Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-10-06
REPUBLICAN CONTROL
MEANS PROSPERITY
Figures That Tell the
Strong of the Men
Who Labor.
DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION
THREW men OUT OF WORK
Republican Administration Resulted in
Work for $1,000 Additional Men
in State Of Massachusetts,
Alone.

During recent years number Of
States, particularly those having con-
siderable manufacturing interests, have
| published from year to year, through
their bureaus of labor statistics. infor-
nation showing the number of persons
employed in leading industries, the to-
tai wages paid employees, the value of
products, etc.
| In every case where these facts have
been published for sufficiently long
time. they show a marked difference
| between the years of Democratic and
those of Republican administration. II
| the former case decided falling off
was experienced in business activity,
plumber of persons employed, total
wages paid, etc, while during the Har-
rison and Mckinley administrations
there were increases all along tn cline.
The most complete statistics are
those published by the State of Mas
sachusetts. They show an increase.
during each year of Republican admin
tra;ions, in the value of product, tot,,l
wages paid and total persons employed
In theleading manufacturing establish
ments OF the State. Duringthe four
years from 1883 to 1892 (Harrison's
administration there was a total in
crease of 1884 $50 in the value of the
product. $1S,244.47i in the total wages
/ maid o. in Ia. N har nf
gohs employed in the establishments
reporting for those years.
Then came the four years of Cleve-
lands administration with its tariff and
other reforms" and there is quite a
| different story to tell. From 1892 to
/ 1896 there was a decided decrease Ia
each of these items. Subtracting the
increase In 1894 from the total decrease
during the other three years. there was
net decrease Of s96,9l6,0O6 in the
value OF products; si,Os5,252 in the to-
tai wages paid, and 1861 in the num-
her of persons employed.
The Return In 1897 and 1898
OF came the return to
Prosperity. prosperity during Me
Kinley's administration. Once more
there were increases all along the line.
| During these two years there was to-
tai increase of si5,3O0,O5i in the value
Of the products, an increase of S4,2l9,-
ISi In the total wages paid and of t.
2lj in the number of persons employed.
The New York State Labor Bureeu
shows the total number of persons EN-
rloyod and total wages paid in G6 So
iocted establishments representing the
leading Industries of the State during
each OF the nine years from 1891 10
1893. In this report, as In the case Of
the Massachusetts statistics, the four
years of Democratic administration,
namely the fiscal years ending May 81
1894 and 1895, and June so, 1896 and
1897, stand out in striking contrast
Nth the prosperous years of the No
lfinley and Dingley tariffs. There was
steady increase during each year Of
| rarrison's and McKinley's administra-
tons, both in the number of persons
employed and total wages paid, and a
decline ! nthose items during Cleve-
lands regime. For the year ending
June 30, 1899. which was the most
prosperous year on record in the
United States, the increase in the en-
Iloyment for labor was nearly 20 per
cent as contrasted with 1894, the first
year of unrestricted free trade tariff
legislation. During the last two years
of the Harrison and the first two
.Cars of the Mckinley administration
the men in the &c New York estab.
llshments received Sii 600, 900 in wages,
During Cleveland's four years they re-
ceived only sSG,OOO,0OO.
Hardly ANY, The New York La
body Idle Dor Bureau report fur
Last Year. Their shows the un.
doubted prosperity of 1899 in its statis-
ties OF unemployment. At the end of
December, 1898, 27.2 per cent of the
working people in all trades We're re-
Ib' l'N nj Ah' Gnu va
March, 1899, the unemployed amounted
to iS,G per cent, AT the end of June
Il decreased to 1913 per cent, and at
the end of September to AZ per cent,
Commenting on this remarkable eX-
hibit, the New York World, a Demo-
cratic paper, says: How much these
simple figures mean of prosperity!
How much they mean of happiness in
the homelives of hundreds of thou
sands! How much they mean of welfare
for the country. What a warning they
hold for politicians who would start
another calamity campaign.
But there are still other States to
corroborate this interesting statistical
story.
Less Work The State of Penn
Under sylvania in its annual
Democracy report on industrial
statistics for 1898 published series
OF tables consisting of comparative sta
t,stics for 35S identical establishments,
representing AZ industries, for the years
1892 to 1898. These tables show that in
the State Of Pennsylvania as in the
ether two States mentioned, there was
a decided decline in business activity
rs soon as the effects of the Cleveland