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The state herald., 1904-09-30

The report Of battle in Uruguay.
in which G.o0o men were killed and
wounded, lacks one important ingre-
dient. II doesn't bear the Chefoo
date mark.
The state herald., 1904-09-30

King Edward has conferred tho
Chain OF the Royal Victorian Order
on Emperor Nicholas and Emperor
Francis Joseph. This is the modern
way OF putting omperors in chains.
The state herald., 1904-09-30

An eastern scientist asserts that the
woodpecker has nerve extending the
entire length of its bill. Just like the
gas collector
The state herald., 1904-09-30

Lewis Nixon is making ships foi
the czar; his partner will make ships
for the mikado. Uncle Sans boys
always strive to please.
The state herald., 1904-09-30

The New Jersey cranberry crop this
year will be only about half as big
as IL was year ago. Bad news for
New Jersey, good news for Cape Cod
The state herald., 1904-09-30

Those who thought the Uruguayan
revolution would not amount to much
forgot how many political Jobs are al
stake.
The state herald., 1904-09-30

Oklahoma day was great success
at the worlds fair. After all, what is
so great an attraction as a bunch Of
beautiful women?
The state herald., 1904-09-30

Three hundred gypsies landed a few
days ago at Ellis island. This Is the
largest Romany Rye crop thus far re-
ported.
The state herald., 1904-09-30

There are some new rules in foot
ball this year, but the old directions
for first aid to the injured still hold
good.
The state herald., 1904-09-30

One beauty about mimic warfare Is
that no large pension list follows in
its wake.
The state herald., 1904-09-30

Last month there were only forty.
two suicides in Chicago. The forti.
tude of the Chicagoese is something
marvellous.
The state herald., 1904-09-30

Partisan politics does not enter into the question We
either for against those who defy the law
and who attack the state authorities for attempting to
enforce Either the law the dynamitcr prevail
In Colorado.
The state herald., 1904-09-30

Those ct Louis bsiioonists may have
thought, from observation. that II was
easy for gasbags 10 get 10 Washing
ton
The state herald., 1904-09-30

That foxy young czarevitch got his
pa to abolish flogging before he was
old enough to get his share.
The state herald., 1904-09-30

The latest thing in drinks is the
"Jeffries punch" Properly landed
under the belt it is said to give one
tho blind staggers all right.
The state herald., 1904-09-30

Other ambitious prize fighters are
trying to find out what brand of gum
Champion Jeffries chews.
The state herald., 1904-09-30

With 1000 men killed in one battle
the Uruguayan revolution promises
to rise to the dignity of real war.
The state herald., 1904-09-30

Sany n man who tried 10 stand on
his dignity has been kicked on b, q
lees JiEhifsd chap.
The state herald., 1904-09-30
1ry One Packane.

Try One Package.
II Defiance Starch" does not please
you. return 1t to your dealer. II Il
does you get one-third more for tho
same money. II will give you salts
faction. and will not stick to the Iron.
You can't tell from the fatness OF
pocketbook how many unreceipted
bills 1t contains.
The state herald., 1904-09-30

We may be shy on wheat, but who
cares so long as the apple crop is
larger than usual.
The state herald., 1904-09-30

u think ~ SO and hear bishop rot
tut 10 day "Haioon or church,
The state herald., 1904-09-30
ELITE smINGLE STAIN.

ELITE SuINGIE STAIN.
The best roof stain on the market.
Sample color boards to select from
Ask your dealer or write us. The
Humphrey-Jones Mer. Co, 1921 Arapa-
hoe St, Denver, Colo.
The man who is trying to reform the
world generally keeps dog that barks
all night.
The state herald., 1904-09-30

When a man and a woman bo,l
have broken hearts tho woman gets
all the sympathy,
The state herald., 1904-09-30

Many an angler who tries t, catch
fish succeeds only in catching iteuma.
tism
The state herald., 1904-09-30

occaaionally germs get ON a man
mind and worry him 90 death.
The state herald., 1904-09-30

When poverty comes in at the win
dow love crawls under the bed.
The state herald., 1904-09-30
TEA

Every nation has its notion
OF tea.
Most families have one too.
The state herald., 1904-09-30

A woman may not be able to throw
a ball. but ! know some do, can throw
der hammer all right. sure.
The state herald., 1904-09-30
~ OUR OWN SAGE.

