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The Springfield herald., 1904-09-23
DemoraIizing Effects Of Democratic Policies vs..
Beneficial Effect Of Republican Policies.
KING TO PAUPER AND PAUpER TO KING
Phenomenal Rise of the Industry Since 1894
Accurate Barometer of General Trade
Condtions-Wages Increased.

TURN OUT THE BEST TYPES ON
THE SHORTEST NOTICE, AND Al
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
UF ACT T URES THE Il E F Il o NJ
AN Q U NTED TO $1l1,94s5s6.
AGAINST 500, ,o2O.264 DURING THE
DEMOCRATIC YEAR 1894.
During the last eight years the Brit
ish newspapers have been forced to dole
fully notice continued succession 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 1t 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
trical 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-
and iron trade, Mt 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. 600 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 i'm
ports have increased 200 per cent and
the exports have declined 71a 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 per cent of
them are content with free trade and
a policy of inaction. The employers of
81 per cent of the labor are convinced
that neither masters nor men can expect
equality of conditions unless the home
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-23
MONEY IN CIRCULATION.
A Daily Increase of s352,3o4 for
Eight YearA

During the last eight years of Republi-
can administration the increase In the
volume of our currency has amounted
to $780, ,3O4 per day, or more than $780,
100000 per month-the total increase
being $1.O14 1861. This increase has
been chiefly and directly due to the poll
cies of sound money aud protection.
By the act passed Dec. IS, 1899. by
Republican Congress Q42 Democrats vot-
ing against it and only IL voting for 1t
in the House of Representatives and 23
voting for it and 2 against it in the Sem
ate), and signed by President Mckinley.
the 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 ont good money" this
positive committal of the country to the
gold standard resulted in large gain
OF gold to our currency. The increns-
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-
umphed in 1896 or 1900. Not only this.
but the United States gold standard drew
10 sHis country HuSh ol tHe So'u pIouuc-
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 ns well
have produced, the Republican policy has
been to cause gold to be distributed at
home for work done just MS well at home.
OF the present amount of money in
circulation about 4S 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.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-23

The iron and steel industry Is often
feferred to rs tue barometer Of gem
cral business" 1t reflects conditions Of
depression or prosperity throughout the
country in a 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 1ni
the most quickly of almost any COM
modify.
POLICIES WAS NOT ONLY TO
HEAVILY CURTA1L THE AMERI-
CAN CONSUMPTION OF IRON AND
STEEL. BUT TO GIVE AN OPEN
DOOR TO TILE FOREIGNER TO
SUPPLY WHAT DEMAND THERE
WAS LEFT. In two years. from 1892
to 1894. represented by the change from
Republican to Democratic rule. the pro-
duction of pig iron in the United States
dropped from 9.1o7, 900 tons to 6,co7 ,3SS
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-
tion, 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
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-23
The Vermont Land.lide.

Chairman Bullard of the Vermont
Democratic State committee said, the
night before the election: I'VE feel that
!, the figure (of the Republican plural
ityJ is below 25.OOO this year it is
sure indication that the national election
will go Democratic"
Well. the Democratic manager himself
made the estimate. He counted the
chances of the Democratic party in the
present campaign as might be indicated
by the September vote in his own State.
Representing his party. he made the
estimate and the result has been appall-
ing-for the Democrats-the Republican
plurality being 81 500. There has been
Republican landslide of about one
fourth over the normal vote in the State
Of Vermont.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-23

power md 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
ahat had prevailed in the money market.
1t was possible in 1897 for great i'm
provements 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 ncreas sing 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 n 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.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-23

