The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-10-04
ALLISON WANTED.
Iowa Republicans Name the Sen
 ator for President.
Tariff Speech by the Hawkeye Statesman, in Which He Arraigns the De- mocracy for the Business and
 Industrial Depression.


 paign with considerable of a flourish.
 They have not only started in on their senatorial campaign but they have also begun their presidential cam
 paign for 1896, inasmuch as they have alreauy named Senator William B. AL lison as their candidate for the office of chief executive in that year. At Ot-
 tumwa, on the evening of September
 22, the republican forces assembled to
 hear Senator Allison speak, and to the largest audience ever congregated in the city the senator spoke upon the tariff and strongly arraigned the dem
 ocracy for the present depressed state of business. He said:
 "'The republican party came into power in
 1s6l and from that time until the 4th of March, 1893, practically controlled the legisla- tion of our country, and has been, with the ex- Ception of the brief period of President John son and the four-year term of President Glove
 land, responsible for the administration of the government. For a considerable portion of this time-namely, from 1875 to 1881, and from 1883 to 1889, and again from 1891 to ls93-the democratic party had a majority in the house
 of representatives During all this time the
 senate was republican, except from 1879 to
 1881, when 1t was q tie and no vice president.
 During these periods 1t was impossible for the democratic house to change existing laws without the consent of the republican senate.
 "These thirtytwo years of our history have
 been years of unexampled growth and prog
 ress. The first four under President Lincoln
 were years of peril, of trial and of sacrifice.
 The greatest rebellion civilization has seen
 was overthrown. The blighting and desolat-
 ing curse of slavery was destroyed. Our coun- try was reunited on the principles of liberty.
 "To reestabliSh the union required great waste of treasure and sacrifice of the best young blood Of our land, bringing suffering to every household and desoation to many homes, but triumph came through it all
 With all this sacrifice our country devel- opod like glant The census Of 1860 disclosed an aggregate wealth, including slaves. Of Sl6,- OCO.0O0lO; that of 1870, with the wars desOla- tiOn Of four years, and excluding slaves as property disclosed an aggregate wealth of &SJ,OOO,OC0OOO that of 1880 nearly Sii0O1O)00OO, and that of 1890 s6j 900 OC0 coo The develop mcnt from lsS) to 1890 was marvellous, the in- crease in ten years being one-third more than all the wealth of the United States thirty years before, The wealth per capita more than doubled in thirty years and the in- crease from is8) to 1890 was Sl89 per capita, or about 70 per cent, while the population in the same period increased 9 per cent,
 Where the Wealth Is.
 "Tho greatest increase of wealth in the ag- cregate and in percentage Is found in the states where agriculture is the largest interest. The wealth of Iowa increased S56j, 1000, or from S 0S9 per capita to ,i05 per capita, g 80 per cent and the population increased 16S per cent The wealth of Massachusetts in these ten years increased SlSO0O),0)O. per cent whilst her population increased p. 57 per cent, and her per capita wealth was reduced from Sl47l in 1880 to Sl 252 in 1890 whilst the total wealth in New England was increased only S.3 per capita, and though much complaint is made of the unequal distribution of wealth, | that charge cannot be brought against Iowa, where neither riches nor poverty prevail; we have no very rich and relatively but few very poor The average wealth per capita in New | England for 1890 is Sl,232 per capita; in Iowa, Sll96, or sS6 less than New England. and doubtless more equally distributed, and l our increase in ten years iS relatively l much greater. These facts, drawn from the l census, show that the manufacturing states | arc not rObbing Iowa of her just increase | nor are they increasing in prosperity and ! wealth as rapidly we are relatively in | Iowa. This is true, except that the two great | states of New York and Pennsylvania (New | York having the two greatest cities New | York and Brooklyn, and Pennsylvania the two | great cities cf Philadelphia and PittSburSh), l have increased more rapidly than the rest, l having in their great cities the accumulations l Of a century of growth. Nor has this progress | and development been confined to any one sec- | tion of our country, as shown in the last | census, but has difused itself throughout every | part of our country, stretching into the new | south, dcsolated and impoverished by the war | and retarded for many years by the discontent of it's people, and by the natural processes in- Volved in the sudden change from slave labor to free. Agriculture has shared this prosperi- ty. During these last ten years there has been .nn increase in the value of farm lands to the tpf4 tnF fNar nnf md gff1 1nr,, f,, crease in the value of farm lands In Iowa, showing our prosperity in that regard to be greater than the states around us The value of farm implements has increased nearly g per cent, and when we take into account that the price of farm implements has decreased It shows the enormous increase of the number Of implements and utility of farm machinery as compared with i88o.
 How Our Industries Have Grown.
 II do not say that all this progress and growth is due to the tariff and other policies of the republican party, but believe It Is large- ly due to thcm.
 "Our commerce. our manufactures and our have grown side by side. Of these latter products 90 per cent. have found a mar ket at home.
 u"Our manufactures have grown from q pro- duction of s 900 in 1880 to S9 0OO OO0 in 1890.
 "Our internal commerce has grown almost beyond computation.
 We nearly doubled our railway mileage, carrying by rail eight times as many passen- gers as the total population. and moving 640,- O0O050 tons of freight in 1890.
 "OuT external commerce has increased year by year, reaching it's maximum of &, 900 m 1892 under the Mckinley law
 "Our laborers have received better wages by one- half than have any laborGrs on the face of the globe, and twice as much as most of them in Europe. These wages steadily advanced, whether measured in money or in purchasing power of the comforts of life, until and during 1891 and 1892 all were employed at these wages who desired employment. Farmers received between 1880 and 1892 fair prices for their crops, with the exception of 1888 and 1892, when corn and wheat were low.
 "A careful estimate Of the total value of the wheat corn, oats and barley crop of 1891 was SI .G5l ,0OOOO0; meat products, approximately, , 5000 O)O 900; cotton, S300 100000; butter, $2OO- 900 900; eggs, s2O0O00,0OO and so on. All this was natural prosperity growing out of our , public policy and from the fact that this 62,- OOO 900 of people or that portion of them capa- | ble of doing work, estimated ut 2iOOO,0O0 were , all at work earning fair wages, or producing , things that found ready and remunerative , market aS in proportion to work and wages ia ,