Boarding houses drive lot OF their
victims TO mA,rimony.
Every man imagines he is some
other mans best friend
Taking babies In places Of abuse.
men, Is a crying shame.
The state herald., 1904-09-30

A possimlstiesi Is a man dot always
oigspce,s TO get I, In der neck und den
ytlla Ven he gets H.
The state herald., 1904-09-30

The way to get the good things Of
fife and the world is to pay for them.
The state herald., 1904-09-30

Some mems ncfor know dey hht
conscience till der doctor says dare
vas no hope.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-21
MONEY In CIRCULATION.
A Daily Increase of $352,3O4 for
Eight Years

During the last eight years of Republi-
can administration the increase in the
volume of our currency has amounted
to S3o2,3O4 per day, or more than $1O,-
100000 per month-the total increase
being SI,014, 1861. This increase has
been chiefly and directly due to the poll
cies of sound money and protection
By the act passed Dec. 10, 1899. by a
Republican Congress Q42 Democrats vot-
ing against it and only IL voting for it
in the House of Representatives and %
voting for it and 2 against it in the Sen
ate), and signed by President Mckinley,
che 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-
ingly 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-
.,
but the United States gold standard drew
to this country much of the gold produc-
ed in South Africa and other parts of
the world.
The policy of protection also contribut-
ed to our ability to keep our own gold
and 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 we'll
have produced, the Republican policy has
been to cause gold to be distributed at
home for work done just as we'll at home.
Of the present amount of money in
circulation about As per cent is gold
which mostly represents money saved to
the people of the United States by the
Republican policies of sound money and
protection.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-21
THE PRODlGAL PARTY.
Biblical Story that Fits the Democracy
of Today.
portland Oregonian.)


The Democratic party is like a cerlSx
son which wandered off into a far eaaar-
try and filled his belly with the husaa
which the swine did eat. But wheA he
came to himself he said, [ will arise and
go back to the home of sense and honesty
which I left and will ask to be takes
back as a hired servant on probation e
will admit that | was wrong and hxves
now seen the light and / hope to be re
stored through good behavior to my faar
mer place in the confidence of the felix's
at home and decent people generally
That is to say, the Democratic party
could be conscientiously likened to tine
prodigal son if it had acted on the hne9
just laid down. But the attitude it asc-
tually assumes is something entirely DIFF
ferent. Without explaining or reprotaaa-
ing his actions Of 1896 and 1900 wbeH
he voted for Bryan, Judge Parker asAE
the support and confidence of all geld
standard men because he somewhat pse-
ronizingly recognizes the gold staneaSnG
as ''irrevocably established He dseG
not animadvert upon his own condGcs sE
leaving home or even upon the quality
of the nutriment which the far country
of populism afforded the Democxa&sc
paunch.
As near as we can make it out, ehe
Democratic idea is that the Elder Brotk
er should be thrown out on the world
and the Prodigal Son installed as m1H-
ager of the estate.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-21

has carefully picked out of their set
tings the twentysix most bellicose, alb
solutist, imperialistic sayings of which
President Roosevelt has ever delivered
himself These are the quintessence OF
his bloodthi:sty expressions. Nothing
that he has said has ever gone farther
on the road to military despotism than
these twenty-six things.
Elk Parte Argument.
Of course, as every reasonable be-
ing knows, such ex parte argument is
not fair. It were easy by choosing out
all of Jefferson'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 a bigoted con-
tractionist. He could be shown up as
protectionist, if all that he said in
favor OF that principle were collected to-
gether, while all that he said against it
were omitted. Or by reversing the pro-
cess it could readily be demonstrated
that he was an absolute and perpetual
free trader. It could be shown that
he was q practical anarchist, advocating
a revolution every twenty years, that
the tree of liberty might be kept well
watered with blood Or by emitting this
class of his writings and combining the
opposite class he could be represented
as constantly enjoining implicit obedi-
ence to the law.
1t is useless to multiply examples. By
such a 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
briefly. Such a 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 a bloody and despotic intel
lect but of a clean, strong, honest mind
instinct with patriotism.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-21

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.
Tt was possible in 1897 for great i'm
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 a 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.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-21
Demoraizing Effects of Democratic Policies VS..
Beneficial Effect of Republican Policies
KING TO PAUPER AND PAUPER TO KING
Phenomenal Rise of the Industry Since 894-
Accurate Barometer of General Trade
Condtons-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 MAN
FACTURES FROM
A M O q N t ED TO $111,94S, $50,
AGAINST $29,220,264 DURING THE
DEMOCRATIC YEAR 1894.
During the last eight years the Brit
ish newspapers have been forced to dole
fully notice a continued succe sion 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 on a leading English railroad.
Now it is an American electrical COM
pany that gets all the orders for the cleo
trlcal equipment for the great new Lon
don underground railroad system. And
thus episodes of American commercial
conquest during the last eight years
could be repeated until they would grow
wearisome to read. The continued tri-
umpls 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 its 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, 900 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 inn
ports have increased 200 per cent and
the exports have declined 715 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 5 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-sar expect
equality of conditions rnless the home
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-21