of President Mckinley. IT was In ths
upstsirs library of the Fairbanks home
that some of the most important de-
cisiops Of these trying times were hrsa
formulated.
There were scarcely half a dozen OF
the big men Of the nation present at
those historic conferences, and 1t Is
sut1cient indication Of the capacity for
nubIc service which Senator Fairbanks
has manifested to refer to che fact that
although he had been In public life less
than a year his value as constant ad-
wiser of the President in the face OF
an innamed public sentiment and on the
eve of almost inevitable war grew great
er day by day. Other men who partlci.
pated in those conferences remember ana
bear cheerful testimony to the extraordi-
nary capacity of the Indiana senator
for looking at all sides Of a question of
public policy and for giving his opinion
dispassionately, without the slightest sus-
plcion of personal bias and with some
thing like a sacred Difference to the best
interests Of the nation.
The history of those momentous con-
ferences will never be written, as mat
ter of course. Mckinley has gone, Ho-
bart has gone, Hanna has gone. and
ONLY a few are left OF the men who ac-
tually shaped the destinies of the nation
in the early months of 1898. who per-
sisted In wise conservatism when de-
lay was necessary, and who provided the
means for carrying the war to a sue.
cessful and a glorious conclusion. That
he was even included in the brilliant list
OF the confidential advisers of William
Mckinley in the face of war Is q suti.
cient honor for any man.
An Honor for the Initsnisu.
1t is an additional honor for the In
diana senator, who has been chosen as
the Republican nominee for the vice
presidency, that his associates in public
life. in their private conversation. in
yariably refer to his broad-gauSe ability
to grasp public questions, to his personal
integrity, and to his deep study of con.
ktitutional and international Inv.
1t is a fortunate thing for the republic
that a man of this stamp should have
oeen chosen for the nomination. The re-
suit is that in the event of the triumph
# the Republican ticket, which now
.eems absolutely secured, the President
'naugurated next March will have had
he benefit of more than three years of
actual experience in the duties of his
office, while the vice-president who will
AXE the oath of office at the same time
will have behind him not only the bene-
fit of more than seven years in the
United States senate, but also of his
membership in the inner circle Of public
men who actually do things, and who in
times of trial determine the policy of the
nation.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-23

not true, but Judge Parker does not
knos the true temper of the American
people outside of New York. How
should be!
The Enigma of Esopus" is no longer
an enigma. Put forth by the s'nninE
hand of David B. Hill. suppo 81 by
the restrained savagery of Tammany. the
astute politician and campaign manager
of Ulster County. posed. for few days.
wrapped about in his judicial robes as
in a garment OF veneration and mystery.
A look at his record. n glance at his
political associates and friends, and the
tableau dissolves amidst the chokin.
smoke of the flash light.
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Date of Census
JkNJ 1An

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-
terprise 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.
Increa.e In w ,Res.
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,
213,95G in 1890 to S132. 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:
Iron Ore Region. Get Benefits.
The extraordinarily good times which
came to the iron and steel industry Of
the United States brought excepsssnal
prosperity to our iron ore regions, the
United States soon assuming greatly
increasing lead over its closest competi-
tors. Great BEitain and Germany.
From the Democratic years, 1895 to
1901, the latest date where official data
is available, the production of the three
countries was
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-23
The Wisdom Of. c.n,.,.r,.,

Benjamin Brown of Richview, Illinois,
aas been somewhat neglectful concerning
MS registration as voter. Now he has
,eHistered, because he wants to vote for
roosevelt The only remarkable feature
nbout this case is that Mr.. Benjamin
nrown is just one hundred years Of age.
out after ALL even this feature is not
'emarkable, because no American citi-
zen who has acquired the wisdom of
hundred years could do anything else
than vote for Roosevelt in this campaign.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-23

A low wage scaie Is not consistent
with the m ost w hole some devsi p m ent
of the country and Of Its people. The
cons dsra tion of the pendin m MEASURE.
ns Mr.. Rlaine said of the Chinese ex-
cluslon act, connects Its II intim tsly
and nseperabiy with the labor Ques.
tion.-Senator Fairbanks Ia t . Senate. JAM
aAry II, 1898.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-23

We are not constrained to keep silent
on apy vital question, we are d ivided
on no vital question: our policy 10 con.
tinuous, and IL the aame for all sec
tions AMI localities. There IL nothing
experimental about the government
we ask the people t, continue in power,
for our performnnc. In the past, our
proved governmental efficiency, 10 .
guarantee ~ to our romises for the
future.-President Roosevelt.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-23

believe emphatically in organized
'abor. believe in organization of wage
-nrners. Organization is one Of the laws
Of our social and economic development
lt this time.-From Roosevelt's speech
20 Locomotive Firemeu at Chattaueogs,
reun.. Sept. 8. 1907.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-23

