Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-11-21
GROWTH oE WEALTH.
How the Country Has. PrOspered Unde
Republican Government.

How the Country Has Prospered Under
Republican Government.
The advent of the Republican party
into power in the United States marks
the real beginning of the industrial
| prosperity and business DEVELOPMENT of
the Nation. In 1860, the year the Repub-
J lican party elected Abraham Lincoln
President, the wealth of the United States
was returned at $4,000, 600, ,OOO Under
the fostering care of Republican Gov
| ernment, which has always kept labor
and business interests of paramount i'm
portance in all legislation, about $751;.
OOO, 900, 900 has been added to the wealth
of the Nation every ten years, and now
the United States is the richest country
in the world. The best authorities agree
that the census of 1890 will place the
aggregate wealth of the Nation at about
$50, 900, 900, 600. This is a splendid in
dOrsement of Republicanism as busi-
ness party. 1t has practically added an
amount equal to the entire wealth of
the Nation at the date it came into pow
er to the business resources of the coun-
try every decade. All this material
p4OS SpCAltN uaS OCCA oOOulOO 1AASb lA1C
opposition of the Democratic party,
which has fought the onward march Of
progress and business development at
every step.
Republicanism was built up and has
been constantly strengthened from the
ranks of the labOring men. Labor gives
the party direct contact with the busi-
ness pulse and thus gives it practical
knowledge of all matters in which busi-
ness interests are involved. Labor is
anS always has been the inspiration and
strength of Republicanism. Every
business man is confident of stable val
ues and increased prosperity under Re-
publican administration. All have we'll
defined doubts under Democratic rule.
Democratic leaders have usually sprung
from Southern stock where brain and
Drawn have not been developed by
labor, and where labor has not been
looked upon as respectable. Calhoun
and Jackson as representatives of that
party in the days of it's strength, and
Mills and Vest of the present day, fifty
illustrate the point. Democratic lead
ers have little business knowledge and
nc sympathy with labor. Mills held
the whole power of Democracy in his
hand in the last session of Congress and
used that power against the labor and
business interests of the whole Nation.
So the record of that party has always
been. 1t is not a business party, its
leaders are not of sufficient caliber to
legislate for the continued growth and
development of business and the eleva-
ton of labor. History does not give an
instance of even a small town which has
prOspered under Democratic rule and on
Democratic principles.
The domination of the aristocratic
slave-holding element has always been
the power of Democracy. That element
has never had any sympathy with the
laboring men or any knowledge of
business principles. 1t sought to build
up an aristocracy throughout the Nation
by the extension of slavery, but the
labOring men of the country destroyed
slavery and made the slave a citizen of
equal rights under the laws of the land.
The same Southern domination forced
Democracy to oppose the public school
the laboring men of the Nation, and the
system which is the greatest and best
principle on which the Government is
perpetuated. Coming on down to the
present day and emitting the numerous
other instances in which Democracy has
opposed labor and opposed correct busi-
ness principles, the Southern aristocracy
element is to-day forcing the Democrat
ic party to advocate free trade and free
whisky, and to urge the adoption of
those perniciOus doctrines at all hazards
and at all times. No greater disasters
could befall the laboring men and the
business interests of the country than
the general adoption of these destroying
principles. Both are fatal to the best
interests of labor and business, both
drag down the home, both debase man.
hood and every good principle of pros
porous country.-Des Moines (Ia.) Reg
lister.