The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-07-24
Danger Ahead.


laboring people were employed at
better wages than they had ever
known before. Her factories, ma
chine shops and founderies were
running on full time. Her farmers
were getting big prices for their
products and no country in the
world up to that time had ever en-
ioyed such full measure of happi-
ness and prosperity to all classes.
Money circulated freely among the
people and the national money bags
bulged with the accumulation OF
money and precious metals, but in
an evil hour there arose false
prophet in the East who said such
an accumulation of wealth in the
Golfers of the nation was dangerous
to public safety and that the money
should be IN circulation instead of
pilipg up in the treasury vaults.
He argued long and loud and
many men and several women went
throughout the length and breadth
of the land proclaiming from the
housetops dire and migety evils to
the country if change were not
made in the rulers of the land. They
promised the laboring man cheaper
living and the employer cheaper
labor if they would vote for a change.
The laboril man was convinced
that he was paying the farmer too
much fo- his bread and meat and
the manufacturer was convinced
that he was paying too much for his
labor and the farmer, concluded he
was paying entirely too much Tor
his boots and his breeches and it
came to pass that many thousands
of them voted for a change and
their prophet from the East was
elected to the high place and then
there was great rejoicing among the
people and the deluded followers OF
this false chief rejoiced and made
exceeding merry over the many
good things that had been promised,
which followed rapidly.
Soon the employer got labor
cheaper, the laborer lived for less
money, the farmer bought his raj
ment cheaper and the money flowed
out Of the treasury at a rapid rate
Just as had been promised. But the
farmer found his cattle, hogs,
chickens, eggs and butter and his
surplus grain brought much less
money on the market and the labor
er lost his job and could not find
another. The manufacturer could
not sell his wares and was obliged
to shut down. The money continu-
ed to flow out of the treasury until
there was none there and the great
chief had to borrow S262, 900, 900
to pay his henchmen their dues and
gave Plerpont Morgan x Company
MANY millions to float the loan.
Then the money changers closed
their shops and want and faminewere
abroad in the land, and the laborers
who had been receiving much
money for their work and sending
their daughters to boarding schools
and their sons to college and buying
pianos and gold watches for Christ
mas presents, hired their daughters
out as servants and sent their sons
into the street to beg. The piano:
were sold for raimant and the gold
watches pawned for bread, while
those who had sung with such glad
acclaim, "Hail to the Chief, .
marched through the land in grea
armies on to the throne and de
manded relief from the rulers from
the evils they had ignorantly voted
on themselves.
When these evils had continued
for four long years and the people
had begun 10 see the folly of thei
actions, there arose man in th'
West of pleasant countenance aaC
kindly bearing who said, al believ'
it is better to open the factories t.