Then and Not
Under the above leading
the Wichita, Kansas; Demo
crat proceeds to dump a few
claps of campaign thunder
on the dear people with the
hope, no doubt, tljat the
comparisons made letween
present prices and those of
1896 will. cause a, fcjw soft
headed ignoramuses 1o yearn
for the good old fag-tag,
.soup house times of Cleve
land and Tariff Ref or n. The
Democrat undertakes to but
General Prosperity off the
track and chase Marl: Hanna
into a hole with the follow-ing-interrogatives:
Do you know
That it requires fifty per cent, more
w'jeat to buy a stove thau it d; d in '96?
That it requires' twenty bus hels more
corn to buy a wagon than in ' 36?
That it requires one hundred per cent,
more corn or wheat to buy a c opper ket
tle than in '96?
That it requires twice as mu:h corn to
purchase a coil of rope as in '95?
That it requires forty per rent, more
corn to buy a plow than xn '9S?
That it requires seventy-five
more corn to buy a hoe, a rake, a shovel,
a spade or bolt than in '9V
That a set of common whee
in '96? and now cost $12.50?
s cost $7.00
That the price of cultivators
IS
higher
by $3.00 to $4.00?
That galvanized barbed wire costs from
$4.00 to $5.00 a hundred pounil more than
in '96?
That you pa forty per cent
glass than in '96?
more for
The Democrat seeks to
set up a regular bugaboo of
liierh prices and rails out at
the very things it demanded
111 96. Hardware of every
kind is higher than
but this tact will not
in vo,
righten
many people into the demo
cratic party. Prices of ev
erything are higher. No
body but a fool would expect
anything else. Full' four
million workingmen ire get
ting better wages than they
did in '96; and, wha : is of
more importance to laborers,
they are given steady em
ployment, and all the
idle
are
wa-
la-
men wno wisn to wont
now employed at better
ges.
The money which the
boring men are now
earninsr
amounts to hundreds of mil
lions more every month than
we paid for labor in
l96. We
could not have better times
without better pric
es. ue-
mand for goods alw
creases the ' price.
ays in-
When
?ho have
times are hard men y
goods will sell them below
cost to get rid of th 2m.
The people cannot buy be
cause the money is locked up
in bank vaults and hidden a
way by those who are afraid
to lend it. Laboribor men
have little work and
buy the necessaries'
cannot
of life.
Everything, then, inust be
sold cheap. Cheap goods in
all lines means low wages
and hard times.
The Democrat sp eaks of
the great advance in the
price of copper kettles, which
includes of course stills, caps
uuu wuiuiB, duu LLiciL means
an advance in . the price of
Jicker. What a blow! it would
be loathe democrati : politi
cians if corn licker was to
advance. No won ler this
calamity howling c rgan of
the grasshopper state views
with alarm thei advance in
tbe price of copper.
When the Democ -at sa vs
that a coil of rope costs
twice as much now
as in '96
solutely and everlastingly not
so. vve recently purcnaseu
several coils of rope, more
than enough to hang every
calamity howling democratic
editor in Kansas and we
know something about the
cost. There has been an
advance, we will admit; but
if we had purchased this rope
in '96 with corn it would
have required 20 bushels
more to have paid the bill
than would now be required
had we paid for it with
corn this year. Besides this,
it is plain to anybody with
sense enough to know when
day comes, that when raw
material advances in price,
as cotton has done, there
must be a corresponding ad
vance in the price of the fin
ished product, It was in '96
that the democrats nearly
TTT j 1 . - 1 1
vellimrfor free silver and
10-cent cotton. Now these
same fellows are howling
j o
like a pack of wolves because
one of the very things they
wanted is about to be rea
lized. -?
There is a pretty good
story told, on which the
Democrat and other people
would do well to
meditate. An old Irishman
lately came to this country,
once dropped into a corner
grocery and inquired the
price of potatoes. He was
t)ld that the price was seventy-five
cents a bushel.
