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The river press., 1904-10-19
DemoraIizing Effects Of Democratic Policies vs.
Beneficial Effect Of Republican Policies.
KING TO PAupER AND PAupER TO KING
Phenomenal Rise Of the Industry Since 1904
Accurate Barometer Of General Trade
Conditions-Wages Increased.

TURN OUT THE BEST TYPES ON
THE SHORTEST NOTICE, AND AT
THE LEAST COST, TO PEACE
ABLY INVADE WITH IRON AND
STEEL THE MARKETS OF THE
WORLD. DURING THE TWELVE
MONTHS ENDING WITH JUNE.
1904, THE TOTAL EXPORTS OF
IRON AND STEEL AND THE NAN
UFA RES THEREF ROM
AMOU NTED TO $111,94S5S6,
AGAINST $29. .o2O,o64 DURING THE
DEMOCRATIC YEAR 1894.
During the last eight years the Brit
ish newspapers have been forced to dole
fully notice continued succession OF
American industrial triumphs over Great
Britain. Now it is an American firm
that gets the contract to build the great
Atbara bridge across the Nile in upper
Egypt. Now it is an American loco
motive that supersedes the British loco
motive OH a leading English railroad.
Now it is an American electrical COM
pany that gets all the orders for the cleo
trical equipment for the great new Lon
don underground railroad system. And
thus episodes of American commercial
conquest during the last eight years
could he repeated unit! they would grow
wearisome to read. The continued tri-
uinphs of the United States in the steel
and iron trade, at the same time that
this industry in Great Britain has been
in process OF decline, led to the creation
recently of a British Commission of bust.
ness experts to investigate the sit
uation. This commission in it's first re-
port on the iron and steel trade presents
information of the highest value from
firms employing over 81 per cent Of the
labor in this combined trade-231 900
out of an aggregate of 265,OO0 workers:
and it has ascertained that while this in
dustry has been advancing rapidly in
other countries it has remained almost
stationary in Great Britain. The i'm
ports have increased 200 per cent and
the exports have declined ~ per cent,
and foreign competitors, protected in
their own home markets. have made it
the basis for the conquest of the British
market. The masters Of the trade have
been consulted, and only per cent of
them are content with free trade and
policy of inaction. The employers of
81 per cent of the labor are convinced
that neither masters nor men can expect
equality of conditions unless the home
The river press., 1904-10-19

power and prestige under the sponsor
ship of the Republican party was moth
ing short Of marvellous.
The great victory for the gold stand
ard cured the uneasy, panicky conditions
that had prevailed in the money market.
1t was possible in 1897 for great inn
proyements to be financed by railroads
and other corporations. The investor
came out of the woods where he had
been during Democratic times and
bought bonds that represented cash to
be expended in more rails, more bridges,
more cars, more machinery. more sky
scrapers and more other things that re-,
Quired enormous consumption of iron and
steel. But the increasing ability of the
country to buy more iron and steel was
met by increasing necessity for larger
consumption. The railroads suffered
from car shortages because they could
not buy new cars fast enough to keep
pace with the increasing business that
came to them. In almost every line
of industry the calls in the iron and steel
industry for material increased so rap
idly that it was difficult matter for
the iron and steel manufacturers to hire
new men fast enough for the additional
work to be done, and to otherwise keep
UP with enormously increasing consump-
ticn. But the Republican policy of pro-
lection not only operated by its general
business effects, to stimulate the increas-
ing consumption, but also to force the
increasing consumption to be met, not
by larger foreign imports Of iron and
steel. giving more work for the foreign
ers to do. but by increasing domestic
production. giving more work for Amer
lean laboringmen to do at continuously
increasing wages.
Consumption and Production.
Here are the figures as to how both
consumption and production of pig iron
almost trebled between the Democratic
year 1894, through the Mckinley and
Roosevelt administrations, up to the year
1904.
The river press., 1904-10-19
SUGAR TRUST POLITICS.
Close Relations of Wall Street aud the
democratic Party.

