Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-11-20
PROSPERITY POINTERS.

The Hon. Arthur p. German is con-
templating retiring to private life.
Mr. Bryan and Ex-Governor Boies
are still on speaking terms.
Some of his speeches would indicate
that Mr.. Bryan wore smoked glasses
while in Ohio.
Chairman Jones still sticks by eX-
candidate Bryan, and says that silver
is all right as an issue
The Mexicans will forgive Mr.. Bryan
for going to Ohio first if he will make
his next call on them
Last year, in our commercial rela-
tions with Great Britain, the balance
of trade in our favor was greater than
in any previous year in history
The Ohio counties in which Mr..
Bryan spoke in the late campaign in
creased their Republican majorties
997 votes over those Of last year
The old State of Maryland has got
ten a long way from the ''solid south ="
Time was when she was counted
charter member of that organization.
What has become of the three Sena-
tors of the Capitol who went boldly
forth to discover why Japan fell into
the hands of the ''money power" and
abandoned the silver standard?
The comparison between the rail-
road earnings and the bank clearances
at the present time and one year ago
indicates an astonishing change in the
business of the country.
The Republican strength in the
south continues to grow year by year
and Congress by Congress The 56th
Congress will have the largest
Southern Republican representation
in history.
1t is thought at Washington that
the administration is looking to an
early re-opening OF negotiations for
the adoption of an arbitration treaty
between Great Britain and the United
States.
Mr.. Bryan kept up his calamity cry
in Ohio this year despite the fact that
the October statement of the national
banks of the country showed that tile
individual deposits in the national
banks were 1858, 900, 900 in excess OF
those of one year ago.
In may be well enough for the
Democrats to assume that the Ohio
Republicans are going to quarrel
among themselves over the Senator
ship. but they will be mistaken. Re-
publicans are not given to treachery
although they have had the Demo
cratic example for many years.
10 -n1 70,
Treasury clerks to be confronted each
month by d Treasury surplus rather
than deficit. The receipts under
the new tariff law now show an in.
crease over the receipts of the Wilson
law at a corresponding date last year
and the days of deficits are nearly
ended.
Something over year ago Mr.
Bryan was stating that the only way
to increase the circulating medium OF
the country was by the adoption Of
the free coinage of silver, and yet tn,
Treasury figures show that today
there are millions and millions more
money in circulation than when thi
statement was made.
Bradstreet's Review says that il
spite of the less active trade of Octo
Der, due to yellow fever scares, quar-
antines, etc, the aggregate total 70
that month was greater than ever
September's immense total, marking
the heaviest months total sine,
January, 1898. 1t may be remembered
that.Mr. Bryan, on a cool October day
stated that the first six months o
McKinley's administration was TIL,
most disastrous in the history of tn,
country.
Mr.. Bryan boastingly announced il
his Ohio speeches that he had COM
to Ohio to ''bury Mark Hanna" Thi
sounded very funny to the audienc,
at the time, but the laugh was on TIL
other side when it was discovered
after the election that the countie
in which he spoke increased thei
Republican majorities about on,