The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-09-13

not exist in the State of Arkansas.
State rule there is managed by an OIL
igarchy, which, in turn is represent
ed in the upper branch of the Ma
tional legislature by Senator james
X. Jones.
While the Republican campaign
is represented by a chairman, who,
in his private capacity, represents
the great productive industries of
coal, iron, steel and transportation,
the chief manager Of the Bryan CAM
paign quite ftly represents a State
that is steadily losing in the wealth
of its population.
Arkansas is an agricultural State.
Farmers in other States may there
fore be interested in the same statis-
tics Of the comparative profits of
tilling the soil of their own common
wealths and in Arkansas. The State
of Chairman Jones not only has a
higher per cent. of illiteracy than
has any other State in the Union,
but its people are steadily losing in
wealth.
| i need cause no wonder that Bry.
ans chairman, Senator Jones, is
convinced that the country is going
to the dogs, in view Of the progress
i've calamities of the farmers who
cannot register their will at the pdls
in Arkansas. The following figures
are taken from the report OF the de-
partment of agriculture, as to the
number and value of farm animals
in Arkansas. The comparison is be-
tween the last year of the Cleveland
administration and the last year Of
President McKinley's present ad-
ministration. 1t is unique in the
figures that are presented to the pub
lie in this campaign in that it shows
a decrease instead of increase of
wealth. The comparison follows in
tabular form
Jan. /, 1896. Jan. l, 1900.
Horses, $7,7l9,s45 S,s17,264
Mules .6,3l3,36l 6,348, 500
MiIch cows. s,sO7, ,293 3,s27,954
Other cattle 4,36s,Oe1 81 D.,
Sheep 244,662 ls1, ,795
That is to say, in four years, while
all the rest of the United States has
prospered and grown in agricultural
wealth, the State of Senator Jones
has refrigerated in the sum of ST.
O63,G62. These figures, moreover,
do not include the decrease in the
number and value of swine, because
the statistics are not at hand. But
the value of swine, in Arkansas, de-
creased from S3,6S9,967, in 1898,
to So, 1866 in 1897 and there is
no reason to believe that this decrease
in value of swine has not been pro-
gressive.
OF other live stock, in Arkansas,
horses have decreased from $235,213
in 1896, to 234, ,l27, on January l,
1900. This is especially striking
in view of the present effort of for
eign countries topurchase American
horses, showing that Arkansas hasn't
responded even to this minor mar
ket, inviting an increase in our ex-
port trade. Arkansas mules have
also decreased in number.
These figures grow in interest,
when compared to such a State as
Ohio. In the Presidents State, the
value of milch cows on January l,
1896, was slS,42O,2 ,227, and on Jan
uary l, 1900, their value had in
creased to S25,224,33O, and their
number from 759,597 to 7SO,93O.
The sheep IN Ohio, on January l,
1896, numbered 2,754,613, valued
at $5,247,53S. January l, 1900,
Ohio had 2,S39,69O sheep, valued
at S1O,535,25O.
Thus it will be seen that Arkan-
sas, lowest in literacy, lowest in sa-
wings banks, and falling behind in
Agricultural wealth, in which eve
ry other Southern State is gaining,
is fifty represented in the conduct of
Bryan's campaign by Chairman J.
X. Jones, as an apostle of calamity.