The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-24
IOWA A PROSPEROUS STATE.
PROGRESSIVE STRIDES MADE IN
DER REPUBLICAN RULE.
Hon. J. p. Dolliver Speaks of Gem
eral Progress-Farmers Crops
Command Better Prices and Bank
Deposits Have Greatly Increased.

Special Dispatch to the Post-Intellgencer.
WASHINGTON, May 23.-"Iowa is
brimful of prosperity this year, sale
Hon. ]. P. Dolliver. member of congress
from the Tenth district of that state.
1.-The factories out there have been run
ming as they have never run before, re-
ceipts for farm crops have been larger
during the last season than in any prev
ious season in the history of the state.
Money is abundant. debts are being paid
Off interest is lower, labor is well EN-
ployed, wages are better, and no man
need look for job unless he wants to
take a vacation.
In the last five years" continued Mr..
Deliver there has been an increase of
1900 bank depositors in our state alone
and the total amount of the bank deposits
has increased S35 900. 900. That the money
has been distributed more among the
farmers and wage earners than among
the business men, is shown by the fact
that both in the savings banks and the
smaller state banks the deposits have
doubled, while in the national banks the
increase has been about Is per cent. Ev-
cry man or woman of Iowa, who has a
savings bank account has an average OF
$3.50 to his or her credit. Taking the
whole population of the state at $3.50, 900,
there is 1874 for each one of us on deposit
IN our DdUkS, SO you see we nave " iilpl Z
cash in our banks than the per capita
of government circulation for the whole
country.
What has brought about this prosper
ity? Why, the busy factories have Great
ed a better demand for the farm pro
ducts. You know that II is the home
market that is best for the American
producer. and when people are steadily
at work they have money to spend, with
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The more factories we can get out West.
the better II will be for our farmers.
Since the last Democratic administration
has become matter of history, the
value of the live stock on Iowas farms
has increased by s45. 900, 600 that is to
say, In five years. being now worth ac-
cording to the department of agricult-
ure's figures, sl6s 600, 900. as compared
with the total valuation of $l23,cW.Uoe al
the beginning of 1895.
Talking about factories. You remem-
Der how the free traders ridiculed the
idea of making. pearl buttons IN tne
1890. OF course the Wilson bill cut this
down and checked the growth of the bust
ness, but the Dingley tariff of 1897 again
made another effort to build up another
American industry. What was the re-
suit? There are now upwards of forty
pearl button factories in Iowa. Shells
from winch tney are HlHut dtt ptbrui GU
from the river beds There are nearly
1900 people employed in the factories
alone, besides the hundreds of fishermen
occupied in getting the mussel shells,
and the people employed in making the
machinery for the factories. Indirectly.
the merchants. draymen. transportation
companies, as well as the farmers, are
benefited by this one little industry. which
has been as successful in its way as the
greater American tin plate industry,
which was also inaugurated by the Nc
Kinley tariff OF 1891.
Railroads an Important Factor.
Another instance. and I may say. a