The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-10-29
Republican Circular Warning
Railroad Men Is PalpabIe
False Alarm.
EASY TO MAKE FIGURES LIE
Old Trick Of settins Red Lights on q
Clear Traek-Faets Presented ss
Railroad Men Msy Judge.

A0A0 AaOA ~ OAa(eshA R&hAo R1a n84 -
times in the event OF Democratic vie
tory. Among their statements intend
ed to misiead railroad men n this:
RAILROAD AEN,
grOPl LOOK! LI6rEMi
LEST YoU FORGOT
m,su.sD
Hig sum OF mouey, isn't TT
Nevertheless it's sxs1tiy that mucA
moro paid TO the railroad employees
OF the United States under the adnin-
istrAtion Of President Taft in 1910 than
was paid in 1907. the year before Nj.
Taft became president.
This ID sample OF the old time Re
publican habit Of claiming credit for
all natural progress credit even for
good crops.
1t is true that In 1910 the wages Of
railroad employees amounted TO some
81, 10000 more than in 1907.
But that represented three years
progress.
In 1905 the amount paid to railroad
employees was tsoo,sol $50. In 1907
1t was s1,e77.sse.taT. This was an in
crease OF $f7l.6s4.71+ in single year
preceding the TAFT administration.
amounting to more than double the In
crease during thres years OF the Taft
administration.
j Isn't 1t obvious that they are pre-
suming you won't have the statistics
at hand to inform yourself and that
therefore they with fool you into be-
lieving that the Taft administration
made railroad mems prosperity!
Then stop, look. listen again!
In four years preceding Taft's adj
ainistration 1893 miles of railroad
ere sold under foreclosure. The
stocks and bonds Of these roads
amounted to s47,0s1, 900.
Under three years of the Taft ad-
ministration 5,115 miles were foreclos.
cd, involving $3S4,434. .562
The Tariff Humhup Again.
A still more palpable presumption
by Republicans that railroad men are
fools is the following statement In
their circular:
The total number OF railway en-
ployes In 1895 Was 785,o34
The total number OF railway em-
ployees in 1911 was 169s, 500
Under Republican administration the
number OF railway employees has In
creased from 7s5, 034sdnring Demo
cratic administration--to 81 l,6as. .Sos an
increase OF s44.77b, nearly 100000 men.
DO you want Democratic president
and return to conditions and number
Of employees OF 1887
The Taft people take 1895 because
the last Democratic low tariff bill
known as the Wilson bill, went int,
force in 1894, and they would like t,
have railroad men believe that Dem
ocratic tariff revision made the hare
times.
What the Facts Prove.
Now, what are the facts?
The hard times" began back II
1890, right after the Republican higl
tariff, known as the Mckinley tariff
went into effect. Grover Cleveland
the last Democratic president, wa
elected in 1892 The panic came on il
1893, not as result of Cleveland
election, but as result of condition
that had been growing steadily wors
under Republican rule The panic wa
over before the Democratic tariff bill
was passed in 1894, and after tha
prosperity began to return.
Now let us make fair comparison
of these railroad figures.
In 1893, under the Republican hig
tariff, and with the panic on, ther
were S73,602 railroad men employed
or 5l5 per 100 miles.
In 1894, part high tariff and par
low tariff, the number fell to 779, sos
or 444 for 100 miles-decrease II pc
100 miles.
, From this year on, SO long as tn
Democratic administration was In pow
or, conditions improved steadily.
In 1895 the total number OF railroa
men at work was increased to 7S5,034
| In 1895 1t was 826.620
In 1897 Mckinley came into tn
/ presidency, and the Republicans Sc
about to redeem the country" wit
, high tariff. AND IN 1897 THE TC
, tai NUMBER OF RAILROAD En-
j PLoYES FELL OFF TO s23,47s.
Republican Panic Of 1907.
Then In the fall of 1907 there wa
another panic under the Roosevelt at
ministration and under a Republica
!, high tariff. Were the railroad me-
protected from loss of Jobs? Scarce
lyl The next year, 1908, the numpe
OF railroad employees fell OF b
2S5,7ss, decrease of 112 per 10
miles against II per 100 miles in 1s9.
5 the year when the results of the PAM
OF 1893 were felt most severely
|, So what is the use of trying t
> make fools Of railroad men OF of an
other Americans by distorting figures
The truth is that these fiuctuation
we're not due to high tariff or lo'
tariff
The program Of the new party lega