Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-28
PROSPERITY HAS COME.
Result of Two Years of Wise
Republican Rule.
A PROMISE FULFILLED.
All Branches of Trade Stimulated by
the Retirement of the
Democrats.

Two years ago the Republican party
promised that it's return to the control of
the affairs of the nation would be fol-
lowed by the recovery of prosperity in all
branches of trade and industry. The
party was restored to power by a plural
ity u~nequaled. and now the promise is
fulfilling in all parts of the country. Here
is what the Chicago Tribune says in a
recent review of the markets in that city,
and similar reports are coming from
other great centers of trade:
In dry goods and kindred lines there has
never been anything like the present Sep
TENDER. The first two weeks OF the month
gave promise of conditions altogether out
Of the ordinary, but the record established
then has been much more than maintained.
ceived and the volume Of goods sent out is
simply phenomenal. In one of the leading
houses last week 24OO packages passed
through the shipping room III two hours
time, and it was not q day on which any
attempt was made to establish d record.
During the time when these goods were be-
ing handled business was going on much as
1t has been every day for several. weeks.
There is probably no large dry goods house
IN the city where the working hours OF the
day are long enough to make up and ship
one days orders before the following days
business piles up. Night work is a feature
of the shipping departments in all the dry
SOONo dAA hliiNu llN DoI ~ NHN DoAN -
the extraordinary records being made the
wholesalers are more than willing to stand
the expense the extra hours of work entail;
There is no part of the country supplied
from this center to which goods are not now
going In unusual quantities.
As for some time past, the quality or the
goods going out shows Il possible improve
ment over those formerly ordered. The num-
Der of visiting merchants who place house
orders is something never before known III
this market.
The Republican party was thrown gu
of power in 1897 as Il result of system
attic falsehoOd and misrepresentation as
to the condition of the country and as tC
what would result to the people by a con
tinuance of its policy. Although the
country had been most prosperous during
Harrison's administration it was prom
ised that a radical change in the political
control n management of the affairs OF
the nation would ~inaugurate an era OF
prosperity in all directions unheard OF
before. Instead of this prophecy being
fulfilled the very opposite occurred. The
new Democratic administration had hard
ly been ~inaugurated before a blight
struck the business of the country which
has never been exceeded, and it continued
for more than four years. Even after
that administration had gone to its own
place its blighting effects continued until
the reviylng influences of the new Repub-
lican administrator had had time to be
felt IN all quarters. There could be Nc
better evidence of the radical difference
in the policies of the two parties. The
Democratic policy had Jour years of tria
but the country never recovered from the
blight which followed its adoption and
showed no signs of it. On the contrary
the return of the Republican policy was
no sooner established than there were
signs of the revival of that prosperous
condition which Democratic reform hac
destroyed.
These are undeniable facts and are
worthy of the careful study of every
voter. They are pregnant with meaning
and form an argument for the Repub
lican policy which no f%alsehood, no mis-
representation, no false reasoning cal
overthrow.