NemrCf0VlC F0rCy.
(\ew York Letter in Los Angeles Timcsl
When New York State was being got
into line for Judge Parker, Havemeyer
put on guard for Parker one of his own
men. Cord Meyer by name. Cord Meyer
is the sugar trusts representative in
Democratic councils. The Republican
party is able to get along without having
a sugar trust representative in it's coun-
ellis, hut il Democrats come into power.
it will he Cord Meyers happy duty to
make sugar stock 20 up and down Oh the
New York Stock Exchange and to let
it be known to anxious statesmen when
it is going up and when it is going down.
DO the people out West know that in
New York when the Democrats desire to
carry an election, they go out and tell
the district leaders that certain stock
on the New York Stock Exchange, say
Manhattan Elevated, will 20 up $15 per
share in case of Democratic success?
That is what they do. and it does go up,
too. and that shows how close the Demo
cratic party is to Wall street in New
York, where Parker and his cohorts come
from. They buy elections with stock
tips, and Cord Meyer Billy Sheehan and
Belmont are extraordinarily good tip
Stprs,
The river press., 1904-10-19

has carefully picked out Of their set
tings the twenty-six most bellicose, alb
solutist, imperialistic sayings of which
President Roosevelt has ever delivered
himself These are the quintessence of
his bloodthirsty expressions. Nothing
that he has said has ever gone farther
on the road to military despotism than
these twentysix things.
sEx Parte Argument.
OF course, as every reasonable be-
ing knows, such ex parte argument is
not fair. 1t were easy by choosing out
all of Jeffcrson's sayings on one side to
prove him an ardent expansionist. or by
picking out Of all his writings on the
other side to prove him d bigoted con
tractionist. He could be shown up as
protectionist. if all that he said in
favor of that principle We're collected to-
gether, while all that he said against it
were omitted. Or by reversing the pro-
cess it could readily be demonstrated
nat he was AN absolute and perpetual
free trader. 1t could he shown that
he was a practical anarchist advocating
q revolution every twenty years, that
the tree of liberty might be kept well
watercd with blood. Or by omitting this
'iuss VI HIS WtlIlukS Iuu cOulUDlnS LDE
opposite class he could be represented
as constantly enjoinng implicit obedi-
ence to the law.
1t is useless to multiply examples. BY
such narrow scheme OF special plead
ing the wise man could be shown a fool,
because wise men sometimes are fool
ish. The most foolish man could be
shown a sage. because foolish men some
times are sensible. The gutter drunk
ard could be proved teetotaler for he
has occasional periods of complete So
briety. Such method is wholly false.
The World knows it and resorted to it
only because its case was weak.
1t YOU would judge what kind Of a
President Roosevelt would make the
fairest method is to consider what kind
of President he has made. But if you,
for some reason which it is not easy
to conceive, refuse this test, and pre-
fer to judge him on what he has said,
do not read merely stray words and
sentences gathered and arranged by his
| enemies. In all fairness read these
words in their proper contexts. Read as
much of Roosevelt's writings as you have
time for You will find them the express
sions not Of bloody aud despotic intel
| leet but Of a clean, strong, honest mind,
| instinct with patriotism.
The river press., 1904-10-19
AS TO IMMIGRATION,
A Cam paixn Issue that IL Worthy of
the Voters Attention,

They are coming, the less fortunate,
coming to this American continent to
secure a better life for themselves than
they have in their own land. They are
coming from the less prosperous parts OF
Italy, and from Bohemia and from Hun
gary and from Poland, and throughout
all that wide northern Slavit. region
wherein is oppression of the Jews. In
other words, they are coming from every
where! From Europe the most oppressed
and, i'll some cases. most uninteligcnt
classes are coming here to find better
conditions for themselves, and meanwhile
to necessarily infuse a new element of
blood here as we'll as n new element of
thought and religion and general drift
of being We accept them and their
blood and the infusion of their genera
tions for the future. We accept them. in
the hroadcst sense. with the idea that.
by and by, there will become a homo
genety of the races which will take care
Of itself. The Morse in all his varieties
is. of course. n part Of us. but the assim-
lation of the Latin in all his varieties is
another thing. We are trying to he big.
broad Christians and make no tistinc-
lions.
Certain laws have been enacted under
the regime Of the Republican party. and
the manner in which they are being en-
forced illustrates, as well as could be.
the earnestness Of the present adminiS-
tration, in allowing the tiitering into this
country. in all generosity, Of ,hase who
seek better harbor for what there is in
life. 1t is but fair to the Republican
party in this campaign that every voter
should think of all that the party has
done in the enactment OF laws and the
enforcement Of them, in ali lberality. as
to perfecting the immediate business well
fare of the country and as to controlling
:hc amalgamation of it's future blood.
This is one. of the, side ISSUES of. the
campaign to which the attention OF every
voter may well be directed
The river press., 1904-10-19
MONEY in CIRCULATION.
A Daily Increase of e352,3O4 for
Eight Years,

