The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-06-15
PROSPERITY

SOON VIM q
subject our people love to linger
over, a delight that thrills every
American heart. Since VIM. Nc
Kinley rode out as the .sadvance
agent" prosperity has been COM
ing and coming with such impetu-
osity and force that it has set the
wise men to thinking that perhaps
it cannot last. Prosperity does
not mean that the lazy will get
rich without exertion or the incom-
petent without ability. Prosperity
means opportunity utilized 1t
means that every man shall have a
chance to coin some part of his
energy into cash. 1t means work
to be done at a renumerative wage.
Prosperity does not mean that
everyone will succeed, that would be
a reversal of the law of the survival
/ Of the fttest which will not occur in
nature. Four years ago democrats
made calamity the issue, certainly
they cannot blame republicans for
making an issue of prosperity.
Democrats may be able to point
out particular localities or particu-
lar industries where prosperity
dwelleth not. In fact, democracy
first of all denies prosperity and
then says the republican party had
nothing to do with it anyhow.
This week we took a trip through
the country. We saw some corn
that was nearly "knee-high," where
there was hardly a weed in the
field. The owner of that field
will find thar prosperity is here,
but he will coin his prosperity with
the sweat of his brow. All that
government can dois to oil the ma
chinery, it cannot supply the
power, or do the work of the indi-
vidual. -Four years ago there was
a man in Denison who had nothing
TO do but talk politics. Hour after
hour, day after day, month after
month he did nothing else. We
do not blame him much, there was
little else to do and he was but a
type OF many who could find no
employment and who sought some
panacea which should open up the
avenues Of work. The only trouble
with this class of people is that
they are not satisfied except with
miracles. The man in the Bible
story, who was told to battle in the
river Jordan and he would be made
whole, had no faith in so simple a
remedy. Had he been taken into
a dark room, with incense and in
carnations, had he been told to do
some marvellous or we'll nigh i'm
possible thing he would have &C
cepted it gladly. In fact the more
preposterous had been the cure the
more he would have admired and
venerated the one who prescribed
it. The American people were
sick four years ago. They went tc
DR.. Bryan and he prescribed a
solution of silver to be injected
into the veins of the patient. II
was a wonderful hocus-pocus ar
rangement, it would relieve tramps,
kill,rust on wheat and national
bankers, it would cancel debts on
half payment, it would make a
pound loaf two pounds. The mir
acle of the loaves and fishes was
not in it compared to this wonder
full cure. And some people went
fairly crazy over the new doctor
and paid out their good dollars tc
hear him tell of his cure and be-
lieved all he said and he "reduced
the price for that day only and
did a thriving business. Some
people however went to DR.. Nc.
Kinley and he looked the patien,
over and prescribed WORK. "Whc
ever heard of such a thing" said
DR.. Bryan's advocates, ~"prescrib.
ing work, why everyone knows
what work is, anyone could pre-
scribe work." But there was just
common sense enough left in the