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, 1S93-1S96, 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 CURTAIL THE AMERI-
CAN CONSUMPTION OF IRON AND
STEEL, BUT TO GIVE AN OPEN
DOOR TO THE FOREIGNER TO
SUPPLY WHAT DEMAND THERE
w taS LEN L. LII TWO years, from 1917
to 1894, represented by the change from
Republican to Democratic rule, the pro-
duction Of pfg iron in the United States
dropped from 9,157,000 tons to 6,657, 1888
tons.
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 the 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 administra-
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
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-21
Price Placed on Repentance

Gold Democrats who bolted the BFyax
party will be permitted to join TIE HsA-
Belmont arker organization, provided
they pay a big entrance fee. The Deana-
cratic State Committee of Indiana Se
preparing to levy a heavy assessment ex
gold Democrats who wish to vote for
Parker. In other words, the men wi<s
have been reviled so bitterly by NE
Bryan for supporting Palmer or McK5u-
ley at the last two elections must epeE
their pocketbook if they wish to s&
hunbly in the Parker bandwagon.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-21
Date of Census
1890. 1900

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-
terDrise 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 a 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
lied that the wages and salaries paid
in iron and steel manufacture in the
United States have increased from $50,
273,956 in 1890 to 1872, 100000 in 1900.
The growth and Importance to labor Of
the iron and steel industry is illustrated
by the following table, the figures being
a part of the official report of the United
States Census of 1900:
Ton 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 it's closest COMPETE
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
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-21
AS TO IMMIGRATION.
A Campaign Issue that Is 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 SIavic region
wherein is oppression of the Jews. In
other words, they are coming from every
where! From Europe the most oppressed
and, in some cases, most unintelligent
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 q new element of
thought and religion and general drift
of being. We accept them and their
blood and the infusion of their genera
lions for the future. We accept them, in
the broadest sense, with the idea that,
by and by there will become {, homo
geneity Of the races which will take care
of itself. The Morse in all his varieties
is, of course, part of us. but the assimi-
lation of the Latin in all his varieties is
another thing. We are trying to be big,
broad Christians and make no distinc-
tons.
Certain laws have been enacted under
the regime of the Republican party, and
the manner in which they are being en-
forced illustrates, as we'll as could be,
the earnestness of the present admins
tration, in allowing the fltering into this
country, in all generosity, of those who
seek a 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 all iberality, as
to perfecting the immediate business well
fare of the country and as to controlling
the amalgamation of its future blood.
This is one of the side issues of the
campaign to which the attention Of every
voter may we'll be directed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-21

The country is indebted to the Repub-
lican party for the national bank sys-
tenn, the resumption of specie payments
and the Enlistment of the gold stand
ard. 1t can we'll afford TO point with
pride to these and other achievements
opposed and denounced by the Democ-
racy.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-21

President Roosevelt said in his speerx
OF acceptance: "A party is OF worth
only in SO far as it promotes the natioaa2
interest" Measured by this standard
what is the Democratic party worth9
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-21

LII IoOI Tue 10000 no IOnS Ol ore pro-
duced by the United States exceeded by
1923 tons the combined output of Great
Britain and Germany, which amounted
only to 29,S45, 1856 tons.
The high record of production in this
country was reached in 1902. when the
total was 35,554,135, in a combined
world output of about 97,OO0,O00 tons.
Germany reached it's highest record in
1900 with 1S,964,294 tons, and Great
Britain it's maximum in 1889, when its
total was IA, SAG, 1O5 tons.
In 1901, the year when this country
for the first time produced more ore
than Great Britain and Germany COM
Dined, the total world output of ore was
1881 ,935 tons, leaving only 1904, 456
for the entire world outside the United
States, whose production was 1885,, 479
tons.
For that year the official figures, with
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-21

The average weekly rate Of wages in
the United States is ITO per cent and in
Great Britain 100 per cent. It marks
the difference between protection and
free trade.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-21

"We want no laws inspired by pas
sion, nor do we want them admins
tered by se1hshness or incapacity. The
best laws, wisely adm Mustered, are
what we demand, and they can be Sc
cured 1T we but do Our duty, duty
commanded by the sacrifice of those
who sleep on this field, and by our own
interests and the interests of those
who shall follow MS. o-Senator Fairbanks
at Freehold, N. J., June q, 1903.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-21

1t is sometimes we'll to consider what
might have been Where would our gov
eminent finances, our revenues, our do
nestle industries and our foreign trade
be now if the Democracy had succeeded
in 1896 or 1900?