El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-07-20
The Republican Party
The Party Of Performance"
By Congressman ]. SlOat Fassett Of New York

| We found 1000, 900 of our inhabitant:
slaves, and we freed them.
We found 81 states; we now have &c
Then our boundaries touched the At
lantic and the Pacific; now the sun never
sets upon the stars and stripes.
Then our national wealth was S16,-
000,000,000; now it exceeds S125,000,-
! 100000.
Then France and Germany and Great
britain each WAS richer than We and
now we are richer than France and Ger
many combined, and nearly twice as rich
as Great Britain.
Then we had less than thirty-one
and one-half million inhabitants. partly
slaves; now we have more than eighty
nine millions. and all are free.
Then we followed the world in man
ufacturing, and now all the world fol-
lows US.
Our manufacturing establishments
have increased, and now we have $685.
769 (neighborhood and mechanical in
dustries estimated).
These establishments then employed
a little over million hands; now they
employ 5000. 900 hands, receiving annu-
ally more than $4,000, 900, 900 in wages.
Our farms were worth less than eight
billions of money then; they are worth
Our manufacturing establishments
about $1,000, 100000 then, and now they
represent a capital of nearly $4,000
000,000 with neighborhood industries
and hand trades estimated).
We had s435, 100000 of money then
with which to do our business; we have
SO, loo, 100000 now.
Then it was 1885 per capita; now
oil
Then there was less than $50, 600, 600
in the savings banks; now there are
nearly s4,0o0,O00,0OO of savings of the
wages Of the laboring people Of this
country, or twenfy-six times as much.
We raise over three times as much
corn and wheat now as then. and make
thirty-one times as much pig iron an
nually. besides 100000 900 (90S) tons of
steel. Of which then we did not make a
ton
Then we exported annually about
S136,O00,000 of domestic merchandise;
now we export annually 1888, 00o, 600
Of merchandise or more than five times
as much.
Our bank clearances are annually
twenty-four times now what they were
then. Then they were $1,000 GOO 600. at
New York; now they are nearly $780,
o00,000,000 at New York, and $3.50, 00O,-
100000 for the entire country.
Then we had 10000 miles of railroad;
now we have over 23O, 900 miles
Then the Western Union (1S66) had
$4,000 miles of telegraph wire; now
all lines have about 1000, 900.
Then we had no telephone systems;
now we have over 5000, with 1900, 900
miles of wire
We have the least debt per capita of
any important nation, and in spite of
alleged extravaganza, we spend less per
in Europe or America. 1t costs US 1897
per capita per year. It costs Canada
and Germany each So, France over SIT,
and England $21.39.
These figures are so enormous as to
bewilder the imagination; but our pro-
gress has not been merely physical and
material The radiant energies of So
600, 0o0 of free men have not been con-
fined to advancing in one direction. We
have not merely become 100000 of
the freest and richest and most product
I've and most progressive people in the
world, but our people, occupation for
occupation, profession for profession.
calling by calling. are better educated.
better dressed, better fed, have better
homes, are better paid, give more to
charities, to churches, and to schools,
have more and better means of trans
portation and communication, have
more and better newspapers, have at
reader command more of all the things.
spiritual, physical material, and social
that make life better worth living, than
any other people in the world
The whole trend and tendency of Re-