The Nevada County picayune., 1922-08-10
DEMOCRATIC PROSPERITY WAS "THE MESS" G.
 O. P. INHERITED

admit that they have not kept their prediction promises. but offer the mendacious and hypocritical excuse that the Democratic administration ] left such mess" on their hands that they have been unable to do more. This pretense, made for the purpose of enabling Republican leaders and the Republican press to dodge the issue of broken promises to the people, is thor Oughly exposed by Cordell Hull, Chair man of the Democratic National Com
 mittee. After referring to the menda
 cious campaign conducted by these same Republican best minds in 1920.
 in reckless disregard of truth and
 morals. which they are now seeking to
 repeat" Chairman Hull says
 Under the rules of testimony in any court of justice these authors of every species of criminal deception in 1920 are not this year entitled to he be- lieyed upon any political subject. But let us see what kind of mess the recent Democratic administration did leave to it's Republican successor
 Chairman Hull then points out how the Republican Congress of 1919-20 bitterly partisan and vindictiye did obstruct, delay and defeat the great
 reconstruction programme of the Democratic administration for the early settlement of all postwar prob lens. and to this extent created d mess which the present Republican admini- strat ton inherited
 Chairman Hull then gives in detail picture of Democratic prosperity which the Democratic party bequeath cd to the Republicans, which they. the Republicans. now refer to as q mess. He says:
 Let Us see further just what sort of mess the Democratic administration did leave to it's successor. The coun l try was enjoying unparalleled pros perity during 1919 and 1920 under Democratic rule. Every laborer was employed on full time at the highest wages ever received in time of peace, Farmers in every section were never more rich and prosperous. They had accumulated near thirty billions of wealth and savings under the eight
 years of Democratic control. during which sound and reciprocal foreign market conditions, enabling the farm CTS readily to sell every ounce of their surplus products at top prices, were maintained. The manufacturing and mining and other great industries had increased their volume of production more than 30 per cent, and their an nual income more than fifteen billions of dollars Their increased property values and profits amounted 10 tens | and tens of billions of dollars. The ablest bankers business men and eco nOmists were predicting an uninter- rupted period of unprecedented pros | DhTlIN. ouI oSShN gating eighty-fi billions of dollars in | 1920 had far more than doubled, while our foreign commerce. aggregating thirteen billion five hundred millions of dallars in 1920, had more than trebled | Every smoke stack was smoking and every factory humming. America had become the worlds banker and the worlds storehouse of foodstuffs, manu- factures and raw materials great merchant marine had been built up. The nation had achieved most glor- | ious war record under Democratic leadership. America had leadership, sound policies and programmes. both domestic and foreign, during the Democratic administrations which was the envy of the world.
 l All these great outstanding Facts ! will always mark the wonderful heights to which America climbed m her financial. commercial, economic | military and social achievements from
 1913 to 1920 These big facts. which speak for themselves, and which the | most fgnorant citizen clearly remem- bers. are lasting and indestructible evidences of the so-called mess which the present Republican administration inherited from its Democratic pre- | deceSSors.
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 What Every Man Knows.