Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-11

congressional vice president to bring
about county organization, with later
developing township society.
One of the good ideas developed by
the meeting involves plan to build
country road across the county from
east to west and from north to south.
These roads are to center at the central
point of interest in the county, which
would usually be the county seat.
The good that may come from the
plans outlined will undoubtedly grow
out of the determined effort of those
thus invested with the duty of going
ahead in securing county organizations
and infusing practical life into them.
CONTRASTS BETWEEN TWO PERL
DDS.
Campaign orators may come and go,
yet the citizen in reflective mood
need not search far in memory or among
statistics to get at the most salient
facts of recent political development
facts, too, of great economic signifi-
canoe. Democratic politicians say with.
a sheer that republicans claim too much
credit for results, while forgetting that
they themselves declared that such
achievements We're not possible under
the gold standard. One of the most
graphic of recent summaries is given
by the St. Louis Globe Democrat, which
says:
TWO years and half of repub-
Ilican administration have worked a
great change for the better. This fact
stands out with striking distinctness
as every citizen knows. The Chicago
platform which the Democratic party
| is at pains to reaffirm, deplored 1.-The
fall in prices, the prostration of indus
try and the inpoverishment of the
people" 1t would require columns to
Iepitomize the prosperity that has taken
the place of those conditions. The first
lstep in the transformation was to reject
The Chicago platform. All succeeding
advantages resulted from that emphatic
Judgment of the people. glance at
some of the benefits indicates the ma
equal 10 the best in the.world Workers
everywhere are busy at good wages
There is no army of the unemployed
Farmers sell their products at profit
able prices, and are paying off debts in
Cured during the period of democratic
blight. The foreign trade of the coun-
TRY is unprecedented Threatening in
ternational problems have been settled
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leash. Hawaii has been annexed, after
half d century of discussion Cuba is
free. The treasury keeps ahead of ex-
penses. and has an immense store of
gold. The country has carried through
a successful war and expaiSded.
closer look into these items in
creasss their significance In three
years the money in circulation has been
enlarged nearly $500, 900. 600, and $3.50
100000 of the addition is in gold Elk
ports of manufactured articles in the
Hast fiscal year footed up 1898 667 794, or
\ Is per cent of the total exports of do
3Imestic products. our exports are 90
per cent heavier than they We're four
years ago. The increase in two years
has been % per cent. our bridges are
going to Egypt and Burmah, our loco
] motives to a dozen countries and our
horticultural machinery to nearly all
4 the world One reason for this is that
j the world knows that in all trading ouf
4 dollar means 100e. Bank clsarings for
4 the year ending with last month were
4 the largest on record. The increase is
llll per cent over the dark Democratic
year Of 1894. Il is to be remarked that
4 the latest fgures are the best of all. In
1 August the exports of iron and stee
manufactures amounted To S2.442.9T4
4 against ss,16l $50 in the same month las,
Year. The exports of wood manufae-
lures were larger than in any previous
month and there We're gains also i'm pa.
Iper tobacco. fiberS, india rubber glass
fertilizers, starch. paints naval store.
and some other articles
Now let Mr.. Bryan. who peresverirlg
iy invites the country to place him a
the head OF affairs, take the witness
stand Three weeks before the presid,n
tial election of 1856 he said in a speed
lat Minneapolis II repeat that we ar
lon declining scale; that we are goin
down, and that under the gold standar
/ igoid VIII be dearer still, the demand 70
2 gold and every new demand will In
> crease the purchasing power Of gol
. and depress prices" Many voters wer
7 led t. believe that in 1886. But in Is!
s are they as much impressed as eve
t with Bryan's judgment as to the basl
# OF prosperity in this country? In a pre-
! | vious speech during Clevelandfs secon
: administration Bryan declared that tn
} word could not count on an addition
: oNer 4G,1u0G00 g year to its gold coli
: or a total OF $13s,0oo 600 for the ne,
. three years The amount really come
IN those three years was sSs4704 80
= Cold production is more than twice 1
! large as he said it could be. VIII;
is passes for eloquence in MIR. Bryan ma
5 satisfy some people, but If they want
talk common sense business it is tt
: part Of wisdom to choose some 9th,
q adviser.
y IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
: Everybody is willing to have GOO
: roads. and everybody thinks the NOV
: ment a good one, but with many Il
Willingness and the wish are not strot