The Springfield herald., 1904-10-21
REPUBLICAN POLICIES
THEIR RESULTS CONTRAsTED
WITH THOSE OF DEMOCRACY.
The Prosperity of the Agricultural
Class heans that Men Engaged In
All Other Liues of Industry Are
Also Prosperous.

the American business man Included tne
.'man who is employed for wages. tho
merchant Mt the crossroads store. the
farmer who goes forth in the morning
and tolls all day, and begins in the
spring and tolls nll 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 il you make the masses prosperous
their prosperity will find its way up and
through every class"
The Republican party during the last
eight years, in fact AS well in theory,
has been carrying out this democratic
idea" of making the nation prosperous by
making the masses prosperous 1t has
reached out after the lnboringmen in
the cities, the farmer the country mer-
chant, the miner, the country lawyer,
etc, all included in Brynns definition
of the "American business mha." and
it has made them all prosperous. 1t
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 class,
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. us
Bryan said they were, but BUSY MEN.
A cantrast of Results. -s....
In Democratic times there was con-
stant and frequent allusion to the ARMY
OF THE UNEMPLOYED. The Coxey
Army that went to Washington, in 1894
to demand that tile 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
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 living for
themselves and families by tilling 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 employed
in manufacturing industries had increas-
ed $431 105, $50 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
ENORMOUS GAIN IN WAGES TO
THE LABORING CLASS OF BUSI-
NESS MEN, WHO WE'RE 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 6.33 BUSHELS IN 1904. THE
PRICE HAS DOUBLED, AND THAT
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 off
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, books
to read, and bric-n-brnc to adorn tho
country home. The farmer could now
afford Gf he wanted tor to change from
the corncob pipe to real Havana cigar,
and dress every bit us stylishly as the
business man in the city, pay as high
fees to his doctor and his lawyer, and
just as much rent for the pew in church.
His wife could dress in satins. silks and
laces, just like the city business mans
wife, and hire servant girl 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 MS much at home in the most
accomplished society He could afford
to send his son to college where lie could
get an education that might make him
some day a railroad or bank president,
or even President of the United States.
The American farmers increased pros
perity reciprocally benefits the working
man in the cities. and the workingman's
prosperity again reciprocally benefits the
farmers in the country, creating thus an
endless chain of mutual benefits.
AS for those who "go a thousand feet
in the earth,' ETC.. they, too, have fully
shared in the Republican prosperity
which has increased enormously the de-
mand for iron, copper. zinc, lead, coal,
coke and the precious metals. In mining,
us well as in all other branches of hon
est industrial effort the american bust
ness man. can now secure the hire that
the Bible snys his labor is worthy of,
but which Democratic policies ruthless
ly deprived him of.