The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-12-09
PROSPERITY POINTERS.

Vicious influences are getting
smooth work in on the prominent ag.
ricuItural journals of the country,
judging from the talk these same
journals are stutfing into the sup
posed raw ruralist. The Rural Home
gives seven points why farmers
should shout hallelujah.
!. Farmers will receive this year for
their produce vast sum over and above
their income during the past years OF de-
preston.
Will the vast sum exceed tue total
losses sustained by agriculture for
years, and will the profit continue?
2. These increased profits of the farm
ers in the United States alone will be
from 500 to $50 millions OF dollars. nc.
cording to extent OF the upward trend OF
values.
Just call it $500, 900, 600 That
would be 800 increase for each one
OF the 100000 farmers OF the
United States. Fine showingl After
years of going behind, or barely
keeping even, benign political prov
idence permits him to clear 500 i
through famine in other parts of the
world II lie has gone behind 800
year the last five years, he still
lacks $500 OF being even. II for
twenty years he has had hard time,
with bnt Intermittent seasons Of small
profit, what pitiful reward is an ex-
ira 500 in this year OF '97. De-
Quoting the few fortunates who have
some means and farm on large
scale, the ratio to the average disciple
OF husbandry is still less, taking the
figures stated by the Rural Home. 1t
is in grand totals that gold bugs find
the delusive argument, that sifted
down means nothing A few cents
for many millions OF people make a
large sum to dandle before the ewes
OF those whom they hope to deceive.
3. These enormous extra profits will
come largely from abroad, at least in.
directly This apparently means heavy
imports OF gold before spring
Imports Of gold' sounds grand.
Eloquent. 1t means nothing. In the
great commercial and industrial prob
lem it is m empty barrel into which
the goldbugs halloo and hear the
confined rumble Of their own voices.
The gold, il 1t is imported, will not
go to the farmers, but ON its arrival
will he taken charge of by the clear
ing houses, the banks, the stock
manipulators, the middle men, etc.
it is rs likely as not to he at once
taken To the government and traded
for bonds. The farmer will get
silver certificates and national bank
notes, and when the paper finds its
way back to the money brokers they
will go and get the gold out with it,
and the next report will be that it
has been shipped back across the
water.
4. The farmers will invest their, mill
IONS IN paving their debts. IN improving
their homes aud farms. and in other en-.
lerprlses. They have long been The
largest consumers OF manufactures. md
now that they have money again, Their
extra purchases will make an enormous
aggregate.
Now, won't the farmer pay lots Of
debts with that 800? And just
watch him build houses, improve,
etc, on what is Ieftl Lay low and
see the farmers "invest their mill.
ions y The depression OF years van.
ish before that extra 800 like mist
before the morning sun
5. This alone will bege. activity and
profits in all other industries. The
American people. naturally extravant
viii IN prosperity be wasteful consumers
OF labor products, and moreover have got
TO supply themselves with stuff thew
have been doing without for four years
The first of that is all right and
supports the assertion that With 40,