The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-10-10

Il pennsylvania Deen 1OllOWeu
at the nearest following
presidential election by the election of
Democratic president and the in
stallation of a Democratic national ad-
ministration, showing there are more
than state issues in Mr.. Pattison's
campaign. Let us see whether we have
reason to like the change.
During the four years of Cleveland,
under the Wilson free trade tariff, from
1892 to 1896, our total exports of do
mestic merchandise amounted to SO, 346-
S2S,S0S. During the four years of Nc
Kinley, from 1896 to 1900, under the
Dingley protective tariff-which took
the place of the Wilson free trade act
the total value of exports of domestic
merchandise was s4.S16, ,994 800, an eX-
cess of Sl.470, 165501 over that of the
four preceding years of Clevelandsm.
That doesn't look inviting. But that is
not all of the story.
During Cleveland's four years-1S92
to 1S96-the total value of exports of
American domestic products, in excess
of the total value of foreign products
imported into the United States, was
$396S5S,6S6. During the four years of
McKinley-1S96 to 19OO-the total value
of exports of American domestic pro-
ducts in excess Of the total value of
foreign products imported into the
United States, was $1,976, 112 ,531, an ex-
cess of $1,579,253,S45 over the four pre-
ceding years of Clevelandism. Not
much in that to warrant a change.
Yet still is the story incomplete. Lis
ten further:
The total amount of tin plate import
ed into the United States during the
four years of Cleveland, from 1892 ID
1896, was 50629, ,S94 pounds. During the
four years under Mckinley, from 1896
to 1900, our total import of tin plates
was 16,567,146 pounds, decrease of a.
o62,74s pounds. During the four years
of Cleveland and the Wilson tariff
1892 to 1S96-we manufactured 531, ,O72,-
1863 pounds of tin plate. During the
four years of Mckinley and the Ding
ley tariff we manufactured 26G5, ,6O1, ,o63
pounds of tin plate, an excess over the
four preceding years of Clevelandism
of 2,134, ,52S,900 pounds. During the four
years of Cleveland and depression,
from 1892 to 1896. we produced 81, 1885,, ,19S
tons of 2,240 pounds to the ton of pig
iron. During the next four years of
Mckinley and prosperity we produced
4S,67O444 tons of 2,24O pounds of pig
iron, an increase of 11,2S5,246 tons. The
nj al ~ ttxr nr
of iron and steel railroad bars pro-
duced in the United States during
Cleveland's term, from 1892 to 1896, was
6,Ol6,2O9 tons. During the next four
Years under Mckinley the total pro-
duction was 7,O2S,S33 tons, an increase
of 2,007,62i tons over Cleveland's four
years. The total surplus from opera
lions of all the railroads in the United
States during 1896, the last year of
Cleveland and his free trade policy,
wasTSl, ,5S4 1863. During the year 1900,
the Hast year under McKinley's policy
OF Protection, Progress and Prosperity,
the total surplus from the operations
OF railroads in the United States was
SSl65I,933 During the year years of
free trade under Cleveland, from 1892
to 1896, there We're 574l2 failures of
business establishments, with an aver
age of $l5,SSl of liabilities for each fail
ure. During the four years of McKin-
ley, from 1896 to 1900, there was a total
of 45,64S failures-a decrease of LIFT
with an average of $ll.9l7 liabilities for
each failure. And so we could carry
on the comparison until this page was
filled,
Any citizen of Pennsylvania who
thinks he would prefer the Democratic
to the Republican variety of prosperity
should not fail to vote next month for
Robert Emory Pattison, its advance
agent. But all citizens who are con-
tent TO let well enough alone will take
good care not to be duped by the mean-
ingless reform promises which the
Democratic spell-binders are making
on the stump and will vote. as here
tofore, for the party which they know
can be trusted
The Democratic campaign book gives
list of 2ST so-called trusts engaged in