Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-22
PROSPERITY.

is lodging around right smart, and TO catch
some of her, if it was possible, has been my
daily task and, so far, she has not showed up
in these parts, and if she has been through
here, she went through in the night time, on
fast train, and have about reached the con-
clusion that she has no use for farmers in be-
slowing her favors. | am not doubling that
prosperity is not abroad, for our beloved presi-
dent says it is, and the papers say so, and also
some of the politicians. The president, papers
and politicians, like Washington, cannot lie;
and so l have been locating the tickle jade; and
| find the army comes in for $r3S, 900 900 more
than was bestowed last year. The railroads,
also, got their share of prosperity, for their
earnings per mile are $1,000, and expenses
only 81, ooo The net earning of all the roads
is Sass, 100000.
The manufacturers are also very prosperous
They sold lots of goods in Europe this year,
and, it is said, sold for about half what they
sold to their American customers. They sold
abroad, and made an immense profit on what
they sold at hcme. They also entered into
combines. and issued and sold lot of watered
stock.
All the politicians are prosperous but Rob-
erts and Goebel. The money-lenders also seem
to have done fairly, for money went as high as
forty per cent. in Wall Street The money
was wanted for water purposes. l can't see
how the mass of 7o,ooo,ooo people can be
benefited by an army that cost three times as
much as last year. also can't see how high
er freights and higher goods benefit the masses,
but Mckinley says the benefits are here all
right, and dad CAST the man that contradicts
our beloved president.
Of course, now. am only one man, but l
am man of faith. believe that we are pros
nerous lust because our great men say so. |
don't find prosperity, because am not smart,
and I must confess that, although a man of
faith. I have doubts. My doubts are caused
nv the advance in whisky and tobacco.
don't mind paying more for shoes, blue overalls
and blows, but when it comes to tobacco and
whisky, my faith is shaken. AS to prices OF
what produce, they, Gas we were told they
would be, under the gold standard), are liked.
Not absolutely fixed, because prices go up
few cents one day, and down few cents the
next day. don't worry over this little bob
h;no ND and down, because it is part OF our
commercial system, and we could not get on
without our boards of trade and other acces-
sories of commercial life.
The point we have gained under the gold
standard is that the price of labor is liked at
inst about one figure. l might say here that
our commercial system IS intimately connected
Nth orr financial system, and the man who
hos money is master OF the situation, the moul-
dor Of fortunes, the arbiter of destnies.
There is only one way, as can see, to ex-
n,ain the presidents claim to prosperity as to
.,r;oes Of Goods, and no doubt the president had
that in mind.
II is the Europeans that ale prosperous. AS
.,,ervbodv knows, who knows anything at all,
~o,rer labor in Europe is very cheap, and
i.hor being cheap, goods are cheap. Now,
40, manufacturers sold goods in Europe below
nauper labor prices, so, it follows that the Eu'
roneans bought goods at the lowest prices ever
,,aour If am right, it follows that part Of
~. rrosperity was bestowed on Europeans
w. also bestowed a considerable degree Of
nrosperity on the people of the PHILIPPINE Isl
70. This includes the sultan of Sulu, also
his wives.
vo,, see. NE are getting broad and long, ano
,;ah nm and low down. This is our expansion
hut there is deal resting on the final outcom
.