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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06
Parker,s Admission.

Judge Parker's letter or acceptance
stands pat-on Republican achievements.
but coyly admits that its writer would
be a safer man at the National throttle
than President Roosevelt so long as a
Republican Senate sits ON the safety
valve. If the protective tariff is rob
berry, he is willing to turn sneak thief;
if we burgarized Panama he is willing
to keep the stolen goods; if order No. rs
lets down the bars for pension scandal
he will revoke the order, but let the
bars remain down just the same. 1t is
very pretty confession that the Repub-
licans have administered the government
so wisely, diligently and effectively that
they deserve a vacation, while he tries
his prentice hand at running it without
reversing a single lever.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06

These figures present the results of an
extensive investigation into the wages
anu hours of labor in the leading manu-
featuring and mechanical industries of
the United States during the period nam
ed. 1t has designed to cover thoroughly
the principal distinctive occupations, and
Mr.. Wright, in submitting it (see Bulle-
tin of the Bureau of Labor, No. %, July.
1904 says: 1T is believed that the
data presented are more comprehensive
and representative so far as the manu-
featuring and mechanical industries are
concerned than any that have been here
tofore published"
The figures as to income and expen-
diture are summarized from data gath
cred from 2.567 families, in SO States,
whose average income from all sources
was 1927 a year, whose average expen-
d;ture was S7GS, and whose average
expenditure for food was 1926 per fam
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06
i. Protection "Robberv?n

The Democratic assertion that PRO
lection is robbery" that the tariff is a
tax on the American consumer, is best
refuted by examining the effect of pro
lection on the tin plate industry. When
the Mckinley bill was passed nine tenths
of all the tin used in this country was
manufactured abroad. To-day the manu-
facture of tin is one of the most impor-
tant of our home industries, contributing
millions OF dollars annually to our ma
tional wealth. But this is the least part
of the story, in so far as the tariff is
concerned-the price of tin began to go
down in proportion as the United States
began to produce it, and the American
consumer has never paid under the Me
Kinley tin tariff anywhere near as much
per pound for tin plate as he paid when
Tin was on the free list.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06
METHUSELAHANDTH THE SPHINX

Come all ye Bryan Democrats,
Your peerless leader sinks;
Come all We Dloated plutocrats,
Forget your former kinks;
The banners float for and you must vote
for
Methuselah and the sphinx.
Come all We scattered Democrats
That sulk like frightened minks,
So lean that we can see your Stats,
AS hungry as the lynx;
The banners float for and you must
vote for
Methuselah and the sphinx.
Come all We hopeless Democrats,
While Parker thinks he thinks,
Climb off the ship like frightened rats,
Before the old thing sinks;
The banners float for and you must
vote for
Methuselah and the sphinx.
Chicago Chronicle
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06
Words of Cheer for the Democracy.

Words of Cheer for the Democracy.
1t has been given out to the forlorn
and dropping Democracy that willie
Hearst is loosening up; that he has
been induced to put in few thousands
to open headquarters for the National
Democratic Clubs. The hungry know
we'll that this means that Hearst aspires
to be a candidate again, but they are not
worrying about 1908 now.
-Four years ago Hearst was presi-
dent and footer of bills for the National
Democratic Clubs. The members met,
if memory serves Alright, at Indianapolis,
expecting to greet their president But
be sent one of his hired men to receive
the greetings Of his admirers. This
dampened the ardor of the crowd, de-
spite the fact that their fare back home
was paid. The November election set
tied the whole concern, but it seems that
the n. d. G. is to be resurrected, what
little there is left of it's ashes.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06

Democracy's effort to show that times
have not been good under Roosevelts
administration is a ludicrous perform
ance. The compilation of all the strikes
which have taken place in the last three
years, instead of showing lack of pros
perity, indicates the country has been
unusually prosperous. Strikes are q
rarity in bad times. Workingmen de-
mand higher wages only when business
is good They are astute enough to
know that they stand a better chance
of getting what they want when fac
tories are flooded with orders than when
they are running on short time.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06
Grotesque Attempt by Democrats to Twist Facts
for Campaign Consumption.
GROSSLY INACCURATE STATEMENTS
Country Is Not in Throes of Disastrous
Business Depression, and Workingmen
Continue to Prosper What
the Figures Show.

