Farm animals, average value per head, 1897, and 1904..... Government expenditures and expenditures per capita in leading Prices of certain "trust controlled" articles, 1896 to 1904. National bank statistics, 1904 compared with 1893....... Conditions in the United States compared with those in Great Britain. 122 Conditions in the United States compared with those of the principal Growth of commerce of the United States compared with that of Commerce of principal countries of the world, 1830 to 1903.... Expenditures and per capita expenditures of the leading countries Wealth and indebtedness of the leading countries of the world.. ... 124 Manufactures of the leading countries of the world, value of...... Imports and exports of the United States, 1790 to 1903.... Imports into the United States by great groups of articles, 1850 Imports for consumption arranged by groups, 1870 to 1903..... Merchandise imported and exported and retained for consumption, Receipts and expenditures of the United States, 1790 to 1903.... 134 Farm products exported under McKinley, Wilson and Dingley laws.. 139 Principal farm crops in the United States, value of, 1866 to 1903.... 139 Farm animals, number and value, by groups, 1875 to 1904...... Wheat production, consumption and exportation, 1877 to 1903...... 141 Farm animals, value of in 1892, 1897, 1900 and 1904..... Freight rates on flour and grain from Chicago to Europe, 1894 to 1903. 147 Freight rates by rail and canal respectively, from Chicago to Buffalo Sugar, production, importation and consumption of the United States and prices per pound, 1880 to 1903.. Sugar production of the world, beet and cane, respectively, 1840 Increase in average wages per hour, 1890-1903... Per cent of increase or decrease in hours of work, 1890-1903.... Summarization of employees, wages, and prices, 1890-1903........... 213 Relative advance in prices of farm products and other commodities.. 217 Retail prices in the United States and England.. Wages paid by trusts before and after combination. Panama Republic dates of recognition by principal countries.... Distances between leading ports, via Panama and Suez Canals.......... 283 Tropical productions imported by principal articles, 1870 to 1903....320-21 Commerce of the United Kingdom with its colonies, 1869 to 1902.. 321 Commerce of countries commercially adjacent to the Philippine National banks established in the United States, March 14, 1900, Progress of the United States in manufacturing, production, etc., .437-440 Imports and exports of gold into and from the United States, 521 "FOUR GREAT FACTS." "Four great facts seem to justify the Republican party in asking the voters of the United States to continue it in control of the affairs of the Government. First, the promptness with which it has fulfilled the pledges of its platform upon which it successfully appealed to the people in 1896; second, the prosperity which has come to all classes of our citizens with, and as a result of, the fulfillment of those pledges; third, the evidence which that prosperity furnishes of the fallacy of the principles offered by the opposing parties in 1896, and still supported by them; and, fourth, the advantages to our country, our commerce, and our people in the extension of area, commerce, and international influence which have unexpectedly come as an incident of the fulfillment of one of the important pledges of the platform of 1896, and with it the opportunity for benefiting the people of the territory affected."From the Republican Campaign Text-Book of 1900. The above quotation from the opening pages of the Republican Campaign Text Book of 1900 applies with equal force to conditions in the present campaign. The four great facts which justified the party in asking the support of the public in 1900 were : First, that its pledges of 1896 had been redeemed; second, that prosperity had come as a result; third, that developments since 1896 had shown the fallacy of the principles upon which the Democracy then appealed for public support; and, fourth, the conditions which had come to other parts of the world and their people as a result of promises fulfilled by the Republican party in the United States. These assertions made in the Text Book of 1900 have been fully justified by the added experiences of another four years. The pledges of 1896 and those made in 1900 have been redeemed The Protective Tariff has been restored; the Gold Standard made permanent; Cuba freed and given independence; the Panama Canal assured under the sole ownership and control of the United States; a Department of Commerce and Labor established; Rural Free Delivery given to millions of the agricul tural community; the laws for the proper regulation of trusts and great corporations strengthened and enforced; prosperity established; commerce developed; labor protected and given ample employment and reward; intelligence, prosperity, and good government established in distant islands; and the flag of the United States made the emblem of honor in every part of the world. All of these great accomplishments have been the work of the