The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-10-21
REPUBLICAN, POLICIES
THEIR RESULTS CONTRAoTEo
WITH THOSE or DEMOCRACY.
The Prosperity. Of the Agricultural.
Class Msans that Men Ragged In.
All Other Lines Of InAustry Are
Also Prosperous.

man who is employed for wages, the
merchant at the crossroads store, the
farmer who goes forth in the morning
and tolls all day, and begins in the
spring and tolls all summer, the miner
who goes a thousand feet into the earth,
the attorney in the country town." etc.
He also expressed the Democratic idea
that if you make the masses prosperous
their prosperity will tind it's way up and
through every class"
The Republican party during the last
eight years, in fact as well in theory,
has been carrying out this Democratic
idea Of making the nation prosperous by
making the masses prosperous 1t q
reached out after the labOringmen in
the cities, the farmer. the country mer-
chant, the miner, the country lawyer,
etc, all included in Bryan's definition
of the American business man." and
it has made them all prosperous. It
may be said Of the prosperity that the
Republican party brought not for GER
tain classes, bur for the Masses, and
from them up AID through every class,
that THERE WAS PROSPERITY
ENOUGH FOR ALL.
Through the opening Of the mills Of
he United States, rendered again pos
sible by the return Of the country in
1897 to the Republican policy of pro-
lection. the unemployed classes were
given work. THEY WE'RE THEN
NOT MERELY BUSINESS MEN, a.
Bryan said they were, but BUSY MEN.
A Contrast of Resu1ts.
In Democratic times there was con-
slant and frequent a~llusion to the ARMY
OF THE UNEMPLOYED. The Coxey
Army that went to Washington, in 1904
to demand that the government give it
work was but Il small guerrilla detach-
ment OF the vast army that stayed at
home, suffered. starved and found the
living of life to be almost uncomfortable.
When this army of the unemployed got
work, and not only that, out got steadily
increasing, wages, it made a quick and
a good market for the products of the
farmer who goes forth in the morning
and tolls all day. and begins IN the
spring and tolls all summer"
There are nearly nine million men in
the United States who make a living for
themselves and families by tilling the
soil, and who must depend for their
prosperity on the demand for their prod
NN%' A'N ~ Hips All
turing Industries. The census of 1900
showed that the wages Of those employed
sin manufacturing industries had increas-
ed S431, lO5,! $50 from 1890 to 1900. The
figures would have been immensely more
striking could the census decade have
covered 1894, in the midst of Demo-
cratic times, to 1904, the present time.
NO WONDER THAT WITH SUCH
ENORMOUS GAIN IN WAGES TO
THE LABORING CLASS OF BUSI-
NESS MEN. WHO WERE GIVEN A
CHANCE TO BE BUSY THROUGH
THE REPUBLICAN POLICY OF
PROTECTION. THE PER CAPITA
CONSUMPTION OF WHEAT IN
CREASED FROM 3H BUSHELS IN
1894 TO $50 BUSHELS IN 1904, THE
PRICE HAS DOUBLED, AND THAT
ABOUT THE SAME THING IS
TRUE OF PRACTICALLY EVERY
THING THE AMERICAN FARMER
PRODUCES.
This farming class of business men il
now given adequate reward for their toll
by day and through spring and summer.
Ii now can, in fact already has, paid OF
mortgages and started checking accounts
with the country banks.
A Change in Conditi0no.
The merchant at the crossroads store
now finds the farmer and his wife aud
children hav money to spend. and want
more and better clothes to wear, books
to read, and bric-a-brac to adorn the
country home. The farmer could. now
afford Gf he wanted tor to change from
the corncob pipe to a real Havana ci9ar.
and IroSS ouoru hit rs ut~1sohf. - It,
business man in the city, pay as high
fees to his doctor aud his lawyer, and
just as much rent for the pew in church.
His wife could dress in satins, silks and
laces, just like the city bnsine@ man's
wife. and hire a servant girl to do house
work that in Democratic times - her.
self had to do. He could G4ord to have
his daughter wear clothes that would
make her look just azaattractive - the
bankers daughter in the city, and study
music, art, French. etc, that would make
her just as much at home in the most
accomplished society. He could afford
to send his son to college where he could
get IN education that might make him
some day a railroad or bank president.
or even President of the United States
The American farmers increased pro-.
perity reciprocaIly benefits the WORKING.
man in the cities, and the workinxmana
prosperity again reciprocally bene6fs til
farmers in the country, creating thus g
endless chain Of mutual benefits.
As for those who go l thousand fee(
in the EARTH" ETC., they, too, have full,
shared in the Republican prosperity
which has increased enormously the az
mand for iron, copper. zinc, lead, cal
coke and the precious metals. Ia minlns
as well as in all other branches 81. Hon
est industrial effort, the American husi
ness man" can how secure the hire thaI
the Bible says his labors Il sworthy q
but which Democratic policies ruthleen
ly deprived him OF.
The Limit.