The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-09-23
BILLION DOLLAR COUNTRY
Facts Which It Is Desirable to Bear
in Mind.


of the fact that the United States has
become bilion-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
Kinley and Roosevelt
When he makes his comparisons be-
tween the expenditures of 1SS5-1SSS with
those of 1901-19O3 he will not be per-
mitted to ignore such facts as the in
crease in postal expenditures from $50
942.415 in 1885 to $13S, 7S4, 4S7 in 1903,
and that the excess OF expenditures on
account of the postal service over re-
ceipts last year was only $4,560,O44, as
compared with $S,3S1,572.
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 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 ]. 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. CT.EvELAND's SEC
OND TERM
1877 1872 -.......'......... |o3, So3 Sol
1919 .......... .................. 42.Soo 10
1916 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. %, 203246
With no exceptional expenditures over
S260000,000 was added to the public
H..
And when they are discussing the
expense of, running the government of
a people that has increased nearly so per
cent. in population and more than 100
per cent. in wealth since Grover Cleve-
land was first inausurated, Republicans
will not forget to remind American vo-
tiers of such billion-dollar facts as these:
MONEY IN CIRCULATION.
81, 292, 56s, els. s2,3e7, 500, I69.
81 Jos, SO, s BIS - -A'''a' ss,2oo,ees, 500.
:, a. Deposits in Savings Banks.
- Deposits in State Banks,
Deposits in Loan and Trust Companies.
1ss,417,293. s1,5S9,39S. 796.
s577, ,s2e. s1,o25, 49, s7.
Total Exports.
VALUE OF FARMS. if''0'0'
ESTIMATED on Census returns for 1880, 1890
and 1909
$1,000 1906 100000. so. ooo, 90 900 600
50, 456, 42S, 1888. S3,102, SIS, $40.
Production of Minerals
Freight tons carried one mile by Railways.
Tons Tons
2,S02, O7O, $50. 172, 221 ,27S 993.
Cat 1.4 cents per lat 1853 cents per
ton mile.) ton mile.)
Wages in Manufacturing Industry.
$780, 1900
ss47, o5s,7s5. s2,s2s, 691, 254.
Bewilderinx and incomprehensible as
are these billions in many respects, they
yet present 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 rectify what might be an erroneous
suppression from the figures as to the
value of farm animals (O.. During the
second administration of Cleveland this
value shrank from 50, ,5O66S1 in
1893 to $1,727,926,OS4 in 1896, from
which it has since risen to over So, 100,-
100000.
It almost seems as if the earth and
the kline refused to bring forth their
natural increase under Democratic adj
ministration.