PROSPERITY EVERYWHERE.
How Republican Policies Have Caused
the Greatest Good to the
Greatest Number.
EXPENSIVENESS
Reasons Why the Nation Could Better Afford to Give the Demo
cratic Candidate a Royal Pension than to
Suffer Him to Be President.
Dividends to Labor, Wealth to Farmers, and
Ph Strike to Miners.
THE American business man,
jf as W. J. Bryan four years ago de
fined him. including the "Man
Vho Is employed fur wages," the "Mer
chant at the cross-roads store," the
''Farmer who goes forth !n the morn
ing and tolls all day. and begins in the
prlng and tolls all summer," the "Min
ers who go a thousand feet into the
earth," the "Attorney In the country
town," etc., the Inst four years of Re
publican rule have wrought remark
able beneiits.
The Prosperity Chapter Interesting.
The Republican plalform of 1896 pro
fessed "full assurance that the elec
tion would bring victory to the Repub
4;'an parly and prosperity to the people
Of the United Stales." How prosperity
followed in sequence to the Republican
;Tictory in lHilti constitutes Indeed a re
markably interesting chapter of Amerl
can blstoty a chapter which must al
;vays bring home to the hearts of the
American people, with grateful force,
the truth that "peace hath its victories
trio '.ess renowned than war."
"Lest we forget" the causes, and be
come ungrateful for the prosperity which
during the last four years has become the
ll Important incident of our happy ex
istence as h people. The reading in Mack
t white of the record of prosperity is
!t this time very timely. Future success
(must always be based on the lessons of
rpast experience. If the American people
aare to continue in the prosperity which
jthey have been enjoying the last four
(years, It is by considering with serious
tamest ness the data of such prosperity,
anaking thereon the one possible decision,
(and expressing such decision with snlu
Stnry emphasis at the polls this next No
Wember. The "Masse" the Foundation.
I In the remarkable speech four years
go by which Mr. Bryan sprang into
Ifame and into the nomination for the
(presidency, ho expressed the "Deruocrat
ffc idea that if you make the masses pros
perous tlieir prosperity will find its way
tip and through every class and rest
iBnon It."
Literally Indeed has this general ex
pression of an old Idea been fulfilled by
the Republican party under President
pfcKialey.
It is one thing to have a rather indefi
nite Idea as to what a desirable result
(would be. It is another thing to success
fully accomplish such a result.
Both the Republican and the Demo
cratic parties made their promises in
JJ898 to restore prosperity to the people.
fcThe masses saw through the quackery of
jf.be Democratic plan of being made pros-
Serous by the payment of wages in 48
ent dollars, so they turned down Bryan
land elected McKinley President.
Mr. McKinley had somewhat facetious
ly been termed "the advance agent of
prosperity." So soon as he was elected
Democratic organs got themselves ready
(for sneering interrogatories of "Why
jdon't the show come?" It came, however,
Hvith such startling promptness as to pro-
euoe the bewilderment of despair among
he few whose own prosperity was de
pendent en nnrestful despair among the
basses. The prosperity "show" was soon
f ound to be no humbug. The people had
ndeed not been deceived by the "advance
pgent." They were soon getting more
jftban they had really dared to expect.
The Unlocking of Money.
' The first manifestation of the prosper
Ptj movement was the unlocking of vast
urns of money from hoarding, and the
placing of it on deposit at the hanks. The
statements of hanks during the autumn
nd winter months of 1896-7 showed
fceavy and steady increases in deposits.
There were also striking gains in clear
digs indicating a greater rapidity in the
movements of money. While the first
ItepuLliean measure positively conducive
So the present prosperity was the Ding
ley tariff bill, which did not become a
law until July 24, 1897, yet general busi
ness waited not for its passage before
'discounting" the great improvement in
general conditions which it was obvi
aiit would soon ensue.
