The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-06-22

presidents this country has ever
had. Think of it, all the years of
democracy added together, heaped
one upon the other, from the time
OF Iefferson-if he can be called a
democrat-until the sun of Grover
Cleveland set upon the land, do
not make such a showing of bust
ness transactions for this country
as do the few brief years of the
Mckinley administration. What
does the balance of trade mean to
the farmers of Crawford county?
1t means that instead of money go.
ing to Europe to pay the balance,
that money must come from
Europe to pay the balance here; it
means that instead of the country
as a whole growing poorer that it is
becoming richer; it means that the
labor required to manufacture or to
produce this 500 million dollars
worth of merchandise was employ.
ed here in America. 1t means that
hve-hundred million dollars, in
stead of being paid by Americans
to support European families, was
paid by Europeans to support
American families. Crawford coun-
ty has a large .calledforeign pop
ulation. People of foreign birth or
origin, and they know that the
average American consumes in a
year twice the amount consumed
by a family of like station in
the old world. Taking $500. 90 as
the amount received by the aver
age workingman, we find that it
means that European countries have
paid during the year 1899, for the
support of 1000, 900 American
families. This million American
families have eaten American food
stufs, they have purchased Amer
lean pork and American beef, they
have bought American clothes
made from American wool, they
have materially assisted in main
tanning and raising the prices of
every dollars worth that the farm
er of Crawford county has had to
sell.
Again the republican administra-
ton has provided such conditions
that the American people have not
only been able to do a large bust
ness at remuneratlve prices,
but they have done it with the best
and most staple currency that
the world has ever seen. The
farmers of Crawford county have
sold their products at good prices,
and have received therefore money
in which they felt perfect conf
dence, and which was good the
world around.
Evils have existed. Evils still
exist. Mistakes have been made.
Mistakes will be made. No man
expects, either of himself or his
employee, that he will be able to
transact business for any length of
time without an error. The RE-
VIEW does not undertake to main
tain that the details of the present
administration have been perfect.
Until the affairs of state are guided
directly by the hand of the Omnip-
OlCll, llllSldhCS VIII DG uIdQC.
But we have no sympathy with the
carping critic who overlooks all
the good accomplished, all the
} virtues, all the strength, in order
to turn his search light upon the
errors. Every mans life is a bal
ance sheet of good and evil. Few
people even claim to be perfect anc
) even in these cases we are given tc
f believing that their judgment is
/. pre- JUDGED. We can take any
man on any section of land or in
any town in Crawford county, and
if we have known him intimately
for four years, we can point out
list of his mistakes, which if his
good deeds were not at the same
time recorded, would make ar
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