The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-08-17

iCNuVC Ld1lH l1ldt Will encourage
the investment of American capital
in manufacturing enterprises and
insure to American labor, both ma
tive and naturalized, the advantage
of "a fair days wages for fair days
| work."
Both of these plans have been
tried within the memory of most of
those who will cast their votes next
| November.
| The Wilson-Gorman tariff bill and
the effects thereof were Democratic.
The Dingley bill and it's results are
Republican. The effects produced
| by these two measures should be
carefully weighed by every voter
who desires his ballot to influence
national prosperity and personal
advantage.
Under the operation of the Wilson,
German revenue tariff, the income
of the government was not suffic-
lent to pay current expenses. The
tariff for revenue only did not pro-
duCe the revenue. Government
bonds were sold in time of peace to
pay the daily obligations of the
Democratic administration. From
being debt-paying nation we be-
came debt-creating nation. In
dustries languished. Mills shut
down. Factories closed. Building
ceased. The army of the unemploy-
ed increased. Panic came. Banks
failed. Fortunes crumbled. Labor
begged in vain for work. But Just
as soon as the people could express
their verdict at the polls, Cleve-
land was repudiated, the Wilson
German tariff bill was declared
wanting and change was demand
ed.
With the election of a Republican
president and a Republican con-
gress, protective tariff measure
was enacted. The Dingley bill be-
came law. What have been the
results? The national treasury over
flows. The nation has fought to
successful issue two wars and has
been paying debts at the same time.
Bond issues have given place to
bond redemption and refunding the
outstanding obligations of the ma
ton at lower rate of interest than
was ever secured before by any ma
ton in history. Mills have been
started. Factories have been run
ming day and night. Wages have
been increased. Labor has been
profitably employed. The exports
during the four years of the Ding
ley tariff bill have exceeded the COM
bined amount of all the exports of
the nation during all the previous
years of our history from the begin
ming of Washington's first adminis-
tration to the close of Cleveland's
last administration.
There is the record. None deny
it. The books have been audited,
and the balance is known to all.
| What do the American voters want?
A return to the Wilson, German tar
iff bill and panic times, or a contin-
uation of the Dingley bill and re-
sultant times? Your votes next No.
vember will decide the question.
PADDY THE FLOP, the divine pro-
tector of the morality of Eveleth
and the purchased exponent of Re-
| publiCanism, states that eff the Re-
publican party wants to make votes
it had better pay freight on the trio
| (Webster, Atkinson and Hannaford)
and send them out west as contract
labor on some of Hills right-of-
way" Paddy was careful not to adj
wise the party of his pocket book to
transport us to Carleton Place, Can
| ada, for if the party should heed his
wisdom we might run foul of some
of the Dolan family at that point
and they would naturally find con-
ditions unpleasant, even as does the
Dolan contingent who have evaded
the Chinese exclusion act and set
tied upon the Mesaba since break
ing in. But if Paddy really does
not enjoy our company, he is at lib
erty to return to his place of nativ-
ity at any time; that is, unless the
vigilant police have objections.
THE people of this country must
have been prosperous in 1899, as the
statistics of the post-office depart
ment shows they wrote more letters
and sent more mail matter that year
than ever before in the history of
the United States. Yet Mr.. Bryan
predicted that if Mckinley was
elected the average citizen would
not have enough money to buy a
postage stamp. Yet the people of
this country paid the postal depart
ment the vast sum of $95,OO0O0O in
1899, or nearly $20,O00O0O more than
they paid in 1893, and over 100000