Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-22

can labor which works shorter hours than
any people on earth. and has more steady
employment than any people on earth. and
on the average receives. conservatively
stated. one and three-fourthS dollars COM
pensation where similar labor elsewhere re-
ceive but one dollar. Our manufactured
product yearly is greater than the manu-
featured product of the people of Great
Britain. Germany and France combined
and this product is substantially consumed
by our own people. finding market within
the borders of the republic, although our
exports of products are rapidly grow
ing. Last year they were over slOOOo0OO-
% per cent--Of our total exports 1t Is
not few men of great wealth that make
good markets, but 1t is the multiplied mil
lions that work today and consume tomor-
row, with interchange of their respective
products amongst one another. and the
prosperity of the farmer on one hand. and
the operative upon the other, depend on the
prosperity of each as producers OF their
respective products and consumers OF
the products of others.
Home Market Greatest in the World.
1--WE are one harmonious whole; and If
one more OF the great industries is in
juriously affected those engaged in that
line of production cease to be valuable Gus
toners for all the other producers in the
country. If we DID not sell one particle OF
our immense produce outside of our own
borders, we would still have the best mar
ket of any people earth. 1t 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, among all the peoples of the
world; and while people are seeing to
1t that foreign markets shall grow
and we are now the greatest exporting ma
ton on earth-yet it is absolutely neces-
sary that should see to 1t that We con-
tnue that policy which enables us to domi-
nate our own markets and to continue the
present and growing wage to our people.
II can perhaps best present to you the
progress of the country by stating that the
wealth per capita of the United States in
1880 1907. while in 1900 1T 81 ,235.
and by stating further that the total wealth
of the United States in 1860 was SIG 900. $50
and in 1900 $94 100000, and now over
SlOO.UO,No.OU.
Progress Measured by Post Office.
But 1 can give better illustration of
the progress of the country under the lead
ership OF the republican party by referring
to the Post Office Department-that great
service that fathers no penny of money ex-
cept by the voluntary contributions of tho
people of the republic. Since 1860 the
rates of postage have been practically re-
duced more than one-half. In 1860 the
year that the republican party first came
into power, the revenues of the Post Office
Department We're. in round numbers. eight
and one-half millions of dollars while the
expenditures were nineteen millionS-a de-
felt one and one-fourth times great as
the income. The revenues of the city post
Office of Chicago last year were greater in
amount than the total postal revenues OF
the whole country I'm the year 1860. Last
year the revenue of the postal service was
$l34 600 900. and the deficit only four mil
lions or less than per cent. and this too,
Notwithstanding the very large growth of
rural free delivery. involving an expend-
iture of ten million dollars. This year the
revenues have not been ascertaned. but
will safely increase by ten millions, and IN
the coming year by another ten millions. all
of which measures. and truly measures the
commercial the business. the social and the
individual prosperity and well-being of the
people.
Wolves Would Protect the Sheep.
For more than sixty years the demo-
cratic party has denounced protection as
robbery. and their cry has been. sometimes.
"a tarirr for revenue only sometimes for
progressive free trade throughout the
world but whatever the expression may
be- they have always been ready. when
clothed with power. to run the dagger into
the protective policy. And such Is stiu the
position of that party. In the closing days
tative Cochran of New York preached the
pure democratic faith; and there never was
in my recollection such a demonstration as
came from the democratic side of the House
when with flaming eyes and wild gesticula-
lions and enthusiastic faces, they Sprang
rs one man, with cheer after cheer. inter-
rupting the business OF the House. until
they could mark their approval of the
policy In which they believed. 1t is true
that in magazine articles and by careful
speech and sentence. here and there. men
like Senator German, Representative Will