The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-09-22
BILLION DOLLAR COUNTRY
Facts Which IT l.. Desirable to Bear
In Mind.

In Mind.
Evidently Judge Parker has lost track
OF the fact that the United States has
become billion-dollar country. while
he has been dreaming away his mnn-
hood on the bench at Albany. Otherwise
It Is Impossible to account for his ac-
ccptance OF .'thc 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. ii 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
ninistration its finances could be dis
cnssed in terms of nine figures. Neither
will they permit him to compare net
expenditures under Cleveland with ex-
trnordinary appropriations under Me
l<inley and Roosevelt.
When he makes his PARSONS be-
tween the expenditures of 1SS5-1SSS with
those of 19O1-1903 he will not be per-
mtted to ignore such facts as the in
crease in postal expenditures from $780,
942.415 in 1885 to $l3s. 7S4, 4SI in 1908,
| and that the excess OF expenditures on
account OF the postal service over re-
ceipts last year was only $4.J6O.O44, as
compared with SS.3Sl.5T2.
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
Fuse Of an ever improving and extending
mail service.
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 Clevelund's second term 1903
1896, without being confronted with the
following deficits that waited on Demo
cratic policy and Democratic admins
| tration:
DEFICITS DURING CLEvELANDs SEC
OND TERM.
lsDl .SD- SOB 2Vl
ls9o .....-..-.-..-....-.-. 42,sOo,..,
1896 ..-..-.-.............. 2J,O3.2i6
With no exceptional expenditures, over
S260,OOO.0O0 was added to the public
debt during Clevelnnd's term.
And when they are discussing the
| tAptuSt VI tine government Oh
a people that has increased nearly so per
cent. in population and more than 100
per cent is. wealth since Grover Cleve-
land was first inaugurated, Republicans
will not forget to remind American vo-
tiers of such billion-dollnr facts as these:
MONEY IN CIRCULATION.
1885,. 1903.
81. 2o2, 5es. $50 $780,, 60, 100
| Deposits In National Banks,
| s1.1O6.3IG,5lI. s3.20o093 500.
Deposits In Savings Banks.
s1,oo 17a lar. s2.o35. o0i. si5.
| Deposits in State Banks.
| s3i4, 30I0i6 s1.si45I0 103.
Deposits in Loan and Trust Companies
SIS, .2o3. si,oso, 39s. TD0.
s577 ,527.seo. s1,o25, 7lo. 2s7.
VALUE OF FARMS
ESTIMATED on Census returns for 1880, 1880
and 1900
s14,eoo,ooo.eo, se2,oooooo,ooo
tal Value of Farm Animals;
| 81, IJG, i2S, 3S3 So. 1U2 5l5 $40.
SO, sos. ESQ. " 81. 500 Go. 2s5.
Freight tons carried one mile by Railways.
50, so. OTo $50. IT,, 221, 2Ts o,3
wages a sin, in Manufacturing: III ind i,s's
9i7.o5s,7o5. s2.s2s. eOi. ga.
Bewjlering and incomprehensibe rs
are these billions in many respects, they
yet present demonstration OF the
growth OF our country so clear aud sim
pie as 10 be within the comprehension of
Il child. Only one word need be added
to rectify what might be an erroneous
impression from the figures as to the
value OF fa-m animals (a). During the
second administration of Cleveland this
value shrank from S2,4S3, 506,GS1 in
1893 to $l,T2T .926,OSi in 1896. from
which it has since risen to over s., 100.-
00O,O00-
1t almost seems as If the earth and
tho kline refused to bring forth their
natural increase under a Democratic ad