When 1897 began the gloom of fonr
years of Democratic hard times was still
lit'nging over the country, discouraging
enterprise and blighting such industries
as tried to exist. With the inauguration
f President McKiuley. the vast institu
tion of business credit, on which is vitally
dependent the industrial prosperity of all
classes of people, began at once to re
cover from the destructive effects of the
four years of panic-breeding silver agita
fiou, and from the general loss of confi
dence caused by the fiscal blunders of the
(Cleveland administration.
The overwhelming defeat of Bryan the
preceding November had given the coun
try the idea that free silver was a "dead"
Issue, and that the Democratic party
would not have the inconceivable temer
Ity to revive it four years later, and in
cidentally Bryan, whose chief god waa
she silver idol.
The free trade policy of President
Cleveland had done harm in two ways.
'Primarily it had resulted in the closing
ef mills the country over, the driving out
0t employment of thousands of American
OF DRYANISM.
workmen, a general lowering of the
wages of those still kept at work, and
the loss of profitable markets to the farm
ers who supply the workmen's "dinner
pail."
Secondly, the Wilson law, though In
tended to be "a tariff for revenue only,"
was drawn np on such grossly erroneous
fiscal estimates by Secretary Carlisle that
it even failed to produce the revenue nec
essary to pay the current expenses of the
Government.
Revenue Producing; Protection.
The total deficiency caused by the four
years' operation of the Democratic tariff
law was $155,864,183. It was this lack
of revenue which forced President Cleve
land into the burdening of the country
w ith $262,330,092 of new debt. The only
way by which the Government could fully
pay its current expenses was by drawing
on its gold reserve. The only way by
which President Cleveland could enforce
his commendable resolve to protect the
gold reserve, and thus prevent his admin
istration from going out with the coun
try hopelessly "busted" through free sil
ver, was by the issuing of bonds.
The Dingley act was, as expected, a
success both as a revenue producing nad
as a protective measnre. Within a few
months from its passage all predictions
were verified, and the receipts for. No
vember aud December, 1897, and Janu
ary, February and March, 1898, exceeded
the monthly disbursements of the treas
ury. The Circulation of Gold.
An interesting phenomenon noticeable
in 1897 was the appearance of gold in
even the channels of common circulation.
Anybody who wanted gold coin, perhaps
for the novelty of seeing what had be
come a rare sight, could go to a bank
and exchange paper or silver for gold,
and find that the banker made the ex
change not reluctantly but very gladly.
Bryan had pointed to the apparent scar
city of gold coin, and to the difficulty that
had been attendant on keeping up the
gold reserve, as proof of his theory that
the volume of gold was too small te form
a sufficient basis for the money circula
tion of the country. But after Bryan
was given leisure to write up "The First
Battle," gold ceased to be scarce, for It
had come from hiding, and nobody es
pecially wanted it. Since doubt had been
so completely removed, and our own peo-
! pie as well as the whole world had been
given so thoroughly to know that- all
kinds of American money were just as
good as gold, every bit, then why should
gold be especially wanted when other
kinds of money were not only just as
good, but were more handy to carry?
The Fnll Dinner Pail.
In the autumn of 1897 there was an
enormous crop of wheat in the United
States. Other years, however, have seen
bumper crops, but mighty poor prices and
no prosperity. Kansas has seen corn
through heavy crops become so cheap
that it was tised for fuel.
But in 1897 there was a demand for
wheat, corn and other grains. The "full
dinner pail" of the American workman
was becoming a new factor in the ratio of
demand to supply of farm products. The
mills were again being opened through
the passage of the Dingley bill. Capital
was becoming more aggressive in enter
prise and saw profits, not losses, in busi
ness expansion.
With the American workingman in
such a position that his dinner pail had
ta be filled first, the foreigner was put
into an excited, impatient, worrisome
mood. America, despite its enormous
crop, contrary to precedents, was not
selling liberally. Consequently prices
went booming upward. The average price
per bushel on the farm reached nearly 81
cents. In 1894 It had been 49 cents, in
1895 less than 51 cents, and in 1896 it
was 73 cents.
Foreign money and the money of the
populated centers of the Bast began pour
ing Into the great agricultural area of
the Middle West.
