The river press., 1904-11-02
REPUBLICAN, POLICIES
THEIR RESULTS CoNTRAsTEDs
WITH THOSE OF DEMOCRACY. q
Tho Prosperity Of the Agricultural
Class Means that Men Engaged IN
All Other Lines Of Inaustry Are
Also Prosperous.

Class Means that Men Engaged In
All Other Lines Of Industry Are
Also Prosperous.
In his famous Chicago convention
speech in 1896 w. J. Bryan said that
the American business man included the E
imam who is employed for wages, the 4
merchant at the crossroads store, the n
farmer who goes forth in the morning
and tolls all day, and begins in the
spring and tolls all summer, the miner
who goes 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 and
through every class"
The Republican party during the last
eight years, in fact as we'll in theory,
has been carrying out this Democratic
idea" of making the nation prosperous by.
making the masses prosperous" 1t 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
it has made them all prosperous. It
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
1897 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.Ein 1894
to demand that the government give it
| work was but small guerrilla detach-
nent of the vast army that stayed at
home, suffered. starved and found the
living OF life to be almost, unendurable.
When this army of the unemployed got
work, and not only that, but got steadily
increasing wages, it made a quick and
a 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 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 man,rfacA
turing industries. The census Of 1900
showed that the wages of those employed
in manufacturing Industries had increas-
ed $431 ,1O5, $50 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 L4ABQRING CLASS OF BUSk
NESS MEN, WHO WE'RE GIVEN X
CHANCE TO BE BUSY THROUGH
THE REPUBLICAN,, POLICY OF
PROTECTION. THB PER CAPITA
CONSUMPTION OF WHEAT IN
CREASED FROM 344 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
Il PRODUCES. , .sss 4
This farming class Of business men ID
now given adequate reward for their toll
by day and through spring and summer.
1t now can, in fact already has, paid off
mortgages and started checking accounts
Il with the country banks. T. 'ta !,
4 Change in Conditions.
The merchant at the cross-road store
now fnds 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 Gf he wanted to- to change from
the corncob pipe to real Havana cigar,
and dress every bit as stylishly as the
business man in the city, pay us high
fees to his doctor and his lawyer and
just as much rent for the pew in church.
His wife could dress in satins. silks and
laces, just like the city business mans
wife, and hire Il servant girl to 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 just 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 heSeould
get an education that might make him
some day n railroad or bank president,
or even President of the United States.
The American farmers increased pros.
pcrity reciprocally benefits the working
man in the cities, and the workingman,s 5
prosperity again reciprocally benefits the
farmers in the country, creating thus an
endless chain Of mutual benefits.
AS for those who ''go a 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 we'll rs in all other branches of hon
est industrial effort, the 50 American busi-
ness man" can now secure the hire that
| the Bible SAYS his labor is worthy Of