River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-22
BILLION DOLLAR COUNTRY
Facts Which It Is Desirab bic to Bear
In Mind.

In Mind
Evidently Judge Parker has lost track
of the fact that the United States has
become a billion-dollar country, while
he has been dreaming away his man
hood on the bench at Albany. Otherwise
it is impossible to account for his ac-
ceptance of 'the Republican challenge
to a comparison of Democratic and Re
publican administrations"
If there is any issue before the Ameri-
can people upon which the Republicans
are more ready to appeal to the voters
than another, it is that relating to the
administration Of national finances. But
they will not let Judge Parker, or the
hungry aggregation of Democratic edl-
tors to whom he addressed his Kip Van
Wrinkle remarks, ignore the fact that
the United States of 1904 deals with
billions, where in Cleveland's first adj
ministration it's finances could be dis
cussed in terms Of nine figures. Neither
will they permit him to compare net
expenditures under Cleveland with ex-
traordinary appropriations under Nc
Knley and Roosevelt.
When he makes his comparisons be-
tween the expenditures of 1SS5-1SS8 with
those of 19O1-19O3 he will not be per-
crease in postal expenditures from $50,
942, 415 in 1885 to $138, 784 ,4S7 in 1908,
and that the excess of expenditures on
account of the postal service over re-
ceipts last year was only S4,56O,O 44, as
compared with $8,381,572.
AS an index of the growth of the Uni
ted States in every direction that marks
advance in national welfare there can
Io rEo 10 nd +han hn
use of an ever improving and extending
mail service.
Neither will Judge Parker nor the edi-
tors to whom he unbosomed q choice
medley of ideas from the wit and wis
dom of Samuel J. Tilden and Grover
Cleveland, be permitted to ''point with
Democratic pride" to the enforced econ
omies of Cleveland's second term 1893
1896, without being confronted with the
following deficits that waited on Demo
cratic policy and Democratic admins
tration:
DEFICITS DURING CLEvELAND's SEC
OND TERM.
1894 $69' 30 aod
1870 % 300 &c
With no exceptional expenditures, over
$500, 100000 was added to the public
And when they are discussing the
expense of running the government of
people that has increased nearly so per
cent in population and more than 100
per cent. in wealth since Grover Cleve-
land was first inaugurated, Republicans
will not forget to remind American vo-
tiers of such billion-dollar facts as these:
MONEY IN CIRCULATION.
81, 292, 56S, 615. 81, 367, 692, 1859
81. 1O6. $40, Sir. 5000, 993, 500
Deposits in Savings Banks.
81 O05 172 147 So, 935, 2O4, S45.
Deposits in State Banks,
S344 3C7. 916 $1,S14, $40, 1853.
Deposits in Loan and Trust Companies
S1SS 417293 $1,5S9, 1893, 196.
s577. 527, 800. 0' s1,025, us, 237.
Total Exports.
= - VALUE OF FARMS.
Estimated on Census returns for 1850, 1870
and 1900
1885. 1903.
s14 0O0OOO 900. $50, 000, 100000
(a) Value of Farm Animals;
50 AKA 4oS 3S3 So, 102, 515, $40.
s427, 1896, $50. $1,260, $40 265.
Freight tons carried one mlte Dy haIIWayS.
70 S s03 07o ZOO 172, %, Us, 99s.
Gat / al cents Der lat .763 cents per
Wages in Manufacturing Industry
1000 1900.
| so47 o53 7e5 s., 32S, 691, 254.
Bewildering and incomprehensible as
are these billions in many respects, they
yet present a demonstration of the
growth of our country so clear and sim
pie as to be within the comprehension of
| child. Only one word need be added
to rectify what might be an erroneous
| impression from the figures as to the
value of farm animals (a). During the
second administration of Cleveland this
value shrank from S2,4S3, 506,6S1 in
1893 TO S1,727, 926,O94 in 1896, from
| which it has since risen to over So, 100,-
100000.
1t almost seems as if the earth and
the kline refused to bring forth their
| natural increase under a Democratic ad-
| miujStra ton