Eight Years.
During the last eight years of Republi-
can administration the increase in the
volume of our currency has amounted
to 352,3O4 per day, or more than $1O,-
100000 per month--the total increase
being $1,014, 1861. This increase has
been chiefly and directly due to the poll
cies of sound money and protection.
by the act passed Dec. 18, 1899, by a
Republican Congress Q42 Democrats vot-
ing against it and only II voting for it
in the House of Representatives and %
voting for it and = against it in the Sen
ate), and signed by President Mckinley,
the gold standard was sanctioned by law,
and according to Alton B. Parker was
then firmly and irrevocably establish
ed just as free silver would have
driven gold from the country according
to the famous Gresham law that bad
money drives out good money SO this
positive committal Of the country to the
gold standard resulted in a large gain
OF gold to our currency. The increas-
ihgly large output of gold from Alaska,
California. Colorado and other Western,
States remained in the United States
instead of being driven out, as would
have been the case had free silver tri-
umphed in 1876 or 1909. Not only this,
but the United States gold standard drew
to this country much of the gold produc-
cd in South Africa and other parts of
the world.
The policy of protection also contribut-
cd to our ability to keep our own gold
aud get more gold from other nations, for
it made the balance Of trade favorable.
since it tended to increase our exports
over our imports. Instead Of sending
gold out of the country as in Demo
cratic times. to pay for goods that Amer
lean labor at home might just as well
have produced. the Republican policy has
been to cause gold to be distributed Mt
home for work done just as well Mt home.
or the present amount of money in
circulation about 49, per cont is gold
which mostly represents money saved to
the people of the United States by the
Republican policies Of sound money and
protection.
The river press., 1904-10-19
Latest Republican OUTRAGE.

On Aug. 20 a fall of snow. the first
OF the season. occurred in Minnesota,
and it cannot he denied that it occurred
under the Roosevelt administration.
Crops, flowers and garden produce were
damaged. and there was the dickens to
pay generally.
The Republican party cannot deny
that this thing has happened under Il
Republican administration. but it can do
this: 1t can promise another now-full
on Nov. s. so vast that the memory of
al! preceding snowstOrurs will be lost,
The river press., 1904-10-19
Price Placed on Repentance,

Gold Democrats who bolted the Bryan
party will be permitted to join the Hill
Belmont Parker organization, provided
they pay big entrance fee. The, Demo
cratic State Committee Of Indiana is
preparing to levy heavy assessment on
gold Democrats who wish to vote for
Parker. In other words, the men who
have been reviled SO bitterly by Mr..
Bryan for supporting Palmer or Mckin-
ley at the last two elections must open
their porketbooks if they wish to sit.
hunlbly in the Parker bandwagon.
The river press., 1904-10-19

