Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-05-07
KANSAS AGlTAToR, GARNET. KANSAS.
BOOM TIMES NO MORE.

bUUVl LIVED lNO WONEs
A Mr.. Smalley, in the Forum, is quoted as
tcac ring that the good times we had in years
past were not "norinal," and that the high ex-
pectations inspired by the Mckinley regime
ale likely to be disappointed. We frd the
quotation in the Topeka Capital, and infer that
Republicans are beginning to hedge, knowing
that the promises made last fall can never be
realized Even the stupid can be taught.
Mr.. Smalley only points out what was plain
to the thoughtful years ago. There are to be
no more boom times, from Mr.. Smalley's stand
point, and the reasons are obvious. We cannot
open farms, build manufactures or construct
railroads with profit unless there is paying
demand for what is produced, and there is no
paving demand in sight. Money will still seek
investments in loans, and none will borrow eX
cept those who are forced to. Fools will con-
tnue to yawp over-production' and over
production will continue to stimulate over-pro-
duction. The less the price the greater the
need of large production.
Mr.. Snalley is also quoted as attacking "pa-
ternaismn and the discomfort of the people,
and declaring that the worth of education be-
gan last fall along the lines of finance must be
continued. Mr.. Smalley gives himself away in
the inferred admission that finance is at the
bottom of the mischief, forgetting that we had
boom times when money was plenty and in the
hands of people, and that since certain financial
chages, we have gone from bad to worse.
The Lord be with us! Confidence is dead in
the bornin. The mdwives are testifying.
Mr.. Smalley suggests the fatal treatment,
from his own standpoint, as cure, and when
finally the people are brought down to old-world
conditions, then things will be "normal"
The whole article is an admission of the position
taken by the Bryan forces during the last polit-
ical campaign We must be right when our
cnimies concede our position.
Mr.. Smalley does not wish to be considered
"croaker." He just wants to point out the
straight and narrow way, SO that the people
NAV know that the entrance into the Mckinley
heaven is like passing through the gateway into
the heavenly mansions. "Straight is the road
and narrow is the way and few go i'll thereat. "
Too much gold keeps people out of heaven. Too
little gold keeps people out Of living on earth.
The wonder that there is not more discomfort
and more hankering after paternalism ceases
whom such men as Mr.. Snalley and his bedfel-
lows assume to teach the people, and when are
forced upon them such measures as John Sher-
man finance and Mckinley tariff.
Ouce a week we are informed by Republican
papers that Populism is dying, but the facts are
that Popust principles were never so strong as
now. Even the courts are catching the nfec-
ton of public sentiment, and legislatures are
responding to the anticombne sentiment i'll a
manner that is surprising. New York is con-
sderng measures that has so alarmed the mon
ev kings there is the old howl of driving capital.
Wisconsin's legislature gave capital dig in
the ribs but the governor interfered. Ii begins
to look as if a stock yard law would be const-
tutional, and it is pretty certain that the United
States supreme court is beginning to think
that there are two parties to lawsuit, and that
the people who are defending themselves against
corporations are entitled 10 as much consider
alton as the corporations. All this is the direc-
ton of Populsnl, and Populsts may claim not
little credit for this public sentiment.
Hurrah for the people!
JUST RIGHT,