Fort Wrangel news., 1898-08-31

The indications are that when the present war with Spain k over We shall control Porto Rico. the Philippines and Sandwich Islands. To say nothing ot Cuba. We must maintain d larger standing army and a large. efficient navy. We must build canal across the ISthmus ot Panama. All this means that thousands and hundreds of thousands of ahlc-bodicd men will be withdrawn from ordinary pursuits. that new fields will be opened for the enter prising, that the unemployed may have employment If they will. that q period of prosperity for the farmer and for the artisan and consequently for the whole country Is near. How long the boom will last or what will be the ultimate result are other questions, but II be hooycs the wise to have their wits about them and bc up and doing. That some sort of reaction will come in time there can be no doubt, says a writ
 CT in q Louisville paper. The farm
 CTS of Kentucky and of the south now have their greatest opportunity They were left proStrate in 1SilJ and were unable to gather together the wreck of war and take advantage In its fullneSs of the flush times In the latter half of the 'G0s. When they did begin to stand alone migration-sometimes half | million year from the crowded popu- lation of Eumpe-howed Into the un- broken prairies of the West The vir- gin soil was broken. American inge
 nuity invented improved machinery of every kind. and a flood of wheat and corn and cattle and horses poured out from the West undreamed of. uneXam- pied in the history of the world. In- dia, Argentina and Russia added to the store of golden grain. The cheap horses from the West killed the mule industry | in Kentucky, the cheap wheat and corn and the fat range cattle from the bunch grass drove the price of Southern cattle and farm products down to such fig ure that no longer were they protita ble
 Cotton went down in price, and tobac. co. except the better class of burley, dropped. But at last the West was full at least so far as free lands and farms open for the taking. The South had turned in measure to other things. Finding farming profits cut down. she dug into the bowels of the earth for coal and ore, furnaces and factories sprung up, and the hum of industry was heard. And even before the dee. laration of war the South was begin. ming to have her inning. She was. as it were, beginning to catch even with the shooting. jumping. popping growing West, with the North, boom-sick Ar gentina, deSpOt-cursed Russia and plngue-ridden but rich and productive, India. Wheat was going up, corn was l going up, hogs, cattle and horses were bringing good and increasing prices. All this and better things are now at hand. l Having learned the bitter lesson of ad- versity the South should be prepared America should be prepared to grasp her opportunities. We have no famines 1 In America, we have no pestilence as l known to other countries. Those who l do not move forward may blame them selves. We have the most productive country on this globe, and, avoiding wild schemes and foolish speculations,
 we should produce and lay up q store against the rainy day, remembering
 that he is farthest from market who
 has nothing to sell"