River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-20
REPUBLICAN, POLICIES
THEIR RESULTS CONTRASTED
WITH THOSEOF DEMOCRACY.
The Prosperity of the Agricultural
Class Means that Men Engaged In
All Other Line. of Industry Arc
Also Prosperous.

In ms famous 0nlcagO convention
speech in 1896 w. j. Bryan said that
the American business man included the
man who is employed for wages, the
merchant at the crossroads store, the
farmer who goes forth in the morning
and tolls all day. and begins in the
spring~and tolls all summer the miner
who goes q thousand feet into the earth,
the attorney III the country town." ETC.
He also expressed the "Democratic idea
that if you make the masses prosperous
their prosperity will find its way up and
through every class,
The Republican party during the last
eight years, in fact as we'll in theory,
has been carrying out this Democratic
idea" of making the nation prosperous by
making the masses prosperous. 1t has
reached out after the laboringmen in
the cities, the farmer, the country mere
chant the miner the country lawyer,
etc, all included in Bryan's definition
of the american business man" and
it has made them all prosperous. &c
may be said of the prosperity that the
Republican party brought not for GER
tain classes, but for the masses, and
from them up and through every class,
that THERE WAS PROSPERITY
ENOUGH FOR ALL.
Through the opening of the mills OF
the United States, rendered again pos
sible by the return of the country in
1897 to the Republican policy of pro-
lection, the unemployed classes were
given work. THEY WE'RE THEN
NOT MERELY BUSINESS MEN. as
Bryan said they were, but BUSY MEN.
4 Contrast of Results,
In Democratic times there was COM
slant and frequent alusion to the ARMY
OF THE UNEMPLOYED. The Coxey
| Army that went to Washington, in 1894
to demand that the government give it
work was but small guerrilla detach-
ment of the vast army that stayed at
! home, suffered, starved and found the
| living of life to he almost uncomfortable.
When this army of the unemployed got
work, and not only that, but got steadily
increasing wages. il made Al quick and
a good market for the products OF the
farmer who goes forth in the morning
| and tolls all day, and begins in tho
| spring and tolls all summer"
There are nearly nine million men in
| the United States who make living for
| themselves and families by filling the
| prosperity on, the demand for their prod
ucts from those employed in man,rfac-
| turing industries The census of 1900
| showed that the wages of those employed
| in manufacturing industries had increas-
| ed $431, 105,55O from 1890 to 1900. The
| figures would have been Immensely moro
striking could the census decade have
covered 1894, in the midst of Demo
| 10
NO WONDER THAT WITH SUCH
| ENORMOUS GAIN IN WAGES TO
| THE LABORING CLASS OF BUSI-
! NESS MEN, WHO WERE GIVEN A
| CHANCE TO BE BUSY THROUGH
THE REPUBLICAN POLICY OF
PROTECTION, THE PER CAPITA
| CONSUMPTION OF WHEAT IN.
| CREASED FROM 3.44 BUSHELS IN
1894 TO 6.33 BUSHELS IN 1904, THE
| PRICE HAS DOUBLED, AND~THAT
ABOUT THE SAME THING is
TRUE OF PRACTICALLY EVERY
| THING THE AMERICAN FARMER
| PRODUCES.
This farming class of business men is
now given adequate reward for their toll
| by day and through spring and summer
| 1t now can, in fact already has, paid off
mortgages and started checking accounts
with the country banks.
A Change in Conditions.
The merchant at the crossroads store
now finds the farmer and his wife and
| children have money to spend, and want
more and better clothes to wear, books
to read, and bric-a-brac to adorn the
! country home. The farmer could now
J afford Gf he wanted toy to change from
| the corncob pipe to a real Havana cigar,
and dress every bit as stylishly as the.
business man in the city, pay as high
! fees to his doctor and his lawyer. and
| just as much rent for the pew in church.
| His wife could dress in satins, silks and
! laces, just like the city business mans
wife, and hire servant girl to do house
work that in Democratic times she her.
| self had to do He could afford to have
| his daughter wear clothes that would
make her look just as attractive MS the
| bankers daughter in the city, and study
music, art, French, etc, that would make
her just as much at home in the most
| accomplished society. He could afford
to send his son to college where he could
| get an education that might make him
some day railroad or bank president,
or even President Of the United States.
The American farmers increased pros
| perity. reciprOcally benefits the working
man in the cities, and the workinSman's
| prosperity again recipr0cally benefits the
farmers in the country, creating thus an
endless chain Of mutual benefits.
As for those who Ego thousand feet
| in the EARTH" etc, they. too. have fully
shared in the Republican prosperity
/ which has increased enormously the de-
mand for iron, copper, zinc, lead, coal,
coke and the precious metals. In mining,
| as we'll as in all other branches of hon
est industrial effort, the American BUSH
/ ness man" can now secure the hire that
| the Bible says his labor is worthy of,
| but which Democratic policies ruthless
| ly deprived him of.
/ The Il