The farmers who had been barely able
to keep the wolf from the door and pre
vent loss of mortgaged homesteads, now
felt themselves flushed with wealth. They
began to spend money for clothing, food,
farming tools, and to pay off their mort
gages. A great debtor class, to whom
Bryan bad vainly hinted the saving that
could come to them by the cheating of
their creditors through 42-cent dollars,
fast became a creditor class. Accounts
were started at conntry banks, and farm
ers who bad been borrowers of money be
came lenders of money.
Of course this great prosperity of the
farmer began at once to Increase the
prosperity of the city laborer wbe had
furnished the Initial cue given him
through the victory of the Republican
party. There are upwards of 3,500,000
farmers In the United States, as against
5.000,000 industrial workers.
Farmers Make Work for Was; Earners
These 8,500,000 farmers mads extraor
dinarily heavy buyers of what the 0,000,
000 industrial workers produced. Ai a
consequence great industries, which bid
been stagnant under Democracy, became
active and profitable. In competition for
labor they were forced generally to raise
wages.
The enormous expansion In the value of
exports from the United States, from
$793,392,592 for ttie year ended June 30,
1895, to $1,394,186,371 for the year ended
June 0, 1900, constitutes one of the most
significant features of the prosperity
movement. During the three years of
Republican rule the balance of trade
grew to be $1,483,537,094 favoring this
country.
This expansion deserves to be studied,
not only because of its plain showing of
millions and millions of dollars increased
wealth to this country during the last
four years, .but also because of its in
structive relation to the many and di
verse political theories which have been
loose from, time to time among the Amer
ican people, especially among some col
lege professors who in rhe seclusion of
their studies think too much, and inow
by actual experience of the world too lit
tle, and by men like Bryan, who think
too little.
The free trade school of thought theor
izes on the equilibrium of international
exchanges. It reasons that if one nation
adopts a protective tariff, it will cut down
imports, but that this will be balanced by
loss in volume of exports on the clear
enough principle that nations, like indi
viduals, cannot long continue to buy from
customers to whom they cannot sell.
If exports of merchandise do not fall
off with imports, the reasoning concludes,
then there must at least be a balancing
outward movement of gold which may
disorder home money markets. Some free
traders also indulge in the peculiar the
orizing that by hindering imports we hin
der property wealth from coming to us,
and that by not also hindering it from
being exported from us, we steadily grow
poorer.
Protection's Part in Prosperity.
The prosperity experience of the last
four years has shown that a protective
tariff, wisely applied, can without ques
tion be a means of enriching a great na
tion like our own. The passage of the
Dingley bill was the direct means of re
storing prosperity to a large number of
industries in this country, which, under
the Wilson law, could not compete in t lie
home markets with Europe. Given pro
tection in their home market, these indus
tries were enabled to pay attention to for
eign markets. The protected iron and
steel Industry gained so vastly in power
and strength that it became the aston
ishing wonder and dread of the industrial
communities of the world. How Ameri
can engines became used on the railroads
Of England because they were better,
cheaper and could be made quicker than
English built engines; how an American
firm got the contract over English firms
for the Atbara bridge in the Soudan:
how American air brakes, locomotives
and rails were almost exclusively order
ed for the greac new railroad of Siberia,
were a few instances of many which sur
prised and dazed the whole industrial
world.
Luxuries from the Other Side.
The prosperity that came to our work
ers in these protected industries was the
means of spreading prosperity to all home
workers, whether or not they belouged to
pursuits or callings of the kind which
needed to be protected.
Nor did so much prosperity at home
work to the harm of those other countries
which must continue prosperous, if they
are to continue to be our good customers.
While American exports this last year
were $1.394186,371, the largest in our
history, and were more widely distributed
throughout the world than ever before,
yet in some directions there were great
increases in imports. Our imports of
manufacturers' materials this last year
were valued at $302,264,106, which is
about 40 per cent greater than for any
preceding year in our history.
By being protected in his opportunities
to make at home the articles that ought
to be made at home, the American indus
trial worker has more than well utilized
and justified such opportunity given him.
