Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-09-20
SWEDEN,S EXPERIENCE.

SWEDEN'S EXPERIENCE.
What Protection and Sound Money
Have Accomplished for That
Country. 6.
+" In a letter to the Oberlin Times,i
A. Arwedson gives chapter of the
history of Sweden which is worth
while for every supporter of Bryan to-
study. In the course Of his letter he
says: - sss
my native country, Sweden, de-
monetized silver in 1873, and at the
same time adopted very high tariff
on all imports. Up to this time emil
grafton from that country was very.
great, and portions were in danger Of
becoming idepopulated, the reasons
being very low wages, farmhands re-.
ceiving at most IS crowns ($19.75) per
year, clerks and Office men about 400.
crowns ($l20) per year, mechanics 20
crowns $500 per week. Miners
were scarcely wanted.
'Money in banks could only be had
on the highest grades of security, and
at Z to 10 per cent. =-
"After the Inauguration of this new
system everything started to boom,
farmhands receivinga great increase
in wages clerks and Office men get
ting more than twice their former pay,
miners finding ready employment at
so crowns per week, mechanics about
the same, and machinists receiving
about 100 crowns($26) per week.
"The northern part of Sweden be-
ing, prior to 1873, hardly inhabited,
is now-seeking labor everywhere. The
great waterfalls are tanned and made
to furnish power for electricity, the
latter furnishing power for any num-.
ber and all classes Of factories, the
output of which was a cause of an in
creased merchants navy OF ocean-go-
ing steamers. -
."The great iron industry developed
and caused the building of cities fill.
ed with busy, bustling populace j;
the fine Swedish cutlery has found a
ready market everywhere; the wooleni
mills have become noted all over. the
world and compete successfully u with
the finest fabrics made ]; the cannons
made by Captain Nordenfelt have be-
come famous the world over, and are
manufactured by every nation on the
globe. The increase of population is
also remarkable. Cities which con
tanned 5000 inhabitants twenty years
ago have now 10000, and many have
larger proportionate increase. Stu
dents and observers agree that the
direct cause is a high tariff and the
gold Standard #
Turning to this country, Mr.. Ar
wedson inquiries: ''Under what ad-
ministration have we seen the best
times and derived the most good?'
He asks workingmen and farmers, as
compared with four or six years ago: {:
Are you not making a better living
today? You all know the difficulties
encountered six years ago, and if you
read the commercial reports of Dunn
and Bradstreet at that time you must
admit that we had over 800 per cent,
more failures than now. The yield
of crops was great in 1894, so you
cannot say that crop failures had any
thing to do with it. Factories of all
classes have been running full time,
employing labor and causing splen-
did home market. With plenty of
cash our people are good buyers. It
is an updeniable fact that we have
more money in our National treasury
than ever before, and it was practical
ly empty when that, stuffed prophet
retired to Buzzard's Bay to enjoy life
in enjoyment and luxury, a striking
contrast to- Republican ,ex-Presid-
ents." #.',-&-, z2s2s:.. .l-+1 ..z
Moreover, the efforts of the Demo
cratic party under new and worse
leadership to make Cleveland the
scapegoat for their failures will be
unavailing. It was not Cleveland,
but Cleveland's party, that was res
ponsible for the threat Of rotten money
which drove capital into hiding. It
was not Cleveland alone, but such
Democrats in Congress as w. J. Bry.
an, who repealed the Mel Kinley tariff !,
and these Democrats enacted in its
place tariff SO outrageous and SO
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