The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1912-10-31
Republican Circular Warning
Railroad Men Is PaIpabIe
1 False Alarm.
J EASY TO MAKE FIGURES LIE
Old Trick of Setting Red Lights on g
Clear Traek-Facts Presented So
Railroad Men May Judge.


road men predicting panic and hard
times In the event of Democratic vic
tory. Among their statements intend
seo to mislead railroad men is this:
RAILROAD MEN,
STOP! LOOK! LISTENl
LEST YOU FORGET
81, ,SSS.S9
Big sum of money, isn't t2
Nevertheless it's exactly that much
more paid TO the railroad employees
OF the United States under the admin
istration OF President Taft In 1910 than
was paid in 1907. the year before hr.
Taft became president.
This is a sample of the old time Re
publican habit of claiming credit for
AL natural progress-credit even for
good crops.
1t is true that in 1910 the wages Of
railroad employees amounted to some
.$71, 100000 more than In 1907.
But that represented three years
progress.
In 1905 the amount paid to railroad
employees was $9O0,so1,65 In 1907
It was $l072.SS6427. This was an in
crease Of $171,5S4.774 In a single year
preceding the Taft administration,
amounting to more than double the In
crease during three years OF the Tan
administration:
Isn't It obvious that they are pre-.
Stunning you won't have the statistics
ut hand TO inform yourself and that
therefore they will fool you into be-
Siieving that the Taft administration
made railroad mems prosperity
Then stop. look, listen again!
In four years preceding Tafts a6
rinstration l,l93 miles Of railroad
were sold under foreclosure. The
stocks and bonds Of these roads
amounted to ~ 900.
Under three years Of the THft a6
rninistration 6l15 mfles we're forsclns
ed. involving Sss4.4S4.5s2,
~TAe Tariff humboe Again.
A stiu more palpshle PRESUMPTION
BY Republicans that railroad man ars
fools n the tnRcwinS statement In
their cireUtaRy
Ths toed number of railway en-
ployes in ISIS wes BS,n&.
The total number Of railway en-
ployees IN Bu was L6e9,S@.
Under Republican administration the
number Of ratiway employees has In
creassd from fA,DS&-turing Demo
czatso adntntx<rstoD-4o G.S9,S2 an
increase Of cA.f1. nearly 1.oo00oo rnao.
Do you want Q Democratic presiden1
and return TO conditions and nurnbsf
Of employees of 1857
The TAN people take 1895 becauss
the last Democrats low tariff bill
Known as the Wilson bin. went inta
tcroe In 1894, and they would hks to
have railroad hen believe that Dem
ocratic tart8 rsVtston made the hard
fimss
Nfha4 the Facts Prove
Now, Whist are the facts?
The hard times began back IN
1890. right after the Republican high
tariff, known as the Mckinley tariH,
went into effect. Grover Cleveland.
the last Democratic president was
elected In 1889 The panic came on IN
1893. not as q result Of Cleveland's
election, but as q result Of conditions
that had been growing steadily worse
under Republican rule. The panic was
over before the Democratic tartn bill
was passed In 1894, and after that
prosperity began to return.
LOT hn foir rfS<No
Of these railroad figures.
In 1893, under the Republican high
tnrtff. and with the panic on, there
were sT3,S02 railroad men employed.
or 515 per 100 miles.
IN 1894. part high tariff and part
low tariff, the number fell to IT'S, ,S0S.
or 444 for 100 mfles-decreass II per
100 miles.
From this year on, so long as ths
Democratic administration was In pow.
er, conditions improved steadily.
In 1895 the total number Of railroad
men at work was increased TO 7S5.oSA.
In 1895 It was S26,620.
In 1897 Mckinley came into the
presi6sosy, and the Republicans SET
about 10 redeem the country" With
high tariff. AND IN 1897 THE To-
tai NUMBER OF RAILROAD EMr
HOYES FELL OFF TO s23,47c
Republican Panic Of 1907.
Then tn the fall Of 1907 there was
another panic under the Roosevelt aa
rutnistratton and under Republican
high tariff Were the railroad men
protected trom loss Of tobs' Scarce
ly! The next year, 1905, the NUMBER
ot railroad snaployes fell of by
36,Ts9, q decrease 1 112 per 100
miles against n per 100 miles In 1894,
xhs 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 fguresf
The tsafh Is that these fluctuations
we're moi Gns to high tariff or low