CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1900-09-27

reuOW citizens, tnls Is september,
1900. want you to go back, II you
will. in your memories to September.
1896. We had then four years of
Democratic administration. We had
seen $23O,O00,OO0 added to our national
debt. We had seen tariff act sup
pressing the Mckinley law, which
destroyed every commercial industry
In the United States and Impoverished
every farmer. We had seen the wages
of two-thirds of the people who labor
ed In these United States cut down to
bare pittance, and the other third
driven out of employment and men by
thousands walking up and down the
highways of the lnnd clamorIng for
work or bread. In these days Col
orado, suffering impoverished and
clamorous, turned naturally to new
guides and new methods and sought
some avenue that would lead us back
tn our old prosperity; but we believed
Mr.. Bryan. Do you remember what
he told us here and elsewhere four
years ago? He told US that IL Mr.. Nc
Kinley were elected wages would go
down, farm mortgages by thousands
would be foreclosed: wheat would go
to 25 cents bushel; all the necessaries
OF life would be cheap except money
and money would be dear. We be-
lieved his story then. but know ]
voice the sentiment OF this convention
when l say we all thank heaven that
our brothers In the east knew more
than we. (Applause)
Present Conditions.
Compared with that condition, in
1900, after four years Of Republican
administration, there is not man to-
day In the broad limits of these United
States who Is able and willing to work,
who cannot find work, and at better
wages than ever before. There are
$4,000 more men employed on our
railroads to-day than four years ago.
and the railroads once insolvent are
now able to pay their fixed charges.
We have passed n currency bill, which
has placed our credit upon higher
level than that OF any country in tie
world. Our public debt is drawing 2
per cent n substantial premium. We
have more money In circulation per
capin by SO .ses cent than we had for
four years, the circulation now being
ne5-ly ST per capita. We have built
up such n trade with the rest OF the
world as no man ever dreamed OF, and
have become one of the great creditor
nations OF the earth. Our manufac-
tured articles last year In export show
ed nearly S5,O0O.OOO.OOO an Increase OF
more than Seo.Ooo.OOO. The excess OF
our exports over our Imports reached
the enormous sum Of more than x5.-
100000 greater sum than the total
surplus of exports over imports during
the whole 40 years OF our existence
MS n republic. tApplnuseJ We are
marching with giant strides until we
are becoming one OF the great CONNER
clai nations Of the earth. All over the
land is prosperity.
We have added In four years Samoa.
with her magnificent roadways. against
Democratic opposition. We have taken
the islands OF Hawaii. We took them
against Democratic opposition. We
are to build the Nicaragua canal. which
will be great waterway between
the eastern oceans and the west. We
have passed bankrupt law which
enables thousands of men to again do
business In their own names and share
I'm Republican prosperity (AppiauscJ
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rnnchsate5 ns G,hcers and ,oud nm.
,in,,saI We have had an ndm,nistrn.
tlon which has brought us through the
most wonderful war that ever was
fought-the noblest war ever declared.
for 1t WIS for the liberties of nm alien
race. Our President. the last man In
the United States to be willing TO de-
clare war, conducted II upon broad and
gallant principles. We have taken
Porto Rico because II lies Mt our door.
We have given it's people good gov
ernment which satisfied everybody ex-
cept Democratic partisans. We have
taken Cuba and have fitted her for
self-government, and are only waiting
now for her ballots TO declare when
we Will turn over the government OF
the Republic to themselves. And act
ing under the unanimous wish OF the