The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-10-12
WHAT REpURL|CANISM
HAS DONE IN WYOM ING.
Miners and Stockraisers Are
Receiving Good Returns.
Senator Warren Tells Why the West
Will Return Good Majorities for
Mckinley and Roosevelt
This Year.
(By Hon. Francis II. Warren, United
States Senator.)

The people Of Wyoming are vitality and
intensely interested in the outcome Of the
present campaign. Wyoming has been a
State but little over eight years, and
OF this period four years each Of Demo
cratic and Republican government have
served to impress upon the minds of its
people two distinct and impressive OBJ
| ject lessons. The first period was dur
ing the Democratic administration from
/ 1893 to 1895 inclusive, in which we suf-
| fered so severely in business matters and
when our material conditions were con-
fessedly 80 devoid of hope that as we
look back it all seems like hideous
nightmare.
The second period Of four years is that
formed by the Mckinley administration.
AT the outset of it we were awakened
to life and hope During this time our
industries, depressed and Improbable
under Democratic policies. have become
prosperous. and our business ventures
remunerative and satisfactory. The
ranches, farms, cattle. sheep, mines and
dllJOduS Vi our Sthlc MI GIVE
returns to the capital and labor expend-
ed upon them. and our people, instead of
being constant borrowers. are now pay
ing their debts and becoming lenders.
Bryan's scare heads-"Expansion I'm
perialism and Militarism''-- not an
issue of the campaign in Wyoming. This
State is the product of expansion. Every
foot of its area of $1,000 square miles
was formed from territory acquired by
acts of expansion such as the Louisiana
purchase, the seizure of the Oregon coun-
try, the Mexican treaty, and the Cali
fornia purchase, and all this without the
consent Of the governed.
One Of our Wyoming volunteers who,
when the war broke out. was n leading
Democratic politician Of the State, who
went to the Philippines as private and
through merit won commission, recent
ly wrote home as follows:
II would like to be home so that !
could vote against Bryan. ] hope he
will he defeated so badly that the buga
boo word Imperialism will never be
heard again"
The chief industries in Wyoming are
live stock raising. farming, coal mining
and railroad operation. Sheep, cattle
and horse raising form the greatest in
dustry of the State. During the four
years Of Democratic administration, and
under the direct operations OF the Viii
son tariff law. the condition of the sheep
and wool industry in Wyoming was APP
palling. Sheep brought less than one
dollar head. wool sold for five cents
and sometimes less per pound. and NUT
ton shipments would scarcely realize the
railroad freight TO market During that
four years the highest annual assessed
valuation of all the sheep in the State
was 81 ,30S.O00.
Bnt with the Mckinley administration
and the Dingley tariff of 1897 sheep.
which could scarcely find purchaser at
dollar head. now sell for four dollars.
Wool now brings from fourteen to seven
teen cents. Mutton now sells for from
four to six cents a pound on foot. And
the assessed valuation Of sheep in Wy
oming is now S., .493. gain in four
years of over 300 per cent
The contrast between the cattle in
dustry under Democratic and Rcpubli |
can administrations is almost as start
ling. From 1893 to 1897 depression and
ruin was the rule But, as in the sheep
business, the election Of Mckinley and !
of Republican policies
wrought a marvellous change. Mixed |
herds Of cattle for the past three years |
have sold for thirty TO thirty-iivc dollars !
n head; calves bring fifteen Ia twenty |
dollars head and steers now ret the |
A. 81. A.
dollars each. The assessed valuation of |
rattle in the State now amounts TO So
l54, 900 and is rapidly increasing
Under the past four years or Repub-
icanism, Wyoming has grown TO he an
important factor among the coal-produc
ng States. During the four years OF
Democratic rule. with the same number
If mines as nj present. the annual pro-
luction was 2,439.311 tons as against
!, 100000 tons per annum during the
past two years OF the Mckinley admins
ration. The increase in production
means more miners, more days worked.
,etter pay.
The most hopeful feature of Wyom-
ng's business condition is to be found in
he fact that its local banks now carry
he credits Of its business people. The
deposits OF Wyoming banks have increas-
d four-fold in the past four years and
he number Of depositors has increased
ve-fold. Western banks are now as in
dependent OF the East as the East is Of
Europe, and ii will be difficult. think,
or Mr.. Bryan TO convince our people
hat this comfortable state OF affairs is
OF due directly TO the wise and patriotic
olicy Of the Republican party.
In 1896, when four years Of depression
nd disaster had almost driven our people
} despair. Bryan carried the State by
bout $50 plurality. Now il the people
iii spare time from business, from the
inch and from the mine 10 go 10 the (
oils. this plurality viii not only be lost /,
, Mr.. Bryan. but the Mckinley aud ,
Roosevelt electors viii carry the State
, a substantial majority
FRANCIS +. WARREN.
United States Senator.