The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-01-22
A Valuable Discovery.

clothes.
A Valuable Discovery.
Messrs. Henry s'lews 4 %. 4ankers
etc, have made most valuable dis
covery for which they should vote
themselves gold medal big as a cart
wheel. Here it is: THE era of pros
perity which began eight years ago
| with the defeat Of Mr.. Bryan is still
| with us in good force ana promises to
run on for the full decade if unfavox-
| able events do not prevent Yea
| verify. IF unfavorable events slo not
prevents That's good. IN the trum-
plant language of Professor Suueers.
That's richness! IF unfavorable
events do not prevent!~ Why limit
prosperity % full decade on such con
ditions? That evidently was an over
sight on Che part of Messrs. Henry
Clews & Co. bankers. Now. off I'M
favorable events do NOT prevent" why
shouldn't prosperity, like Tennyson's
brook, go on forever: Gnfavsrabfe
events have produced every panic that
we or any other people ever suffered
from. AS scientific piece - hedging
that sentence has No superior in eur
1T will be clear tomorrow unless it is
cloudy" How's that lof a prediction?
Yet it is on all tours. with the decade
prosperity prediction Of Messrs Henry
Clews & 90, bankers. &erhaps those
worthy prognosticators have business
and matrimony miNeA and were thir4-
ing of that marvellous bill which some
Kansas solon has introduced in the
legislature o< the Sunf1ower State pre-
Gliding thas marriage shalt be foo q
period Of ten years only. but renewable
at the option of the parties thereto.
The author. of that bill deserves a
leather medal. Messrs. Henry Clews6
Co. bankers, may be great financiers.
but as prophets they are not howNng
success. They should Rick &heia bints
and try u again.
Che philadelphia 9squiref Is Wiling
for Mr.. chairman Burton of the siyer
and harbors committee. % spply his
new doctrine of appropriating only Cor
such rivers and harbors as the states.
counties. cities Or towns sHso appr0
pirate like amounts 6or, but the Nv
Auirer doesn't want the Burton CLAN o.
begin to operate antil Philadelphia has
gobbled all she wants Cor the Delaware
river. But there will Ae 10 core to tho
apple whes philadelphia satisfies Aer
appetite.
~Modifiee schedules Is 9he eup4e-
mistic expression in vogue with anti
stand pat Republicans in lieu of tariff
revision" ~Whaf's in name?s 4'hey
will not deceive the people by any such
word juggle as that, though it may be
a nice way to some down off . high
horse
r>Straws show which way The wind
blows.v The vote Of the minor parties
at the last two elections was as fol-
lows: Prohibition. 2O9,O62 in 1900, 258,-
847 In 1904; Socialist Labor; 1895 in
1900, 402,1 59 in 1904; Popu1ist, 5000
in 1900, 1928 in 1904. All Of these
grew somewhat the Socialists amaz-
ingly.
Wonder how Hon. Joseph Weeks
Babcock, chairman now for ten years
last past of the Republican congress
sional campaign committee. relishes
being dubbed "a mischievous agitator~
by Republican papers? Yet that is the
name given him by the Salt Lake Trib-
une, Perry S. Heath's paper. The Econ
omist reprints the editorial without
comment, in which manner it indorses
the sobriquet. Alas, poor Bah: 70
make matters worse, Bab's name is
coupled with that of Governor Cum
minis. Poor Bab:, Poor Cummins:
62z&l4kAz.