Show PROSPERITY There is a Democratic newspaper In this State which nearly every day fights the proposition that there Is any increased in-creased prosperity In this region It admits ad-mits that at tire stores goods cost more than thai did a couple of years ago but It says that the people who buy the goods are Just that much worse off that the farmers especlall are entitled to great pity Let us see There Is a pleasantfaced old lady that conies In every week with a load of farm produce Let us put her upon the stand as u witness and we find that her eggs and chickens have doubled In price within eighteen months past Her buttdi Inns increased in value 50 per cent so hasher has-her potatoes She declares too that there is another difference She se lls ail she brings In at regular prices whereas two years ago she had to dispose dis-pose of half her load which she could not sell at regular rates for what the merchants pleased to give her or take It home The farmer makes the same report about his beef and muttons and pigs and all kinds of grain It in the same story with the mechanics They agree that their wages have advanced quito 23 per cent The only people who do not feel the thrill of a new life In business are those who work for flx < > d salaries That Is always the case When depression comes they are the last to feel It when prosperity with rising values comes In they are the last to feel the tood effect and for a time they suffer because of advancing prices But their places are more secure and If they get out of a situation they can more easily Und another and In a little while their wages will respond to the other conditions In the meantime the Idlers whom two years ago they had to help to support are all busy now for men who could afford to have but one or two cmplojces two years ago now have three or four It Is a hard task to prove that tine community generally Is not doing vastly better than it was two years ago |