The Republican journal., 1900-06-14

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proper governing power for healthy
nation.
| Mark Twain's Presidential candidacy
had the humorous right OF way until it
encountered the Sioux Falls and Gin
cinnati proceedings. .. ...
The party that regrets the settlement
OF labor strike is short on excuses for
existence
Hon. John G.. Carlisle no longer re-
CARDS himself as resident OF Ken
lucky. Mr.. Carlisle has not had high
opinion of his old political associates
since Organism prompted them to throw
stale eggs at him. ..." .....
The export trade of the South for the
past twelve months amounted to over
| 500, 900, 900, more than one-third of that
of the entire country. These are figures
which speak more eloquently than the
narrow Southern politicians who con-
| tribute so literally to the Congressional
Record ...". ....
The only piece of national legislation
| for which the Democratic party has been
responsible, since the election of Abra-
| ham Lincoln is the WilsonGorman
tariff bill, measure despised by it's
authors, hated by its sponsors, and
which wrought ruin to thousands of
| those who tried to be its friends.
The Democrats are to have their great
| jollitication this year on the Fourth of
July, in place of putting it off until the
Ides of November
Out of nearly thirteen hundred mil
lions of dollars worth Of merchandise
carried between the United States and
| Europe during the fiscal year ending June
30. 1899, less than three million dollars
worth We're carried in American ships
other than those of the American line.
| The latter named line carried nearly
forty million dollars worth. Foreign
ships carried twelve hundred and fifty
million of dollars worth. And yet the
| foreign lines are concentrating all of
| their opposition to the passage of the
| shipping bill upon the only American
| line in the transatlantic trade.
Democratic sympathy for the Beers
is largely made up of a desire to put the
Administration in an embarrassing posi-
ton with other powers.
If Aguinaldo was wise he would send
half a dozen delegates to the Kansas
City convention not to vote. but to
take up sympathy collection.
We are not so very poorly off after
all. Judging by the following comparison
of last years per capita circulation of
money:
In Per capita.
England. ..-Sli %
Germany Observation-Disclosures. 10 81
| nlted States. % 10
And now the per capita in the United
States is over $26, and still increasing.
Savings banks deposits in the United
States in 1894 and in 1899. compare as
follows: ...# 1884,. MH.... f..
Year DepositOrs Deposits
1899 ................ 300 700 Salts, SOC, 900
1894 ............... 4,SO0000 LII POO, 900
Increase, 1899 ..... 100000 S401 10000
Fewer failures in all sections of the
country last April than in April, 1899
That's pretty good proof Of prosperity
in a Presidential year.
Records of the POstotlice Department
show that the amount of mail matter
of all classes in the United States, in
1899, weighed ,365, 666, sos pounds This
was enough to fill 39,142 cars with
freight This record was the largest in
the history of the country. and was due
to the remarkable prosperity and IN
precedented business activity now eX-
listing. In dull Democratic times the