The Iola register., 1900-10-26


Take Italy, Austria, or any other
country There the sole subsistence
OF the laboring people consists OF
soup made by shaving hard brCw1
bread into a bowl and pouring over
it boiling water and seasoning it with
pepper and salt Each member of the
family, young and old, with ladle
or spoon, stands around this bowl
eating of this wholesome, luxurious
repast. This is repeated three times
per day If this is what the people
who advocate honest money desire
to see in the United States, why
sEould we expect different results in
this country than have been obtained
in every other country where this
policy has been put into practice ?"
I'VE boast of our intelligence, and
we are intelligent. so far as not being
illiterate, but better term would be
to say that we are educated. At the
same time we are woefully ignorant
of those common, fundamental princi-
pies OF government, which must be un-
derstood 10y the people of any coun-
try before we can obtain any degree
of prosperity. We have been satisfied
with getting together on the Fourth of
July each year and listening to the
oratory of distinguished gentlemen,
who proclaim that we are the greatest
and smartest people on earth, while
the people of other nations, though
not having any day to celebrate,
or any day in which they can get to-
! gether and engage in any personal
laudations of their racheivements, have
made steady progress toward a condi-
tion of AFFAIRS under which any man
who is willing to do his fair share of
labor, can surround himself and his
| family with all the necessaries and
comforts of life.
"With reference to the abuse of
Kansas becoming nauseating, and the
probable effect its continuation will
have on me politically, | want to say
that there is a great field for labor in
this direction in the East. The people
who think that you can restore pros
perity by starting factories are so
densely ignorant that the first work to
be done will be of kindergarten
character. and should you need any
kindergarten teachers, Kansas is pre-
pared to furnish tnem by the score.
To my mind it is simply APPALLING that
any considerable number of intelligent
people would accept this theory. 1t
must be apparent to you that factories
must start as result of prosperity, as
result of the demand. created for
their products by reason of the peo-
pie being employed at good wages
and receiving for the products sof the
toll good prices, thereby enabling
them to purchase more clothing, more
food and more of all the comforts and
necessaries of life. and that, when the
factories are started in this manner,
their starting will be salutary and
will be hailed with JOY by the yeople.
But the idea Of starting a factory in
order to create prosperity, when the
shelves ineverye establishment through
out our entire country are breaking
with the goods. many of which are
shelf worn because OF the inability of
the people to purchase, is ridiculous.
Looking back over somewhat
eventful career, 1 can see many points
where might have done differently,
in view of the light possessed at this
time. For instance, | do not know
that | would have devoted a good
portion of my time and considerable
money for the last twenty years en-
deavoring to bring about a changed
condition of affairs for the people
who do not appear to want a change,
but, on the other hand, I might have
pursued course which would have
resulted in chasing me along with the
so calledrespectable element of society,
rather than being classed with the
anarchists and repudiators.
81 am pleased to say that havere-
ceived very courteous treatment at the
hands of the Financier, financial
paper of New York city Mr.. c. A,
Hazen, associate editor, concludes
recent letter as follows: Hoping
that the rumors of your approaching
election to the United States SENATOR
ship will be confirmed as to acertainty
before many months, and congratula-
ting you in advance on that probabil-
ity, we remain, ETC.. BY this it would
appear that have been able to con-
vince one New Yorker that there is at
least one Populist holding official
position in Kansas who does not re-
fleet unfavorably upon the state.'
To Stop Cold