Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-04-14
Facts and Facts.
San Francisco Argonaut.

San Francisco Argonaut.
The great panics and business pros
tiations that have visited this country
have been during democratic admins
trations and from democratic policy
1837-1857 and 1898. 1t has bee: thir-
ty-four years since the democratic party
held power in all departments and the
people, as whole, know of their policy
only by tradition. The party is Bour-
bon, never learns anything. Now, why
was it destructive, and why is it? The
economic policy of the party previous to
the war was based on the pecuniary ad-
vantage of the south. The southern sta
pies were cotton and other products of
slave labor. The great market for these
staples was Europe. The policy was
free trade, because it brought the man.
ufactures of Europe to the cotton fields
direct at the minimum cost. So the
doctrine of protection was opposed by
the south, by Calhoun and his school,
and the democratic party catered to it
for political power.
The result of this brought on the pan
les of 1887 and 1857. And now, though
slavery is dead, and the labor systems of
south and north are becoming homoge-
neous under thirty years protection, this
old policy is disastrous to both. But
the democratic leaders, being all ante
bellum politicians, stick to the old cotton
policy or tradition, and its first success
has brought this terrible condition of
1881
Here are some present figures to show
its effect: The number of adult males
in the United States by the last census
is 100000. OF these 100000 are
in agricultural pursuits and 100000
are proprietors of various kinds This
leaves 100000 of males as workers for
wages or salaries. The labor statistics
collected since the present panic show
that 2,393,000 of these are out of en-
ployment.
Now we get these facts from carefully
compiled statistics. Along with them
is the wages of the various callings to
which the unemployed belong, also the
loss where wages have been reduced, as
we'll as the loss to those out of work.
Since September, 1898, to March, 1894,
the loss has been 1886, SIG, 4OO-or a
billion dollars in round numbers-a sum
equal to the war indemnity paid by
France to Germany. But this doesn't
come from the nation, but from the
wage earners. The war left the nation
$2,700,000,000 in debt, but here is near
ly half that already lost by the men
who work.
Next, a comparison of last years
prices of wheat, corn, cotton, oats, po-
tatoos and rye, with those now prevail
ing, with silver, pig iron and other
values, the total loss foots up 50, Ill.,
198,568-or more than the debt left at
the close Of the war
That these are susceptible of collater-
al demonstration, take the falling off in
revenue to the treasury-$S0, 000,00
deficit for the first year. AS in 1887, in
1857, so in 1693-all have been from
putting in force democratic policy by
democratic power. Prosperity cannot
come to a nation from policy and from
its opposite, both. For thirty years the
nation has been prosperous beyond any
other in modern history by the policy
under republican administration. How
can the opposite policy also be prosper
GUS? The facts answer the question. A
tonic cannot act as cathartic-and vice
versa. i