Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-28
100 BUSY FORPO[INCS
Party Managers Find Voters Too
Busy to Road Lengthy Cam.
paign Documents.
Short, Pithy Arguments on Cards
Prepared "A Republican Les.
son In Wool.
Comparison Of the Company We
Keep as Gold Standard and as
silver Nation.
Special to Times-Republican.

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Des Moines, Sept. 2S.-In these busy
times. when every man who is willing
to work is putting in full time and usu-
ally working extra hours, it Is useless to |
expect voters, and particularly men who
are working for wages, to spend their |
time reading long political documents or
speeches. This has been recognized
pretty generally by the campaign man
ayers of both parties this year. Even
the democrats have recognized the gem
eral prosperity in the country in this
way. The documents they put out are
mostly short ones, with the exception of
Mr.. Bryans interminable speeches and
letters.
In busy New England, where every
factory is running to its limit and is far
behind in its orders: where every one
who wants to work is employed at good
wages and where the farmers of Iowa
sell great part of their produce. this
| fact is recognized by the republican lit
erary bureau, which is contining it's
work very largely to the publication of
small cards containing the pith of the
arguments for sound money and pro-
lection. These cards are prepared in the
briefest and most effective manned and
lpresent to the reader at glance the
| facts which must convince him that the
policies advocated and now being car
I Iried out by the republican party are de-
cidedly to his interest. These cards are
now being extensively circulated in
Iowa. Chairman Weaver. of the repub-
llican state committee, has procured q
Ilarge supply Of them and is sending
4 them out
4 In view os the great increase in the
wool industry in Iowa it is important to
know what Mr.. Bryan said in regard to
Ifree wool. In speech in congress Jan.
\ 13, 1894, he declared in the strongest.
Language for free wool and just six
Years later In an interview at Columbia,
Mo-. he stated most emphatically that
}he5 had made no statement whatever to
the effect that he had changed his for
mer views on the wool question. He
lsaid il was simmaterial whether the
lsheep grower received any benefit from
4 the tariff or not. y Under, the Wilson
4 tariff, providing for free wool, the Bos-
Iton quotations in August, 1886. ranged
from IL to so cents for wool. Under the
4 Dingley tariff Jan. 4, 1900 the prices
a ranged from 30 cents to 73 cents, and in
aIJuly, when all values We're unsettled,
y wool was still worth from 80 to So cents.
1.-THE imports of foreign wool during the
wear 1897 under free trade We're over
a Is56, ,OC0, 900 pounds: in 1898 less than 1867
600 pounds. The imports of foreign
4 shoddy and wool adulterants in 1897
were over 45,OOO.00O pounds; in 1900 less
4 than 100000 pounds. The value of im-
Iported foreign wool goods during 1887
was over $40. 0.000O 900 and in 1896 less than
sl5,O0O,OOO President Mckinley has said:
ls.Wool on the free list is vicious and
Iindefensble blow at the entire agricul-
Itural interests of the country.
Another of these cards. one of the
most striking of ALL reads IS follows:
MIR. Bryan told you, didn't he that
! unless we had free coinage of silver at
las to there would be less and less
I money in circulation every year? We
: haven't had free silver. We defeated
Mr.. Bryan. He was absolutely wrong
|about the circulation. Here are the Of,
. Ifcial figures Of the treasury depart
) lment:
1896 1897. 1895. 1893
! Circulation per capita = y. = =. :. -. =
i l-asO
Amount OF Money per
: Fczapit;lin y. S........ 32.SS 34.2 1888 36.
i I'VE have single gold basis to oul
/: |currency today. Yet not only is ther.
: more money in the United States II
e proportion to the population than there
( |was four years ago, but therNis NOR,
money actually passing from hand t
hand among the people than eter be
fore.
I rs man SO ignorant Of finance At t.
i, guard your savlngs?s
: Al comparison Of wages under free sill
e liver in China and Mexico and In tn
s United States under the gold basis ap
n peals very strongly to wage-earners. II
8 China unskilled labor commands fr0n
;. l0 to 20 cents per day and skilled labo
d from 20 to 40 cents. In Mexico unskille,
labor receives from As to 50 cents pc
day and skilled labor from so cents I
I$1.SO. Rourke Cochran declared in 1895
n |"The whole free silver movement Is
e conspiracy against wages.
= A list OF free silver countries an
II those opposed to it is most significant
It 1t is as follows:
y Anti-Free Silver Free Silve
q Countries. Countries
]. The United States. Bolivia.
"a Austria Hungary. China.
sr Belgium. Colombia.
lBrazi Ecuador.
lCanada. Guatemala. a
Chile. Honduras.
. Costa Rica. Mexico.
- Denmark. Nicaragua.
-, E,Oypf Persia