The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-07-30
REpuBLICaN POLICY.
A Concise Statement of Some of tie Benefits
Resulting Iherefron.

A Concise Statement of Some of tie Benefits
Resulting Therefrom.
From Speed of Hon. L. Fl. Grosvsnor at Athens. o.
The dollar of the laboriDg man has greater
purchasing power IN supplying the COM
mod ties Tor the use of the family To-Day
than 1t had at any other period of the his.
tory OLthls country, and the former bushel
of wheat has like effect as purchasing
power.
The best paid labor of the world Is the
labor of the American wOrkingman.
The workingmen of the United States
own thousand homes. free OF debt, where
the European workingman owns one.
The American workinRmen have $40 IN
the savings banks OF the country where
the European worxingmen have one cent.
The highest wages paid on earth Tor
skilled or unskilleG labor Is paid TO the
w0rkingmen OF tile United States
Tho best-fed. and best-clothed, and best
educated workingmen on earth are in the
United States.
There is less ignorance and more knowl-
edge among the American workingmen than
among the workingmen OF all the world be-
side.
The distribution of the proceeds of in
dustrial pursuits is made with greater gen.
erosity to the labOring man OF the United
States than anywhere else in the world.
There are more prosperous people In the
United States than any where else on eartn,
and there are fewer paupere.
There ara ten paupers in q like popula-
ton in England to one in the United States.
1t Is not true that American worklngmen
are growing poorer. but 1t 10 true that they
are growing richer.
The best protected agricultural industry
on earth is that of the American farmer.
There is no country In the world where
the farmer is as voll fed. we'll educated.
we'll housed. and as luxuriously furnished
with all the appliances and luxurIes of life
as in the United States.
While it is true that farm products are
not selling at exOrhitant prices, IL 10 equally
true that the price of bushel of wheat to-
day will buy moro of the ordinary manu-
featured goods that the farmer uses than
IN any other period of the history of agri-
culture in America.
The government has done more for the
farmer during the last four years than was
ever done by the government in like
period. or in ten times the length of time:
No country ever grew in wealth, intelli-
gence. virtue and general prosperity In
ratio of one-forrth what the United States
has grown IN the last twenty-five years.
It's progress has been without PARALLEL in
the history of the peoples of the world.
The Issue presented in the contest before
Us is plain and simple one. 1t 10 the pro-
position of the Democratic party to revO-
lutiOnize this entire system. The value
and results OF the one We have they cannot
deny or gainsay. We have cheapened
commodities by assuring our manu-
facturers the American market, and as
SurlnH tDom against the ruluOus cOlnpeti-
tion of foreign manufacturers; aud this
certainty, this assurance, has stim-
ulated am bitious men. stimulated pro-
duotion until we have reduced the
cost of these articles to the farmer the
laboring man and the mechanic. The best
goods and the cheapest goods in the world
are American goods.
We are to abandon this system-to re-
move the barrier to competition. and in
augurate a system by which the COM
modIties of the foreign manufacturers with
their low-priced labor, are to crowd in the
markets of the country the products of the
we'll paid labor of the people or the United
STATES.