The La Jara chronicle., 1904-10-21
REPUBLICAN POLICIES
THEIR RESULTS CONTRASTEO
WITH THOSE OF DEMOCRACY.
The Prosperity of the Agricultural
Class Means that Men Engaged in
All Other Lines of Industry Arc
Also Prosperous.

NIeeth III ISJD W. d. sIld tntI
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 i'll the country town" etc.
He also expressed the Democratic idea
that if 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 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 laboringmen in
the cities. the farmer. the country mer-
chant, the miner. the country lawyer.
ETC., nll included in Brynn's definition
of the American business man." 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 ciass,
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 We're, but BUSY MEN.
A Contrast of Results.
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 the government give it
work was but a small guerrilla detach-
ment of the vast army that stayed at
home, suffered starved and found the
living of life to be almost unendurablc.
When this army of the unemployed got
work, and not only that, but got steadily
increasing wages, it made Il 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 a 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 S43l ,l05,5JO 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 1901, 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
| 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
ABOUT THE SAME THING is
TRUE OF PRACTICALLY EVERY
| THING THE AMERICAN FARMER
PRODUCES.
| This farming class of business men is
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 cross roads 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-a -brac to adorn the
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 as stylshly 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 as much at home in the most
| accomplished society. lie could afford
to send his son to college where he 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 incren sed pros
| perity reciprocally benefits the working
| mar 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 n 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.
as well as in all other branches of hon
est industrial effort, the American busi.
ness man" can now secure the hire that
the Bible says his labor is worthy of.
but which Democratic policies ruthless.
| ly deprived him of.
The Limit.