The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-16
JUNGLE JOE"



Under the administration of the
Dtngley tariff law there has been q
greater development in all forms of
industry than has ever been reached
under any other law since the govern
ment was organized. The schedules
OF that law are not sacred. but the
principle there embodied Is fundament-
al. Since the enactment Of the first
revenue law under Washington down
to the present time the periods of pros
perity have been under protection, and
the periods of adversely have been
under the policy of free trade. or tariff
for revenue only.
This remarkable prosperity under
the Dingley law has not been for one
class, but for all the people. 1t has
touched the artisan. the farmer, the
manufacturer, and the common laborer
of the country. All have felt its bene-
f1cient influence. and | measure my
words when l say, that the production
of all kinds of business enterprise has
doubled since the memorable year of
1896. when the country in its distress
turned to William Mckinley, the cham
piOn of protection. as the advance
agent of prosperity. The capital en-
ployed In our industries has doubled:
the total wages paid for labor have
more than doubled in these ten years;
the farmers have lifted their mortgages
and are enjoying the embarrassments
Of a surplus In the savings banks; and
laborers have ceased to hunt for jobs.
and have become the hunted by the
jobs; in spite of large immigration
from other lands. there is more work
than workers in this country today.
Capital is cheaper than ever before,
and money can be had at less interest
than anywhere else in the world.
The sun of prosperity Is shining on
territory from the Atlantic to the
the Gulf and the Rio Grande. We are
at peace with all the world, and our
influence for peace. whether it be be-
tween two great powers in the Orient,
or among the small republics on the
American continent. is felt throughout
the world.
The record of the servant is his
best and only certificate for continued
employment, and the republican party,
as servant of the people, stands to-
day in this campaign squarely on its
record.
We have no census figures as to
business conditions in 1896, but we
have them for 1890. 1900 and 1905, and
to supplement these we have the OH
cial message of President Cleveland,
complaining that unparalleled business
distress and lack of confidence marked
the greater part of his administration.
We also have the official statement of
Samuel Gompers. as president of the
American Federation of Labor, that
more than 100000 workingmen were
without work in 1894 and 1895, and
that work did not return to them until
1897.
According to the census of 1890.
there were $6,525 900 760 capital in
vested In manufacturing industries in
the United States, whereas, according
to the oficial figures, there were in
1905. $13,122.607,O 900 so invested. The
average number of wage earners in
1890, as given by the census, was A.
PSI ,535 land Mr.. GOmpers said 3,000,-
900 were without work in 1894 and
1881 In 1905 the number 5,492,178,
not including those in the hand trades
The total wages paid, in 1890 amount
ed to 1891 ,2Os. 500 and in 1905 to
s2.661 ,4O9, 1858.
The total value of the output of our
manufactures in 1890 was $9,372,378,-
S43, and in 1906, $14,S73,818,425, not
including that from the hand trades.
Taking the testimony of President
Cleveland and Samuel Gompers as to
the deplOrable condition in 1894, 1896
and 1896, it will be readily seen that
the Industrial development of the
country, both as affecting labor and
capital has been at the rate of 100 per
cent in the ten years..
There has been must discussion and
no little confusion over the effort to
compare the relative increase in wages
and cost of living in the last few
years. The labor bureau of the United
States in its last bulletin on this
question made very careful analysis
for the fourteen years from 1890 to
1904. In that comparison and analysis
t was shown that the weekly earnings
of all employees had increased 53.4 per
cent from 1894 to 1904. and that the
retail prices of food product had in
creased in the same time only IL per
cent. This, l believe, is the only care
been made on the subject.
The republican party has always fol-
lowed the maxim PLANT the factory
by the farm" that there may be the
closest possible exchange between the
two great bodies Of producers. One of
the old complaints in the east; but
the continuation Of settled policy of
protection has gradually extended the
industrial development to the west and
the south. bringing agriculture and
manufacture closer together. The new
statistics of manufacturers compiled
by the United States census Office last
year show more clearly than any pre-
vious census the general benefit of the
protective policy. The prosperity that
has come to the country under the
Dingley law has not been spasmodic
nor sectional, except that 1t has pro-
duced greater extension of manufac-
turing into the central. western and
southern states. This new census
shows first, that there has been a
larger per cent of increase in the cap
ital put into manufacturing plants in
the last five years than there has been
in the product of these industries. The
actual increase Of capital was 81, $780,
100000, or Al per cent greater than
the capital invested in 1900. The actual
increase output was $3,364 900, 900, or
about 30 per cent over that Of 1900.
Capital has grown confident of its in
vestment and has turned back into the
plant a larger share of it's earnings, to
increase the demand for labor and ul-
timately increase the output.
This census also shows that in the
five years from 1900 to 1905 the in
crease in the number of wage earners