The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-10-15
REPUBLICAN POLICIES
THEIR RESULTS CONTRASTEQ
WITH THOSEOF DEMOCRACY.


/ WITH THOSEOF DEMOCRACY.
Class Means that Men Engaged in
All Other Lines of Industry Are
! Also Prosperous.
speech in 1896 w. j. Bryan said that
the American business man included the
man who is employed for wages, tho
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. thousand feet into the earth,
| the attorney in 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 well 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 mer-
/ 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. II
may be said of the prosperity that 1Le
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 EsOR ALL.
Through the opening of the mills OF
; the United States, rendered again pos
sible by the return of the country iE
i 1897 to the Republican policy of pro-
lection, the unemployed classes were
! given work. THEY WE'RE THEN
| NOT MERELY BUSINESS MEN. as
E:yan said they were. but BUSY MEN
4 Contrast Of Results.
In Democratic times there was con-
slant and frequent allusion 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 be almost uncomfortable
When this army of the unemploy ed got
work, and not only that, but got steadily
increasing wages, it made quick and
good market for the products Of the
farmer ''who goes forth in the morning
and tolls all day, and begins i'll the
spring and tolls all summer"
There are nearly nine million men in
the United States who make living for
themselves and families by tilling the
ssoitt, ssfid III must depend FOR Their
prosperity Oh the demand for their prod
ucts from those employed in manufac-
turing Industries. The census of 1900
showed that the wages of those employed
in manufacturing industries had increas-
ed $431. 1O5.;'5O from 1890 to 1909 The
figures would have been immensely more
striking could the census decade haze
covered 1894. in the midst of Demo-
cratic times, to 1904, the present time
NO WONDER THAT WITH SUCH
ENORMOUS GAIN IN WAGES TO
THE LABORINs1 GLASS OF BUSI-
NESS MEN. WHO WE'RE 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 70 G.::;;3 BUSHELS IN 1904. THE
PRICE HAS DOUBLED, AND TN AT
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, puid OF
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, bssa,ks.
to read, and bric-a-brac to adOrn the.
country home The farmer could now
afford Off he wanted toy to change from
the corncob pipe to real Havana cigar,
and dress every bit as stylishly rs 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
laccs, 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 ~wOuII
make her look just as attractive rs the
bankers daughter in the city, and stuly,
music, art, French, etc, that would mike
her just as much Fat home in the most
accomplished society. He could afford
to send. his son to college where he could
get anSeducation that might make linn
some day n 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 working1nan'S
prosperity again reciprocaliy benefits tho
farmers in the country, creating thus an
endless chain Of mutual benefits. .
AS for those who "go It 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 well as i'll all other branches Of hoR-
est industrial effort the American bust
ness man" can now secure the hire thatt
the Bible says his labor is worthy Of,
but which Democratic policies ruthless
~ deprived him of.
The Limit. sssaf s
That the Democratic party Fan
Bright's disease. cancer OF the stomach.