portunity for you to realize from your holdings,
for without some favorable change you will hardly realize twenty-five
per cent.

You can test the truth of these statements. Take twenty holdings, not
selected, and try to convert them into cash. Or offer them to some
capitalist who has travelled extensively in the West during the last
five years. Time will convince you, if nothing else will; but the
knowledge may come a little too late for practical purposes. You ought
to be with us in this free-silver movement, and you would be if you knew
what we know. We are not fools, although we may appear so to you; we
know what we want, and we are trying to get it.

You threaten "to draw in your money from the West." If you have any
money in the West which you _can_ "draw in," the sooner you do it the
better; it will be an heroic remedy instead of misery long drawn out. A
"panic" will return like a boomerang upon yourselves, and make _your_
property still less valuable. You can cause a panic, break our business
men, make more idle men and tramps, and, in short, concentrate three or
four years of squeezing into a few weeks or months; but what benefit can
_you_ hope to derive from it?

Whatever adds to _our_ prosperity will increase the actual value of
_your_ holdings; our interests are identical, then why should _you_
desire the continuance of present conditions? Have the present
conditions done anything for you, as far as Western investments are
concerned? Is not your increase of capital simply an increase "on paper"
which you can never realize? We cordially invite you to join us in our
effort to bring on an era of prosperity; forsake your political leaders,
as we have forsaken ours, and use at least as much common sense in
politics as you do in business.

Save this article; it will be good reading after the election is over.
It is not politics, it is business; it is the naked truth. The writer
does not want to borrow any money; he seeks no office, is not a
politician, has no axe to grind, and expects no reward, except to share
in the general prosperity, as he has shared in the general adversity, in
the capacity of a humble citizen.

WICHITA, KANSAS.

THE TELEGRAPH MONOPOLY.

BY PROF. FRANK PARSONS.

XIII.

10. _The Union of Telegraph and Post is needed for the Interests of the
Post as well as for those of the Telegraph._ It will elevate the skill
and competency of postal employees. When mails do not arrive on