440ch," said Pat, "and sure
and I could buy them for a
shillin' a bushel in the ould
counthry'
"Why. didn't you stay
there and buy them then?"
asked the grocer.
"Be jabbers and where
would I get the shillin, will
vez tell me that, now? said
Pat.
And the moral is that
nothing is cheap when you
havn't the money to pay for
it.
A Grand Showing.
It has been a most pros
perous year in all lines of
business, and the reports
that are now being" compiled
furnish some very interest
ing information. During the
twelve months ending with
the first dav of this month
there have been 1,984 manu
facturers who failed, as com
pared with 2,475 during the
year before.-That would
not seem to indicate that
republicanism closes up the
factories and ruins business.
During; the vear there have
been 7,400 traders who fail
ed,' while last year the num
ber was 9,783. The banks
have done well, too, and the
failures this year have been
1 a. r . ; a : 4-1- oo
uul c, corapareu vvitii oo
last year. Exclusive of the
banks "the ajrerejrate number
of failures for the twelve
months l is 9,700, and this is
the smallest number record
ed since 1887. In aggregate
amount the failures were
$89,292,750, and" that is the
lowest it has been since 1881.
There is some difference be
tween that report and the
one which was made in 1896.
That year, when the whole
nation was in an uproar bor
dering on a panic, and the
affairs of our country had
reached a serious crisis, the
aggregate of the failures
was $226,096,834. It is a
magnificent triumph for the
late Mr. Dingley of Maine,
the great statesman who
was slandered. The New
York 44 Wo rid" has always
been .one of the most bitter
enemies of tbe Dingley Pro
tective Tariff, and it is now
very gratifying: to the
friends of decency that that
paper has to eat its crow.
After maintaining from the
very first day of its passage
that the Dingley law would
not furnish sufficient revenue
lt predicted last July that
by the end of 1899 we would
have a deficit of $45,000,000.
j Instead of that deficit we
have millions in surplus,
and it is still piling up. It
has been a prosperous year,
and we shall have many
more of them if the republi
can party is kept in power.
Republicanism stands for:
Protection, Progress and
Prosperity. Des Moines,
la., State Register.
THEY SAY THAT
Figures wou't lie ; but liar3 may
figure.
People who make the least noise
have generally got the most brain.
The dog that irrsfsts orysleeping
on the mat may be said to" be dog
matic. Talk is cheap but not Billy
Bryan's kind; he gets $600. per
night per speech.
The Isrealite3 made a golden
calf because they didn't have gold
enough to make a cow.
One full dose ofUmocratic rule
is enough to last Uncle Sam for a
quarter of a century.
The pen may be mightier than
the sword, but it is not mightier
than the new naval guns.
The democrats stand on their
platforms before they are elected
end sit down on them afterward
v -. .
A southern democratic connt
of the ballots would curry Heaven
for the use of brimstone.
. -
Being hugged by a bear is fun
compared with passing through an
era of democratic prosperity.
Some people don't know -nny-thing
because they are so far a
head of the world that they have
to wait for it to catch up.
The man who asks the Lord to
do what he can do himself is too
lazy to catch flies and too. mean
to go to Heaven. ! . ,;'r,-
The future of democracy grows
brighter as it approaches the sul
phurioiis auroraborealis of the
North side of Hades.
The man who asserts that worn-
! an hasn't got as much brains as
1 1 j "WW "
n wasnt
norn rignt. te is
'one of the accidents if nature on
the man's side of the house.
A fternifflife drives, on the lux-
C7 - ' - . -
urient cussions of closed carriage, t
are delightfully pleasant; at the
particular moment ; hut, ";'oh ! re- i
member the fate of tooor llhe ,
and Madline.
West Virginia has a boy who
makes a specialty ot cougning up,
taks and wire nails, and his par-j
ents are besieged by agents of the
nail trust who want him to be
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