PROSPERITY BRINGS CONTENT THE WORLD OVER.
f
GROWTH OF THE SOITII'S
COTTON MILL INDUSTRY.
STREET RAILWAYS
INDICATE PROSPERITY.
HQ IRON PRODUCTION
AS A PROOF OF PROSPERITY.
WOOLEN IMPORTS ARE
REDUCED TO ONE-THIRD.
DO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
WANT TO BE PROSPEROUS?
New Factories Ooinjf Into Operation and
Others Projected.
Their Business Has Increased Thirty
four Per Cent Since 1894.
More than Twice as Much Made Last
Year as in 1894.
Home Manufacturers Are Now Supply
ng the Home Trade.
DO YCU WANT IT7
Aro you a Worklngman?
Are you a Mlucr?
Are you a Farmer?
Arc you a Mechanic?
Are you a Printer?
Are you a Hallway Employe?
Are you a Clerk?
Arc you a Travoltas Salesman?
Are you a Wage-earner of any
kind?
DO YOU WANT IT?
Do you want to continue the
present good business conditions,
which give employment to all and
better wages than ever before
paid?
If so, Tote for McKInley, for un
der his administration, the protec
tive tariff and sound money princi
ples for which the Rcpublleon
party legislated, ' the depression,
the idlcacss and want of 1803-00
have vanished.
DO YOU WANT IT?
Remember the panic, the depres
sion, the idleness and want of
1803-90. That was the result of
a change of policy in only one great
factor of our national welfare.
The election of llryan would
mean a return to all the causes
which led to that panic.,. It would
also add to them two other equally
potent causes for panic a change
of currency and a change In our
foreign policy.
Do you want a panic in 1001-1
far worse than that of 1893-00?
Do you want idleness and star
vation and millions subsisting on
charity just as they did In 1803?
If so, vote for Bryan and you
will get It.
DO YOU WANT IT?
Mr. Bryan proposes to give up
that valuable stepping stone to
the commerce of the Orient the
Philippine Islands.
The countries commercially ad
jacent to Manila ,now buy $1,200,
000,000 a year of goods ehioily of
the kind we make. Yet they only
take fl per cent of them from the
United States.
Now that wc have the Philip
pines, we have a trading center
from which we can command a
good share of that business, just
as England Is commanding It from
her Asiatic stations at Hongkong
and Singapore.
Do you want to lose it? If so,
vote for Bryan and you will get It
DO YOU WANT IT7
The change of tariff policy which
upset and demoralized every busi
ness and industry in '03 was bad
enough.
But now it is proposed to couple
with It another chango which
would multiply Its disturbing and
destructive power upon busluess
and every Industry.
Bryan proposes to change Sound
Money for Cheap Money a Hundred-Cent
Dollar for a Fifty Cent
Dollar.
Do you want It? If so, vote for
Bryan and you will get It?
DO YOU WANT IT?
In 1802 this country was more
prosperous than ever before. Em
ployment was more general and
wages higher than they had ever
been.
The people, misled by the inser
tions of the Democratic olllce-scek-ers,
tried the experiment of chang
ing the policy of the government
on the tariff question.
What was the result?
On the very diry following the
election business began to decline,
dealers canceled their contracts
for home manufactures, factories
reduced their working forces and
curtailed their orders for the pro
duct "of the mine, the forest and
the field, and uncertainty took the
place of confidence in the business
world.
What followed?
Every workingman, every em
ploye and every farmer whose
market was thus curtailed remem
bers. There was a panic, depres
sion, gloom, enforced idleness and
want.
All this was the result of a
change in our tariff policy which
nffceted the grent manufacturing
interests and which threatened la
bor. Bryan now threatens to lower
the tariff and take away protection
from labor.
Do you want it? If so, vote for
Bryan and you will get it.
The following table, prepared by tho
United States Department of Agricul
ture, Illustrates the growth of the cotton
milt Industry In the South during the
past three years. The figures include only
such mills as were actually in operation
and not milts that were Idle:
.Mills In Operation.
States. 1807. 1000.
Alabama 37 41
Arkansas 2 5
Georgia 77 84
Kentucky 11 8
Louisiana 3 4
Mississippi 7 7
Missouri 3 .1
North Carollua 101 188
South Carolina 70 03
Tennessee 20 20
Texas 4 5
Virginia 15 14
Total 425 470
The mills actually under construction
and those projected compare as follows:
Under
States. construction. Projected.
Alabama 5 0
Yrkansns 1 .