Republican party. In each of them it has met the discouragement, the opposition, and the hostilities of the Democracy. The Protective Tariff was fought at every step, and is to-day denounced by the platform of the Democrats as a "robbery." The act establishing the Gold Standard was opposed and the Democratic vote cast almost solidly against it, and that party in its convention and platform of 1904 deliberately refused to retract in the slightest degree its advocacy of the free and unlimited coinage of silver. In the war for the freedom of Cuba, the work of the Republicans was met with harsh criticism and discouragements at every step. In the efforts to establish peace and good government in the newly acquired territory, each step met with opposition and false charges and the demand that the territory and its millions of people be abandoned to internal strife or control by a monarchial government. The acquirement of the right to construct the Panama Canal was met with opposition and obstruction at 1 every point. The enforcement of law against trusts and other great corporations was denounced as ineffective and designed to deceive the public. The establishment of rural free delivery was discouraged. The splendid prosperity which followed the restoration of the protective tariff was decried and denounced as fictitious and temporary, and an attempt made to sow the seeds of dissatisfaction and discord among the people by complaints of the higher cost of food which came as the natural results of the increased demand accompanying general prosperity and high wages. It is upon this additional evidence of the past four years, evidence that the Republican party is the party of progress, and the Democracy the party of inaction, retardment, and fault-finding, that the Republican party again confidently appeals for public support in the Presidential and Congressional elections of 1904. "THE POLICY OF OPPOSITION." Mr. Littleton's Real View of Democratic Policies and Prospects. [Extract from speech before New York Southern Society, Feb. 22, 1904, by Hon. Martin W. Littleton, sponsor for Judge Parker at Democratic National Convention, July 8th, 1904.] "While the war between the United States was in Progress it (the Democratic party) attempted to swim against the tide on a policy that declared the war a failure, and met that fate which all parties have met that attempt it. "The Democratic party sought to destroy the evil of some monopolies by assuming an antagonistic attitude to all large corporate concerns just at a time when the business of the country was being conducted almost wholly by corporate agency, and it went down under the influence of a fact. "It attempted to arrest the course of events in the SpanishAmerican war just at a time when our fleets were fighting and OU armies marching, and it went down again under the influence of a fact. "It endeavored to undo events which had taken place in the Philippines and to reverse an accomplished thing, and it went down under the weight of a fact. "It is now seeking to delay the progress of a great commercial enterprise on the Isthmus of Panama by opposing the treaty with the new republic just at a time when the nation, and especially the South, needs and demands such an enterprise, and it will again go down under the influence of a fact, if it persists. "It sought to change the money standard of the country from gold to silver just at a time when the powerful nations of the earth were holding or changing to gold, and it went down under the influence of another fact. "The policy of opposition is not the true tradition of the party. It held for nearly fifty years the affirmative place in the politics of the country. It stood upon aggressive grounds, it recognized events, it was not a doctrinaire, it held to the facts. It was until the war a constructive party of conservative principles, and under the misfortune of slavery it paused to defend that institution, and allowed the Republicans to take the ground from it, and since that time it has thought it wise to oppose its own policies, if they chanced to be espoused by the Republicans. "It does not need to return to ante-bellum policies, but it does need to go back to the ante-bellum method of dealing with events. It must understand that if Jefferson said he was opposed to expansion, and then proceeded to expand, what he did is the thing, and not what he said. It must understand that if he said he was opposed to a Navy, and then found it necessary to establish a Navy, what he did is the thing, and not what he said. It must understand that if Madison or Monroe said that they were opposed to national banks, but found they were necessary to establish a sound financial system, and did establish them, what they did is the thing, and not what they said. It must understand that if Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Calhoun, Jackson, and Benton all insisted that the Constitution should be strictly construed, but found on actual experiment that it was best to give it a liberal construction, and did so, what they did is the thing, and not what they said." |