One private reclamation project near
Phoenix. Ariz., created a taxable prop
erty of over ten million dollars in less
than twenty years, and that from land
practically worthless until irrigated.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-23

President Roosevelt said in his speech
OF acceptance, "A party is of worth only
30 FAR as it promotes the national inter
cst. Judged by that STANDARD, the Dem
ocratic party il worthless,
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-23
Conquest OF Foreign Markets.

Conquest OF Foreign Markets.
With the vast increase in the domes-
tic production of iron and steel under
Republican rule it became possible to
conduct the industry at a relatively far
greater perfection and lesser cost than
when the work was done only one
third the scale. THIS CAUSED TIL E
UNITED STATES, BY IT'S SUPE-
RlOR METHODS. ABILITY TO
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-23

we want no laws inspired by pas.
sion, nor do we want them ad mi nis-
tered by sol fis ness or incapacity. Tho
best laws, wisely ad m Mustered, are
what we demand, and they can be Sc
cursd II we but do our duty, duty
com m ndsd by the sacrifice sf those
who sIeep on this field, mud by our ewn
iuteresta and the intere,ts of those
who shall folio " u..''--enst r Fairbanks
at Freehold. N. j.. June 81 1913
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-23

1t was under President Harrisons
Republican administration in 1891 that
the first Federal forest reserve was es-
tablished. This was the beginning OF
.ctual growth in national forestry.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-23

In 1901 the IS, SST ,479 tons of ore pro-
duced by the United States exceeded by
42.O23 tons the combined output of Great
Britain and Germany, which amounted
only to 2S.S45, ,456 tons.
The high record OF production in this
country was reached in 1902 when the
total was 35,554. 1876. in a combined
world output of about S7.OOO,000 tons.
Germany reached its highest record in
1900 with 1S.964,294 tons, and Great
Britain its maximum in 1889, when its
total was 1886, 105 tons.
In 1901, the year when this country
for the first time produced more ore
than Great Britain and Germany COM
bined, the total world output of ore was
1881 ,935 tons, leaving only 51,O94, ,45ti
for the entire world outside the United
States, whose production was 2S,SS7, ,479
tons.
For that year the official figures. with
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-23


Next to a mans acts. judged by his
Avowed motives, there is no safer guide
to his character and his mental qualities
than his choice of associates and fellow
workers. Turning from the meager tale
Of Judge Parker's political life to his
political counselors and intimates. whom
do We find?
Two forces: David Bennett Hill and
Tammany! "Blue-Eyed Billy Sheehan"
Is Judge Parker's friend and neighbor
at Rosemount To him Parker addressed
his famous telegram at the st. Louis
convention. Daily Judge Parker is sur
rounded by the Sheehans, O'Briens and
the McDonalds of Tammany. There is
no hiding from an argus-eyed people, and
the best proof of Judge Parker's lack
of knowledge of the American people is
that he does not know that his associa-
ton with Tammany will not be excused
or condoned by them. In New York,
he possibly argues. Tammany is endur-
ed. with restveness. it is true. but still
endured. Outside Of New York this is
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-23
Mckinley con.ulted FaIrbsuk.

