Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-10-11
WHAT REPURL|CAN|SM
HAS DONE IN WYOMING.
Miners and Stockraisers Are
Receiving Good Returns.
Senator Warren Tells Why the West
Will Return Good Majorities for
Mckinley and Roosevelt
This Year.

States Senator)
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 it's
people two distinct and impressive OBJ
ject lessons. The first period was dur
ing the Democratic administration from
1873 to 1895 inclusive, in which we suf-
fered so severely in business matters and
when our material conditions were con-
fessedly so 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 were awakened
to life and hope. During this time our
industries, depressed and improbable
under Democratic policies, have become
prosperous, and our business ventures
remunerative and satisfactory. The
ranches, farms, cattle, sheep, mines and
railroads of our State all give substantial
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 head+"Expansion, I'm
perialism and Militarism''-a not an
issue of the campaign in Wyoming. This
State is the product Of expansion. Every
foot Of its area Of $1,000 square miles
was formed from territory acquired by
acts of expansion such as 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 out, was leading
Democratic politician of the State, who
went to the Philippines as private and
through merit won commission, recent
ly wrote home as follows:
II would like to be home so that 1
could vote against Bryan. I: 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, tho 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 ,308,OOO.
But with the Mckinley administration
and the Dingley tariff Of 1897 sheep,
which could scarcely find purchaser at
a dollar head, now sell for four dollars.
Wool now brings from fourteen to seven
teen cents. Mutton now sells for from
four to six cents a pound on foot. And
the assessed valuation Of sheep in Wy
oming is now $5,426, 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 as start
AA1Ss Il Ao1A AoOo " LOU ucpIcSS1Ou duU
ruin was the rule. But, as in the sheep
business, the election Of Mckinley and
Inauguration Of Republican policies
wrought a marvellous, change. Mixed
herds Of cattle for the past three years
have sold for thirty to thirty-five dollars
head; calves bring fifteen to twenty
dollars a head, and steers now net the
cattle raiser from forty-fve to ffty-fre
dollars each. The assessed valuation OF
cattle in the State now amounts to &c.
1900 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 as at present, the annual pro-
duction was 2,439,311 tons as against
100000 tons per ann,1m during the
tration. The increase in production
means more miners, more days worked,
better pay. 81. .
The most hopeful feature Of Wyom-
ing's business condition is to be found in
the fact that it's local banks now carry
the credits of it's business people. The
deposits Of Wyoming banks have incfeas-
ed four-fold in the past four years and
the number Of depositors has increased
6ve-fold. Western banks are now as in
dependent of the East as the East is of
Europe, and it will be difficult, I think,
for Mr.. Bryan to convince our people
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
will spare time from business, from the
ranch and from the mine to 60 to the
polls, this plurality will not only be lost
to Mr.. Bryan, but the Mckinley and
Roosevelt electors will carry the State
by substantial majority.
FRANCIS 3. WARREN.
United States Senator.
Cheyenne, Wyo.