Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-08-25
THE kEvNorE or isos

Rssiesing the address af Speaker
cannan m naaviile. thu Glaa,e Demo
Graf. which has i-een called the r.
publican bihle NJ the Mississippi val.
isy," has the following 10 ~ editor.
tally:
In the Dansiile address Mr. Cannon
NOT only made II plain thai IA large
part Of the eounsry's present unex
amried prosperity " due ID the repub.
iican protective policy. hui he also
said that tina, policy ~ould b. main.
tanned. Citing Gompers'. sssatemens
that there we're an average of 2!aoe.,
ooo of tdle workers In 1884 and 1895.
during cisveiand's days. he conn,ered
effectively ioth on that demagosne n
On the democracy. for the number
who are Idle now In insignificant.
Gonpers said Al the time that the dis
asfer 10 the ~0rkingmen which came
In Cleseaind's days. ended In 1897.
after the republicans resumed power.
The improvement which began In 1897
In coincident with the enactment Of
the Dngley tariff. which IL stiii In
operation. and which will h. cham.
pioned by the republicans In the can
vases Of 1905 and 1908. The figures
OF the census bureau for 1905 allow q
comparison 10 be made with 1901. and
this furnishes q fine tribute 10 the
benefits Of republican sway. The In.
crease In the number Of wage earners
In 1905 over 1900 was 10 per cent.
while the gain In the wages paid was
10 per cent. This expansion iH the
earnings and On the comforts Of the
wage workers furnishes a powerful
reason why the republican party will
stick 10 It's policy Of prosperity.
Speaker cannon's prominence gives
q national interest 10 everything
which he says relating To the larger
issues of politics. The importance Of
the part which he Is 10 play In the
canvass of 1906. and the possibility
that he may filI a stni bigger role
In the campaign Of 1908. will direct
the country's attention to the things
which no said nj Danyille before the
congressional convention which re-
nominated him. His words. moreover.
have an especial interest from the
fact that he is assaulted this year by
iiompers. the head of the American
federation Of labor. aud he gave tome
attention 10 Gompcrs In his speech.
Today Gompers Is to take the stump
against tdttlefield In the second Maine
congressional district. Next week
Speaker Cannon is to 20 to Maine,
and no will make many speeches In
that state. several Of them being in
iittlefieid's district, In the interval
between that time and the election
for congressman and state officers In
the state on September 10.
II IL well to mention occasionally.
az Speaker Cannon did at Danviile.
that under the republican protective
policy the United States nov produces
q third Of the worlds manufactures
and agricultural products. Some dem'
ocrats declare that the tariff never
helps the farmer. They are rash In
making any such assertion. This
gives the republicans a chance to show
that the diyersification Of Industries
which the tariff has created has rails
ed up a home market for the farmer
which has advanced the value OF
everything which he hns to sell. while
the competition among the factories
has cheapened everything that the
farmer has to buy. This Is the prin'
ctpai reason why farming Il far more
profitable nov than Il was In the dem
ocratic days before the rebellion.
Farming Is far more profitable, like
wise, than II was In the democratic
DAYS of is9a.97. when the country had
Its latest and ~seyerest financial panic.
In speakiug Of the country's prosper
ity from any viewpoint the tariff Is
SUR to present itself as a ~contributory
cause Of the good times. Under dem.
ocratic sway, In Buchanan's days. the
aggregate Of the country's manufac'
Z4@
lures was slight. This was an agri'
cultural country almost solely at that
time. As a consequence the farmer
got less for his products than he does
now. Our manufactured articles In
those days were furnished by England
chiefly. and the American farmer and
the rest of the American consumers
paid more for them than they do now
for the home product. The tariff has
benefited producer and consumer.
There are 1aore Wage workers. IN pro
portion to the aggregate population
I'M 1906 than there we're in 1860, tho
last year Of democratic power prior
10 the rebellion, There + more wage
workers than there were in 1886. the
last year Of the last term Of the last
democratic president. The wages In
each case has made great advances.
Here are some of the reasons why
the republicans III the campaigns Of
1906 and 1908 win champion the main
tenance Of i faflh which will give
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