The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-09-23
The Monetary Problem.
BETTER TINES AHEAD.
a Southern Journals Prediction
T-ae Prosperity VIII Not Come
TIL BimetaIIism Is Restored.


TIL BimetaIIism Is Restored.
Some Of our esteemed gold standard
contemporaries, says the Atlanta Con-
EtitUtiOn, are laying the f1attering
unctiOn to their souls that the Consti-
EatiOn's prediction Of better times for
Ekis winter is an Indication Of weak
ness on our part tn the belief that
prosperity, IN It's fullest measure, will
not be restored until the currency IS
reformed and rested on a basis Of both
geld and silver.
The Troy On y Times, for instance,
IN bidding adiea TO the calamity howl
er, whose occupation, IL says, viii be
gone with the advent Of better times.
says.
The Constitution IS shining example
rof this change Of opinion, A rabid advO-
cate OF free silver this most prominent
southern newspaper saw nothing but mis-
fortune In store as the result Of the defeat
OF Bryan. but now Il sings a different tune
me Constitution IS quite as much right
this year as It was wrong a year ago"
We predicted last year, continues
the southern 8apeF, that the fullness
OF prosperity would never be reached
under the single gold standard, and we
are as IN earnest in this belief now as
We were a year ago. But the Consti-
tuition wRs not then, is not now, and
never viii be a calamity bowler. It
Las T4lways lived In the sunshine
GeTf II in the shade. 1t has had faith
al along that however adverse may
Z e the legislative conditions surround
Ing the people, the energy and the de-
leTmina ton inspired by American grit
would triumph in the end and enforce
success, even against such conditions,
The misfortune we predicted in demo
cratic defeat a year ago was In the
comparative prediction that, in what
ever degree prosperity might be re-
stored under a republican admins
tratiOn, better results would have
been attained with democratic success
ind with the currency reformed to the
basis Of the democratic demand.
The Constitution has not doubted
since the country entered the long
period OF business depression and
financial unrest . few years ago, that
It's duration was self-limited To have
predicted that conditions as they ex-
listed in the darkest days Of the recent
period of panic had come to stay,
the beiief that the Fecuperatiye power
of American energy could not lose its
Vitality, and admission that the repub-
&c had entered upon the period of its
darkest era. But our people, however
unfortunate they may be, can adjust
themselves to any condition, and even
IfthrOwn back 10 the primitive method
OF barter and trade and settlement III
kind, they would have overcome and
betteTed the condition in which they
found themselves after the panic Of %.
Prosperity is q comparative term.
Commercial activity may be revived
business generally may be better, in
GustFial enterprise may awaken from
its long sIumber, giving employment
to the unemployed and opening up the
avenues which have been closed by the
long period Of depression, and yet the
degree Of prosperity enjoyed may not
be what the people have a right to ex-
pect If the unlimited natural resources
OF their country were given unham-
pered opportunity for development.
The Constitution predicts 4 splendid
business winter. Conditions are ripe
Tor a change, and If, as a result of the
close of a successful war, with the
country reunited, with our fields
grOaning under the burden of the most
bountifuI harvests this country has
known IN 20 years-in itself enough TO
bring prosperity; If, after the peculiar
combination Of all these circum-
stances, which 1t looks as If the Lord
God Almighty had wrought as a sPe-
cial dispensatiOn for our people, to
lead them from the darkness OF finau-
ciai depressiOn-ifs still there should be
10 material improvement, II would
seem indeed as If there were but little
hope for relief and little encourage
ment for the future.
But there are better times ahead.
and from all sides come testimonials OF
the awakening impulse OF trade re-
Fival. The farmer sees It In his over
burdened storehOuses and OTerrun-
ming granaries; the merchants and the
factories feel II in the increased de-
mand for their goods and when once
trade revival has been started. II VIII
not stop until IL has gone the fun
length Of the line. It viii accomp lish
its mission even in spite Of an adverse
currency system, which is pulling
down while II should be building up, a
system which makes the rich richer
and the poor poorer, and which even IN
better times laughs in mOckery at the
realiza ton Of what II could do in open
ing up the fulIness Of prosperity 10 the
enjoyment OF al, If II were engaged in
the broader business OF lettering the
public generally rather than in the ex-
elusive Junction Of serving only a IA
vored few.
Brazil On Paper Basis
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