
of tho contents of their safes, their
stocks Of jewels. silks and clothing. and
were to secure all OF tho finest horses
from half the neighboring farms and
utilize them in getting the booty safely
to the nearest forest. they would no
doubt. willis unpacking their wealth
and feeding their horses after their
hasty trip. congratulate one another
upon "their remarkable prosperity"
They would be very apt to brag about
the unusual "good times" But IL. as the
sun rose over the tree tops and they were
repacking their goods, they saw sud
denly the glietening pitchforkg Of half q
hundred angry farmcro and the dctorm.
ined, frrlouo faces Of as many brawny
workmen add merchants, bent ON ro.
claiming thcir property -therc would be
q panic.
The plunderers d the world are en-.
ioying good times at tho expense OF the
masses. Their profits are US fabulous as
their methods are cruel. But In the
midst Of their celebration feast their
crimc ID discovered. and the pitchfork Of
|; Ave million farmers glis.ening ii the
morning sun, the angry facct Of four
million city worlmen loHm up In the dis.
tance, and the result IL panic and loso Of
onfidence--among tho revclcrs.
As wo approach November, 1900, this
4 panic will incrence. But. us thcrc wells
up the sound Internal OF their weeping
and wailing and gnashlns Of teeth. there
| will be heard stili louder tho voices o.
millions singing their choruS Of deliver
ance. As these Offenders look into til,
gsuvc wherc lies buried their every pla,
for selfish nggrandizcnaoht, TO iis, thei
innumcrublo victims. that pamo grav,
will bc tho open window through. wbicl
we behold tho land Of proriisc.-x
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I. L, Taylor Of mining fame, and VIII
has Tor tho past three months been 10
Gated 1t Springfield, In fact tho locate
Of tho townsite, returned to Dolores los
Tuesday. cnroute to hls hotnb in Denver
Mr.. Taylor 10 satisticd that the Blu
mountains are, e,alright. He will rstur
Il II stSssnt ts,S. su,r~ka