Milford chronicle., 1904-10-21

Also Prosperous.
In his famous Chicago convention
speech in 1896 W ]. Bryan said that
I the American business man included the
IMAM who is employed for wages, the
merchant at the crossroads store, the
/ farmer who goes forth in the morning
and tolls all day, aud begins in the
| spring and tolls all summer, the miner
who goes a 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 aud
| 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 haF
| reached ont after the laboringmen in
| the cities. the farmer the country mer-
/ chant. the miner. the country lawyer,
| etc, all included in sBryan's definition
! of the American business man." and
| it has made them all prosperous. 1t
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
1891 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.
a 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 hut q 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 unemployed got
work, and not only that but got steadily
| increasing wages it made a quick and
/ n good market for the products of the
| farmer "who goes forth in the morning
and tolls all day, and begins in the
spring and tolls all summer"
There are nearly nine million men in
the United States who make a living for
themselves and families by tilling the
soil, and who must depend for their
prosperity on the demand for their prod
ucts from those employed in mauWfac-
turing industries. The census of 1900
showed that the wages of those employed
III manufacturing Industries had increas-
ed S431, ,105. 800 from 1890 to 1900. The
! figures would have been immensely more
| striking could the census decade have
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 LABOBING CLASS or 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
ANW given AutIhNAt AFMAlu lOL AutlE LoAl
by day and through spring and summer.
It now can, in fact already has, paid 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, books
to read and bric-a-brac to adorn the
country home. The farmer could now
afford Of he wanted to- to change from
the corncob pipe to a real Havana cigar,
ana dress every bit as stylishly as the
business man in the city. pay as high
fees TO his doctor ana his lawyer and
just as much rent for the pew in church.
His wife could dress in satius, silks and
l1ces, just ike the city business mans
wife, and hire n servant girl 10 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 jua as attractive as 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 euNcallOu lldl ulEuL udhe ulm
some day railroad OF bank president,
or even President Of the United States.
The American farmers increased pros.
perity recprocally benefits the working
man in the cities and the workiugman's
prosperity again reciprocally benefits the
farmers in the country, creating thus an
endless chain of mutual benefits.
As for those who go 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 in all other branches of hon
est industrial effort, the American busi-
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 Limit.
That the Democratic party has