Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-22
BILLION DOLLAR COUNTRY
Facts Which II IL Desirable to Bear
In Mind.

Facts Which It Il 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
1t is impossible to account for his ac-
ceptance of 1.-THE 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, 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 ad-
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 comparisons be-
tween the expenditures of 1SS5-lSSS with
those of 1901-1903 he will not be per-
mitted to ignore such facts as the in
crease IN postal expenditures from $780,
942.415 in 1885 to $13S, IS4. 4ST in 1903,
and that the excess of expenditures on
account OF the postal service over re-
ceipts last year was only S4,56O,044, as
compared with SS,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 a 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 1893
1896, without being confronted with the
following deficits that waited on Demo-
cratic policy and Democratic admins
tration:
DEFICITS DURING CLEvELAND's SEC
OND TERM.
iS9t ''.......''.'.....-.. so9, sv5 Sol
ls9a ..................... 42.S05,2 23
1S6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. y, 2O3,246
With no exceptional expenditures. over
$3.50. 100000 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 and more than 100
per cent. in wealth since Grover Cleve-
land was first inaugurated. Republicans
will not forget to remind American vo-
tiers Of such billion-dollar facts as these:
MONEY IN CIRCULATION.
1895 1903
81. 292. Sos, 6l5 s2.ae7, 800, 1859.
Deposits In National Banks,
81, to6, S76,517. s3.coo, 99S 500.
s10o5, 1T2. l47. s2,935, 2o4. s45.
Deposits In State Banks.
SS44, 3o7 .9i6. S1S14.5T0. 1853.
Deposits In Loan and Trust Companies.
s1ss, All. c9S. s1,5s9, S9s 1876.
s5I7s27.s2s s1.o25.7Is. 2s7.
Total Exports.
VALUE OF FARMS. 800
Estimated ON Census returns for 1880, 1890
and 1901
1885. 1908
$4,000. 100000 So. 900 ooo. 200
(al Value OF Farm Animals.
81. 45e, AZ, $50. s,1o2. SIS. $40.
s42T. SOS ESQ. 81, 2eo s4a. 2e5.
Freight tons carried one mile by Railways.
Tons Tons.
~, so2. oTo so. IT,, 221, 2TS 800.
tat 1.O cents per tat 1853 cents per
ton mile.l ton mile.)
Wages in Manufacturing Industry.
1850 1900.
s94T, 500. T95. S2s,Sl. 2s4
BewilderinS and ineomprehensible 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
child. Only one word need be added
to rectify what might be an erroneous
impression from the figures as TO the
value Of farm animals (al. During the
second administration of Cleveland this
value shrank from Sass, 5o6.6Sl in
1873 to S1,72T. 9260S4 in 1896 from
which it has since risen to over 50, loo,-
o0O,0O0.
1t almost seems as if the earth and
the kline refused to bring forth their
natural increase under a Democratic ad-
I.