The Cairo bulletin., 1904-08-18
HENRY c. DAVIS
IS NOTIFIED


marks | shall make, desire to say
that heartily endorse the platform
upon which | have been nominated,
and with the convention and it's noml-
nee for president, regard the present
monetary standard OF value as IRE
vocably established.
I'm the campaign preceding the last
election much stress was laid by Re
publican speakers upon the prosper
GUS condition Of the country, and fore
bodings were heard Of the III results,
especially to the laboring man, which
would follow any change In the politl-
cal complexion of the government. IL
is true that the times then were good
but it is no less fact that, while
there has been no change In the praty
in power, many of the evils prophe'
sled have come under Republican
rule.
-Four years ago, factories, mills,
mines and furnaces we're in active OPP
Grafton, unable to supply the demand,
but now many are closed, and those
that are open are being operated with
reduced forces on short hours. Then
wages were high, labor was scarce
and there was work for all. Now work
is scarce, many wage earners nnem-
ployed and wages reduced. The ap-
prehension which now prevails In bu-
| siness circles and the present unsatis-
/ factory industrial conditions OF the
country seem to demand political
change.
Labor Entitled to Its Reward.
In the language of our platform
the rights of labor are certainly no
| less vested, no less sacred, no less In
alienable, than the rights OF capital.
The time is opportune to emphasize
the truth of this utterance. The sa'
cred right of property is the right TO
possess and to own ones self and the
labor of ones own hands-capital It
self being but stored-up labor. For
years | worked in the ranks as wage
Garner, and | know what it is to earn
ny living in the sweat of my brow.
have always believed, and my con
victions came from the hard school
If experience, that, measured by the
character of work he does and the
cost of living, every man is entitled to
/ full compensation for services. My
experience as a wage Garner and my
association with labor have alike
taught me the value of Democratic
principles, for in them the humblest
have the strongest security for indi'
vidual rights and the highest stimulus
to that independence of spirit and love
Of self-help which produces the finest
private characters and form the base
If the best possible government.
Republican Extrayagance.
1.-THE receipts OF the government fol
the year ending June goth, 1894, the
first fiscal year of the present admin
Istration, showed a surplus over ex
penditures of $91 100000, but for the
fiscal year ending June Goth, 1904, in
stead of a surplus, there was deficit
Of SAL 100000. From the LIST OF Ju-
ly, 1904, to August 10th, or for about
a month and third of the present ifs
cal year, the expenditures of the gov
eminent have exceeded the receipts
by S21,715,000. There could be no
stronger evidence of the extravaganza
into which the Republican party has
fallen. and no more potent argument
in behalf of a change to the party
whose tenets have always embraced
prudence and economy in administer
ing the peoples affairs.
1.-THE cost of government has large
ly increased under Republican rule
The expenditures per capita for the
last years respectively of the admins
strations given, taken from the re
ports of the secreatry of the treasury
were as follows: