The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-23
BILLION DOLLAR COUNTRY
Fact. Which 1t i. Desirable to Bear

BILLION DOLLAR COUNTRY
Facts Which 1t Is Desirable to Bear
in Mind.
Evidently Judge Parker has lost track
Of the fact that the United States has
become a billion-dollar country, while
he 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 a 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
Ilnley ana roosevelt.
When he makes his comparisons be-
tween the expenditures of 1SS5-1SSS with
those of 19O1-19O3 he will not be per-
mitted to ignore such facts as the in
crease in postal expenditures from S5O,-
o42,415 in 1855 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 SS,3S1,572.
AS an index of the growth of the Uni
ted States iii 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 service.
Neither will Judge Parker nor the edi-
tors to whom he unbosomed q 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 1888
1896, without being confronted wish the
following dencits that waited on Demo-
cratic policy and Democratic admins
%tration:
DEFICITS DURING C1EyELAND's SEC
OND TERM.
.pp''.I'''--b1
1895 a.. So5.223
1876 2o,203,2iG
With no exceptional expenditures, over
S260,000,0 600 was added to the public
debt during Cleveland's term.
And when they are discussing the
expense of running the government OF
a people that has increased nearly so per
cent. in population md more thar 100
per cent. in wealth since Grover Cleve-
land was first ~inaugurated, Republicans
Will not forget to remind American vo-
ters of such billion-dollar facts as these:
MONEY IN CIRCULATION.
s1,292,5fs,615 s2,367, CO., 100.
Deposits in National Banks,
s1.1o6,a1G,517.. sa2oo,e93, 500.
s1,o95,17 - IA S2.935,2 o4, SIS.
sa44, 3o7, GIG. sl,s14.57o 1853.
DEPOSITS in Loan and Trust Companies.
Total Imports.
s577, So, s29. s1,oe5,7 1927.
S74e, 1se. 755. s1,42o,1 41, 67e.
ESTIMATED OH Census returns for 1850, 1890
and 19QOJ
s14 1850 80, 100000. 500. 900 90 GOO coo
Gp Value of Farm Animals.
S2,456, 42S,aS3. So, 102, 515, $40.
s427, sos, $50. S1,26O.6 GAO, o65.
Freight tons carried one mile by Railways.
Tons. Tons.
52,SO2, 1910 500. 112, 221, 2IS, 500.
lat 1,o4 cents per lat ,1es cents per
Wages in Manufacturing Industry.
1880. 1900.
soar, o5a,7 o5 s2.32s, G91, 254.
Bewilder;nx and incomprehensible as
are these billions i'll many respects, they
yet present a demonstration of the
growth of our country so clear and sim
pie as to be. within the comprehension of
a child. Oaiy one word need be added
to rectlfy what might be an erroneous
impression from the figures as to the
value of farm animals (a). During the
second administration of Cleveland this
value shrank from $2,4S3, 506. 1851 in
1898 to S1,727,926.OS4 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-
ministratiOn.