| Show DROUTH AS ASA A DISTURBER DIST RB R RIT TT iNT I NT THE ABSENCE of free silver or the tho pros pres presence IT j once ence of the gold standard it tariff legislation oc or the threat of it it wars and pestilence anything of this thie kind that causes political success M 1 general prosperity or the reverse H IL Holm Helni Clayton writing for the die Popular Science Monthly iho proposition just presented and offers sub arguments in iii its support or lack of rainfall Mr Clayton is ia l bl for the overthrow of more political par parties parties ties tio fur for f Or mere nore re panics and more financial disasters than tha 11 all the other o oar assigned causes combined There is merit in m his assumption u He says what we wean all know to t bo be true that true prosperity pr must mu t spring from nom the tho th soil Hungry people pIe are arc always dissatisfied people j The man who tightens ti tens his belt by deflation rather than inflation in from the outside rather than the insides inside is usually ii in a Ii mood to bring br Dg about some change chan e If it ft itcan itcan can be ba wrought politically his voto vote and his influence go 0 against s tie the party parly in power The average voter vo r cannot be prosperous us unless the die farmer fanner is prosperous The Tb farmer fermer cannot be prosperous unless generous rain rainfalls rainfalls rainfalls falls assist u him in growing his crop Mr Mj Clayton presents an interesting table in which he te shows that the years of the greatest pan pen panics panics ics lee were years of drouth Crops were bad aud and the food foo supply was curtailed Bread products rose to prices the reach teach of the worker and calamities re rc resulted suIted The same rule applies as lIS the tho statistics show to 10 political revolutions Two dry years Cars during Van Burens administration drove dro him into uto retirement notwithstanding the united efforts of his party followers In 1873 the rainfall was far below th the normal and the tile financial panic in New lew NewYork York ud nd d other money centers was unprecedented In lI Inthe lIthe the first national election that followed follow d in iV be ie Republican majority of in iu tho lower house of oi con congress gress rees was WM changed into a Democratic majority rity of 74 Two years yeaTS later a Democratic tic president pr was elected but his high office was stolen st len from him by Republican R manipulators The rhe year was we another cr season of drouth This time thee the tho Democratic party was in power firmly entrenched There was a panic of very vory grave proportions By some it was attributed 1 to the th low tariff others believed it to be due to the thop and coinage of too toe much m silver by the government President President dent Cleveland called an extra 6 la session seio s of congress end and repealed the law aw under which this silver was being coined ned But the crops had failed through the drouth and amI amIt the t tOO eose were hungry At the ilie first opportunity they thay swept the tM Democrats out of power and that too in inSl spite Sl itc of the fact that old issues were repudiated d and a anew anew anew new one made the tho keynote of the th campaign Mr Clay Cy Clayton ton is convinced that tb t if the country had been boen blessed by copious rainfalls there would have havo boon been no political revolution in 1897 So he lie goes oM through history and it is a remarkable fact that tRat in nearly Dearly every instance whore whan one party has bas been bonn dethroned there were eDel ively dry years Tha The 11 regularity of at the occurrences s places them beyond the pale pale of mere coincidence oo There T ere is reason for belier believing believing ing that Mr Clayton n studs stands on firm ground |