Nothing could better illustrate the in
finite capacity of the democratic party
for doing the wrong thing at the right
moment than its attempt to OUTAGE
acknowledged industrial conditions with
the bald statement of its campaign text
book-"that business depression of this
year is greater than was that of 1893 and
1894"
AS there are as many million Amerl-
can voters as there are millions engaged
in industrial pursuits whose experience
spans the decade, and who know this
to be most fortunately false, there is NO
need to waste time in refuting it. The
Democratic depression that prevailed
from 1893 to 1897 paralyzed industry in
every section of the United States, and
its pinch was felt in every home. The
business depression of Cnls year is so
largely a Pigment of Democratic imagi-
nation that it requires a magnifying
glass to be seen, and what there is of
it is rapidly fading from sight as the
prospects Of a great Republican victory
become more certain.
But the Democratic campaign book is
not satisfied with this grotesque general
cation, so it attempts to contrOvert the
Republican claim of prosperous times III
farm, office and workshop with the as
sertion that no one is better off by rea-
son Of increased incomes, because the
cost of living has increased dispropOr-
tiOnately.
How utterly and irrationally absurd is
this contention is proved by the fact that
If prices were advancing more RAPIDLY
than the earnings Of the great mass Of
the people, the great mass of the people
would soon be irretrievably insolvent or
their purchases wound be so curtailed
that the volume of business would be
enormously reduced.
There is no possibility of making a
scientific comparison of the relative in
crease in wages and the cost of living,
because they are controlled by different
factors. The rate Of wages is controlled
by Industrial conditions; the cost of liv-
ing is controlled by the individual. No
man can fix his income at will any man
can limit his expenditures. Let condi-
tons provide sufficient wages to the
workingman, and it rests with him to
say by what margin he will live within
his income. The larger that income the
larger his possible surplus. If better
wages breeds extravaganza, the result,
in the language of Micawber, is misery
IT they are expended with economy, the
result is an accumulation of wealth and
happiness.
Convincing Testimony.
Good times under Republican admin
istration has provided the better wages,
and the economy of che American peO-
pie has piled up the means of content
ment and happiness, as is evidenced by
the following statement of the number
of depositors and deposits in the savings
banks of the United States for the eleven
years from 1893 to 1908, inclusive:
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06

Protection has done more for the
American farmer than any other policy
carried out by Republicans. If pro
lection is robbery" as the Demo-
cratic platform asserts, the only persons
robbed" are the manufacturers and
toiIers of Europe. American working
men certainly do not suffer from protec-
ton. They are the chief benefciaries Of
the greatest Of Republican policies. With
out protective tariff wages would soon
drop to the European level, which is from
so to 100 per cent. below the rate now
paid in the United States.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06
A Boom eran-,

"Make Roosevetism the ISSUE" de-
manded the New York World, and Dem.
ocrats, big and little, began barking and
snarling at the heels of the President,
hut the more they parked the more
friends they made for Roosevelt. Now,
Judge Parker, having seen the effect Of
the ill-advised issue, has asked his man
ayers to drop Rooseveltism, but his ad-
monition comes too late. Republicans
will see that the issue is not lost sight
of
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06

Judge Parker is in training in earnest
for November 8. On the occasion of his
trip to New York to consult Hill, Shee-
han, Murphy, McCarren and German
about superseding Tom Taggart as cam
paign manager. the New York Times
correspondent described him as ''going
or a swift drive down the rocky hill
road to the dock" In November there
will be no elegantly equipped steam
yacht to receive him at the bottom of the
hill, only a gaping hole labeled Job
liYion."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06
Democratic Financial Management

DemOCraCIC 1nanCIal N16naSenGUTs
On the LIST of July, 1892, the last year
of the Harrison administra ton, the total
bonded debt of the United States was, in
round numbers, $685., 100000. On the LIST
of July, 1897, the last year of the sec
ond Cleveland administration, the total
bonded debt was $S43,OOO,OOO, an in
crease of $25S,OOO,O00 during four years
of perfect peace.
July /, 1892, the annual interest
charge on the public debt was $zz 1893,
900. July 1. 1897, it was $34,3S7, 900,
an increase of $11,494,0O0 during four
years of Democratic administration.
A party that cannot administer the
government during a short period of
four years without largely increasing the
public debt and the annual interest ac-
count is not fit to be entrusted with the
control of affairs.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06
Two Judges with Political Pasts.

