The river press., 1904-10-19
Reproduced from Philadelphia 1nquirer)
sad b'ow-baryisg til: flrsf-b3rn In Vermont.
BILLION DOLLAR COUNTRY


BILLION DOLLAR COUNTRY
Facts Whicl, 1t IL Desirable to Bear
/ In Mind.
Evidently Judge Parker has lost track
If the fact that the United States has
become a billon-dollar country, while
ne has been dreaming away his NAH
hood on the bench ut Albany. Otherwise
it is impossible to account for his az
oeptance Of ''the Republican challenge
% comparison Of Democratic and Re
publican administrations.
Ii 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
lthey 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 atl-
ministration it's 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 Me
kinley and Roosevelt.
When he makes his compa arisons be-
.ween the expenditures Of 1SS5-1SS with
those of 19O1-19O3 he will not be per-
mitted to ignore such facts rs the in
| 2rense in postal expenditures cyom 500
)42.415 in 1885 to $13S. 7S4,4S7 in 1DO;,
and that the excess Of expenditures OH
| account of the postal service over re-
,cipts last year was only $4,000 as
| compared with $S.:}S1,572.
As an index of The growth Of the Uni
ted States in every direction that marks
advance in national welfare there can
Dc no better standard than the increased
use of an ever improving and extending.
| nail service.
Neither will Judge Parker nor the etli-
tors to whom lie unbosomed a choice
medley of ideas from the wit and wis
dom of Samuel J. TiIden and Grover
Cleveland. be permitted to point with
Democratic PRIDE to the enforced econ
omies Of Cleveland's second term 1885,
lS96, without being confronted with the
following deficits that waited on Demo-
cratic policy and Democratic admins
tration:
| OEflClISN DURING tI.ENEIANDS SEC
OND TERN
| lS:+ ................. .StE}. .SGs..G1
| ~, ...".............. +2.SO:'.2??
ls"6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 2o.2O:;.24G
! With no exceptional expenditures. over
S2G0.WNOOO was added to the public
lebt during Cleveland's term.
And when they are discussing the
expense of running the government Of
il people that has increased nearly 80 Pc:
cent in population and more than 100
per cent in wealth since Grover CLcvc-
land was first innngurated. Republicans
will not forget to remind American vo-
'ers OF such hillion-tlollar facts as these:
MONEY IN ClHCULATION
$1,=s, 1855, s:.3e7 80. j!,..iI; lGo.
~. .,o6.37G.5l7. $500 oo:, 800.
Sl.@5. IT,. 147 $2.o35. 2N4. .S+5.
Deposits in State Banks.
nrn"sts ,,n ST ,. in Loan and Trust Companies.
SlSS'+l',:"' S1,5S0, ;)S. 100.
| Total Imports.
S377,5a7. 500. si,o:3.71o. 2a'7
VALUE or FARMS. .'-'' IT '''''
| 'i.stinlatcd on Census returns for 1880 1890
| and 1909
sl4.Nn,,N0.ONO. $4,000 uOo. 900
| "a Value OF Farm Animals.
50. 4,b. AS. ;sS3 81; 1O1 J1J54O.
Production Of Minerals
$4o7 ,s9S.GSo. SLIGO. $40 oG:,
Freight tons carried one mile by Railways.
! Tons. Tons
5oSo. .07o,,2o 17oa.1, 3.7S,S,s,
'ai l."' cents per Cat .16' cents per
Wages in Manufacturing Industry
| 1850 1900.
F!4'.!!"','!G $.S2S. 6,l, pa.
RewirlerinS and inrompreheuSiblr us
are these billions in many respects. they
vet present demonstration of the
| growth OF our country so clear and SIM
pie as to he within the comprehension OF
| child. Only one word need he added
to rr'tlfN what might be an erroneous
impression from the figures us to the
V;i!u" OF farm animals (al During the
second administration of Cleveland this
'"lnr shrank from S2tS;lOi.,;S1 in
1893 to Sl.Io7 92H.OS4 in 1896. from
"hcl it has since risen to over 81. 100. |
| Mn.tMN.
1t almost seems as if the earth and
| shr Kline refused IN bring forth their
| ntnral Increase nnler n Democratic ai
n:niStrnt;nn