The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-10-14
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Prosperity IiowIers.
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ity bowler and the other the prosperity
bowler. The editor OF the Republic an.
swers my respectful queries rs TO what
he means by prosperity, 10y sneering
at me as calamity bowler. deny the
soft impeachment, but can he deny that
he is prosperity bowler, with all the
name implies.
specify conditions that exist and hope
by directing attention to them to better
them. He replies by shrug and IN
inuendo, notwithstanding.
new sect has sprung into notice in
the eastern states. 1t is called koreshan
ity after its founder, one koresh. The
organ of the society is "The Flaming
Sword" A glance at its columns shows
that the central idea OF the new philoso.
ply is to upset the theory of Copernicus,
that the planets revolve around the sun
by the law Of grsvitation. 1t is also evi.
dent that the hypothesis of the Rev.
Jasper, that "the sun do move," because
Joshua stopped it on one occasion, is
likewise knocked into the middle Of next
week. The koreshans claim that the
earth is hollow egg and the sun is at
the center OF the concave planet We call
the earth. In other words we are daily
victims OF optical illusion. This PROPOSE
ton they propose to prove 10y simple
instrument called the "reCtilineator", so
that hereafter instead of saying man is
off his base, we shall probably hint that
he is off his recti line. The prosperity
howlers who persist in reversing the
known laws OF common sense and the
science of optics by mistakins the re.
Election OF prosperity for the real thing
might get a valuable pointer from the
new cult. They need something to
brace them up beyond the expectation OF
postoifice. In other words they are off
their rectiline.
|, for one, do not contend that the
panacea for all our woes is the remoneti-
cation of silver, but reform must begin
there if the people would WELD their
power for collective improvement along
other lines. Each and every branch OF
reform in government has its vOtaries
and their way is the only way to purify
the nation OF existing abuses, after the
manner OF the old antyphIogistians who
bled their patients for everything from
pneumonia, appolexy, compound fracture
to fit. This country is suffering from
the construction of real, that is to say
constitutional currency, gold silver and
greenbacks, and this is self evident
proposition to the vast majority of our
people.
All our wealth depends upon our pro.
ducts-the products of our soil and labor.
These products are regulated by our use
OF them and our use OF them is deter.
mined by the amount Of money We have
to spend for them. This is the law OF
supply and demand reduced to the last
analysis. The boarding of money in
bank vaults as the Republic seems Il
maintain, adds no potential wealth to Il
community. That it can be unlocked
by the golden key of confidence by few
great capitalists and hired out to speCu-
lators at low rate OF interest is of small
consequence to the average business
man. 1t is not money to loan that sets
the wheels Of commerce whirring. Idle
money, idle men. 1t is money issued 10y
the government in normal supply that
l.
chases supplies tends to make good
times.
Prosperity is not the only goal of a
free people. 1t is just and equal laws
that exalt nation. Beware OF Greeks
bearing gifts. Beware of leader or a
party that appeals to Mammon alone.
But prosperity, even il that were the one
thing needed cannot permanently come
to nation under the single gold stand
ard, because single gold standard
means a scarcer and higher priced
dollar. 1t takes more Of our goods to
buy it and this, OF course, lessons the
value of our goods. There may be pros
perity by piece meal-sporadic prosperity
or good times in spots for awhile, as
when an influx OF men and money centre
at depot of supplies; or by the displlce
ment of considerable body of men in a
rush to newly discovered gold fields, or
where great misfortune befals another
land in crop famine and the bounteous
harvests of particular section may sup
ply the unusal demand for TODD.
Protection, conceding for argument +
sake, that it is the one thing needed, IN
der single gold standard cannot bring
permanent good times because OF higher
taxes to be paid for in these higher priced
dollars that are go hard to get when We
would purchase the protected articles Of
trade and manufacture. Protection may
give sudden stimulus to production be-
yond the normal demand, but of late
years is OF little benefit to manual La
Dor. Statistics show that labor saving
machinery has displaced the labor of
one hundred millions of operatives in
New England alone and the owners oil
the machinery and not the wage workers
as mass, get the benefits Of protection.
International monetary agreement is a
myth an enthusiasts dream an insult
stantisl pageant produced for spectacular
effect on the multiludes, The money