Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-10-16
is A CHANGE WANTED?

1t has always been a common
complaint in other years that a
national campaign year upset bust
ness uf all kinds and there was a
general slump until the political
questions had been settled at the
polls The situation is altogether
different this year. The usual political
discussions upon street corners and
other places where men assemble have
been missing and there is but little
excitement or agitation. We have
had no political speakers in this
vicinity so far and none yet
ed. Where there have been meetings,
except in cases where the speakers
have been the presidential candidates
themselves or some other man of un-
usual prominence, the attendance has
been very small People are not ex-
cited and are saying but little con-
corning how they intend to vote. The
various managers may make noisy and
emphatic claims as to the support
their candidate will receive but the
claims are largely bluffs and there is
little upon which to base an intel
ligent prediction.
The condition throughout the length
and breadth of the nation is one of
prosperity. Crops are larger this
year than they ever were before and
prices for what every man has to sell
as we'll as for what he has to buy are
nigh. Upon the farms the chief com
plant refers to the lack Of help.
Every body is making money. Labor
everywhere is in demand at high
prices. Factories everywhere are
running full handed. bank deposits
are increasing, railroads are unable to
provide cars fast enough to haul the
traffic they are required to handle and
building operations are progressing
upon a greater scale than ever before
known.
These facts, which are within the
observation CT everybody, have a
pertinent b airing upon the issue to be
decided in the pres Mt campaign No.
man whose factory is doing we'll
would revolutionize his factory policy
10 adopt methods that have never been
tried, or which when heretofore tried
had brought failure No man whose
farm was yielding a steady and sub
%stantial profit with staple methods of
farming should want to cast aside
his methods for theoretical processes
Ehich had never grown a crop or filled
a Din, or for theories which, when
given experiment., had resulted in
failure.
And so il is with politics. The
people are coming to understand that
in spite Of all the political shouting
and lumnlt that may take place, the
calling Of names. the waving Of
banners and pounding of desks
politics is just as closely a personal
matter as whether the system Of
running the farm or the factory shall
10 G0AiOluuCQ VI GUnuG0Us
In the midst Of such prosperity as
is every where witnessed prosperity
that briugs to every able bodied, in
dustrious citizen aud those dependent
him more Of the certainty and
more Of opportunity than they ever
before experienced, we are slow to
believe that they are going to vote to
GUST from power the party under
these conditions have been
brought about and to vote for a party
aud the policies WHICH have never
given the country prosperous times
and under whose last administration.
with Grover Cleveland as president
we had the lean and hunger haunted
years of 1898 81 with prices down to
almost nothing, banks failing, hun
dreds of thousands out of work, free
soup houses in the city to feed the I'M
employed and property values shIunken
TO a desperate point.
Nor is there any reason in history
or in philosophy why the man who
has no political office but wants one
should be. by mere reason of the
excitement which this lack and this
want give him, a better refurmer
than the man already on the job.
Shall we change, and whY2