The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-09-06
OFFICIAL PAT Ea-KEKcSHA COUNTY
Facts Worthy of Consideration.

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Facts Worthy of Consideration.
The clearing house returns of the
entire country dropped to S45,O0O,O OO,-
900 in 1895, the year in which the Dem
ocratic low tariff law was enacted,
while in 1898, the first year of the
Ding1ey law, they we're So, 000,C 900,
and in 1899 were within a fraction of
500, 100000 or practically double those
Ct the year in which the Wilson low
tariff law was enacted.
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The annual average of business fail
ures under the first three years of Nc
Kinley's administration was 1928 as
against IA, 1884 in the first three years
of Cleveland's administration.
The liabilities were 1924, 900 in
C1eve1and's administration as against
S12O, 296, 900 in McKin1ey's administra-
ton.
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The deposits in national banks fell
from 81, III, 900, 900 in 1892, President
Harrison's last year, to S1,o74 ,OOO,oOO
in 1895, reduction of $780, 100000, and
in the last year of the Democratic term
they were but 81, 686, 00O, 900, increasing
to 81, 768, 600, COO in 1897, S2,078, 100000
in 1898, and S2,6O5, 100000 in 1899, an
increase of more than a billion dollars
in 1899 as compared with 1898. State
banks also show a remarkable record,
their total deposits in 1899 being al
most double those of 1894. Loan and
trust companies show in 1899 deposits
amounting to $835,O0O, COO, against
$471 900, OCO in 1894. Savings banks
show an increase in their deposits of
June 80, 1899, of S3O5, 100000 over those
of June 80, 1894. Taking the record of
all classes Of banks and loan and trust
companies the total deposits on June
30, 1899, were So, 1853, 381 200, against
81, 667, $50, 1928 in 1894, the year of the
enactment of the Wilson law, an in
crease of more than $4,000 900, or
almost so cent, and practically all OF
this increase occurred after the cleo
ton of President Mckinley.
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Our manufacturers are today draw
ing from abroad fully twice as much
material for use in manufacturing as
they did a decade ago, while it is a
fact that prices of manufactured ma
terials are much less than those of
decade ago.
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The excess of exports ove1 imports
during the past three years of Presi-
dent McKin1ey's administration was
81, 483, 49,, O4Q, or our times as much as
the entire excess of exports over inn
ports from 1870 to the date of his in
auguration.
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The exports of farm products under
the Dingley law, the tariff measure of
the present administration, for the
fiscal year 1899 amounted to S1,151,
OO6, 153, whereas, under the Wilson
law, the tariff measure of the proceed
ing Democratic administration, for the
fiscal year 1895 they amount to only
1871, 833, 1857, or nearly $4OO,OO0,O0o less.
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The decrease in mortgages in the
In.
In the state of Nebraska alone the
value of mortgages filed in 1897, the
first year OF the Republican admins
tration, amounted to but SIS, $50, 721,
against S34,6O1 ,318 in 1898, the first
year under a Democratic President,
while the value of mortgages released
in 1898 was S27, 498,0 70, against S18,-
213, 382 the year of Mr.. Bryan's nomin-
alton.
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The last and most complete statistics
show an increase, during each year Of
the Republican administration in the
value of products, total wages paid
and total persons employed in the lead
ing manufacturing establishments
Massachusetts,, New York and Penn
sy1vania may be taken as an example.
In Massachusetts during the year 1897
1898 there was a total increase of
$4.219, 781, in the wages paid, and of
I4,215 in the number of persons en-
p1oyed. During the first two years of
McKinley's administration the men in
90 New York establishments received
S44,OOO,0OO in wages, whereas in the
four years of Cleveland administra-
ton they received only S36,000,000.
In Pennsylvania, from the last year
of C1eve1ands administration to 1898,
there was an average percent of in
crease in the number of men employed
of Is percent and an average percent
of increase in wages paid of over 30
percent. Statistics from all states