CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1904-10-27
REPUBLICAN POLICIES
THEIR RESULTS CoNTRAsTED
WITH THOSEOF DEMOCRACY.
The Prosperity Of tie Agricultural
Class Means that Men Engaged In
All Other Lines of Industry Are
Also Prosperous.

In his famous Chicago esavenrion
speech in 1896 w. ]. 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 4 thousand feet into the earth,
the attorney in the country town" etc.
He also expressed the Democratic idea
that II you make the masses prosperous
their prosperity will end its way un 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 prosperons-" II 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
II has made them all prospeouaL IL
may be said of the prosperity that the
Republican party brought not fer 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 nils Of
the United States, rendered again poe
sible BY the return of the country in
1897 to the Republican policy II pro-
lection. the unemployed classes were
given work. THEY WE'RE THEN
NOT MERELY BUSINESS MEN. as
Bryan said they were, but BUSY MEN.
A contrass Of Ressls..
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slant and frequent allusion to the ARMY
OF THE UNEMPLOYED. TIE Ce1ey
Army that went to Washingten, = 1894
to demand that the governEs1t give h
work was but small guerrilla de4aoh-
ment Of the vast army that seAye1 1t
home. suffered, starved and fsgDa the
living of life to be almost qnendgEabSe.
When this army Of the unenpseyed rot
work. and NOT only that, but got sosaAily
increasing wages, it made q qsiek and
q good market for the products - Tie
farmer who goes forth in the asrnins
and tolls all day, and begi8 b tAs
spring and tolls all summer"
There are nearly nine miIlisa ~ \
the United States who make Q nving fer
themselves and families by tllnhg IL
soil. and who must depend fW DER
prosperity on the demand for their pred-
ucts from those employed in uaBu1ae-
turing industries The ceasO a 1900
showed that the wages of those opesyea
in manufacturing industries haA i.efeas-
ed $4S1 .106.bS0 from 1890 b 1SoQ ne
figures would have been immease1y Dors
striking could the census aecaas have
covered 1894, in the midz q De-
cratic times, to 1904. the prese.t tina
NO WONDER THAT wITH SUCH
ENORMOUS GAIN IN WAGES 10
THE LABORING CLASS OF BUSr-
NESS MEN, WHO WERE GIvHN A
CHANCE TO BE BUSY THROUGH
THE REPUBLICAN, Foley OF
PROTECTION, THE PER CAPITA
CONSUMPTION OF WHEAT IN
1894 TO 6-33 BUSHELS IN 1904. THE
PRICE HAS DOUBLED, AND THAT
ABOUT THE SAME THING Is
TRUE OF PRACTICALLY EvHRY-
THING THE AMERICAN FARMEn
PRODUCES.
This farming class of business Aea ID
now given adequate reward fer their totl
by day and through spring and sunmer.
1t now can, in fact already has, paid ~
mortgages and started checking accounts
with the country banks
A Change In coaditss.s.
The merchant at the cross-roads stors
now finds the farmer and his wife ana
children have money to spend, and want
more and better clothes to wear, hooks
to read. and bric>a-brac to ado<n the
country home. The farmer coald now
afford Gf he wanted tol TO change from
the corucob pipe TO a r,zl Havana cigar,
and dress every hit 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 sstirs, silks and
laces, just like the city business man's
wife, and hire a servant girl to do house
work that in Democratic timsD she her
self had to do He could afford to have
his daughter wear clothes that would
make her look just as attractive a. tAs
bankers daughter in the city. and study
music. art. French. etc. that would make
her just as much at home in the noss
accomplished society. He could afford
to send his son to college where he could
get an education that might make him
some day a railroad or bank president
or even President of the United State1
The American farmers increased proc
perity reciprocally benefits the working
man in the cities. and the workingman's
prosperity again rcciprocaily benefits the
farmers in the country, creating thus an
endless chain of mutual benefits
As for those who go n 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, xinc. lead, coal.
coke and the precious metals In mining.
as we'll as in all other branches Of bou-
est Industrial effort. the "American husi-
ness man" can now secure the hire that
the Bible says his labor 10 worthy Of.
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