The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-10-16

alone American farmers paid-that is
lost--$649, 100000 for allowing dem
ocratic administration to run the gov.
eminent from 1903 to 1897. The loss
was, of course, far greater for had a
republican administration been in
power there would undoubtedly have
been an increase in the value of the
corn crop of hundreds of millions of
dollars.
Nor was the farmers loss on account
of the latest experiment with demo-
cratic rule confined to corn.
The farm value of the wheat crop
for the four years of Cleyeland's first
administration was $l,2s5 100000. Dur
ing the succeeding republican admin
istration the farm value of the wheat
crop was 100000, an increase
over the four preceding democratic
years of $22S,OO0,OOO. Then the 1dem-
ocrats got in again for four years
1893 to lS97-and down went the
wheat crop for the four years to $685.
900, OOO below the billion mark, and a
shrinkage of $525,OO0,OOO from the
four preceding republican years. Next
followed the first four years of Nc
Kinley, with a rise in the farm value
of the wheat crop to 81 AGA 100000, an
increase of nearly $500,000,0O0. Dur
ing the next four years-the McKin-
ley Roosevelt administration-the farm
value of the wheat crop was 81 ,S43,-
900, 900, or $3.50 100000 more than dur
ton. During three years of the pres
ent Roosevelt administration the farm
value of the wheat crop has aggre-
gated 81 63,OO0,0O0, indicating that
the figures for the -four years will
pass the two thousand million mark.
The oat crop showed a similar in
crease in value to the farmer under
republican administrations and de-
crease in democratic years. During
the four years of the first Cleveland
democratic administration the oat
crop was worth to the farmer $780,
100000. For the next four years of
Harrison republican administration the
crop reached $935,OOO,OOO. Then came
another four years of democracy, with
an ont crop worth to the farmer only
5000, 100000. Then followed McKin-
ley's first administration, the value of
the oat crop to. the farmer increas-
ing to SAL 100000, and during the next
four years of Mckinley Roosevelt to
81, las, 100000.
Now we pass to the farmers live
stock. In 1892, the last year of Har-
rison's republican administration, farm
stock was valued at $2,462, 100000. Four
democratic years followed, and in 1896
the last of them-the value of farm
stock had shrunk 80 per cent, making
1907 100000 the amount of the farmers
loss on live stock alone as result
of the nations blunder in allowing
the democratic party to get another
chance at the government.
There is no installing the mean
ing of the figures. The decrease is
clearly due to maladministration, to
democratic methods of dealing with
the farming and other industries by
which Americans live and maintain
their homes.
With Taft in the White House the
farms of America will continue to
prosper as they have prospered since
1897 again ushered in republican rule,
and it is safe to predict that farmers
everywhere will serve their own inter
ests and the common good by voting
for Taft and Sherman, the republican
candidates for the president and vice
president of the United States