Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1900-10-19

Editor falladlum-
Our country has never improved
rapidly under Democratic policy.
Seventy years ago it was new and
it's population small. Then we had
but few factories and large business
firms, so that if the factories and
large business firms should be closed
occasionally by Democratic free trade
policy it did not effect the prosperity
of the country as it does now. Then
glUVlBl 11nnas kana61t 70 sRhdUe farpS
had employment. When that is the
case they can live well, even if prices
are low and they make but little
money which was the case then. In
those days there was but little money
in circulation. The people used but
little, they could not get it. Men
exchanged work, assisted each other
in raising their houses and barns, and
in rolling their logs and cutting their
grain. They had no money to pay
wool and flax, wove and made clothes
for the whole family. All the finer
grades of goods were imported and
sold to the people here at high prices.
Merchants, in showing their goods,
were proud to say, these are English
prints; but our merchants now are
proud to say, these are American
goods, and no better can be found
anywhere. Butter sold for cents
per pound, eggs for cents per doz.
Men worked by the year for six dol
lars per month and by the day for
373 cents, and in harvest for 624
cents per day. Dressed pork sold for
81. 25 per hundred. Wheat sold for
373 cents per bushel and |
corn for 8 cents per bushel. |
And these low prices and dull times
under Democratic policy continued
On down to the organization of the
party in 1856. The Re
publican party did not come into
power for four years after it's organi-
alton. General Fremont was the
irst Republican candidate for the
Presidency, but he was defeated by
ames Buchanan, the Democratic
andidate. Four years later Abraham
was elected President, and /
hink the election of Abraham Lin
oln was an era in the history of the
United States. Never since that
lme has our country suffered from
)w prices and hard times, with the
of Mr.. Cleveland second
erm, and it was Democratic policy
hat brought that financial disaster
pom our country, and that policy
ways has and always will bring
lin to our country. We do not wish
, SANDER the Democratic party.
lany of them are good citizens.
hey deserve the prosperity of the
ountry the same as we do. 1t is
ot their wish that brings financial
saster to our country, but their |
Dlicy. Mr.. Cleveland is dignifed '
atesman. Five times as much so c
J Mr.. Bryan. He did not wish to t
ing disaster on the country during
S second Presidential term. His r
,licy did it. Had Senator Hill or :
~ other Democrat been in his place e
e result would have been the same. b
! early times, as We have seen, Dem Fl
ratio policy was not as ruinous as u
is now. Now, under Republican :.
'licy, the country is covered over S
it'll factories employing tens of <
ousandS OF men and women who e,
we no other means of support fer q
emSelves and families but their n
Dor In these factories; so that when .,
free trade closes these r
ctories, as it always has done and &
ways will do, then they Z
e idle. They can not get K
'rk elsewhere as such persons n
uld do in early times. There is no l.
'rk for them, so that there must be
ffering. During every Republican \
esidential term, from the first. | +
ere has been great prosperity.
ch prosperity as has come to this q
lntry for the last thirty-five years \
der Republican policy has never h
ne to any nation on earth, and IS
S prosperity will continue as long f.
the Republican party is continued l
power. II
compare for . moment Mr.. Cleve- L