The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1902-10-21

Gentlemen who are advocating the
readjustment of the tariff and the dis
turbing of business interests and tf
the existing conditions which make
for general prosperity are hard to
please. They are mischievous or
ignorant. Though they are coh-
fronted with unexampled prosperity
in every part Of the country they do
not seem to know 1t. There are few
idle men in any branch of industrs.
Every competent workingman who
really wishes to get employment has
little difficulty in finding it. The
want" columns of the newspapers
are filled with demands for every kind
of labor and the situations wanted"
columns have dwindled in corr,,-
spending degree. In addition to t1e
marvellous activity in every line of
manufacture and trade. the country Us
on tle eYe of the most abundant har-
vests known in many years. Appar-
emily there will be no crop failure of
any kind. Corn, wheat and cotton will
be marketed in enormous quantities,
and undoubtedly will fetch coed
prices. There will be an abundance
of corn for feeding cattle. which
should make lower prices for beef,
and the packers will have better prof
its at lower prices than they have had
this year.
What ails these chronic malcontenis
and discontents whose feelings fnd
expression in the jeremiads of such
calamity howlers as Bryan? What Is
the matter with them? Are they dis.
tressed because of Astounding prosper.
ity? Do they in spirit of malice or
recklessness long to experiment with
another condition of affairs? Have
they not yet learned the lesson that 1t
Is better TO leave well enough
alone?" Might it not be advantageous
for Chicago, for instance, to feel
the impulse of the good times all
about us and reap some of the benefits
which other cities are enjoying?
The effort to disturb existing con.
ditions in trade and business for the
purpose of giving occupation to GER
have nothing to do in prosperous
times is unwise, il nothing worse,
and exhibits the wanton spirit of the
small boy who defaces public build
ings, destroys private property and
tortures animals to give expression To
his superabundant "cussednesA "
Some of those who are SO anxious 30
try the other side" and experiment
with depression and disaster appear
to desire the fulfillment of these piV.
phecies Of evil even II their fellc n
citizens have to suffer therefro,l
Others from lack of experience or
from sheer seflshness, having no
other occupation but politics and
being on the losing side, evidently
think that bad times for other people
may be good times for them. Those
who in this spirit wish for change
should read in Mr.. Allerton's letter,
printed on Tuesday last, his reference
20 1894, when as the result of demon
alizirg business and disturbing pros
perity every one was idle, old men
and young men asking for a job"
hooc VIM lhlS NphuitiOu vi
things, those who would like to see
the fires put out in the great mills a,
South Chicago-men walking the
streets this winter looking I'm vain for
employment. the highways full of
lramps and hobos, the corridors of the
city hall and the police stations
crowded with vagrants-men, women
and children actually perishing from
hunger and cold-will do what they
han to reverse present conditions.
they will subscribe to the program
which the calamity howlers would like
70 have carried out for the delectation
IL their misguided followers. II is
only candidates out of office and poll.
ticians out of jobs who would have a
change They will not be gratifed,
br prosperity is the issue and all
other questions are secondary. Chi
rago Tribune,