The sun., 1900-08-31
CAMPAIGN ISSUES.
rePuBLlcAN TEXTBOOK SOUNDS THE
KEYNOTE.

The Republican campaign textbook
has just been issued and will soon be
available for general perusal. After
enumerating the principal, claims of
the party for popular support - the
promptness with which it has fulfilled
its pledges of 1896, the general pros
perity since that date and the obvious
fallacies of the opposition-the book
then presents grand array of sta
tistcal evidence in proof of the sound
ness of these claims. Among the facts
cited in evidence of business improve
ment under the Mckinley administra-
tion are The reduction in failures
from S346,000,000 in 1893 and $226,-
100000 in 1896 to $90,000,000 in 1899;
the increase of clearing house returns
from $52.000,000,000 in 1896 to $780,
OO0.O0O,000 in 1890; an increase of 230,-
O00,OO0 tons of freight carried by the
railways in 1898 as compared with
1894, and an increase of more than
< $4,000, 100000 of bank deposits i'll 1899
as compared with 1894. This great
business activity, coupled with heavy
exports and light imports, which are
shown to have always accompanied
the protective system, has resulted III
an enormous increase of the money IN
circulation despite the assertions CON
stantly made in 1896 that there could
be no material increase i'll the circulat-
ing medium without imitation by
means of free coinage of silver. NOT
withstanding. the rejection OF tlat
proposition the money in circulation
in the United States increased from
S1,5OG, 434,9GG at the date OF MI.
Bryan's 1896 nomination to S2,ooZ,-
425,496 at the date of his nomination
in 1900, while the gold and gold certln-
Gates in circulation, which in July,
1906 We're but $497, 100000, were in
July, 1900, $S15, ,474,000, the per capita
of circulation thus increasing from
sol. 10 at the date of the Chicago CON
yention of 1896 to $26.50 at the date
of the Kansas City convention OF l90o.
Manufactures and Agriculture. i
or the manufacturers the book shows
their prosperity from the enormous IN
crease in the amount of raw materials
which they require for use in manu-
featuring and the equally striking In
crease of the exports of their finished
products. The importations of raw ma
terials for use in manufacturing, whlch
in the Democratic year 1894 amounted
TO only S13S, 800, ,T35 and formed only u
per cent of the total importations, were
In the year 1900 $780,, 1864, 106 and
formed 81 per cent of the total impor-
tations, while the expectations of fin
ished manufactures, which in 1891
amounted to but S1S3, 72S S0S and form
~ fnfn nxn
were in 1900 S432, ,2S4 1866 and formed
81 per cent of the total exports
The evidence of agricultural pros
perity under protection and sound mon
ey as compared with conditions unde
low tariff and currency agitation Il
even more strongly marked TIT
growth in consumption of farm prod
ucts among our own people under In
creased earnings is plainly shown II
the higher prices obtained by farmer
and in the remarkable increase in til
value Of their crops and farm animals
Tie consumption of wheat in the Unit
ed States, which had ranged in the VI
cinity of six bushels per capita unde
the activities Of the protective taril
years, fell rs low as three and onc-hal
bushels per capita under the low tarii
and the business and manufacturin
depression which accompanied it, bu
returned again to practically six busl
els per capita in 1899.
Prosperity of Labor.
Ine prosperity of the laboring men
equally clear and striking. The II
ports of the state labor bureaus in til
great manufacturing and industri'
centers show marked improvemel
both in the number of employee
hours of employment and wages pai
This is especially marked in the man
featuring, mining and transportatic
interests, large increase in the wag'
of railway employees, of men employt
in the coal and iron mines and tho
engaged in all lines of manufacture
being shown One interesting ia
which is shown is that the purchasir
power of wages has ranged higher du
ing President McKinley's administr
ton than at any other time in the b
tory of the country.
sSS Dangers of Free Silver.
On rne currency quesrion rne DO
opens with the assertion that "ho
ever much the skeleton of free silly
4 may try 10 cOHceai ltSeii pehlhu l
mask of Imperialism no thought
man can doubt upon moments ref'
tion that all of the dangers of Is
again threaten our financial system
the campaign of 1900" Attention
called to the fact that the Democra
convention, at the dictation of
Bryan, not only reasserted in gene
terms all of the principles of the pl
form of 1896, but emphasized adh
ence to the free coinage heresy by S
cifcally reiterating the silver decia
tions of 1896 in the platform adop
I'm 1900. 1t then shows that the ass
tion that the currency question IS
fled and that therefore the party WI
settled it may safely be removed II
control of national affairs is not Ju
fed by the facts. An analysis OF p
ent conditions in the senate ana no
- +ba ,rosnpctS of their future