The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-08-13
SOckeyes And Prosperity.

1t seems highly improbable that
the passage of the tariff bill or the
strike in the Clondyke district can in
terest sockeyes, so that the rush of the
salmon into the traps must be attrib-
uted to some other cause. In view Of
the difficulty of arriving at The true
object of the fish, which is so un Ger
tain in its quantity, we can only at
tribute the capture of thirty thousand
salmon in one night to the general
tide of prosperity which has started
into flow this year. The election of
Mckinley has been frequently referr-
ed to in connection with this agree
able topic. But the great catch is
not so directly traceable to that cause
as is the large number of marriages
taking place this year.
The record of weddings this year
promises to eclipse that of all others
within decade, and it is not to oe ex-
planned upon the rules which ordina-
rily govern in incidents arising out of
a prospect of employment and prom
ise of good wages. Misery likes COM
pany, and it has been sometimes said
that when times are hard young peo-
pie who have heard that two could
live as cheaply as one have entered
into matrimonial combination sole
ly-or almost solely-for purposes of
economy. That seems very plausible,
but, as matter of fact marriages are
not plentiful unless money is plenti-
full.
Prosperity is causing nobody so
much trouble as those free silver or
gans which predicted that if McKin-
ley was elected this people would
be starved to death by June, and grim
and gaunt disaster would wave it's bo-
ny finger over a calamity-stricken
country. But prosperity comes tri-
umphantly riding along with it's jolly
face radiated by smiles, and it's pock-
cts plethoric with money, which it is
casting right and left. From the cor
nucopia of Alaska, which is throwing
out its stream of gold, to the Klttitas
county COW, which was reported to
have increased her yield of milk the
day after Mckinley was elected; from
the city of Louisville, where the Avery
Plow Company has resumed opera
tions, after three years shutdown,
giving employment to nearly two
thousand men, up to Connecticut.
where the mills are once more run
ming; from Washington, where lumber
and wheat are both keeping men busy
and offering bright visions for profit
which has long been wanting; from
the peach orchards of New Jersey,
from the increased bank clearances to
the suspension Of Populist newspa-
pers, there comes the promise of inn
provement, the opening up of sunlit
vista.
The sound money newspapers of the
South are having good deal of fun
with the free silver calamity naners of
their states. They point to the price
of wheat and ask how it is that SO
long after Hanna has been elected he
is still contributing to the corruption
fund which is yielding the farmer
profit of from 80 to so cents bushel.
Ohe of them tells of North Georgia
free silver, fiat money farmer, who has
just been buncoed out of several hun
dred dollars with which he bouget a
machine, which nd was led to believe
would make bright new twenty-dollar
bills by simply turning crank.
All of which goes to show that even
down in the South the men who are
at work are making money and occu-
pying homes, and the only man who
is losing is the one who wants ma
chine for turning out twenty-dollar
bills by merely turning crank
Post Intelligencer.