Democracy can always be depended
on to blunder. The nomination of Judge
Parker was a blunder, because he re-
ceived his early political training from
d. B. Hill, one of the most notorious
wire pullers and workers in devious ways
New York has produced. The nominu-
ton of D. Cady Herrick for Governor
OF New York, also was blunder, be-
cause he was boss of the Democratic
machine at Albany before his election
to the bench. The Albany machine"
has a reputation as unenviable as Tam
many's.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06

Judge Parker's frantic demand that
nothing further be said about Roosevelt s
personality is fresh evidence that Demo
Gratis have become alarmed over the eff
feet of their assertion that Roosevelt
ism is the chief issue of the campaign.
The more Roosevelt's personality is ex-
plotted the more popular he becomes.
Democrats have been making Republican
votes by the score in quoting the Presi-
dents utterances
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06

Judge Parker, judging from his con-
duct and the company he has kept,
stands for Hillism in politics, which
means that any INSCRIPTIONS act is JUS
tifable if the end be gained. He is the
very opposite of President Roosevelt, for
his evasiveness shows that he lacks
courage and decisiveness-two requisites
that should not be found wanting in
aspirants for the Presidency.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06

"We do not have to guess at our con-
victions, and then correct the guess if
1t seems unpopular. The principles
which we profess are those in which
we believe with heart and soul and
strength. Men may differ from us,
but they cannot accuse us of shiftiness
or insincerity."-R oosevelt's letter of ac-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06
Praise from Democratic Newspaper.

The New York Times, one of the
Democratic newspapers which has been
denouncing President Roosevelt's Philip
pine policy, recently printed an editorial
leader on the settlement of the Friars'
land question. The article concludes:
ct is creditable both to the intelligence
and the humanity of the government"
If the Times was less partisan it could
truthfully say that every act of the
Roosevelt administration in dealing with
the Philippine question was creditable
to the United States.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06

There seems to be one tie that binds
New York's judicial candidate for the
Presidency and the Democratic candi-
date for governor of New York-they
both voted for free silver in 1896 and
1900. Neither of them apparently would
have conscientious scruples about voting
for a yellow dog, provided he had the
regular emblem of his party branded on
both ears and wagged his tail without
the consent of any other nation.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06

simply because there may be some COM
motion caused by the steps; he has taken,
and yet almost invariably the develop
ment Of events proves, conclusively, that
he is right, and acting with wisdom and
prudence.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06
The "Unsafe. Roosevelt.

Democratic editors. and speakers are
united in declaring that President Roose-
welt is "an unsafe man." If that is so,
he has at least been remarkably success
full in his unsafe" undertakings-in set
thing the coal strike, in enforcing the
antitrust law, in acquiring the Panama
canal strip, and in all his delicate deal
ings with foreign nations.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06

Edward NJ Shepard in 1897 denounc-
ed Tammany as "a foul blot on civil
zation,'' and in 1904 Tammany tore a
hole in the Shepard boom so ragged that
the special favor Of Judge Parker and
Chairman Sheehan. could not initiate it
sufficiently to justify nominating
sneech
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06

The last few years Of Republican ad-
ministration have added untold millions
to the agricultural wealth of the country
by opening new markets for farm pro-
duets at constantly improving prices. The
beauty of the Republican policy of pro
lection is that it develops manufacture
ing and agricultural interests on paral-
lei lines.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06

"The expenditures of the Nation have
been managed In spirit of economy
as far removed from waste as from
niRgardlinessj and in the future every
effort will be continued to secure an
economy as strict as is consistent with
efFiciency."-Roo seyelt's letter Of acceptance.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06

At one stroke of his pen Abraham
Lincoln freed 100000 black men. With
one stroke of his pen Roosevelt has
made it possible to reclaim more than
100,O00O00 acres of land to agriculture,
adding millions of American farm homes
with their vast volume Of agricultural
products which will flow from this rich
area of land redeemed from the desert.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06

With both Republican factions guar
anteeing the electoral vote to Wisconsin
to Roosevelt, another iridesccnt rainbow
dream of the Democracy goes glimrer-
ing into the realms of perpetual night.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06

Polls OF the first voters in various por-
tons of the country indicate that 90 per
cent of the young men will vote for
Roosevelt. There is something attractive
about the President and his career that
appeals strongly to the youth of the
land
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06

number of their employees has remained
practically stationary, as is shown IN the
following table:
Number and compensation of employees Of
eight representative railways:
Year ending Compensa-
1904 .................10 4, 344 SGT. 490, 661
1903 .............,....10 3,S91 o0'28o,097
Increase 453 e,215,570
increase ner cent GA 1913
Here at last we see truly reflected the
effect of the horizontal raise IN the wages
Of railway employees made as the result
of the widespread labor agitation In the
summer of 1908. The advance was
yariously estimated at the time as from
II to 10 per cent, and any statistics
that fail to show it must be distorted
by the introduction of some factor, such
as a disproportion of low price labor
tending to reduce the average.
In connection with the above proof
Of the 10 per cent. advance in railway
wages in one year, it should be remem-
bered that the decline in prices begun
i'll 1903 continues.
If the Democrats are willing to ac-
cept the pay of railway labor as the most
accurate barometer of. wages, the Re
publican party can call to the witness
stand 1,312,337 railway employees to
testify to the fact that, measured by
what it will buy, their income of 1904
is higher than it was in 1897, and near
ly half million of them can truthfully
affirm that they received no compensa-
ton whatever in 1897 where, according
to the above system of average compen-
sation, they now divide some $275,000,-
600 among them, or about $56S apiece.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06

