The sun., 1900-09-05
FIGURES WILL TALK !!
Unexampled and Increasing Prosperity
Under Mckinley.
WHY SHOULD w CHANGE !?
Business Of All Kinds Has Doomed Since
i Bryans Defeat in l896-Wages Higher
and Savings Larger ~
/ T ~ ,.4l
IY SHOULD w

the preceding Democratic low tarltf
administration. For example. the
value of the wheat crop was, in round
numbers, S255,0O0G0 in 1894 and $780,
100000 in 1898. The figures for corn,
cotton and other important crops are
similar to those for wheat
Significant Variations In Savings.
A good index Of nations prosperity
is found in the records Of the savings
banks. The following figures are in
structive and convincing:
Increase Of savings banks deposits dur
ing Cleyelan1's first administrations. sS6 70,0l4
Harrison's administration .......... los $50 75s
CleNeland's second administration. 7,slS,6l5
three years OF Mckinley. y............... l6o,S03,.61
Southern Prosperity.
NO section of the country has had
larger share of the general prosperity
during McKinleys administration than
the south, and it is passing strange
that the southern Bryanites should be
preparing to do their utmost to defeat
McKinleys reelection and to check
this prosperity. Never before in the
history of the United States has the
output of southern iron ore and pig
| iron, lumber, coal and coke been so
, large as 1t has been In the past two
years, and not for years, If ever, have
the prices been so high. Never before
was so large proportion of southern
products shipped from southern ports.
Never before has money loaned there
at such low rates of interest All this
under the gold standard and pro-
tective tariff. A few years ago the
south did practically no manufactur-
ing. 1t now has over $1,000,000,000 in
vested In factories, paying over $780,
100000 in wages and producing be-
tween 81 $1,500000,000 and $4,000, 100000
worth of products yearly. Most Of
this increase has been secured under
the present administration and is di-
rectly due to the operation of the Re-
publican policies.
Increase In Bank ClearinEs.
! Bank clearings, as showing the vol
| ume of business done in the country,
] present one of the strongest evidences
of the general prosperity of the people,
and the enormous increase in the total
of the clearings is a strong argument
J in a general discussion of the coun-
try's condition today. In 1894 the total
of the bank clearings Of the country
for the first six months was 22,0S5,-
\ OIL 1856. For the first six months Of
| 1900 the total was S42,S37, POI 316,
showing an increase of S20,T72, 130 100.
| Incidental Testimony.
Reporting on the progress of the
campaign in West Virginia. John X.
| Thompson, United States marshal and
! an old Confederate soldier, writing to
/ Senator Scott, says that they have a
hard fight on their hands, but that con
ditions seem to favor the Republicans.
! The sentiment in the state Is very diff
ferent from the feeling that prevailed
! in 1892, when some Republicans ac-
| quiesced in the Democratic demand for
change. No one in the party seems
| to demand change at this time. Bry-
ans predictions have been disproved
by the general prosperity, and the peo-
! pie are satisfied with the achievements
of the administration.
Out of 10 commercial travellers inter-
viewed recently IA said they would
vote for Mckinley. All kinds of busi-
ness men were represented in the in
| terviews. All but two of the 16 stated
1 that in their opinion not more than
one in ten of the commercial travellers
would vote for Bryan. Many said
| they did not know "a single Bryan
| travelling man,
/ ITon w purlytueon nf Madison
county, Miss, says that no Republican
president has ever made such an i'm
preston on the people of the south as
President Mckinley. The secretary of
the Mckinley and Roosevelt club of
| New Orleans said to Mr.. Parkinson:
1--WE have more than 5000 members,
and we shall soon have double that
number. We have old Democrats men
who never voted anything else than
the Democratic ticket, expressing to us
| daily desire to be enrolled in our
ranks"
Reminisccnce and Warning.
Finally, let the people heed the i'm
pressive injunction of the Baltimore
Herald: "trhere have been periods in
this country when the full dinner pail
was not universal, when hundreds of
thousands of people We're out of EN-
ployment by reason of depressed In
dustries and when the necessities of
life We're hard to get. The working
men well remember those times, and
they know that no such conditions
have existed during the present ad-
ministration. In these days the empty
dinner pail is rarity. Mills and fac
tories are running on full time, many
of them day and night; new industrial
enterprises are multiplying in every
part,of the country, employment is at
hand for everybody who wants to
work, and wages have been advanced
In almost every line of mechanical ac.
tivitv."