Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-04-30
TEXAS DEEP WATER BOOMS.

lEAAC OEEI WAL EN DOUWSs
1t is generally wise for the average citized to
understand when there is big boom at any
point that some speculation spiders have woven
beautiful web, and are inviting ambitious flies
to walk into the parlor. A few men are in on
the ground floor, and are anxious to build
city by inducing every sucker they can rope
in to invest his little surplus and 60 largely in
debt with the expectation Of great profits.
The few reap harvest. The many drop
out, heeced and disappointed. Not one man
in thousand makes anything out of boom.
Not one man in thousand is fitted by nature
and training to speculate successfully Even
those who escape the under tow and temporarily
succeed usually keep on too long, and, caught
in the ebb go out with it.
Just now Port Arthur spectators are en-
deavorng to convince the world that their town
is the coming deep-water city of the South,
even while admitting that if they ever get a
Whit of deep water, they must build ship
canal eight miles long. TO vitalize their
scheme, they are representing that Sabine
Pass, rival deep-water burg, is ou such low
ground that tidal wave may swipe it off the
earth at any moment. Doubtless, the possible
would instantly occur if Po1t Arthur boomers
could create tidal wave. Fortunately, such
a calamity is outside of their Jurisdiction and
in the hands of nerciful Providence. On
the other hand, Sabine Pass boomers assert
that Port Arthur is as low as Sabine Pass and
as liable to be submurged.
The fact is that the people who are induced
to place their hard-earned dollars in any town
far away from their place of residence, and
where they cannot be on the ground to look af
ter their interests, are more liable to be
the places mentioned.
Whether or not either or both burgs (they
are really nothing more) are subject to
tidal waves should be of little Importance to
any man who has been able, where lie is, to
save a small surplus.
ga bird in the hand is worth two in the
BUSH" Times are hard and doubtless will be
for number of years.
Even though the Dingley tariff fanatics pro-
pose to make general prosperity by protecting
a few manufacturers who made up the Hanna
fund, thereby increasing the price of
wheat we, of the west, use and wear, and COM
pelling us consumers to pay this corruption
fund, yet we opine the common people will not
experience any beneficial result until about two
years after McKinley's term expires. Booms
fash in the pan soon enough when times are
good. They inevitably Aatten sooner when, as
now, times are hard.
Therefore it stands to reason that any man
who is holding his own or adding slowly to his
surplus should stick to his job, unseduced by
The ephemeral flash of far-away boom. Any
aborer who has steady employment and is make
ing living should beware of throwing up
job, to follow all ignus fatuus that may only
ead him to the hopeless pathway of tramp life.
Only three classes may nationally tackle
boom in these times, to wit:
1st. The rich man Who can lose withou. suf-
cring.
end. Those out of employment who are able
and willing to rough it and take any sort of job
hat will pay.
3rd. The professional tramp whose exodus
will gladden. the heart of any community that
he now infests w. H. MELLEN.
CONGRESSMAN HOLMAN, of Indiana, is dead.