The Glenwood post., 1907-03-30
SATURDAY. MARCH 30, 1907.
LET'S NOT 60 CRAZY

ing over their power OF the condition
which some ever love to repeat that
any interference with that custom
means certain discontinue and abso
lutte ruin.
few years ago the entire Western
country was up in arms, as it were,
over discussion of the silver ques
ton. Public meetings were held and
the governme mt policy was attacked
with all possible severity. Agitating
newspapers told in glaring headlines
and doleful predictions of the dire
things that would surely happen to
this entire western country if silver
were not restored to its rightful place
in the financial world at the ratio of
18 to 1.
How we'll we remember the dire
prophecies of the calamity howlers of
those gloomy days of the early '9Os,
1t seems but yesterday since we were
told of how this country was going to
the dogs unless we could force congress
to apply what we knew to be the only
remedy by which we could hope for
relief.
Men and women went fairly mad
on this question, but congress did not
concede to our demands So positive
were some that we were all to be pau
perized by the terrible crime of '73''
that they could see no possible ray of
light ahead except it came through
the free silver spectrum.
Indeed SO drunken did the people
become on this subject and so intem.
perate were their wailings that those
who were less bilious than themselves
and who refused to accept the gloomy
prophecy that certain destruction
would surely follow the policy of the
goldbugs, were promptly and often
publicly declared traitors to the coun
try, enemies of society and if in bust
ness these men who refused to be led
by the nose and made to parrot the
sayings which in their hearts they
did not believe, were branded as "un
worthy of patronage.
And as the years have gone by and
We have gazed upon the wonderful
development and marvellous prosperity
which have constantly given the lie
to our pessimistic predictions of those
former days. we have wondered how
we could have been 80 untrustful of
ourselves, of the American govern
ment and of the God who has prom
ised to note the sparrow's fall.
During the past few years new
condition has confronted the Western
stockmen. Custom, which holds us
as in a vice, has been broken. After
careful thought and intelligent study
new system has been inaugurated
which, because of many falsehoods
and adroit misrepresentations, is not
thoroughly understood The agi-
tator has broken out afresh, and
streams Of pessi mism have been poured
forth from country press and would
be political leaders until many have
actually been made to believe that a
conspiracy exists to ruin their efforts
of life time and drive them out of
business to which they have become
attached. Nothing is further from
the truth.
In the efforts of the demagogues to
secure standing with the people
standing which they hope to turn to
financial proht-the people in some
com unities have become intoxicated
with restless resentment. They have
worked themselvse into frenzy of
unwarrapted inaginations until, di.
vorced from all reason, they are
ready to denounce and abuse all who
do not view the situation through
their own begrimed spectacles. This
IL the method of the braggart and the
anarchist. and We are pleased to say
II meeting with but little favor.