The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-09-16
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worst example u the proposition ~ rs
cent years hoe been furnished ~ th'
| Democratic candidate Tor che vice.
Presidency IN he recent speech Of &c.
oopiance. 10 disprove the acknowi-
edged prosperity Of the United states
under the administration N President
Mckinley and President Roosevelt, he
said
"Our Republican friends are prone
10 refer TO the great commercial
growth ~ the country under their rule
ana set the census reports show that,
from 1850 to 1860 under Democratic
rule and the Walker tariff the per-
centege increase was greater IN popu-
lation, wealth, manufactures and rail-
road mileage, the factors which affect
most largely prosperity, than In any
decade since"
The absurdity Of this passage could
be illustrated In "A hundred ways by
merely assuming "A few figures. a VII
lage, with population OF 500 In 1850,
may have had 1000 In 1860 Therefore,
as Mr.. Davis argues, the rate OF In
crease was 100 per cent. In 1890 IL the
same village had become a city with
100. 600 inhabitants and, In 1900. 1t con-
AL . L.. at iVtg 90 n
the latter decade would be only fifty
per cent. what an irrefragable con-
trast in favor OF the Democratic party!
The Republicans had better hunt
their holes"
Again In 1850, western farmer
may be conJectured to have raised 100
bushels of wheat. In 1860 his crop was
200 bushels. Another 100 per cent in
crease is thus demonstrated. In 1890,
on the same land, the same farmer
may have harvested 10000 bushels, and,
ten years later, in 1900, most likely
only had l2,5O0 and, therefore, in that
decade, he had enlarged his produc-
ton of this staple article but 20 per
cent. Here is another contrast, which
simply demolishes the Republican
claim!
once more: In 1850, let it be as
sumed there We're only 5000 miles of
railroad in the United States, which,
under Democratic administration, in
1860, had grown threefold, and, there
fore, the development was equal to 200
per cent. Between 1883 and lSS7,-and
these are actual figures,-the miles of
railroad in the country We're extended
from 15i,222 to 179,71S, and increased
less than twenty per cent This show
ing, on Mr.. Daviss Interpretation,
would prove that the Republican party
had absolutely arrested transportation
facilities on the mainland!
1t is useless further to pursue this
with a common school education. But
Mr.. Davis reaches his climax and dons
the ounces cap permanently, when he
to show an increase of per
capita government expenses from $2.11
per head, under Buchanan in 1860 to
$40 per head, in 1904, under Roose-
welt, and thus to dsprove the Repub-
lican assertion of successful admin
istration. The gist of this argument
is that, If a clerk, with $4,000 per
year salary, spends $4,000 in 1860, the
same clerk in 1904, with a salary of
$4,000 per year. If he expends $7,50O.0O,
has been reduced to poverty. What a
man makes is ordinarily a criterion of
what he is authorized and even COM
PEELED to spend, and the same rule APP
plies alike to individuals and to ma
tons. If, in 1860, an average citizen
was mulcted S211 for the national ac-
count, and found it hard to make both
ends meet, and in 1904, he contributed
$40 but no money was wasted and he
was better housed, better fed, better
clothed, better educated, and had a
large surplus in bank, then, in the lat
ter year, he was UNNECESSARILY bet
ter off. And this is the record of the
United States, with eighty millions of
and as many billions of
property.
The Democratic nominees must be
hard driven, If they are compelled to
rely upon groundless statements and
which any American
schoolbo! an answer