Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-10-26
CONDITIONS THAT CONFRONT
 US.

CONDITIONS THAT CONFRONT
 The .epublicana have fulfilled
 every promise made to the voters
 in 1896. Immediately after the
 election e. Major Mckinley, and
 even bef.rs he lad been inaug-
 urated a. praz .de-'. a feeling of
 confidence was manifested through
 out the country, in the stability Of
 business conditions by the starting
 up of factories and industrial enter
 Prises generally, which had been
 lying idle for years. It has been
 now nearly two years since Presi
 dent Mckinley was elected, and
 twenty months since his inaugura-
 tion, and this period has been one
 of general prosperity throughout
 the country.
 The farmers of the country, who
 had experienced long period of de
 pression in their business, have been
 specially prosperous, and during the
 past year have been able to obtain
 good prices for their products, and
 hundreds of millions of dollars of
 mortgages have been paid by them.
 Our democratic friends, of course,
 claim that the republican admInis-
 tration had nothing whatever to do
 with this. This claim Is as base
 less as would be that, that the high
 price of wheat was due solely to the
 republican administration. Neither
 claim would be correct. Other con ditions existing throughout the
 world sandwiched themselves into | ' the new conditions of prosperity. ! which were crested in this country 1. by Major McKinley's election, and | helped the farmers out of tle hole . th were forced into by ,he pre-
 ceding democratic administ ratiou. !
 4 deplorabIe cc-dItion of sfairs
 were found existing on a neigh 7--
 ing island to the ted States wrc-
 President ' E'- 1t int r
 fce-a condition n hi-
 decessor he' tune te-G.a
 refUz-d [, 7c1gaiz way Jf taking any -.pa .-.v--r,. -e-leying 1t. Ir - witn is. ar -as forced the countr- n l.ch the t-''i-nt rc ver made by aLy 0--on Wa ma. .s United -.ates. - l. ye mustered ia and r. for ser. l vice, the navy had .5 Je pIt upon a war footing, and ye. within period l Of one hundred -nd thirteen days all this was accomplished, the navy c of Spain was blown from the seas, by our nay. while our army tu- umphantlv possessed itself of Cuba. Porto Rico and the island of Luzon when peae- vas sued for. C
 4 neiEl s.l1g island m the Pacific, wa.ch bes ,-, knoc sing at ' our doors for annexation, and from !. which the preceding democratic ad- had lowered the stars = and stripes, has one a part of T, our country. Port Rico and outly- = ng islands nave been acquired as :, ID addition to our possessions, while ,t he Philippines will also become .t .uch.
 Prosperity reigns from one end of = be countrt 10 the other, and with =, reigns contentment and satisfac- =, ian. =.
 With all these conditions, is it ta or even possible, that the fo reemen of the nation will so far orget their own interests as to turn r.. he legislative branch of the gov - rnmeut over to the democrats - gain with the memories of '93- -'96 - ill fresh in their memories .L No matter what issues may be La lised by political platforms, the ,- nly issue of direct, personal inter- ;t to the masses of the people is .I: nat of general prosperity. L:. General prosperity is the aggre- - a.ion of individual prosperity "a nd ' nles ,he individual is prosperous, ,nA D general prosperity Is attainable. ue s lhe country generally is pros Pa srous, il must of necessity be the ne of individual prosper p pr The voters though. they vlatvd 'na , change la 1s92, and rere lured by ao' a dela-iv- prrnf-aS of SLo0whest, N ,o' d others. @. ally delus-se -'S, .o m k.as i-. w.. thp result - ca zr.---~- ..-... -przes .' lica has r-.. .yr s4 in ... u1'rv far r..r~ . Vii tf. r.-4- .e-
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