He has done his work so increasingly well
the last four years that all the nations of
the world have become his customers.
The whole outside world, instead of sell
ing him the things he can just as well
make himself, now sells him the material
which his increased work requires and
which it is not worth his own busy while
to prepare, and the silks, the satins, the
perfumes, the wines, the gloves, the jew
elry; the artistic fancy notions, the toys,
the tropical fruits, the tea. coffee, sugar,
spices, etc., which he could not very well
if ever afford to buy for himself, wife and
children, before the Republican parly
gave him prosperity.
PROSPERITY IN IDAHO.
Report of State Bureau of Immigra
tion Labor Statistics Prove It.
"There are few, if any. States in the
Union where laboring men are better
treated, get better wages and have more
opportunities to acquire homes and se
cure a competence than in Idaho.
"The relations between laboring men
and their employers in this State are un
usually pleasant. With the single ex
ception of one county in the State there
have been no strikes for years in the
State and no labor troubles ef any kind.
In this county labor troubles are now
in a fair way of being satisfactorily set
tled. The mines are being worked by a
good set of men, who are paid from $3
to $5 per day, and every citizen is satis
fied with the conditions. In other parts
of the State the relations between la
borers and their employers are harmoni
ous and pleaaant.
"All labor organisations that are based
on law and order are welcomed not only
by the employers of labor, but by all
classes of citizens, and all such organiza
tions are in a flourishing condition. Near
ly all, if not all, of the labor unions have
a hospital fund and many of them have
halls where the meetings of the union are
held, while in some Instances there are
libraries In connection with the unions
that contain the best books on literary,
philosophical and scientific subjects. As
a class the laboring men of Idaho are
eeher, Industrious, frugal, well educated
and Intelligent."
Prosperity for Miners.
Coke, a product of coal, is used exclu
sively In manufacturing. Its consumption
Is one ef the best evidences of the pros
perity and increase of our manufactur
ing Industries.
In the year 1800, under McKinley,
prosperity and "the opening of the fac
torial," was a great yoar for cok. More
new ooke ovens wore established than
ever before and the product waa greater.
The price more than double, end even
then tbe demand caused by the growth of
the Iron and iteel Industrie of the coun
try could not be supplied. Is 1894 coke
wai selling at si per ton, early in ivw it
touched (3 a too. .
PROSPERITY FOR ZINC MINERS.
Fonr Tears of McKinley and Protec
tion Have Knriched Missouri.
McKinley prosperity and the protective
tariff on zinc and lead ores have, in four
years, added millions of wealth to Mis
souri and Kansas. They have made a
comparatively little strip of territory in
southwest Missouri and southeast Kansas
the greatest zinc mining section in the
world, producing seven-eighths of the
American zinc ore and about one-fourth
of the entire world's supply.
Fr years this district, which centers
abo;t Joplin, Mo., and Galena. Kan.,
consisted of several little mining camps
struggling along and yielding very little
proOtiet. Mining was done in a crude
ari primitive way, and lack of capital to
IXperate in a manner befitting a country
1 IV L., 1 L. ...... r-
bu ui. uiiiiiitii.v uicssscu uy uniuic v as a
check to development and a barrier to
progress.
Three years ago a change began. The
factories of the East, which had been
alarmed over the Wilson bill and shut
down their plants entirely or in part, had
their confidence restored and resumed
operations to their full capacity. This
created a demand for more zinc, which is
used extensively in many industries. New
uses for zinc for various purposes were
constantly being found, and additional de
mands for ziuc ore were thereby created.
As a consequence, the attention of
Eastern and foreign capital became at
tracted to America's great undeveloped
zinc fields, whose only need was financial
aid. Money, which had been tied up by
cautious capitalists, sought investment.
Vonderfnl were the changes wrought.
Mines, mining leases and mineral lands
doubled and quadrupled in value, crude
and antiquated methods of mining gave
way to modern methods. The old hand
windlass and horse hoisterwere supplant
ed by modern machinery. Old abandoned
mines which had been left with their tim
bers to rot and tools to rust were opened
up again and new mining camps sprang
up all over the district. An era of pros
perity had dawned and the increased de
mand for zinc had advanced the price to
a point undreamed of four years before.
