Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1898-11-02

been in power but eight years out of
the past thirty-eight. which is a for
tunate thing for laboring men, judg-
ing from the last national admins
tratiOn. Advocating a theory or a
policy which threatened to change
entirely the Industrial system under
which h government had reached
it's greatest prosperity, it plunged the
country into a panic the like of which
WAS never seen before. Banks failed,
crash, railroads went into the hands
OF receivers, men were thrown out OF
employment by the thousands, and
want and sorrow took the place of
plenty and happiness. The Demo-
cratic party was then doing work Or
the sheriff with a vengeance.
How is it now? Every man who
wants to work can find employment
at good wages, and when his weeks
work OF his months work is done he
feels sure that his employer has the
money with which to- pay him for his
labor. And it is good money. too!
Never. since this government vas es-
tablished. has the purchasing power
If the dollar been as great as it Is
today; it will buy more necessaries,
more comforts and more amuse-
nents. And the wages of the Ameri-
can laboring man are larger than in
any other nation beneath the suit.
They are tw ice as much per week as
in Mexico; a little over twice as much
as in Peru; five times as much as in
Russia, and about fourteen times as
much AZ in China.
What is the local condition at the
present time? Every man can get
work at good wages. Under the
paralyzing Democratic administra-
ton there were two men for every
job. Carpenters and skilled nechan-
les were not employed w hall time.
now they have several jobs ahead of
them all of the time and those who
want their services must wait their
turn. In Lewistown there are more
buildings in purse Of erection and
planned for than during Cleveland's
entire administration.
At Gilt Edge everything is now in
a prosperous condition, employer
and employee are busy and making
money. Allowing for bad manage
ment three or four years ago, it is a
well-known fact that men, whose
credit stood high in this state and
elsewhere, could not borrow a dollar
to meet their obligations in that
camp. Now Gilt Edge is the most
promising young camp in the state.
The aim should be to encourage the
investment of new capital to develop
the many valuable claims. This can
be lone by voting to not only q
tinue, but improve, the present finan-
cial condition OF the country.
Let every intelligent man study
and follow the shifting atti-
of the Democratic party and he
will find that it has no concerted or
unified purpose. 1t blows hot for
silver in one state and cold in an
other. In those states which it must
carry to gain national legislation it
says "there must be no mention of
i'm others it favors free trade,
and still i'm others it's leaders have
the shameful audacity to talk for
in order to deceive the
voters, as is the case in Montana. II
free trade is good thing for the
country, why do they not advocate
It? If they preached to you for years
that protection was an injury, that
it did not benefit the labOring man,
that it breeds trusts and a thousand
other evils why do they advocate it
now? Does 20 their advocacy prove
hat the Republican party was right,
md your friend? If they have proven
alse and tried to mislead you, why
rust them now? 1t is the boast of
that they carry the labor
'ote in their pockets. Resent such
N insult to your honor and intelli-
and, like free men that you are,
'ote for your own interest and the
'est interests of your town, county, {
tate and nation by voting the Re-
ticket from top to bottom.
HOw's This?