Show Returning Exile Amazed t I A i AN N OLD OLD prospector came down down from th thY the moun mountains tams in Y- Y Alaska the other day after S having baving Haying spent 35 unbroken years cars there H He r got sideband was taken to Fairbanks The hc ol old I 1 T fellow was amazed and bewildered red by the I changes that had taken place c since he last saw it If the changes changes' in Fairbanks could startle thi this bearded hermit a trip into the st states tes would probably paralyze him Never mind about the inventions and the gadgets he would see for the first time Those would be the obvious surface surface sur sur- face shocks His Ecal real trouble would come when he began to find put out how people are thinking and what they are trying to do Here was a aman man who went into seclusion just four years after Bryans Bryan's free ree silver campaign campaign campaign cam cam- of 1896 He probably supposed when he went ent up there that free silver was as dead as George Washington's horse but he would find it livelier today than than even eyen Bryan himself ever dr dreamed When this prospector went north the United States tates was busy conquering the FilipInos Filipinos Fili Flu pinos today he would find it equally ly busy setting set- set ting ling the Filipinos free If he remembered the growing murmur r against the trusts back in 1900 h he would see today's government feeling regret because the supreme court wouldn't let et it band the big combinations of industry to together together together to- to gether in a system designed to restrict output and maintain prices Remembering the anti- anti railroad railroad agitation of the he would see the government coming to the rescue of the railroads railroads railroads rail rail- roads now Probably it would all seem pretty confusing If he looked abroad it would be even worse England which he last saw descending descend on the South African Boers preparing to wage war to protect the independence of an ati African naton Russia lussia under a despotism as rigid as ever but turned upside down j so that a different set of people eople is in Siberia Germany minus its kaiser with a former house painter r ruling ling more autocratically autocratically autocratically auto auto- than the kaiser ever dreamed of ruling The old prospector could hardly be blamed for taking one long look at the nation and the toe world which he last saw 35 years ago and the then hen turning around and heading back for his Alaskan diggings at top tP speed |