Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-21
BILLION DOLLAR COUNTRY
Facts Which 1t Is Desirable to Bear
In Mind.

in Mind
Evidently Judge Parker has lost track
of the fact that the United States has
become a billiOn-dollar country, while
be has been dreaming away his man
hood on the bench at Albany. Otherwise
it is impossible to account for his ac-
ceptance of 'the Republican challenge
to comparison of Democratic and Re
publican administrations"
If there is any issue before the Ameri-
can people upon which the Republicans
are more ready to appeal to the voters
than another, it is that relating to the
administration Of national finances. But
they will not let Judge Parker, or the
hungry aggregation of Democratic edi-
tors To whom he addressed his Rip Van
Wrinkle remarks, ignore the fact that
the United States of 1904 deals with
billions, where in Cleveland's first adj
ministration its finances could be dis
cussed in terms of nine figures. Neither
will they permit him to compare net
expenditures under Cleveland with ex-
traordinary appropriations under Nc
Kinley and Roosevelt.
When he makes his comparisons be-
tween the expenditures of 1SS5-1SSS with
those of 1901-1903 he will not be per-
mitted to ignore such facts as the in
crease in postal expenditures from $50
942,41 in 1885 to S13S, 7S4.4S7 in 1908
and that the excess of expenditures on
account of the postal service over re-
ceipts last year was only $4,560,044, as
compared with $S,3SL572.
As an index of the growth of the Uni
ted States in every direction that marks
advance in national welfare there can
be no better standard than the increased
use of an ever improving and extending
mail S.-"yice.
Neither will Judge Parker nor the edi-
tors to whom he unbosomed n choice
medley of ideas from the wit and wis
dom Of Samuel J. Tilden and Grover
Cleveland, be permitted to point with
Democratic pride" to the enforced econ
| omies of Cleveland's second term 1893
1896, without being confronted with the
following deficits that waited on Demo-
cratic policy and Democratic admins
tration:
DEFICITS DURING CLEvELAND'S SEC
OND TERM.
lSe4 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. St.l, np3, -bI
is91 SD 1'1 :,
1876 ..,....,...--.,....' %o'ZV5,@4o
With no exceptional expenditures. over
fS2GO. 100000 was added to the public
debt during Cleveland's term.
And when they are discussing the
expense of running the government of
people that has increased nearly 80 pen
| cent. in population and more than 100
per cent. in wealth since Grover Cleve-
land was first inaugurated, Republicans
will not forget to remind American vo-
tiers of such billion dollar facts as these:
MONEY IN CIRCULATION
1885. 1903.
81, 292, SIS, 615. s2,367. 6o2, 1869.
81, 106 37G, 517. S3,200993, 500.
Deposits I'm Savings Banks,
| 81 .O05, IT. 147. s2,935 204, s45.
Deposts in State Banks,
1914. 3OT 9l6 $1.S145T0. 1853.
Deposits 10 Loan and Trust Companies.
$lSS, ali, 293. S1,5S9, sos, 1916.
$577, 527, 800. s1o25. 10. 237.
S74a 1879. 755. s1,42o 141, 679.
T''-' VALUE OF FARMS
ESTIMATED on Census returns for 1880, 1890
and 190O)
| 100000. So, 600, 600, 900
C) Value OF Farm Animals;
60 45f 4oS :lS3 So, 1O2, 515, $40.
~ production of Minerals.
| S427 SOS $50 81, 30 $40, 265.
f FREIGHT tons carried one mile by Railways
Tons Tons
| - ~ 07O. $40. 172. poi, 27s. 993.
Gat l 81 cents per tat 1853 cents per
TON miIeO ton mile.)
Wages in Manufacturing Industry.
1854 1900
| soar g5S. 7o5. s., 32S 691, Pa.
Bewihering and incomprehensible rs
are these billions in many respects, they
yet present demonstration of the
growth of our country so clear and sim
pie rs to be within the comprehension of
a child. Only one word need be added
to reetify what might be an erroneous
| impression from the figures as 10 the
value Of farm animals (a). During the
second administration of Cleveland this
value shrank from 81. 4S3, 506.6S1 in
| 1893 to Sl.12T, 926,0S4 in 1896, from
which it has since risen to over So, 1OO.-
| 100000.
1t almost seems as if the earth and
| the kline refused to bring forth their
natural increase under a Democratic ad-