The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-06-22

pie on earth, and has more steady en-
ployment than any people on earth: and
on the average receives, conservatively
stated, one and thres-fourths dollars COM
pensation where similar labor elsewhere
receives but one dollar Our manufacture
ed products yearly IL greater than the
manufactured product OF the people OF
Great Britain. Germany and France com
bined, and this product is substantially
consumed by our own people, finding a
market within the borders OF the republic
Although our exports OF manufactured
products are rapidly growing, last year
they were over four hundred million dol
Ers-twenty-nine per cent-of our total
exports. IL is not n few men OF great
wealth that make good markets butfit IL
the multiplied millions that work today
and consume tomorrow. with interchange
or their respective products among one
another: and the prosperity OF the farmer
on one hand and OF the operative upon
the other. depend on the prosperity OF
each as producers OF their respective pro-
ducts and as consumers OF the products
OF others
HOME MARKET THE GREATEST IN
THE WORLD.
We are one harmonious whole: and n
one or more OF the great industries is In
Jurfously affected. those engaged in that
ifre OF production cease 10 bs valuable
customers for all the other producers in
the country. II we did not sell one parti-
Gle Of our immense product outside OF our
own borders. we would still have the best
market or any people on earth
II has been said. and truly said. that our
market among ourselves is OF greater
amount and value than the international
markets OF all the world: amongst all
the peoples Of the world; and while our
people are seeing to IL that our foreign
markets shall grow-and we are now the
greatest exporting nation on earth--yet II
is absolutely necessary that we should
see to IL that we continue that policy
which enables us 10 dominate our own
markets and to continue the present and
growing wage to our own people
PROGRESS MEASURED BY PosToF-
TICT.
But can give a better Illustration of
the progress OF the country under the
leadership OF the Republican party by re-
ferrfng TO the postoffice department--that
great service that gathers no penny OF
money except by the voluntary contrib
utions OF the people OF the republic.
Since 1850 the rates OF postage have been
practically reduced more than one-half.
In 1880 tho year that the Republican
party first came into power the revenues
or the postonice department were in
round numbers eight and one half mill
hons Of dollars. while the expenditures
We're nineteen mililons--a deficit one and
one-fourth time as great as the income.
Inc revenues of the city postoffice OF
'hfcago last year were greater I'm amount
han the total postal revenues OF the
whole country I'm tho year 1860. Last year
ne revenues OF the postal services were |
'EA.oW.W0 and the deficit only four mil /
Ions or less than 3 per cent, and this. |
90. Notwithstanding the very large |
srowth or rural free delivery, involving
~ expenditure OF ten million dollars.
ln.s year the revenues have not been as
ertained, bat Will safely increase by ten
Millions. and In the coming year by an
ther ten millions. all OF which measures
nd truly measures. the commercial the
BUSINESS. the social and the Individual
rosperity and we'll being OF the people.
WOLVES WOULD PROTECT SHEEP
For moro than SO years the Dop,o-
reto party has denounced protection as
'obery. and their cry has been. some
mes, "A tarir for revenue only" some
mes for progressive free trade through
~ the world. but whatever the express
on may De, they have always been
ady. when chothed with power. 10 run
'e dagger into the protective policy.
nd such IL still the position ~ that
irty In the closing DAYS of the late
ssion OF congress, Representative Cock
m OF New York preached the pure
emocrauc faith: and there never was I'm
y recoliection such n demonstration as
me from the Democratic side OF the
'use when. with flaming eyes and wild
'sticulations and enthus site faces they
rang as one man. with cheer after cheer
terrupting the business of the house
1th they could mark their approval OF ,
'licy I'm which they believed
/ ie hat g,,
careful speech and sentence here and ,
ere. men like Senator German Renre
ntative Williams and others. while Az.
'uncinR protection as robbery. sav that /,
the Democratic party IL clothed with ,
'wer they viii not destroy the svsten, :
ernlght, yet they each and all ayow !,
at they VIII Journey In the direction .
tarin for revenue only. and ~ free ,
ade. In other words. n they are eiyen ;
wer' the American manufacturer and /,
borer VIII be gradually starved 10 death
stead OF being destroyed at one stroke +
reminds me OF one of Aesop's fables q
here the wolves proposed 10 the sheep I
NJ they should discharge the dogs. their d
turan protectors. and place themselvest a
der the protection of the wolves Does I
pitsl on tho zone hand and labor on d
other desire such projections a
PROFITS NOT DEFICITS. I
Rut fhe little politician cries out that !,
'4it~-- abound here ana there In the :
untry Yes. they do hut contests that ,
"a TO strikes. where an adjustment !
not made and whore arbitration fails. =
quarrels between organized labor and
yanized capital about the division OF n
protts As has been well said by =
other many years ago. there were not :
my strikes when the Democracy had .,
] power under Grover Cleveland be- n
use there we're no profits TO divide. 4
'ere are profits 20 divide now. and with