Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-02-05
RESTORED CONFIDENCE.
Farmers Uowa) Tribune.

DDI tll NillslS boI pIu Nv
braska! They have gone to the dem
milton bow-wowS. They are ruined.
Their name is pants! They have no
JOY on earth and no hope for the fu-
ture. May the Lord have mercy on
them. Because they voted for Bryan,
the edict has gone forth that they
shall be punished. Yes, yea, they
Shall be scourged sorely. Starvation
shall walk forth i'll the by-ways and
highways and gaunt want will stare
forth from every household. The
money kings have shut down on Kan
sas, and they have shut down on Ne
braska and they won's loan Il kopcck
to the wild-cyed Mexican-dollar
fanatics. The poor befuddled 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 will sweep down
upon them with bllzzards and frost
bites and there is no help for it..
They can burn their corn or go
frosted. The drOuth will come next
summer and burn them up, the rain
will give them the bogy, and the old
Harry will be to pay in general all
because they refused to vote for Nc
Kinley.
Poor Kansas! Poor Nebraska!
We stop the press to weep for you.
The papers are full OF your woes.
Confidence in your willingness to turn
over your crops and your votes to Wall
street, has been destroyed, and how in
the world are you going to live and
clothe yourself without confidence?
How can you live without the consent
of the east? The money power will
come down and fOrclosc your mort
cages now and take your old clothes
and your rag carpets and your calico
dresses and your undershirts. How
dare the people of Kansas and Nebras-
ka assert their rights to cast free and
untrammeled ballot? How dare they
vote for what they thought was best?
They might have known better.
The edict has gone forth that Kan
sas and Nebraska shall be devastated
and depopulated. They shall become
a bowling wilderness and her people
shall 60 naked and so bust excepting
Dudley township, Haskell county,
Kansas, where Palmer and Buckner
were supreme. Your sockless states
men and your be-whiskered farmers
are undone.
Gosh, but we pity you!
We over in Iowa have need to be
congratulated. Confidence has been
fully restored. 1t is substance with
out body, brain, or soul, an airy moth
ingness that fills all the wants OF frail
humanity.
Blessed be confidence! When a
man needs square meal there is
nothing like confidence to fill a
stomach on, and when he needs new
pair of breeches to keep out the cold
zephyrs from the northwest, conf
dence will clothe and warm him as a
beautiful dream.
We are proud of Iowa! We are
proud that our state voted for sound
money! We are proud that they
voted for the gold standard ticket
Iowa hasn't any money in its treasury,
but it has lots of confidence and conf
dence is what knocks. Our State
treasury is filled to its uttermost
capacity with confidence. Iowa war
rants are at a discount, and it is hard
to cash them at any price, but little
thing like sordid money does not dis.
turb our happiness. Six Iowa banks
have gone bust since election, but
"depositors will be paid in fullp
We do not miss them because we have
confidence to take their places.
The hundreds of railroad men who
have been laid off since election are
doubtless thankful that Iowa went fol-
Mckinley. Their dinner pals are
empty and they board at the free souT
houses but confidence has been re-
stored. Sic Semper Kansas Roof
hog or die Nebraska! The railroad
section hands who had their wages cut
from $1.25 to So cents per day, are
glad that Iowa went for Mckinley
They can now eat liver once q week
and masticate confidence every othel
day of the week. How thankful they
are that they do not live in Kansas
and Nebraska.
We people in Iowa who have hat
confidence restored to us and who
clothe ourselves in gunnysacks, ca
saw dust and stave off the grocer, ART
happy that we do not live in the crank
ridden states of Kansas and Nebraska
where anarchy stalks abroad on every
farm and where they can borrow nc
money from the east. 1t is blessed
privilege we have in Iowa of borrowing
money. We can borrow it any day
or night that we want to. Nice
I bright Wall Sfroot nold To be surf