Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-09-13
BUREAU OF STATISTICS
A REPUBLICAN SIDESHOW
Working Overtime to Furaish Gam
munition" for Hanna and
His Party.
ROOSEVELT CAUSES MUCH GRIEF

Rough Riders Reckless Statcmauts
and Indecent Abuse of Demo.
Gratis Continues To Mako
Votes for Bryan.
Washington Special: The Bureau of
Statistics is adopting the plan of sem
sational newspapers. 1t seizcs upon
every event i'll politics and manufac-
lures statistics to support tiff it
happens to be from a republican
source.
For instance, Chaunccy Dcpcw
came home from Europe the other
uay and talked about the coal mines
OF England running out and the great
market that this country would have
In supplying coal for the manufactor-
les of Great Britain.
That sounded we'll and was in the
line of diverting attention from the
policy of the administration. So the
Bureau OF Statistics gets up an elabor-
ate array of figures OH the coal OUT
put OF this country and the amount
exported in the last year and suggests
what II wonderful thing ii would be
IF we could supply England.
| This will be printed in the admiiis=
tfation papers and will be used as the
basis of editorials to show how cnor-
mouslN Our export trade is about to
expand:
The Bureau OF Statistics neglects to
! State that the carrying charges are so
1 high that when added to the price
charged for coal here it would be
much more expensive than coal that
England can obtain from other
sources: Still little omission of a
vital fact never hurt republican sta=
tistics. They are not supposed to lie
facts by the initiated. They are in
tended for the ignorant and Thought
less voter:
The Bureau, of Statistics works
overtime to make a great showing of
the growth of our export trade. 1t
doesn't say so much about our experts
to the Philippines and Cuba and Porto
Rico, because those are largely mu-
nitions of war and supplies for those
administering administering the mill
tary government of our new poses
/ slohs.
| But when it comes to European ex-
ports the Bureat of Statistics really
has all enjoyable time. it prints long
nh'l involved columns of figures and
tries to show that we are RAPIDLY
catching UP with Great Britain.
The figures are more or less incor-
rect and manipulated in various direc-
tiohs, but they incidentally show one
thing that was not intended and that
is; that our exports i'll day to any
one Important European port are
greater than our exports fol. Il year to
the Philippines.
Yet we have no army of subjugatioii
holding these European cities and
forcing them to trade with us. we
are not spending over $4,oOO,Oob a
month to get chance to increase our
trade with Europe.
The republicans are making great
ado about our increasing export
trade. OF course it increases wear by
year. 1T would do that under any
administration. But a great exporta-
non OF manufactured goods is not al
ways an evidence of prosperity
We are sending abroad the goods
that out people have not the money
to purchase for home consumption.
With at least 6 per cent of oil1. wage
workers idle, it is no wonder that we
have to go outside the country to sell
the accommodating stock of goods.
Then the prices for which the goods
are sold must be taken into account:
1t has been known for years that big
manufacturing establishments. built
up under a high protective tariff, have
been i'll the habit of selling their SUR
plus stock in European markets at a
price far below that charged the con-
sumer in this country.
The trusts are doing this to a great
extent. Their special advantages
makes it possible for them to produce
so cheaply that after squeezing the
American consumer for Il 500 per cent
profit they can take the surplus
across the ocean and sell the goods at
prices that the European warge work
ers can afford.
That is partly the reason that our
export trade shows such marked in
crease. 1T must be pleasant retiec-
ton to the American consumer that
he pays the tariff going and coming
that the European laborer may bene-
fit by the cheapened methods of pro-
duction made possible by the trusts.
Roosevelt is getting ready to in
wade the west. He has written his
little speeches and Hanna has nearly
had nervous prostration in the effort
to blue pencil them into some shape
where they will not prove too often
sive to republicans.
Hanna has succeeded in persuading
President Mckinley that it is better
politics and looks more dignified for
him to stay quietly at the white house
and attend to business while his cam
paign is being managed by the cx-
perts who make that a business.
Roosevelt is not open to argument.
He insists upon making a spectacle
of himself OH the stump. Hanna has
threatened that if he forgets his writ
ten speeches and extemporizes any
thing like the disastrous ST. Paul
speech he will be called in at once.
Roosevelt promises, but there is no
In the Kitchen.