The iron and steel industry is often
referred to as the barometer of gen
eral business" 1t reflects conditions Of
depression or prosperity throughout the
country in remarkably sensitive way
for there is no business nor industry
in the country which does not share
closely in the various conditions which
make steel either "king'' or "pauper," :"
and, as Andrew Carnegie once said,
''steel is always either king or pauper."
When times were hard, as during the
period of the last Democratic admins
tration, 1893-1996, there was indeed an
open door into the palace OF King Steel
for the wolf of poverty to enter and
make Steel a Pauper.
1t was shown then that when panic
and depression visit the country, steel
feels the effects the most sharply and
the most quickly of almost any COM
modify.
THE RESULT OF DEMOCRATIC
POLICIES WAS NOT ONLY TO
HEAVILY CURTAlL THE AMERI-
CAN CONSUMPTION OF IRON AND
STEEL, BUT TO GIVE AN OPEN
DOOR TO THE FOREIGNER TO
SUPPLY WHAT DEMAND THERE
WAS LEFT. In two years. from 1892
to 1894, represented by the change from
Republican to Democratic rule, the pro-
duction Of pig iron in the United States
dropped from 0,157,OOO tons to 6,657 1888
tons. s--e
The financial depression that existed
through the Cleveland administration
made it difficult for railroads to float
the issues Of bonds that were needed to
raise money for new rails. bridges, cars
and other equipment involving large
consumption of iron and steel. The same
was true of ibhe building trades, and
other industries which can use iron and
steel only as their business can expand,
and, whose business instead of expanding
during the last Democratic administers
ton, was forced to contract.
Remarkable Change Occurs.
After the election of President Nc.
Kinley the enormous gains both in our
consumption and our production of iron
and steel, attracted the attention of bust
ness interests throughout the world
Steel, which was Pauper under the
Democratic" administration. once again
was King, and like King Cotton and
King Corn, the growth of his worldwide
The river press., 1904-10-19
he exception OF Huss;n. show pso'!nc-
ION by countries as fo.:oWs:
THE PHILIPPINES.
::cpnblicaa Policy ls in Line with
Territorial proccdent..

Four years ago the Democratic par
ts denounced the acquisition Of the Phil
ippne Islands by the United States as
dangerous form of national expansion
and their retention as an application of
n,iitarism. The only logical conclusion
Of this position wps our immediate re-
,rement from the Islands. leaving them
to shift for them selves. LII his letter az
ccpting the nomination for Vice Presi-
dent III 1870 Mr.. Roosevelt commented
III this position as follows:
''The simple truth is that there is moth
ing even remotely resembling imperial
ism or militarism involved in the present
development Of that policy of cxpansion.,
which has been part of the history of
America from the day when she became
nation. The words mean absolutely
nothing as applied to our present policy
in the Philippines. for this policy is only
imperialistic in the sense that Jefferson's
policy in Louisiana was impcrialistic:
only military in the sense that Jackson's
policy towards the Seminolcs or Clusters
towards the Sioux embodied militarism:
and there is no more danger Of it's pro-
ducing evil results at home now than
there was of it's interfering with free
the days of the Indian wars on the
plains
1.-The only certain way of rendering
it necessary for our Republic to enter
on career Of 'militarism' would be to
abandon the Philippines to their own
tribes, and at the same time either to
guarantee a stable government among
these tribes or to guarantee them against
sI~ S,Hko
would be required to carry out any such
policy than will be required to secure
order under the American flag: while
the presence of this flag OH the Islands
is really the only possible security against
outside aggression. Properly
speaking, the question is now not wheth-
er we shall expand-for we have already
expanded-but whether we shall con-
tract
That was the issue four years ago.
i, Now the Democratic platform says:
"We believe with Jefferson and John
Adams, that no government has right
to make one set of laws for those at
home and another and a different set of
laws, absolute in their character for
those in the colonies. We insist
that we ought to do for the Filipinos
what we have already done for the
Cubans.''
There has never been time since
the formation Of the government that
Congress has not made one set of laws
for the States and another set for the
territories. The laws enacted by Con-
gress for the government Of the Philip
pines are no more absolute than those
which have been enacted during the last
hundred years for our various territories.
The demand that the United States
shall do for the Filipinos what it has
done for the Cubans is unreasonable. We
never claimed to own Cuba. but we pos
sess the Philippines by an undisputel
| title. A Republican administration did
| entire justice to Cuba as demanded by
| the circumstances of the case. and the
Republican party can be depended upon
| to do entire justice to the Philippines.
The river press., 1904-10-19