All this is history, which the world
knows and which need not be recapitulat
ed in detail. What the world does NOT
generally know is that in the small cir
Gle OF men who were daily and nightly
and sometimes even hourly called into
council by William Mckinley to advise
him as to the best thing to be done
to preserve the honor and the dignity
OF the nation, Charles Warren Fair.
banks was always foremost in the list.
kie was summoned to the White House
hight after night. and during time
when the gravest matters were under
consideration the most important of all
the conferences were held in the Fair.
banks home on Massachusetts avenue.
There were gathered the senators and
the cabinet officers who represented ths
inner council of the nation, the men
who possessed the absoluts confidence
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-22
WILL RAISE BANNER
ON FRIDAY EVENING

One of the biggest Republican rallies
this week will be the banner raising
on Friday evening at the new Fourth
District headquarters, corner of Alakea
and Merchant streets. Music, speech
making and fireworks viii vie in the
effort to make the ceremony one of
political significance.
Chairman Lorrin Andrews of the
Fourth District has the matter in hand.
There will be speechmaking both inside
the headquarters and outside as we'll.
The vacant lot between the Electric
Light and Occidental buildings will be
utilized for an overflow meeting A
stand is to be erected and this place
Will be used throughout the campaign
for the headquarters of out-of-door
meetings.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-22

I J. Hastings Rowland, Deputy Super
fntendent of Public Works and ex-oficio
in charge of the Honolulu Water Works,
was asked yesterday for a statement re-
garding the extensive water pipe laying
for which preparations are obvious in
many parts of the city He complied
with the request substantially as fol-
lows:
IAN I8-inch pipe is to be laid from
Beretania to Judd street on Nuuanu
avenue 1t was originally proposed to
lay this I8-inch pipe to the electric light
station, but am going to leave the r.
inch pipe now in there for the present.
so that Investigations into the reservoir
and the system as whole may be made
before we undertake these permanent
improvements.
Eventually a a4-inch pipe will be
laid-we haven't got this pine yet-from
Judd street to the electric light station.
Survey work is now being done on
the reservoir in Nuuanu, for which there
is an appropriation of $4,000. S. G.
Walker, engineer. has been at work on
it for about a week.
eve intend to investigate the valleys
in hopes that Makiki. Kalihi and pos
sibly Manoa valley will furnish an addi-
tiona1 supply to that of Nuuanu valley.
have already made a trip up to Ma
kiki valley and found a small stream,
where small reservoir may be put up
to increase the supply and equalize the
pressure throughout the Waikiki sec
ton of Honolulu,
THE distribution system throughout
Honolulu is very defective and in time
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-22
THE CORNER ORATORS
ARE MAKING READY

The battle-worn corner of King and
Bethel streets seems to be waking up
Every day at noon politicians of all.
parties unconsciously gravitate there.
and soon there are animated groups dis
GUESSING the coming election. BY sstur-
day it is expected that a clarion-voiced
politician will mount the soap-box plat
form and open the corner" campaign.
One of the amusing features of the
first campaign in 1900 was when three
speakers representing as many political
parties became so enthusiastic that they
mounted a telephone pole on the corner
and all three, hanging on to the iron
rounds. shouted until they were hoarse.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-22
CLUB GOT
IN ON TICKET

The Democrats on Tuesday night put
up as caucus nominees the following
persons:
For Senate: Frank Harvey and E. H.
F. VOTERS. The party is questioning
the advisability of putting up more
than two names mentioned.
The name of Cecil Brown was pro-
posed by Messrs. Kinney and Arthur
wilder, but the caucus threw the can
didate down. a result which was out
lined in this paper on Tuesday morning.
1t was shown that the Democratic
party could not take up and put upon
its ticket a man who yet declares him
self to be a Republican. although an in
dependent one.
The following men were mentioned as
candidates on the ticket for the House
of Representatives: Joseph Aea. l. h
Medeiros, Mr.. Unauna, William Jar
ret. Capt. Campbell and c. J. Hutchins
It is reported that Frank Harvey
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will yet withdraw from the race, al
though he is conceded to be one of the
strongest men in the Democratic ranks.
1t is quite significant that both john
Lane on the Republican ticket and
Frank Harvey on the Democratic ticket
are from the office of the Inter-Island
steamship company, and of which Mr.
Dowsett, also on the Republican tick
ct, is an officer
E. FL. f. VOTERS is not taken se-
rious1y. He is a saloon keeper. who
was the selection of the Good Coo
eminent Club, organized by ex-Judge
Humphreys and Paddy Ryan, the lattar
a saloon-keeper, and son-in-law of VOL
ters.