Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-02
Delivers One of the Best and Most Inter.
esting Addresses Of the Campaign
at Town of Hiteman.
WHY FARMERS SHOULD Be REPUBLICANS
The Inconsistency of the Democratic Position Shown UP in
aManner Worthy of Consideration-The Prosperity
of the People of the United States Expatiated
Upon-Why Business is Good.

52,O0O,o 900 to 81, ooO, 900, or a total in
crease of $4,000, 900. In the first three
years of General Grants second admin
istration the total increase was 30.O00,-
600. Then came the campaign in
whicd President Hayes was declared
elected, and the very bitter c%ontro-
versy, delay, and uncertainty in deter
mining the result, extending over two
years, and the corresponding danger
of democratic legislation, resulted in a
falling off of SIS, 100000. During the
last three years of Hayes administra-
tion,howeyer, this loss was recovered ;
and the average annual sales advanced
$4,000, 900 higher still, or up t o $143,-
100000. During the first three years of
the Garfield-Arthur administration, it
increased $50, 000,O 900 more, SO that for
the year 1883 the aggregate sales at
these yards We're $2O1, 100000. But
during the single year in which Mr..
Cleveland was elected, 1854, it fell off
$14 .00O. 900: and during the next two
years. pending proposed democratic
tariff legislation, fell off $20.0O0,000
more, making a total loss to the farmers
of $34, 000. 0C0 per annum. The sales for
1856 were $167, 900, 1000. After the dem
ocratic house had passed the Mills
bill, and it had been defeated in the
senate, thus making it apparent that
no adverse legislation could be had,
nearly half of this loss, SIG, 900, 900 of
it, was recovered. Then followed Pres
ident Harrison's administration and
60 1,,,.snr f1,oco fNJr xr;{l, xLn A.,
Kinley bill, the annual value of stock
sold at Chicago increased S70,OO0,O 900
reaching high-water mark-$253,O 00,-
600 in 1892, Following this came the
second administration of President
Cleveland and the enactment of the
German bill, and worse still the threa-
tened free coinage of silver. What was
the result? A million men thrown out
of employment, 5000 less cattle hand
led per day at the Chicago yards, and
the annual value of all farm animals
sold there fell off $66,OOo,O00. Are you
pleased to know that in two years un-
der Mckinley and the Dingley bill
and the continuance of the gold stand
ard $42,0 O0, 1000 of this annual loss has
.lbeen retrieved?
, I do not refer to these things. ma~t
you, for the purpose of complaining Of
our a~dyersaries. They did not bring
, about these conditions purposly, They
+ would have had them otherwise if
the could; and they could have had
, them otherwise had their theories of
: government been correct.
The effect of the democratic admin
. istrations upon the country generelly
5 is discoyerable in other ways. Take
, the individual deposits in National
banks, which are reported quarterly
. and published annually by the depart
: ment in tabulated form. During
!. President Cleveland's first administra-
? ton from 1884 to 1883, these deposits
: increased $344,00O, 900; but during Presi-
:. dent Harrison's administration, they
: increased $433, 100000, or $S9,OOO,OOO
better. During President Cleveland's
second administration, however, they
actually fell off $124, 100000, while
thus far during Mr.. McKinley's admin
istration, they have increased SSH
100000.
" ere is no better index 10 the pros.
perity of the people than deposits in
e banks. The deposits in the banks OF
Iowa increased during Mr.. Cleveland's
) first administration $13, 000, 200, but
o during Mr.. Harrison's administration
y they increased $685. ZOO, 900. Then dur
ing Mr.. Cleveland's second admins
tration they fell off $7,O 900, ani
e thus far under Mr.. Mckinley they have
increased $55, 0O0, 1000. Perhaps it will
be an aid to memory if they say tina
S deposits in Iowa increased nearly three
times as much under President Har
Is rison as under President Cleveland'i
first administration, and seven times a!
k much in three years under Mckinley
le as they fell off in four years when tn,
al democratic party had control of boil
1T houses of congress and the presidency
= And who holds these deposits?
st first saw my home county in 1874.
saw the early settlers in their 500
p houses, and have been many times mos
k kindly entertained therein both da,
y. and night, and have had my horse
. stable in hay sheds. I have observed
= the transition from these humble sur
roundings to the comfortable home
J, and commodious barns of the present
l have recently made investigation an,
find that or January 1, 1899, the far
st mers had on deposit, in round mum
bers, in the banks of Crawford count,
$s12 1000; the business men had, il
round numbers, $295,0 There wa
$4,000 of nonresident money on de
post in the banks of the county, an
$l27, 900. of other money, which woul
. include laboring men and people out Q
8. employment.
b. When it is remembered that durin
all this period up until 1893 the demo
cratic party was unable 10 enact an