Georgia 20 24
Louisiana 2
Mississippi 0 1
North Curollna 25 8
South Carolina 10 10
Tennessee 5 2
Texas 4 2
Total .., 81 53
The .street railways of America now
represent tho enormous Investment In
bonds and stocks of $ 1,800,000,000, r.ion
which Investors arc receiving annually
over 170,000,000 In dividends and Inter
est. Salaries and wages amounting to
$250,000,000 n year arc distributed
among 300,000 employes necessary to
equip, operate and manage this great In
dustry, repair Its 20,000 miles of track,
handle Its 00,000 cars, and meet the ever
pressing demands for Improvement.
Directly and Indirectly over 1,200,000
persons depend upon the traction Inter
ests of America for their livelihood. An
Industry of such proportions penetrates
and more or less affects all other enter
prises In the country which sustains It.
Nine-tenths of the business men and
women of the United States look to tho
management of street rnllway companies
to furnish them with swift, comfortable
and safe transportation to and from busi
ness. The business of these companies
has Increased 30 per cent since 1804,
when the people could not afford to ride
as much as they do now.
Mr. Bryan's Prosperity.
Taxable property listed by Mr. Bryan
during two administrations was:
Assessed
value.
1000 $4,500
1801 200
Mr. Bryan's prosperity.
$4,300
Tig Iron production Is one of the most
accurate Indices of the general business
conditions of the country. When business
Is good, when wage earners are em
ployed steadily, when farmers receive
ample remuneration for their crops, then j
the production of Iron advances. A period
of depression Is always accompanied by
a sag In the production of iron. Tho
following table shows the production in
1800 and 1801, as Illustrating tho busi
ness conditions under two administra
tions: PRODUCTION OF TIG IRON.
Tons.
1S00 13,020,703
180-1 0,057,388
Republican Increase 0,003,315
Tho production by countries In 1800
was as follows:
Countries. Tons.
United States 13,020,703
Great Britain 0,305,310
Germany 8,142,017
Russia 2,072,402
Franco 2,502,383
As a steel producer this country is
without n rival. We make nearly 40
per cent of the world's output, Great
Britain makes 18 per cent and Germany
21 per cent. Only one-sixth of the coun
try's production Is marketed In the form
of steel rails, showing that steel manu
facturing In all Its branches Is widely
followed.
The following table shows the Imports
and exports of woolen manufactures In
eight months ending Aug. 31, and the
New York price of Ohio XX fleece wool
during the mouth of August, from 1805 to
10O0:
August price
of Ohio XX
8 mos Woolen manufactures, fleeco wool
ending Import. Exports. cents.
1805.... $40,007,044 $470,725 18
1800.... 20,544,004 014,073 17
1807.... 37,714,004 144,512 23tf
1808.... 11,081,153 717,080 28
1800.... 10,470,023 770,507 30
1800.... 12,084.028 8S0.030 28
The Imports are thus seen to be only
one-third of what they were In the free
trade year, 1805, while exports have near
ly doubled since then and tho price of
wool is GO per cent higher.
REMEMBER!
Tho Party ( Democratic ) stands
where It 1U1 In 1HOO on tho Money
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WHAT FARMERS HAVE
GAINED BY PROSPERITY
Increase In nine craps $710,722,017
Increase In value of live stock 032,000,801
Total Increase $1,343,083,418
This represents tho difference that farmers have Rained In ono
year under a Republican administration.
Tho gain lu tna value of live stock was distributed as follows:
Jan. 1. 1807. Jan. 1, 1000
Total. Total.
Horses '. $402,040,300 $003,000,042
MuIbs 02,302,000 111,717,002
Cows I 300,230,003 014,812,100
Cattle L 007,020,421 080,480,200
Sheep f. 07,020,042 122,000,013
Hobs ' 100,272,770 240,725,000
$1,005,414,012 $2,288,375,413
To appreciate what this means to every Individual stock owner,
note the ohanjge In the averago prloo per head of each class of
animals:
Jan. 1, Jan. 1, Inc.
1807. 1000. Pet.
Horses $31.01 $44.01 42
Mules 41.00 03.0(1 20
Cows 23.10 ' U1.00 30
Cattle 10.00 24.07 00
Bheep 1.82 2.03 01
Uobs 4.10 4.00 22
The details by crops arel
FllOM DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE'S REPORT.
FAHM VaLUKK.
Increase la
1800. 1000. 1000.
Cora $013,871,012 $800,810,000 $340,038,088
Cotton 310,070,437 483,730,000 103,773,003
Wheat 200,008,000 380,000,000 114,301,100
Oats 120,248,880 102,187,000 41,038,011
Potatoes 70,070,302 07,300,000 21,070.038
Burley 18,204,000 32,337,000 14,042,004
Wye 8,340,300 14,242,000 5,800,101
Hay 000,200,004 071,000,000 1,704,430
lluckwueat 4,031,424 0,380,000 1,448,070
Total $1,000,334,883 $2,707,007,000 $710,722,017
American farmers received almost $110,000,000 morn money
for tbolr wheat this year, under Republican prosperity, than they
did In 1800 under Dnmooratlo depression. This your tho people
can.afTord to buy bread. In 1800 thousands or thorn were starving:
and bugging for bread.
