Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-23
BILLION DOLLAR COUNTRY
Facts Watch 1t Is Desirable to Bear
in Mind.

Facts Which It IS Desirable to Bear
in Mind.
Evidently Judge Parker has lost track
Of the fact that the United States has
become a bilion-dollar country while
he has been dreaming away his man
hood on the bench at Albany. Otherwise
it is impossible To account for his ac-
ceptance of the Republican challenge
to comparison Of Democratic and Re
publican administrations
If there is any Issue before the Ameri
can people upon which the Republicans
are more ready to appeal to the voters
than another, ii is that relating to the
administration Of national finances. But
they viii not let Judge Parker, or the
hungry aggregation of Democratic edi-
tors 10 whom lie addressed his Rip Van
Wrinkle remarks. ignore the fact that
the United States OF 1904 deals with
billions, where in Clevelands first adj
ministraton its finances could be dis
cusSed in terms of nine figures Neither
will they permit him to compare net
expenditures under Cleveland with ex-
traorlinary appropriations under Me
knley aud Roosevelt.
When he makes his comparisons be-
tween the expenditures Of 1SS5-lSSS with
those OF 1901-1903 he will not be per-
mtted to ignore such facts as the in
crease in postal expenditures from $50,
942 415 in 1885 to S13S. 7S4, 4S7 in 1903,
and that the excess of expenditures on
account of the postal service over re-
ceipts last year was only S456O.014, as
compared with SS,3Sl,572.
As an index of the growth Of the Uni
ted States in every direction that marks
advance in national welfare there can
be no better standard than the increased
use of an ever improving and extending
mail service.
Neither will Judge Parker nor the edi-
tors to whom he unbosomed choice
medley of ideas from the wit and wis
dom OF Samuel j. Tilden and Grover
Cleveland, be permitted TO point with
Democratic pride" to the enforced econ
omes of Cleveland's second term 1893
1896, without being confronted with the
following deficits that waited on Demo
cratic policy and Democratic admins
tration:
DEFICITS DURING CLEVELAND'S SEC
OND TERN.
1874 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Sby, s't5, 2bl
lS93 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 42.SoD,223
1896 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 25,203,246
With no exceptional expenditures. over
S260,000,0O0 was added to the public
debt during Cleyeland's term.
And when they are discussing the
expense of running the government Of
a people that has increased nearly 80 per
cent. in population and more than 100
per cent. in wealth since Grover Cleve-
land was first inaugurated, Republicans
will not forget to remind American vo-
ters~ OF such bilion-dollar facts as these
MONEY IN CIRCULATION.
1885 1903
81 ,292 SOS .Gl5 50. ss7, 6s2. 1859
Deposits In National Banks.
| 81, 1906 1851, 5000, 1913, 500.
Deposits In Savings Banks.
81, LOS, IT.. N S2,935. 2o4.si5
| S344, So7 ,9l6 $l,Sl457O, 1853
| Deposits In Loan and Trust Companies.
| $1SS, HEB Sl,5S9, 30s, 1876
Total Exports
$742. ls9,755 81, 42o 14i. $40
| ESTIMATED Oh Census returns for 1880. 1890
and 1000
| si4 900 600. 900. 500. 900, 900, 900
ta) Value OF Farm Animals,
So, 456, 42S, 1888. SO, lO2 5l5. $40
Production of Minerals
s427, SOS. $50. 81, 26O 649. 265
Freight tons carried one mile by Railways
| Tons Tons.
q. so, o7o, 500 III, 221 rs 0as
! tat i04 cents per (at 1853 cents per
| ton mile. ton mie.)
Wages la Manufacturing Industry.
1880 1900.
! SOL. e53 795. So 32s 691, PSI
Bewildering and incomprehensibl as
are these billions in many respects, they
vet present demonstration Of the
growth Of our country SO clear and sim
| pie as to be within the comprehension Of
IA child. Only one word need be added
to rectify what might be an erroneous
| impression from the figures as to the
value Of farm animals tai During the
second administration Of Cleveland this
value shrank from $24S3. 506.6S1 in
1893 to $l,727 ,926,0S4 in 1896, from
which 1t has since risen to over SO, l00,-
| 100000
| 1t almost seems as if the earth and
the KING refused to bring forth their
natural increase under Democratic ad-
1 mi n iSf ra finn