The Globe-republican., 1900-10-11
WHAT REpUpLICAnlSm
HAS DONE In WY0Fh NC.
Miners and Stockraisers Are
Receiving Good Returns
Senator Warren Tells Why the West
Will Return Good Maiorifies for
Mckinley and Roosevelt
This Year.
Ry Hon. Francis E. Warren, United
States Senafor.1

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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 1896 inclusive, in which we suf-
fered severely in business matters and
when our material conditions We're con-
fessedly devoid of hope that as we
look back it all seems like a hideous
nightmare
The second period of four years is that
formed by the Mckinley administration
At the outset of it we We're awakened
to life and hope. During this time our
industries, depressed and unprotita BILE
under Democratic policies, have become
prosperous, and business ventures
remunerative and satisfa Glory. The
ranches, farms. cattle. sheep, mines and
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. pansion I'm
perialism and Afilitarisn''-a not
issue of the campaign in Wyoming. This
Sta tie is the product of expansion. Every
foot of its of 99.oC0 square miles
was formed from territory acquired by
acts of expansion such 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 ont, was a leading
Democratic politician of the State, who
went to the Philippines a private and
through merit won a commission, recent
Iy wrote home as follows:
81 would like to be home that
could vote against Bryan. 1 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 ap-
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 Dos. 900.
and the Dingiey tariff of 1897 sheep,
which could scarcely find Il purchaser at
a dollar head, sell for four dollars.
Wool now brings from fourteen to seven
four to six cents pound on foot And
the assessed valuation OF sheep in Wy
oming is now S5.426.493, 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 start
ling. From 1898 to 1897 depression and
ruin was the rule But in the sheep
business. the election of Mckinley and
inauguration of Republican policies
wrought a marvellous change Mixed
I, - Il
have sold for thirty to thirty-fivc dollars
| a head: calves bring fifteen twenty
dollars head, and steers now net the
cattle raiser from forty-fiyc to fifty-five
dollars each The assessed valuation of
cattle in the State now amounts to &c.
$4,000 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 at present. the annual pro-
duction was 2.439.311 tons as against
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-
| ing's business condition is to be found in
| the fact that its local banks row carry
| the credits of its business peoDlc. The
| deposits OF Wyoming banks have increas-
ed four fold in the past four years and
| the number of deposi.ors has increased
! five-fold- Western banks now in
dependent of the East as the East Is Of
/ Europe. and IT win be difficult I think,
for Mr. Bryan to convince our peonIe
/ that this comfortable state of affairs is
not due directly to the wise and patriotic
policy of the Republican party
In 1896 when four years of depression
and disaster had almost driven our people
| to despair. Bryan carried the State by
about $50 plurality Now If the people
i viii spare time from business. from the
ranch and from the mine TO go TO Tic
polls this plurality will net only be lost
to Mr. Bryan but the Mckinley and
Roosevelt electors viii carry the State
| by substantial maio-ity
| FRANCIS Z WARREN
1 Unite States Senator
| Cheyenne wyo-