Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-11
Greatness of Our Country.

1t Is time that Americans 1uliE Ttdi1zcu
Ss1e relative greatness of their own people.
with a view to fuller comprehension of
their ability to make a market Ihey
axt the best educated, best fed, best nous
ed best clothed and farthest Travelled ~
GEso 900 of peoplein the world. If the laws
Interfere with their industries IN any way,
favoring their competitors abroad, inter-
feriDg with their power to purchase To-
ward education, nutrition, lodging, cloth
ing and travelling, as we have seen IoF
the four years past, their power to make
a market is lowered corresponhngly.
Prosperity has come naturally; pubhc
policies have been changed; the workers
are employed: they buy more hberally;
che farmer gets better prices; he puts lhe
price of his crops into circulation; the
current warns up all the veins OF COM
r,,erc-c: fhe twenty millions of farmers buy
more literally Of all household and other
commodities: the wholesale merchant
feels the quickening influence and puts
more a agents On the road; the country mer-
chant whose stocks have been low for
years rcplenishes his shelves, ana thls
gives orders TO the manufacture, VINO
employs more labor and skill; the BUSY
S-orkmcn have money to buy the farmer
and other products, all of which make the
good times we enjoy. The beginning of
all this was the change of public policy
that WIS ordered last November oy the
people when they elected Gov. Mckinney
President, the keeping of our jobs at
home for our own people, and the keep
ing of the money at home to pay out to
our own people.
President McKinley's administration
las set about the introduction of prosper
fty among all classes of people by COM
pItte change of public policy. That change
Is bringing good results already. The first
effect Is better prices for farm products.
i -.a1I hot hn roIt xr nj w
abroad is the cause of better prices here.
Cancede that for the sake of the argu-
s11ent- Why are other grains higher, with
beef, mutton, pork, wool and other farm
products? The voters who changed pub
lie policies year ago have confidence in
Che change of administration. They are
the moving power of the republic. They
do the bulk of its business. They are ia
fylflinr with American history for a CEN
Jury and quarter, as affected by pro-
6s-.5ion 10 home industries and the want
syf it They are not ready to take a step
toward the experience of the last four
years The questions that We're settled
year ago viii stay settled while this gen
srafion lives, and the cost of sending our
jobs abroad and starving orr workers at
home rs fresh in our memories.
Effect of Changes of Policy.
The effect of the changes of public pol
Icy agricultural interests is well illus
Erafe1i by the changes in the prices of our
farm stock and farm products. The de-
crease in the value of the horses has been
very great during the past ten years.
Superficial observers tell us that the sub
ssitution of steam and electricity on street
tars for horses has made this change.
But there are other factors that have been
At work during this decade to destroy the
value of horses The United States
changed its public policies in the mean
llyzed, because our workmen We're turned
Sut OF employment. They We're not able
% buy farm products, the factories be-
came idle, and the farm horses were not
wanted about the factories, in the towns,
7or anywhere in the United States, as
much formerly If the value of horses
were reduced during this change of public
policy. and the prices of other materials
femained the same, would be COM
eelled to conclude that some other cause
Gian general depression had lowered the
trice of horses, but we will find in looking
fyer the productions of this great State
Ehat every thing else pertaining to the
farm decreased in value at the same time.
The farmers were left with large sur
siUses on their hands. Unfortunately for
as, our horses could not be put to any
great extent upon the worlds market, be-
{suse we had been producing such horses
rs pleased US, and not such horses as the
world demanded outside of the United
States. The worlds market for horses
Sxed The prices for us, and we had so few
.hat the world wanted to buy. that prices
iropped to an unprofitab BILE figure If we
rad been producing heavy draft horses,
9oach horses and saddle horses. Europeans
would have bought them at hiu0 prices
They have agents in this cou y, and
nave had them for many years. Searching
Tor the kind of horses l have named, but
are not able to find them as plentifully
Is they desire. We are undoubtedly able
ID produce horses in the United States
cheaper than any other country can pro-
suce them, because We have the cheapest
grains and grasses, good water. and intel
dgent people to rear them. 1t is a cues
Ton for the farmers in the future as to
row they shall breed and deyelop their
horse stock.
Sugar Beets.
We pay S100,000,000 each wear for su
gar, made to a great extent from sugar
Heets grown in Continental Europe. since
he Cuban war began. People will re-
member that when President Mckinley
~as chairman of the Ways ard Means
Committee in the House of Retpresenta
lives some years ago. he secursKi lecisla
dom in the interest of the farnHr. giving
facoura cement TO the growingIof sugar
tsets- The attention of American farm
trs was drawn toward that Endustrv
Arrangements We're made to It'd the ca
tacity of our soils IN all parts OF he Unit
I'd States Some factories were uilt. and
within a reasonable time all be sugar
americans require would have EN- made
N the United States Sugar like but
bar consists of labor and sra< ne TIC.
price of labor would have beer aised ali
along the line. from the grow of the
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