industries are protected. The commits.
sion itself reports unanimously that the
relative decline of the iron and steel in
dustry cannot be attributed to natural
disadvantages or want of skill and en-
tcrprlse on the part of either Of British
manufacturers or workmen, but is due
to the fact that their competitors in the
United States and Germany, having Sc
cured control of their home markets by
means of tariffs and the regulation of
their export trade. are in position to
export their surplus products.
Increase in Wages.
The value to labor and to the indus.
trial and commercial interests of the
United States of the development Of the
iron and steel industry under Republican
rule will be apparent when it is real
lZed that the wages and salaries paid
in iron and steel manufacture in the
United States have increased from $50,
1886 in 1890 to $132, 900, 600 in 1900.
Ihe growth and Importance to labor of
the iron and steel industry is illustrated
by the following table, the figures being
part of the official report of the United
States Census Of 1900:
1ron Ore Regions Get Benefits.
The extraordinarily good times which
came to the iron and steel industry of
the United States brought exceptional
prosperity to our iron ore regions, the
United States soon assuming greatly
increasing lead over its closest competi-
tors. Great Britain and Germany.
From the Democratic years, 1895 to
1901, the latest date where official data
is available, the production of the three
countries was.
The river press., 1904-10-19

1--WE want no laws inspired by pas.
sion, nor do we want them nd IN n 10.
tered by selfishness or incapacity. The
best laws, wisely atl n inietered. are
what we dem and, aud they can be se-
cured If We but do our duty, duty
com anlcd by the sacrifice ef those
who sleep on this field, Ind by our " n
interests aad the interests of those
who shall follow us. "--SenRtor Fairbanks
at Freehold, n. j.. June q, 1893
The river press., 1904-10-19

The country is indebted to the Rcpul,.
iican party for the nationu! bank, svs-
tenn. the resumption Of specie payments
and the establishment of the gold stand
ard. 1t can we'll afford tn point with
pride to these and other achievements
opposed and denounced by the Drn"c-
racy.
The river press., 1904-10-19

President Roosevelt said in his spcech
OF acceptance: "A party is OF worth
only in so far rs it promotes the national
interest" Measured by this standard,
what is the Democratic party worth?
The river press., 1904-10-19

1t is sometimes well TO consider what
might have been. Where would our GOV
rrlncnt finances, our revenues, our do
nestle industries and our foreign trade
Ec now if the Democracy had succeeded
in 1896 or 1900:
The river press., 1904-10-19

The average weekly rate of wages in
the United States is 179 per cent and III
Great Britain 100 per cent !, marks
the difference between protection aud
free trade.
The river press., 1904-10-19

In 1901 the 2S,SS7 ,419 tons of ore pro-
duced by the United States exceeded by
42,O23 tons the combined output of Great
Britain and Germany, which amounted
only to 2S,S45, ,456 tons.
The high record of production in this
country was reached in 1902, when the
total was 35.5'4, 135. in combined
world output Of about S7,OOO.OOO tons.
Germany reached its highest record in
1900 with 1S.964.294 tons and Great
Britain its maximum in 1889, when its
total was IA. JAG, 1O5 tons.
In 1901, the year when this country
for the first time produced more ore
than Great BNtain and Germany COM
bined, the total world output Of ore was
1881 ,935 tons. leaving only 51,O94. 1876
for the entire world outside the United
States, whose production was 2SSS7.479
tons.
For that year the official figures, with
The river press., 1904-10-19
Consumption,
Production,
ceuquest of Foreign Markets.

ConQueot OF FOTelgn Markef8.
With the vast increase in the domcs-
tic production OF iron aud steel under
Republican rule it became possible to
conduct the industry at d relatively far
greater perfection and lesser cost than
when the work was done on only one
third the scale. THIS CAUSED THE
UNITED STATES. By IT'S SUPE-
RIOR METHODS, ABILITY TO
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-11
BICYCLING.
NOTES FROM THE
 RIDERS OF THE WHEEL.

Major Taylor may not leave Aus. tralia until July, owing to the illness of his wife
 Iyer Lawson says that in Australia 300 professional riders, ten times the number actively engaged i'll this coun- try, make race meets very interesting The suspension of Lawson, incurred in Australia, expires Thursday.
 Major Taylor" Doves reinstate- ment was but just, as in the profes- sional field Dove could not compete, and he could not afford trip to Eu- rope.
 Everything is reported to have been arranged to run Manhattan Beach on Sundays, and it is said that P. T. Powers and c. Ross Ilosterman, the latter of Baltimore, will promote the races.
 "Plugger Bill'' Martin has retired from racing and is in the hotel busi- ness.