Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-14
Labor. share.

particularly pleasurable sensation Is
not due 10 a dream
The recent annual report of the Con
troIler of the Treasury admirably
serves the purpose of a pinch 10 assure
the public that the prosperity of the
country is no dream. 1t proves that
the country is wideawake, ard that
the pleasurable sensation of prosperity
is real.
From the section of his report deal
ing with the funds in savings banks,
it appears that there are in the Uni
ted States G6GG.6T2 Individual deposit
tors, with am aggregate ACCUMULATION
of $2,750, III coo on DEPOSIT. Taking
the year 1896 as point of comparison.
1t appears that since that time there
has been an increase in the number of
depositors of 1901 T2, aud an in
crease in the total deposits of $S43,-
1000.
This exhibit shows the remarkable
increase in seven years of 30 per cent
in depositors and 40 per cent in total
deposits.
There is no dream about all these
cold millions in the banks, mostly
placed there by and belonging to work
ing people
The total deposits in all the banks
amount to about $5,00000.C00, of
which the savings funds, the money of
the common people, make S2,750.e00.
0O0-more than half Clearly, not all
the money in the country is owned by
the great tinanciers.
This showing of money saved by the
working people Of the country becomes
all the more remarkable when we take
into consideration the prevailing high
prices. Wages have not gone up in
proportion to the universal increase in
prices. With only little more money
TO buy with. labor pays far more for
all the comforts Of life. Yet the saw
ings report shows that their share in
the benefits of prosperity is no small
one
Another important fact is to be
Cleaned from this report. OF the
$2.7J0,000C00 savings deposits the
New England and Eastern States pos
sess $780, 100000, leaving only $3.50
000,000-less than a sixth--for all the
Central, Southern ana Western States
This proves not that the people of
the Central Southern and Western
States are making less money than
those of the East. but that in their
younger and more thriving commune
ties there are more inducements for
investment. Throughout the great
West farms are being paid for. homes
are being built Neutral resources are
being developed ma new industries
established.
None of this can appear in a report
of the Controller of tho treasury. But
the savings thus invested are the most
important of all Indeel they furnish
the foundation Of the country's pros
perity.-Grand Rapids Herald.
Protection in Manitoba.
On July 20 Manitoba held an election
for the choice of members of its pro
yincial Parliament. The result IS
large majority for the Conservatives.
The Conservatives, at present in mi
nority in the Parliament. are the party
of protection as opposed TO the pro-
fessed free-trade policy Of the now ma
tionaily dominant Liberals. Manitoba
is distinctly an agricultural section. in
which free-trade sentiments may be
supposed to exist, if they exist any
where.
Agricultural Manitoba has gone Con
seryative. While the defeated Liber-
ais will doubtless try 10 account for
their reverse upon oJher grounds. the
claim of the Conservatives that the
election is an Endorsement of their ma
tional policy of protection has much
to justify it,
There is an increasing probability of
general election this fall. Several in
cidents have arisen which make an
election desirable, If not necessary,
Prominent among these are the in
creasing sentiment in favor of more
efficient protection of home industries
and the Endorsement or disapproval of
the methods pro- ased by the Liberal
party for the construction of tho Grand
Trunk Pacific Railroad Should the
election take place the Liberals will
w " tiit i'pllS WIN a SttOilS NO4AAAbN NJ
in their success. Without that conf
dence the election is not likely to oc-
eur. as their term Of Office has not vet
expired. and the calling of a general
election would be equivalent to a re-
quest for national Endorsement and APP
prevail. Unless the Liberals feel sure
of getting this, they will hardly risk
the experiment at the polls.
Should this step be taken, the people
of the United States win have cause
to watch the result with greater inter-
est than they have ever before taken
in a Canadian clection.-New York
Sun.
CIarke's Rocky Road.
Poor Clarke, the Democratic candi-
date for the senatorship to succeed
Hanna, is having hard time these
days. His Republican opponents are