The following table is concise history:
ZINC IN MISSOURI.
Quantity Average price
produced paid per Total
Tear. lu tons. ton at mine. value.
1890 100,248 S22.51 S2.236.583
1891 123,752 21.60 2,873,053
1892 131.488 21.76 2,862.475
1893 108,591 20.57 2.245.02S
1894 89,150 15.00 1,337,910
1895 101,294 16.86 1,707,065
1896 92,754 19.75 1.831,856
1897 93,143 19.62 1.706,947
1898.. 139,668 20.96 2,927,321
1S99 181,430 82.93 6.974,624
A few of the above figures are particu
larly instructive. In 1892, at the close of
the Harrison administration, the Joplin
zinc field produced 131,488 tons, the av
erage price of which at the mine was
$21.76 per ton and the total value of
which was $2,864,475. In 1894, under
the Wilson bill depression, the produc-
! tion of this same field had fallen to 89,150
tons, with an average price at the mine
of $15 per ton. a total value of $1,337,910.
l'n 1898 the quickening influence of Mc
Kinley prosperitj Wftt fairly Under way,
the production rose to 180.0CJS tens, with
an average price ftt the mine ef $20,00
per ton and a total value of $2,627,321,
Last year, 1880, the full tide of prosper
ity promised by the Republican party
was flowing in on the Joplin and Kansas
district and the production reached high
water mark in'18t,430 tans, with an av
erage value at the mines of $32.93 per
ton and a total value Of $5,974,624, or
over four times as much as it was in
1894. The year 1900 figures, when all in,
will show a still further increase. Yet
it is probable that the Missouri section
of this prosperous region will utterly ig
nore this wonderful object lesson and
vote for Bryan, free trade and rotten
money. Vote to again close up the fac
tories and bring disaster to their country.
Windfall to Railroad Labor.
For the fiscal year ended June 30,
1899. gross railroad receipts were larger
by $266,149,623 than for the year ended
June 30, 1S95. Such increase mostly rep
resents larger dividends (in the form of
increased wages) to labor. Similarly
there was a gain over 1895 of $28,858,
458 in net earnings. This has gone part
ly into the strengthening of cash ac
counts, but the greater part of it into
increased dividends to stockholders. It
must not be forgotten in this connection
that railroad securities are owned very
largely by people of all classes. Tbey
are recommended to widows for safe in
vestment, 'fhey form the basis, next to
government bonds, for the investments of
insurance companies, and for the trust
funds of charitable and philanthropic in
stitutions. In 1898 there was paid in compensation
to employes of railroads the total sum of
$495,055,610, as against $445,508,261 in
1895, a gain of $49,547,357. When in ad
dition we consider the increased wages
indirectly paid in new construction of
track aud bridges, in new cars, etc., which
absorbed the greater part of the increases
in gross earnings, it will be more evident
what a windfall just one year of pros
perity has been to the people who work
on the railroads.
The number of new miles of road built
during the year ended June 30, 1899, waa
4,500, as against only 1,650 for the cor
responding period ended in 1895. Of
course this is significant, not merely be
cause it has meant increased work and
more money paid in wages, but because
it increased the facilities of commerce,
and because it made it that much easier
for the farmer to get his products into
the city to fill the dinner pail of the city
workman.
Prosperity on the Pacific
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, m an
interview the other day, said:
"Anything produced in the United
States will now permanently find Its way
into all parts of the celestial empire. Our
trade relations there in the future are
secured. The trade In cotton goods has
been very heavy in Manchuria and other
northern provinces. Our interests gener
ally, our dairy, poultry and other products
from the farms of the United States,
now bare assurance of permanent mar
kets In all the provinces throughout the
Chinese Empire where such things are in
demand, and this demand is growing and
will continue to grow.
