Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-09-11
PROSPERITY POINTERS.

Has Do6n n6drQ 10 express
regret that he voted for sound money |
and protection last year?
''Dollar wheat" is the derisive cry |
wherever ex-candidate Bryan tries to
renew his silver arguments.
OF course, silver is not to blame for
the change in the price of wheat 1t
had nothing to do with it: never had
in fact.
Has it been learned whether that
1900 dollars which is to be paid the
eX-candidate Bryan for his one Ohio
effort is guaranteed in gold coin?
That rafting sound you have heard
over the country is not caused by the
putting on of shutters, as was the
case at this stage of the Cleveland
administration.
Is Mr.. Bryan going to sit quietly by
and perhaps allow the statesmen OF
Mexico, through the direction of the
London ''gold power to commit an
other crime?
After series of regular Democratic
rows, the Pennsylvania Democratic
convention endorsed the Chicago free
silver platform, cheered wildly for
Bryan, nominated a ticket. and then
adjourned. What fools these mortalS
be.
Four hundred and fifty thousand
British guineas from Australia have
been received in San Francisco, in
payment for expectations of Ameri-
can wheat. This is another case
where the Western farmer is being
tramped upon by the gold power of
Great Britain.
BLESSED is the country whose SOL
dierS fight for it and are willing to
give the best they have, the best that
any man has, their own lives, to pre-
serve it, because they love it. Such
an army the United States has always
commanded IN all her history. Pres
ident Mckinley at Buffalo.
t seems as though everything had
turned against the calamity shriekers.
whether of the free-SilVer or free
trade type. Their latest misfortune
comes in the way of a recent an
deposits in the national banks of the
country to be the largest on record.
From the position of private SOL
der to that of President of the United
States is long step and there is but
one man who has yet made it. He
was at the Buffalo reunion the other
day, one VIM. Mckinley. And he was
not a bit ruffied either when his car
riage was refused admittance to the
camp by an old soldier who knew only
to obey orders.
And now there is prospects of high
er prices for corn. The Europeans
are taking our corn in great quanti-
y.
Snow, of Chicago, one of the ableSt
experts on crops in the country, with
an estimate that the corn crop of the
country will be no more than 1,S00,-
100000 bushels this year against 2S3,
600, 600 bushels last year This means
higher prices for corn. And yet sill
yer continues to fall.
Let's seel the free-coinage advocates
last year promised the farmer 81 90 a
bushel for wheat if they would dilute
the currency of the country with
silver, but admitted they did not
know how much the dollar would be
worth. We know how much it is
worth-4o cents Yet the farmers
have got their dollar a buShel, and
got it in good money too. This shows
the wisdom of rejecting new-fangled
theories without Il careful test as to
their proboble effect when put into
operation.
Those statesmen who went abroad a
couple of months ago to find out why
Japan went to the gold standard can
come home. Director Preston of the
Mint Bureau has told it in his table
showing the values of foreign coins.
The table shows that the Japanese
silver ven, which was worth in 1885
1913 cents, had in 1897 fallen to 4S.s
cents, while the gold yen had not
changed at all. This tells the story
and MesSrS. Mantle and Dubois had
as well come nome ana own up TO the
facts.
Farmers may congratulate them
selves that the Dingley law, which
protects their productions thoroughly
has gone, into operation. The recent
report of the Bureau of Statistic.
shows that the importationS of twelve
articles OF farm product wool, cot
ton, tibers, feathers, chicory. cattle
oranges, preserved fruit, hides, beans
rice and sugar-during June, 1897
were more than 90 per cent. create
than in June, 1895, amounting t.
S23, 900, 900, against I5.40O.O00 tn,
corresponding month of last year
''In- the coming campaign in tn
Greater New York, the canvass will
be one of the tierceSt and most mo
mentous in the history of American
politics. 1t will determine whethe
the great center of American con
ServatiSm, wealth and ciyiliza tion
the second city of the world, is to b
given over to the forces which las
year fought madly for the destructio
of the stability of the social SyStpr