The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-03
FACTS FOR VOTERS.

this state.
FACTS FOR VOTERS.
To THE EDITOR: We are on the eve OF very
important national aud state elections. Tho
people are to decide by their votes whether the
affairs OF government shall be administered by
Republicans, Democrats, Peoples party men or
Prohibitionists. Each party is asking the sup
port OF the people for their respective candidates
1t is certain that either the Democratic or Be-
publican candidates will be elected. Prohibi-
tonists, al a national party organization, have
not gained many adherents since 1854. The
record shows that In 1872 Black, Prohibitionist,
received 5,60S votes; in 1876 Green Clay Smith.
Prohibitionist received 9.522 votes; in 1854 st.
John. Prohibitonist, received 15l.sO9 votes; in
1888 Clinton B. Fisk, Prohib;ttonist, received
246,s76 votes. 1t not probable that the present
candidates will receive q larger vote than In
1883, II as large.
The Peoples party organized under another
name In 1876, and has lost, a. the record shows,
1904 votes since 1880. In 1876 Peter Cooper
received 81, 740 votes: IN 1880 Weaver received
307,306 votes; in 1884 Butler received 133, SIS
votee and In 1883 Streeter received l46 S36 votes
These recorded proofs show conclusively that
neither the Prohibttionists nor Peoples party
have commanded national approval, or they
would have received q very much larger and
increased vote.
In view of the above facts We can fairly claim
that the contest is really between the Demo-
cratic and Republican partiea
Strange as it may seem, Prohibit;onists and
Peoples party men claim that there is no differ
ence OF consequence in the principles Of Repub-
Hcans and Democratic The truth Is, there IL
very great difference in the principles of the
two organizations. As evidenced BY their ma.
tional platform, the Democrats are in favor of
free trade and q revival of state banks. One
plank in their platform denOunces protection as
q fraud, and claims in effect that our govern
ment has no right to adopt any legislative pol
icy that will secure protection against other
nations to its own people.
The platform OF the Republicans decidedly
and strongly favors the policy of protection and
an honest silver dollar.
Republicans believe that the past and present
prosperous condition Of the country is largely
due to the wise tariff legislation of Republican
congresses, and that our present currency sys-
tenn is the very best known.
Not one cent has ever been lost by bill-holders
because of the failure OF any nationa bank, for
the bank notes are just as good after the failure
OF the bank as before, because the government
is responsible for their redemption.
If the Democrats should get in power and
succeed In repeating the 10 per cent prohibito-y
tax on state bank issues every state will be
flooded with the paper money Of hundreds of
banks Instead OF having one kind of currency
In circulation A. now, We would have 100 or
more. Hundreds of millions of dollars were
lost by the people before we had the national
banks by the failure OF state banks No greater
calamity could come to the United States than
revival of the state banks system. The Peo-
ple's party and Prohibitionists, too, have great
deal to say about the amount OF money in cir
culatfon. They claim that there Is but about
$i00, 900 or $500 900 In circulation, or
about 81 or s. per capita
The fact is that on September /, 1892, the
kxg-- r.
oo0 or $24 per capita. and there In the treas
ury $605, l4,oO0 The principal issue between
Republicans and Democrats is the tariff ques-
ton. The opponents Of Republicanism and the
protective policy claim that call over the land
the wall of distress comes up from poverty
stricken homes. mills are silent, furnaces cold
and unproductive; that employers are growing
richer and wage-earners poorer; that there is
nothing in the condition OF the masses that de-
notes prosperity, and that NO period of our his
tory has been marked by such general tendency
to poverty and dissatisfaction"
Such statements are not true, and, - com.
pared with any other country on the face OF the
earth, let facts be submitted for the careful con-
sideration OF all the people. During the last
twenty years or more the average number OF
persons that have come to America to better
their condition has been about 100000 each
year. About one-ffth OF this number came
from free trade England. In 1891 from England
alone came $500. How many of these re-
NAMED here? Nearly every one. How many
have gone from the United States to other
countries to better their condition. None Tits
estimated that there about 5000 coo in Amer
lea today of persons who came here from other
Countries during the time mentioned above
In 1886 the Is ISL ,CVO laborers in Great Britain
had on deposit in savings banks $.36 .000. or
about $2S each laborer. The same year New York
state had $500 laborers ana they had on de.
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more than the l., Isl 900 of Great Britain, aver
age of about $3.50 each laborer. In 1891 New YORK
and King counties had 975,000 laborers, and
they had on deposit in savings banks $751;
927 900, an average of $4S3 each laborer. The
same year New York state had 100000. aud
they had ON deposit In savings banks $751;
2O7 700, an average Of sSsS each deposition. 1t Is
estimated that each New York depositor has
gained since 1850 more than fourteen times a.
much as the average English laborer. In Great
Britain there is depositor to thirty families.
In this country two depositors to every family.
Substantially the same results can ba shown in
all parts of the United States.
IFS claimed by Democrats thst even II it is
true that laborers earn more in America than in
Great Britain, it costs moro to live here than
there. How can laborers in this country, where
II costs little more TO live simply because they
live betterl than in Great Britain, save 80 much
more unless their wages are very much higher
mere thdn tnere besiues, INC Oeposiss 40 not
cover all the savings great many laboring
men own their own homes, purchased with
their savings, and many have invested in stocks,
bonds and loan associations.
DO not all these statements prove positively
and absolutely that prosperity Is today the rule.
aud not the exception, in American 1t can be
conclusively proved that never in the history OF
the human raco was there 30 large percentage
of laborers who have money In saving banks
and each one so large an amount In any country
under the sun as in these United States today.
And never in the history OF the human race
was there in any country On the face OF the
earth so LARGE percentage OF laborers that own
their own homes as in America this very day.
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