"The work of Secretary Hay In this
regard supplements and compliments the
work of our army and navy. A year ago
no nation would have listened to a propo
sition of this kind (the open door policy),
but the whole world listens to the UniteVi
States cow. The 'white man's burden'
came with the islands. Secretary Ha'y's
work brings the reward for lifting the
burden. Some idea of tbe vastness of
the interests involved may be gained from j
the fart tnat xrl'flte ten' years tro onr
exports from the Pacific coast to all coun
tries aggregated $26,000,000 and five
years ago $4,000,000, the steady increase
in Paciiic coast exports has raised the
aggregate to $78,000,000 a year ago."
Prosperity Dividends to Farmers.
Last year's prosperity dividends paid
by the Republican party to the farmers
of the United States amounted to up
wards of one billion dollars. The value
of ten staple crops showed for 1899 a to
tal increased Value of $323,000,000 over
1S95. Add to this increase an advance
of $633,000,000 during the same period in
the value of live stock, and the balance
sheet shows disbursements of a round
billion. This does not include the special
profits from better prices for fruit, but
ter, cheese, eggs, vegetables and lastly,
but not leastfy, wool. Following are
comparisons of values of the principal
crops:
-1 1S95. 1899.
Crop. Total value. Total value.
Corn $544, 983,534 $629,210,110
Wheat 237,938,998 819954,2BU
Oats 163,655,008 198,167,975
Rye ll,ttU4,82 12,214,118
Barley 29,812,413 29,594.254
Potatoes 78,984,901 .89,328,832
Cotton 210,388,096 832.000.C00
Hay 893,185,615 411,926,187
Tobacco 85,574,220 45,000.000
Flax 12,000,000 24,000,000
Total $1,767,939,671 $2,09:).US0,7
Prosperity Among Miners.
The prosperity of the American miner
the last four years has been remarkable.
The activity of the mills and of the rail
roads has boomed the price of coal, cop
per, zinc and other metals. These have
yielded far better returns in wages to
those "who go a thousand feet into the
earth," than they would have done had
Mr. Bryan been elected President in 1898.
The opening up of the mints to the free
coinage of silver would never have really
boomed the price of Bilver, for the silver
of the whole world would have poured
into America, tbe nations of the earth
being only too glad for us to pull their
chestnuts out of the fire for them.
In the mining of gold In a gold stand
ard country, miners have profited far
more than they would have ever profited
by the mining of silver in a silver stand
ard country. The lone, poor prospector,
and the "grub staker" have had a chance
to "come in" on the production of gold,
whereas silver mining has always been
under the control of wealthy syndicates,
and of individuals like Mr. Clark of Mon
tana, whose wealth enabled him to buy
a Democratic Legislature to elect him
Senator, and to contribute $100,000 to
the present fund to elect Bryan Presi
dent. Story of the Clearings.
The best gauge of the volume of busi
ness of the country is the bank clearing
statistics. They prove, as no other fig
ures can, the trade moyement. Never in
the history of the country have they
shown such a vast aggregate of business,
such an immense increase as during the
years of the McKinley administration.
The following Ggures are from Brad
street's and are accepted as official. The
comparison is made with the year 1894,
as that is the year the Democratic pol
icy of handling the finances of the coun
try was In full sway.
The grand total of the bank clearings
of the United States, as given by Brad
Street's, for the first six months of 1894.
were $22,085,071,196. For the first six
months of 1900 they were $42,857,201,
316, an increase of $20,772,130,120. For
the month of June, 1894, the grand total
was $3,576,315,339. For the month of
June, 1900, it was $0,621,068,707, an in
crease of $3,044,753,468.
Better Prices for Farmers.
The following table shows the current
market price of different staple crops on
June 1, 1896, and June 1. 1900:
June 1, June 1, Adv.
1896. 1900. p. c.
$0.27 $0.37 37
.57 .64 18
.17 .21 23
.81 , .58 01
. .28 .40 43
.28 .40 43
9.25 11.50 24
.82 l.SO 119
.14 .18 M
.06 .08 20
3.26 812 68
3.55 4.32 22
8.25 4.97 83
7.40 7.50 1
.07 .09 20
.16 .20 76
82.50 180.00 454
.07 .12 72
.80 1.20 BO
.09 .10 8
Farm products.
