The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-03
To the Editor of The Post.

To the Editor of The Post.
! Clear Lake, Iowa, January 21.--Pcrhaps
The Post would like to know how we Iowa
farmers are pegging life away this time
of the year. We are exceedingly happy now
since confidence has been restored. We feel
| so warm we could go without coat in the
zero weather. AS a fact we Iowa farmers
fully understand TO appreciate the value OF
| confidence. Our oat crop was n little short
last year, but the price Is to 10 cents per
bushel Our Incompatible beautiful maize
is hardly saleable just now, but when one
has a chance to sell, 1t is Q to II cents per
bushel Our big fat porkers. which have
escaped the diesase, are s2.65 to S2.75 per
| 100 pounds. Some will perhaps say. are
not those prices awfully low. but such fell
| lows do not understand the real value OF
confidence, for not to rely too much on
| my own conclusions | will quote what VIII
Wells writes. He describes the situation so
| truthfully, and gives Kansas and Nebraska
timely rebuke for their arrogant voting
| last fall AS Texas voted the same way. 1t
may do the Texas farmers some good to let
| them see how hazardous it is 10 vote as
they pray"
viii Wells says Poor old Kansas, Poor
old Nebraska! They have gone TO the deI'l-
ocratic bow vows They are ruined. Their
name is pants, They have no joy on earth
and no hope for the future. May the Lord
have mercy on them, beacuse they voted
for Bryan. The edct has gone forth that
they shall be punished. Yes. yes. They
shall be scourged sorely. Starvation shall
walk forth in the byway and highway and
gaunt want will stare forth from every
household The money kings have shut
down on Kansas, They have shut down on
Nebraska, and they won't loan kopeck to
the wild eyed Mexican dollar fanatics. The
poor betuddled cranks had no business TO
vote for Bryan. They ought TO have known
better than to vote as they prayed, They
might have known better. And now the
cruel winter wind WI; sweep down upon
them with blizzard and frostbtos and there
ia no help for IL. They can burn their corn
or go frosted. The drouth Will come next
summer and burn them up. The rain VIII
give them the go by ami the Old Harry
will be to pay in general; all because they
refused to vote for Mckinley.
Poor Kansas, Poor Nebraska We stop
the press to weep for YOU, The papers are
fun of your woes. Confidence in your Will
!ngnoss to turn over your crops and your
votes TO Wall street has been destroyed
and how in the world are you gong to i've
and clothe yourself without confidence?
How can you live without the consent OF
the East? Tho money power viii come
down and foreolose your mortgages now
and take your old clothes, and your rag
carpets and your calico dresses and your
undershirts. How dared the people OF KAN
sas and Nebraska assert their rights to
cast free and untrammeled ballots? How
dare they vote for what they thought was
best?
They might haze known betterThe edict
has gone forth that Kansas and Nebraska
shall be devastated and depopulated. They
shall become a bowling wilderness, and
their Isople shall 20 naked and so bust
excepting Dudley township. Haskell conn-
", Kan, where Palmer and Buckner were
supreme Your socltloss statesmen and
your bewhiskered farmers are undone.
Gosh, but we pity YOU"
We over in Iowa have need to be con-
graduated confidence has been restored.
Ii Is substance without body. brain or
soul. an airy nothingness that nlls all the
wants Of frail humanity.
blessed be confidence. When man needs
square meal there Is nothing like con-
tdence to I'll stomach on, and when ne
, needs a new pair Of breeches to keep out
the cold zephyrs from the northwest. con-