The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-22

in 1900 it was 81 .235. and by stating
further that the total wealth of the
United States in 1850 was SIG, 100000
and in 1900 81 billions and now over
one hundred billions
Progress Measured by PostOfIice-
But I can give a better illustration
of the progress of the country under
the leadership of the Republican par
~ by referring to the postoffice de-
partment-that great service that
gathers no penny of money except by
the voluntary contributions of the peo-
pie of the republic Since 1850 the
rates of postage have been practical
ly reduced more than one-half- In
1860 the year that the Republican
party first came into power, the reve-
nues of the postOfice department were
in round numbers eight and one-half
million of dollars, while the eXpendl-
lures were nineteen millions deh-
cit one and one-fourth times as great
as the income. The revenues of the
city postoffice last year were greater
in amount than the total postal reve-
nues of the whole country in the year
1860. Last year the revenues OF the
postal service were 134 millions, and
the deficit only four millions, or less
than 3 per cent, and this, too, notW1th-
standing the very large growth of
rural free delivery, involving an eX-
peaditure of ten million dollars. This
year the revenues have not been as
certained, but viii safely increase by
ten millions. and in the coming year
by another ten millions. all of which
measures. and truly measures. the
commercial prosperity and well-being
OF the people
Wolves Would Protect the Sheep.
For more than sixty years the Dem
ocratie party has denounced protec-
! ton as robbery and their cry has been
sometimes, a tariff for revenue only,
sometimes for Progressive free trade
throughout the world but whatever
the expression may be. they have al
ways been. ready, when clothed with
power, to run the dagger into the pro-
tective policy. And such is still the
position of that party In the closing
days of the late session of congress-
Representative Cochran of New York
preached the pure Democratic faith;
and there never was in my recollec-
ton such a demonstration as came
from the Democratic side of the house
when, with flaming eyes and wild ges-
ticulations and enthusiastic faces, they
sprang as one man, with cheer after
cheer interrupting the business of the
house until they could mark their ap-
prevail of the policy in which they
believed. In il is true that in maya
zine articles and by careful speech
and sentence here and there men like
: Senator German, Representative Will
EamS and others, While denOuncing
protection as robbery, say that if the
I Democra party is clothed with
power they Will not destroy the sys-
/ TEN overnight, yet they each and all
ayoW that they viii journey in the
! direction of a tariff for revenue ony
and of free trade. In other words,
I if they are given power, the Ameri-
can manufacturer and labOrer will be
! gradually starved to death instead Of
being destroyed at one stroke. It re-
minds me of Aesop's fables where
/ the wolves proposed to the sheep that
I they should discharge the dogs, their
natural protectors, and place them
! selves under the protection of the
+ wolves. Does capital on the one hand
and labor on the other desire such
protection
( Profits, Not Deficits. Produce Strikes.
1 But the little politician cries out that
I strikes abound here and there in the
country. Yes, they do, but contests
that lead to strikes, where an adjust
ment is not made and where arbitra-