The Elbert County tribune., 1904-10-20
REPUBLICAN POLICIES
THEIR RESULTS coNTRAsTED
WITH THOSE OF DEMOCRACY.
The Prosperity OF the AxricuIsursi
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
man who Is employed for wages, the
merchant at the crossroads store. the
farmer who goes forth in the morning
and tolls all day, and begins In the
spring and tolls all summer. the miner
who goes a thousand feet into the earth.
the attorney in the country town." etc
He also expressed the Democratic idea
that II you make the masses prosperous
their prosperity will find its way mp and
through every clnss.'
The Republican party during the last
eight years. in fact ms well in theory.
has been carrying out this Democratic
idea" of making the nation prosperous by
making the masses prosperous." 1t has
reached ont 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 tho "Americnn business man." md
1t has made them all prosperous. II
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 clnss.
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 alusion TO the ARMY
OF THE UNEMPLOYED. The Coxcy
Army that went to Washington, In 1894
to demand that the government give it
work was but small guerrilla detach-
ment Of the vast army that stayed at
home, suffered, starved and found the
living of life to be almost uncomfortable.
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 a living for
themselves and families by filling the
soil, and who must depend for their
prosperity on the demand for their prod
ucts from those employed in manufac-
turing Industries. The census of 1900
showed that the wages Of those employ ed
| in manufacturing industries had increas-
| ed $431 ZOE. 800 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
l ENnnAJnIJG
THE LABORING CLASS OF BUSI
NESS MEN, WHO WERE GIVEN A
CHANCE TO BE BUSY THROUGH
THE REPUBLICAN POLICY OF
PROTECTION, THE PER CAPITA
| CONSUMPTION OF WHEAT IN
CREASED FROM 3.44 BUSHELS IN
1894 TO 633 BUSHELS IN 1904, THE
PRICE HAS DOUBLED, AND THAT
ABOUT THE SAME THING IE
TRUE OF PRACTICALLY EVERY
THING THE AMERICAN FARMER
PRODUCES.
| This farming class of business men Il
now given adequate reward for their toll
by day and through spring and summer
1t now can, in fact already has, paid of
mortgages and started checking accounts
with the country banks.
A Change In Conditions.
The merchant at the crossroads store
| now finds the farmer and his wife and
children have money to spend, and want
more and better clothes to wear, book
to read, and bric-a-brac to adorn thu
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 stylishIy as the
business man in the city, pay as high
! IN ia la.
just as much rent for the pew In church.
His wife could dress in sntins, silks and
laces, just like the city business mans
wife, and hire a servant gifl 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 he could
get an education that might make hin
some day a railroad or bank president
or even President of the United States
The American farmers Increased pros
perity reciprocaIly benefits the working
man in the cities, and the workingman',
prosperity again reciprocally benefits tn,
farmers in the country, creating thus ar
endless chain Of mutual benefits
As for those who Ego thousand fee
in the earth" etc, they. too, have full,
shared in the Republican prosperit,
which has increased enormously the de
nand for iron, copper, zinc, lead, coal
coke and the precious metals. In mining
as well as in all other branches of hon
est industrial effort, the American bust
ness man" can now secure the hire thai
the Bible says his labor is worthy of
but which Democratic policies ruthless
ly deprived him of.