Corn
Wheat
Oats
Rye
Barley
Potatoes
Hay
Flaxseed
Butter
Cheese
Live hogs
Live cattle ....
Sheep
Cloverseed
Cotton
Wool
Broom corn . . .
Hops
Millet seed ....
Eggs
Corn, Cattle and Contentment.
"Gentlemen," shouted an orator In
Kansas in 1899, "from the beginning of
Indiana to the end of Nebraska there is
nothing but corn, cattle and content
ment." And he added a little later: "The joyful
sound of the mortgagor paying off his in
debtedness has even pierced the dense
ears of the money changers of the Blast."
Nothing can exceed the breesy joy, the
piano and top-buggy buying enthusiasm
of the Kansan in the year of his pros
perity under tbe gold standard.
Cigars Smoke I Over Prosperltr.
Probably nothing demonstrates prosper
ity more clearly than tbe consumption of
cigars.
W. C; Hollister of Chicago, who printa
the blue labels for tbe Cigarmakere' In
ternational Union and is required to make
affidavit. to the number turned out, has
made the following report to President
6. W. Perkins of the union of the labels
printed during recent years: 1895, 47,
815.000; 1896, 46,440,000; 1897, 46,546,
600; 1898, 46,609,200; 1899, 56,140,000.
During the first six months of 1900 the
number jumped to 36,855,000. Men can
not afford to boy cigars unless tbey are
prosperous and earning good wages.
Money Earned and Spent,
In 1899 the savings banks deposits of
the United States advanced to $2,230,
866,954. That brought them up to more
than the combined savings banka depos
its of any two other nations in the world;
and to half the deposits of Austria, Hun
gary, Bavaria, Belgium, Denmark,
France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway,
Prussia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United
Kingdom, Australasia, Canada, Cape
Colony, India, Natal and the Crown colo
nies all put together, their combined de
posits being, la 1899, but $4,593,949,450.
Nebraska's Prosperity.
The Secretary of State of Nebraska has
compiled a list showing that the excess
of mortgages paid off and released during '
1898 over those filed for the same period
amounted to more than $50,000,000. The
most of these were paid in cash,
the foreclosures were comparatively few.
It will be hard for Mr. Bryan to con
vince the farmers of his own Stat that
they or not prosperous.
PROSPERITY AND GLORY.
Air Marching Through Georgia.
McKinley and Roosevelt, inru of golden
deeds.
Men whose loyal energy now the nation
needs:
Men whose resolution ail tbe vrorld unitel
heeds,
Bringing prosperity and glory!
CHORUS.
Hurrah! Hurrah! In henor we are bound.
Hurrah! Hurrah! Our money all Is
sound;
Honest golden dollars ringing all the world
around.
Bringing prosperity and g ory!
Builders in onr history, men of real worth.
Men whose names are honored over all the
teeming earth;
E'en among the bravest since the nation had
its birth.
Bringing prosperity ami glory!
a
Hold to truth and justice, to Integrity and
right,
Hold to fearless principles, to honest dol
lars bright;
Hold your country's credit ever spotless
with your might,
Bringing prosperity and glory!
Keep the fruits of victory stalnieas ever
more, Keep your banners flying on Manila's dis
tant shore;
Keep our noble President within the White
House door,
Bringing prosperity and glory!
Cherish deeds of valor wreathed In mem
ories sublime.
Cherish grand achievements wrought la
Oriental clime;
Cherish honest duty calling; now's the
golden time,
Bringing prosperity and glory!
C. P. R.
PROSPERITY FOR WAGE-EARNERS
rriiycB ii y tne nisiory ui ine Acocriou
Federation of Labor.
That the laboring men of the country
are in a more prosperous condition than
ever known before is proven beyond any
chance of contradiction by the statistics
of the American Federation of Labor,
sent out over the signature of the presi
dent, Mr. Samuel Gompers, w'ho is a
Democrat.
