The sun., 1900-10-16
What REPURLICAHISM
HAS DONE IN WYOM ING.
Miners and St0ckraisers Are
Receiving Good Returns.
Senator Warren Tells Why the West
Will Return Good Majorities for
Mckinley and Roosevelt
This Year.

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States Senator.)
The people of Wyoming are vitally ant
intensely interested in the outcome of the
present campaign. Wyoming has been Q
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 1896 inclusive, in which we suf'
fered so severely in business matters and
when our material conditions were con
fessedly so 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
railroads of our State all give substantial
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"-ar not an
issue of the campaign in Wyoming. This
State is the product of expansion. Every
foot Of it's 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 leading
Democratic politician of the State, who
went to the Philippines as a private and
through merit won a commission, recent
ly wrote home as follows:
81 would like to be home so that
could vote against Bryan. l hope he
will be 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 Will
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 ,30S000.
But 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 $5,426, ,493, a gain in four
years of over 300 per cent.
The contrast between the cattle in
dustry under Democratic and Republi-
can administrations is almost as start
ling. From 1898 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-five dollars
a head; calves bring fifteen to twenty
dollars a head, and steers now net the
cattle raiser from forty-ive to fifty-five
dollars each. The assessed valuation of
cattle in the State now amounts to So
l54,6OO and is rapidly increasing.
Under the past four years of Repub-
licanism, Wyoming has grown to be an
important factor among the coal-produc-
ing States. During the four years of
Democratic rule, with the same number
Of mines as at present, the annual pro-
duction was 2,439,311 tons as against |
4, 100000 tons per annum during the |
past two years of the Mckinley admins |
tration. The increase in production
means more miners, more days worked, |
better pay.
The most hopeful feature of Wyom- |
ng's business condition is to be found in |
the fact that it's local banks now carry |
The credits of its business people. The |
deposits of Wyoming banks have increas-
I'd four-fold in the past four years and |
The number of depositors has increased |
ive-fold. Western banks are now as in |
dependent of the East as the East is of |
Europe, and it will be difficult, l think, I
for MIR. Bryan to convince our people |
hat this comfortable state of affairs is |
lot due directly to the wise and patriotic i
policy of the Republican party.
In 1896, when four years of depression |
md disaster had almost driven our people
20 despair, Bryan carried the State by
about $50 plurality. Now if the people |
will spare time from business, from the
'anch and from the mine to go to the
polls, this plurality will not only be lost
% Mr.. Bryan, but the Mckinley and
Roosevelt electors will carry the State
oy substantial majority
FRANCIS E. WARREN.
United States Senator.
Cheyenne, Wyo. =