The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-10-05
ALLISON WANTED.
Iowa Republicans Name the Sem
ator for President.
Tariff Speech bv the Hawkeye Statesman
I'm Which lie Arraigns the De-
mocracy for the Business and
Industrial Depression.

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paign with considerable of 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
ALREADY named Senator William b. Al
lison as their candidate for the Office
of chief executive in that year. At OF
tumwa, on the evening of September
%. 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:
1.-The republican party came into power in
1861, and from that time until the 4th Of
March, 1893, practically controlled the legisla-
ton 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 Cleve-
land. responsible for the administration Of the
government. For a considerable portion of
this time-namely. from 1879 to 1881, and from
1888 to 1889, and again from 1891 to ls93-the
democratic party had majority in the house
of representatives During all this time the
senate was republican, except from 1879 to
1881. when it was tie and no vice president.
During these periods IL was impossible for the
democratic house to change existing laws
without the consent Of the republican senate.
.'These thirty-two 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 overthrow. The blighting and desolat-
ing curse OF slavery was destroyed Our coun-
try was reunited on the principles Of liberty.
,,,,ioy
waste of treasure and sacrifice OF the best
young blood Of our land, bringing suffering TO
every household and deSolatiOn TO many
homes. but triumph came through it all.
with all this sacrifice cur country devel-
oped like a giant. The census Of 1859 disclosed
an aggregate wealth. including slaves. Of Sl6-
o00000J0; that of 1870, with the wars desola-
tion of four years, and excluding slaves as
property. disclosed an aggregate wealth Of
$4,000 600 OOO that OF 1850 nearly Si4 0000)0O0),
and that of 1880 s65,OO0,O0000o. The develop
ment from 1889 to 1880 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 1850 to 1890 was S169 per capita. or
about ~ per cent. while the population in the
same period increased . per cent.
Where the Wealth Is.
1.-THE greatest increase Of wealth in the ag
gregate and in percentage is found in the states
where agriculture is the largest interest The
wealth of Iowa increased S565,oO)0O0, or from
81 09 per capita to 81 95 per capita or 81 so per
cent, and the population increased Il IS per
cent. The wealth of Massachusetts in these
ten years increased $3.50, 10000. per cent,
whilst her population increased 2557 per cent,
and her per capita wealth was reduced from
sl47l in 1880 to 81 ,252 in 1890 whilst the total
wealth in New England was increased only
ar,ita rhpluh much pnnnlaint ig
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 81 .232 per capita; in Iowa.
siI96, or $40 less than New England, and
doubtless more equally distributed, and
our increase in ten years is relatively
much greater. These facts, drawn from the
census, show that the manufacturing states
are 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 CT Philadelphia and Pittsburgh,
have increased more rapidly than the rest,
having in their great cities the Accommodations
of q 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 diffused itself throughout every
part OF our country, stretching into the new
south. desolated and impoverished by the war
and retarded for many years by the discomfort
of IT'S people. and by the natural processes in
yolvcd in the sudden change from slave labor
to free. Agriculture has shared this prosperi-
ty During these last ten years there has been
an increase in the value of farm lands to the
extent ~ % per cent, and still larger in
he r~,1,,a Of fa-sY anlS in Iox-a
showing our prosperity in that regard to be
greater than the states around us. The value
of farm implements has increased nearly -
per cent. and when we take into account that
the price of farm implements has decreased
one-half. it shows the enormous increase OF
the number OF implements and utility Of farm
machinery compared with 1880.
How Cur Industries Have Grown.
Il do not say that all this progress and
growth is due to the tariff and other policies OF
the republican party, but believe 1t is large
ly due TO them.
-''Our commerce. our manufactures and our
agriculture have grown side by side. or these
latter products 90 per cent. have found mar
kct at home.
C"Our manufactures have grown from a pro-
duction of S5,eaOOoO0OO in 1850 TO S9OOOooOOoJ in
1890.
Our internal commerce has grown almost
beyond computation
I'VE nearly doubled our railway mileage.
carrying by rail eight times many passen-
gers as the total population. and moving e40,
10000 tons of freight in 1890
Our external commerce has increaS I'd year
by year, reaching its maximum OF s, 001, 001010
IN 1892 under the Mckinley law.
s-Our laboTerS have received better wages by
one-haf than have any laborers 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 1855 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
Sl.65l 100000; neat products, approximately,
500 90 .00): cotton $500 OOOOJ0. butter. 500
OOOO0O; eggs. 500 100000. and SO on All this
was natural prosperity growing ont OF our
public policy and from the fact that this c.
O000o0 OF people, or that portion of them capa-
BILE OF doing work. estimated at 4.OO1 OJ1. were
al at war6 earning fair wages. or producing
things that found a ready and remunerative
market SIS in proportion 10 work and wages is
the consuming power OF the people. Thus the
farmer in his Iield, the mechanic in his shop
the tOilers in the factory. the merchant in his
store. the men engaged in transportation the
domestis and the day labo7ers were all oecu-
pied and all consuming the products thus
created, and all contributing to the aggregate
OF prosperity
Causes of Distress.
This was the situation in outline when
Grover Cleveland again became president Of
the United ST ties and democratic congress
convened II not expected and it was not
certainly known that the senate would lie dem
ocraiic until February, 1893 From that mo-
ment deadly blight appeared. increasing Ia
intensity Us the days and months came ano
passed away. This sudden and marked change