The record-union., 1899-08-14
this year of grace known to her his

KNOW d SOOQ Uedl dUOut crop ColuieioH''
who claim that the yield will be third
more than the figure we have quoted.
If the crop sells at 25 cents bushel,
then on the basis of the higher figure
Kansas will receive through her farm
ers 100000. The farmers as a
rule are now free from mortgage debt
in that State. We hear no more now
of 1.-The Slavery of the farmer Of the
West to the money loaning sharks
They shook off all that incumbrance by
the bounty of the fields one and two
years ago. That fact knocked props
from beneath the platforms of calamity
shriekers. Now comes the corn crop
and delivers the pessimists and OBJ
structionists a solar plexus blow.
For the man with heavy dividends in
his pocket and unimpaired capital is
not given to much complaining, and
while his heart is as receptive to the
appeals of charity as ever, he does not
busy himself with denodncing the other
fellow who also has reaped profit from
his industry or business. Mr.. Bryan
and the other obstructionists have only
the hope of compliments to bank upon.
No, there is one thing more for which
they are pickering their mouths, abuse
Of the Administration for promoting
the war against Aguinaldo, and for its
disposition to retain the Philippines.
But that is merely a picked up issue.
1t will not survive the first decisive
victory of the army in the tropics.
In 1896 Mr.. Bryan and the Populists
had a plurality Of 12.269 in Kansas.
With corn coming into dollars, the
mortgage plasters taken off and new
comforts and conveniences substituted,
does any one think for moment that
the Bryan campaign can be repeated IN
the West? Kansas went Republican
last year by a plurality of nearly 49,
600. What occasioned the change
Did the bountiful wheat crop Of that
and the preceding year have to DO
with it? Unquestionably, coupled with
the fact that the people discovered
that the prophecies of the Organism
failed, and that his defeat and the
downfall Of the 16 to l fallacy brought
on no cyclones of disaster.
We must believe that what is true in
Kansas will prove true in other West
ern States where nature has filled the
granaries and prosperity has taken the
shadow from the doorstep, and that
therefore that Organism and pessimism
must wait for more convenient oppor-
tunity when the stars are more propi-
tious in their forecasts.
Clearly the peasant President OF
France is the man for the place. His
shrewdness in permitting the members
of the Patriotic League" to run then
course until they had we'll enn2sheo
themselves in reasonable ploi,- proves
that Loubet is a very much wiser man
than even his friends have supposed.
He has the conspirators now by the
heels and most of them safe in jail. The
proofs are in his hand that they have
attempted to overthrow the republic
and restore monarchical rule. and that
the assault upon him at the race track
d few weeks ago was not personal, but
the planned scheme of traitors to effect
coup detat and enthrone Royalist
in France. Now that the plot is laid
bare and the conspirators are in the
grip of the law, the people of France
will deserve to have their necks placed
beneath the heel of the tyrant # they
10 not crush out monarchism until the
breath has wholly departed from its
traitorous body The difficulty IN
France is that there is an attempt to
maintain dual system, to conduct a
Government as a republic While ad-
maintaining at one and the same time
a government that recognizes the po-
litical equality of all men, whils per-
hitting class to pose as of superior
birth. There will be no permanent
peace in the disturbed country until
there is established either a pure mon
archy, with a titled and aristocratic
class filling the places of trust, and a
serving and lower class doing the
mental offices of state and society, or
complete elimination of the aristocratic
class and merciless leveling of all con-
ditions to a political equality. Theo-
retically nobility is not recognized in
France and men are political equals.
Actually the class distinction is quite
as broad as in the days of Louis XVI.
The Fresno Republican" while say
ing that Fresno is very proud Of her
oil wells and is confident Of their rich
ness, warns the people against the
growing craze to invest in oil well
stock. Oil stock gambling has begun,
and in San Francisco has become some
thing of a craze. Wild cat companies
are formed and others purely specula-
tive in character, are buying lands with
only the mere, hope of developing oil
wells; while some are pretending to
purchase sites and have no intention of
attempting to develop wells at ALL The
stock in very many of the companies
is rushed upon the market at such fig
ures as to disclose to those not blinded
by greed that the chief aim is to gather
in the coin of small investors and let
development go to the dogs But it
should not be necessary to warn Cali
fornians on these subjects. They have