, 1898-11-07
A GRAND OVATION
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.colorless and won't do. You know, my
friends. whether we are enjoying pros
perity or not. Are you employed?
Yes. If you want to be, for every man
who really desires work can get it.
Are you a farmer or stockgrower? You
know whether you arc getting more
for your cattle, our hides, YOU sheep
and wool. your grain, etc. OF course
you do. Are you a banker? Then your
deposits and business are larger, while
interest to the borrower is lower
throughout the United States than ever
before in our history. Are you a mer-
chant? Then you have a better trade
and collections. Are you a miner?
Then you too are busy and prosperous.
POPOCRATIC TESTIMONY.
l am tempted to digress a moment
here and put the Denver News, that
calamity organ of our consolidated en-
envy. upon the witness stand. While
that shee seldom has a good word to
say Of any decent, God fearing man or
party, it must occasionally note the
progress of events In reading over,
on my way up here, the News of the
past Jews days, l take at random the
following short paragraphs:
Lead increased in price from s14 to
$27 per ton.
Zinc from 1923 to s34 per ton.
Copper IL cents per pound higher
and a gain of 80 per cent in Colorado's
output.
Mining stocks gone up.
Mining land entries greatly increas-
ed in numbers.
Sixty-nine per cent. increase in mint
work at Denver.
Sixty thousand dollars net increase
Midland railroad business.
Better business for Atchison-Topeka
railroad.
Live stock outlook most PROMISING
Must enlarge Denver stock yarIs.
Reduction works opened.
Mining exchange business away up.
Tremendous increase in exports while
imports decrease, hence our large bal
ance of trade.
Interest rates lower than ever before
and New York interest now lower than
any market in the world.
Great growth IN silk industry, now
seventy-five per of our consump-
ton grown up from almost nothing.
burgh.
Business failures in last quarter
smallest for six gears.
Great gains in revenue receipts.
Travel heavier than ever before on
railroads.
Solvent bank closed and will liqui-
date because interest is SO low.
Wheat going up rapidly.
Biggest bank deposits and business
ever known, etc.
Pretty good evidence this, coming
from a paper devoted to free silver and
free and unlimited cussedness.
But we do not have to depend upon
the reluctantly recorded and begrudg-
ed prosperity items in that paper, for
proof surrounds us on every side of To-
cal, general and national prosperity.
We are mining about 5000 tons more OF
coal than before; Il railroads are do
ing an unprecedented business: our
ranchmen prosperous, and our banks
carrying on deposit almost an ever
81 ,O00. 900 more than a yea CO., and
this money in the banks belongs to the
people, not the bankers. 1t represents
a part of the surplus profits and earn
ings of our W working people,
amounting to a gain of about $12 per
capita OF the total population.
NATIONAL PROGRESS.
Taking the nation as a whole, our
progress and success is even more
marked. In exports and imports Jul
gains are enoromus. The balance of
trade in our favor the first year of Nc
Kinley's administration, was over six
hundred million dollars, or a per capita
gain in this line alone of about nine
dollars. Thus we might go on and
compute the gains from innumerable
directions, and show the hundreds of
dollars per capita advancement, but
those just mentioned sufficiently IL
l~ustrate the general trend.
Nor Is this all accident or happen
ed So. Success is the legitimate and
sure result Of wise government just
as misfortune is the unavoidable fruit
of unwise management. AS it Is with
individual interests so 1t is with our
grand commonwealth.
To illustrate this l have before me
here. and open for your inspection now
or at any time hereafter, figures Of the
agricultural department at Washing
ton showing the number and value of
all kinds of live stock from 1868 to
1896, or just before the republicans
succeeded the last democratic and most
disastrous administration this country
ever had.
In 1879, when we resumed sepcie pay
ment, IL domestic animals, horses,
mules. cattle, sheep. swine, ETC., were