People who say combinations Of CAPT
tai are due to the tariff should explain
why free trade Britain is ridden with
trusts. British manufacturers generally
have been for years orga 1izing combina-
tons, and they have no tariff to protect
than
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06

The last four years of Democratic
rule left the country oppressed by mis-
fortune and doubtful of the future. Why
should any patriotic American wish to
repeat that experience?
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06

It should be remembered that under
irrigation agriculture becomes almost an
exact science. Twelve inches of water,
intelligently distributed at the proper
time, is sufficient to insure on the arid
lands an abundant yield Of the ordinary
farm crops of that latitude.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06

According to astronomers it is about
% trillions of miles, as the crow flies,
from the earth to Alpha Centauri, the
nearest fixed star. 1t is about the same
distance from Fsopus to the White
House by the Democratic route.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06

Prosperous times are more truly re-
fected in the increased number earning
wages than in any statistics OF average
wages. for the obvious reason that the
ranks Of labor are recruited from the
bottom.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06
President Was Right.

What now is the result? In compari-
son with the situation a few weeks ago
when the editorials in the local news
papers, the discussions in the public
plazas, and the kilograms to the Demo
cratic papers in the United States, all
criticised the President and said that
he was acting arbitrarily, WE NOW
SEE THE LEADING MEN, NOT
ONLY OF THE GOVERNMENT
PARTY BUT OF THE OPPOSITION.
ACKNOWLEDGING THAT THE
PRESIDENT is RIGHT; we hear peo-
pie in the plazas and public meetings
commencing the United States; we note
the editorials in the Panama press pray
ing for the election Of President
Roosevelt, and at banquet given on
Sept. in the American legation by
Minister Barrett in honor of the Minister
of Foreign Affairs, this latter official,
Don Tomas Orias, one of the ablest and
most influential men in Panama, toasted
in eloquent terms the health of President
Roosevelt and expressed the earnest
wish, on behalf of his government and
his people, that THE PRESIDENT
WOULD BE TRIUMPHANTLY
ELECTED IN NOVEMBER, SAYING
THAT THE BEST INTERESTS OF
PANAMA AS WE'LL AS THOSE OF
THE UNITED STATES, AS INVOLV-
ED IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF
THE GREAT CANAL, REQUIRED
THE CONTINUANCE OF THE AD-
MINISTRATION OF PRESIDENT
ROOSEVELT TO CARRY FOR
WARD THE WORK.
And SO it is with most of the criti-
cisms of President Roosevelt, whether
they refer to his home or foreign policy.
At first it is alleged that he acts rashly
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06

What does it mean to the nation to
have millions of people gradually pass
from servitude of the town to the SOW
ereignty of the country? 1t means the
enlistment of a new army for the defense
of the republic in every hour Of need.
This will come, under the workings Of
the national irrigation act.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06

Three words in the Democratic plat
form are sufficient to defeat that party.
Protection is robbery is a phrase that
is helping the Republicans more than a
hundred speeches by campaign orators.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06

Talk about political economy. The
Democrats of Massachusetts are con-
sidering the ACCESSIBILITY of nominating
Douglas, the Brockton shoe man, in or
der to save money OH campaign litho-
graphs, because the pictures of Parker
and Douglas are as like as two wooden
shoeDapS
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06

Perhaps the policy of protection has
made business prosperity more dependent
upon politics than it would have been
otherwise, but it certainly has contribut-
ed more largely than anything else to
our extraordinary and unparalleled pro-
gress.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06

But for the Republican party the gov
eminent would not have survived the
storm of civil war nor taken any of the
progressive steps that have marked our
history since the war.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06

The first, last and only claim made for
Judge Parker is that he is safe. So is
a grave safe. 1t also resembles Judge
Parker in lacking enough animation to
run a campaign for constable.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06
What the Figures Prove.

1t will be observed that these six dis
tinctive classes of railway employees, en-
bracing almost half of all the railway
employees in the United States (591,4
in 1908 against 1853, 563 in 1S9O were
receiving an average daily compensation
during the year 1923 more than 10 per