Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1912-11-01
DANGER AHEAD / :.
SIGNALS A FAKE.
Republican Circular Warning
Railroad Men Is PdpabIe
False Alarm.
EASY TO Make FIGURES LIE
Old Trick Of Setting Red Lights on q
Clear Track-Facts Presented So
Railroad Men May Judge.

The Republican national committee
II distributing circulars among rail-
road men predicting panic and hard
times in the event Of Democratic VIC
tory. Among their statements intend
ID to nislead railroad men T. this.
a RAILROAD MEN,
IN STOP LOOK! LIsTENl
LEST YOU FORGET
$n.sss,s7e.
Big sum Of mopsy, isn't it?
Nevertheless it'I exactly that muoA
more paid to the railroad employees
Of tho United States under the admin
Y. Ssd 4 Il Esq., e. T .ioS. tS r.
Taft became president.
This is sample Of the old time Re-
publican habit Of claiming credit for
all natural progress-.credit even for
good crops.
It is true that in 1910 the wages Of
railroad employees amounted to some
$71,000,000 more than in 1907.
But that represented three years
progress.
In 1906 the amount paid to railroad
employees was $900,S01,653. In 1907
it was $1,072,386,427 This was an in
crease of $171,584,774 in a single year
preceding the Taft administration.
amounting to more than double the in.
crease during three years of the Taft
administration.
Isn't it obvious that they are pre-
Stunning you won't have the statistics
at hand to inform yourself and that
therefore they will fool you into be-
lleving that the Taft administration
made railroad mems prosperity
Then stop, look, listen again!
In four years preceding Taft'D ad'
ninistration 1913 miles Of railroad
were sold under foreclosure. The
stocks and bonds Of these roads
amounted to $47,o31,oo0.
Under three years Of the Taft a6
,miutstration 6.11b miles were foreclos-
ed, involving $2s4,434.562.
The Tariff Humbue Again.
A still more palpable presumption
by Republicans that railroad men are
fools ID the following statement In
their circular:
- The total number Of railway en-
ployes in 1896 was 7s6,os4.
The total number Of railway en-
ploysss in 1911 was 1858. 0o9.
Under Republican administration the
creased from 7s5, 03Hduring 4 Demo-
cratic administration-to f.69s.soe an
increase Of sA. 77b, nearly 100000 men.
Do you want q Democratic president
and return to conditions and number
ef employees Of 1857
The Taft people take 1896 because
the last Democratic low tariff bill
known ~ the Wilson bin. went into
force In 1894, and they would like to
have railroad men believe that Dem
ocratic tariff revision made the hard
times.
What the Facts Prove.
Now, what are the facts?
The hard times began back in
1890, right after the Republican high
tariff, known as the Mckinley tariff.
went into effect. Grover Cleveland,
the last Democratic president, was
! elected in 1892. The panic came on in
1893, not as result Of Cleveland'a
election, but as result Of conditions
that had been growing steadily worse
under Republican rule. The panic was
J over before the Democratic tariff bill
f.; was passed In 1894, and after that
| prosperity began to return.
Now let US make a fair comparison
| OF these railroad figures.
In 1893, under the Republican high
tariff, and with the panic on, there
| were S73,602 railroad men employed.
! or SIS per 100 miles.
In 1894, part high tariff and part
low tariff, the number fell to 779,60S,
I or 444 for 100 miles-decrease II per
! 100 miles,
From this year on, 80 long as the
Democratic administration was III pow.
or, conditions improved steadily.
| In 1895 the total number Of railroad
nen at work was increased to 785, 034.
| In 1896 it was 826,620.
In 1897 Mckinley came into the
presidency, and the Republicans set
about to redeem the country" with
high tariff. AND IN 1897 THE TO
tai NUMBER OF RAILROAD EN-.
PLOYES FELL OFF TO S23,476.
Republican Panic Of 1907.
Then in the fall Of 1907 there was
another panic under the Roosevelt ad.
ministration and under a Republican
high tariff We're the railroad men
protected from loss Of jobs? Scarce
ly! The next year, 1908, the number
Of railroad employees fell of by
2s5,799, a decrease of 112 per 100
miles against II per 100 miles in 1894,
the year when the results of the panic
of 1893 were felt most severely.
SO what is the use of trying to
make fools of railroad men or of any
other Americans by distorting flgures3
The truth is that these fluctuations
we're not due to high tariff or low
tariff
The program Of the new party legal
ICES monopolies and systematically
subordinates workingmen to them and