We compare the disastrous years of the
Wilson bill and Democratic rule 1893,
1894 and 1895-with 1899, under Mc
Kinley and prosperity.
Ta 1893 the American Federation of
Labor met at Chicago. There were 95
delegates present, 38 national trade un
ions represented, 18 local trade unions,
15 city central unions and one State
branch. The receipts for the year wer
$20,864.62, and the expenditures $21,383.
In 1894 the American Federation of
Labor met at Denver, Cok. There were
77 delegates present, 30 national trade
unions represented, 12 local trade unions,
11 city central unions and three State
branches. The receipts for the year were
$15,346.43, and the expenditures $17,
302.08. In 1895 the American Federation of
Labor met at New York City. There
were 96 delegates present. 34 national
trade unions represented, 23 local trade
unions, 15 city central unions and three
State branches. The receipts were $13,
751.75, and the expenditures $15,612.42.
In 1899 tbe American Federation of
Labor met at Detroit. There were 189
delegates present. 56 national trades'uu
ions, 65 local trade unions, 31 ee-tral
unions and five State branches. The re
ceipts were $36,757.13, and the expendi
tures $30,599.22. i
Surely labor prospers when the mem
bers of this great organized body can
contribute to the caue, as shown by the
above receipts, over $1(1.000 more in 1899
than they did in 18!)3. and several thou
sands more than double what they did iu
each of the years 1893. 1894 aud 1895.
Uuder date of Aug. 9, 1900, Mr. Gomp
ers stated the number of independent
unions to be 1,154, city central unions
191. State branches 14.
It is evident from these figures that
when the American Federation of Labor
meets in December next there will be a
showing of progress made and increase
of membership, ail accomplished under
labor's prosperous conditions, such as uo
labor organization has ever before made.
Larger Exports of Farm Products.
The agricultural reports show that our
sale of agricultural products abroad dur
ing the past three years, 1897-1891), were
more than $500,000,000 greater than in
the preceding three years, 1894-1896.
Exports of butter were worth, in 1895,
$915,533; in 1899, $3,263,951.
There were 425,352,187 pounds of ba
con exported in 1896 aud 562,651.480
pounds in 1899. This was an inc. ease of
137,000,000 pounds.
The following are some interesting com
parative wool prices, furnished by a
prominent Boston commission house:
JANUARY.
Year. Fine. Medium. Course.
1885 17 20 10
1S96 18 ai IB
1897 18 21 18
1898 !tt 80 2
1889 26 20 2-t
1800 S5 80 28
During Harrison's administration there
was an approximate gain of $154,000,000
in the value of live stock. During Cleve
land's administration there was an ap
proximate losa of $820,000,000. During
the first three years of McKinley 's ad
ministration an approximate gain of
$557,000,000.
Adlat Stevenson's Prosperity.
The city of Bloomington, III., which Is
the home of the Democratic vice-presidential
candidate, Adlai R. Stevenson, but
recently sold its bonds on a basis which
makes tbe interest paid by the city on
the loan only 3.40 per cent. Tbia rate
la lower than any municipality in Lb
United States couid get in 1896.
As a citizen of Bloomington, Mr. Ste
venson will be able to save some money
in taxes, because of the good credit and
prosperity that has come to his town as
a share in the beneficial results of Re
publican policies during the last four
years. The remarkable appreciation in
tbe credits of American municipalities
since McKinley's election in 1S36, mean
ing great savings to taxpayers, has been
one of the most interesting features of
the great prosperity that has come te the;
people of this country.
No Room for Calamity Howling.
Large sums of money are being offered
in the financial columns of the Chicago
daily papers to loan at 3'$ per cent osj
. ity property, 4 per ceut on farm prop
erty. When money is offered st these
rates it ' behooves the calamity howlers
to take a back seat. Such interest rates
indicate such prosperous times as the
country has never seen before.
Men Wanted in the Mills.
Many manufacturers of woolen and
cotton goods in Connecticut state that
lots of looms are idle because men to
work them cannot be found. Wages bare
advanced in cotton mills from 12 U 'M
per cent. . . J.