The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-19
CALAMITY WITH A GOLD LINING

Current statistics in Colorado carry
with them a striking moral. The peo-
pie there are just waking up to the
fact that the state was doing well all
through the period when the voice of
calamity was heard from every stump
In the state. Riches have been thrust
upon Colorado in broad stream,
and we're pillng up even while the
state was bucklng ferociously on the
financial question. Wealth is the re-
ward Of Colorado for not getting
what it talked Tor and voted for. The
Denver Times says that Colorado
wakes no greater every morning"
And Bryan is not the architect of this
good fortune, though he received in
Colorado 161 ,269 votes to 26,279 for
Mckinley. The women of Colorado
voted as well as the men, yet the
united wisdom of both sexes was un-
equal to form a correct judgment of
what was best for that state and all
the others. Though Colorado showed
under its own best interests the genial
warmth from other parts of the
country melted the visitation as it
fell, and also carried off harmlessly
the verbal slush that preceded it.
In 1892 Colorado mined gold to
the value of s5,539,O21 and silver
worth $17,634,944. Last year its
gold production was 19,579,637 and
silver $13,OOO,OOO. While the yield
of gold has been jumping up prodigi-
ously that of silver has fallen off only
to limited extent. In the last six
years silver production, compared
with the average of 1892. fell off $780,
949,644, and within the same period,
the gold production of the state in
creased $53, ,631, 1919. The excess of
increase of gold over decrease of sill
yer was $32,67I,735. This shower of
gold was falling all through the
memorable years of wailing and pre-
dictions of ruin. In the year Of
Cleveland's last election Colorado's
gold and silver amounted to $23.000,-
900. In the dark year of 1894 it
was S26,000,000. In the year that
Colorado wept as one without hope
over the defeat of Bryan it was S29,-
100000. The first year the advance
agent of prosperity got to work it was
$32, 100000, and this year the figures
will go still higher. 1t is necessary
to remark that Colorado's statue of
Niobe was not the real stuff. 1t
bears remarkable resem blance to a
demagogue's dummy, with glass
tears, and straw peeping out of the
seams.
Colorado is coming around polite
ally. The Republican vote doubled
at the recent election, aud no wonder.
The free coinage vote, though boil
stored up by fusion of numerous
parties rlvaling Mrs. Jarley's wax
works, fell off 66,S79. A Denver
paper remarks that the calamity poll.
ticians are reluctant to let go. Hard
times, depression and sorrow.is really
cash in their pockets. They apply
these dread evils to politics. and
politics brings them the cash returns. y
The number of miners employed II
Colorado this year IS 29,215, with nc
decrease in wages on account of pay
ment in the 100c dollar. In agrlcul
ture and horticulture also Colorado
is conspicuously well-to do. What
it tried to pass for wilted calamity
pumpkin was Rocky Ford melon
just off the ice. 1t was naughty II
Colorado TO play such prank on the
older states, but they know a thing
or two, and often save foolish young
sters from themselves.-Glo Demo
crat.
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