The farmers will not throw away the substance for the shadow.
They will voto lsr a continuance or Republican prosperity as
against a return or Democratic adversity. They will rats for Mo
ftinloy and Roosovelt. They will uot vote for Uryan and Stevenson.
Exports of Farm
Products.
1900
$835,912,952
1 80S
$553,210,026
Republican
Increaeo
$282,702,926
Exports of Manufao
turcs.
1000
$432,284,366
1 80S
$183,595,743
Ropubllcan
Incrcnso
$248,688,623
Exports from Mines
1000
$38,977,550
(80S
$18,509,814
Republican
Increase
$20,467,736
What
Say Wool Producers?
"It Is Immaterial, In my Judgment,
whether the sheep growers recclvo any
benefit from the tariff or not. I
am for free wool." W. J. Bryan In
Congress.
The sheep miser can answer Mr .Bry
an's argument by quoting theso figures:
Boston Quo- WHson'Tnr. Dlnglcy Tar.
tatlons. (Free wool.) (Protection.)
Ohio I7e 30c
Michigan 14c 23c
Terry, fine Delaine,
clean 30a 57c
Terry, fine medium
clothing clean. . . .27c 50c
Ken. 4 blood, clcan.'JSc 43c
"I am for free' wool," snys W. J. Bry
an. What say the wool producers?
Farm Value of Wheat.
(Dnpattmont of Acrlcitlttuo' Figures.)
1800 $270,004,01 1 ) ' -t,a
1800 200,008,000 J D1c-tlc
1800 , 380,480,211 K1I-
1000 ! 380,000;000 j nPb
Sleeping Cars More Used.
Prosperity smiled on tho Pullman
Company und Its employes during tho
past year. The prqduct of the company's
works was valued at 417,02.(1,270, as
against $13,'o28,257 a year ago, an in
crease of $3,31)8,013. At Pullman, p,258
employes were on the rolls, and they re
ceived an aggregate of $3,832,201 In
wages, on average of $021.38 to each per
son employed.
In .the operating department on the dif
ferent roads there were 10,000 employes,
who were paid $8,483,132 In wages. The
nunjlwr, of employes the previous year
was 13,017, and the wages paid amount
ed 1o $0,000,283.
It Sort o' Looks as If I'd Have to Expand."
PROSPERITY PROVED
TO BE SUBSTANTIAL.
Savlnrs o! the People Show an im
mense Gain Over 1894.
One evidence of the prevailing pros
pcrlty that cannot bo denied or overlook
ed or slurred over Is the record of de
posits In the banks, and particularly tne
savings banks, and the loan and trust
Institutions. The money in tho State and
national bauks is the working capital of
the business community! that In tho other
Institutions represents what the farmers,
wage earners and the vast army of the
provident possess.
The record In the Democratic year lew
aud the Itepubllcan yeur 1800 Is below:
Total No. Depositors.
Bank.
National . .
State and
private. . .
Loan and
Trust Cos.
Savings ...
Total....
Increase in
number ot
depositors
1804.
1,424,000
502,750
205,308
3,413,477
5,545,807
1819,
1,001,183
900,304
443.321
4,254,510
7,055,414
1803
1891
1S05
1800
Anuual average,..
1607
180S
1890
Annual average...
Democratic anuual
1 excess 101
No comment Is needed
llanlc Vuiltircs.
Number
, 503
89
135
107
255
105
CI
37
04
Liabilities.
$170,295,078
13,000,050
22,704,038
50,070,370
115,027,409
20,004,500
15,007,702
21,504,570
20,307,957
45,528,452
Failures Calondur Yeur.
Number. Liabilities
1890 10,907 $189,850,004
1891 12,273 180,808,038
1802 10,314 114,044,107
2,109,547
Total Amount of Deposits
Bank. 1891. 1899.
National ...$1,155,101,588 $1,830,110,140
Stato and
private... 214,442,510 418,281,207
Loan and
Trust Cos 230,501,892 570,724,117
Savings.... 1,205,450,410 1,782,974,481
1893 15,242
1894 13,885
1895 13,107
1890 16.088
1807 13,351
1808 "12,180
1809 0,337
840,770,889
172,092,850
173,100,000
220,000,834
154,332,071
180,002,800
90,870,880
Total. . . .$2,874,589,400 $4,008,000,005
Incrcnso in
amount of
deposits. $1,733,500,509
Average deposit in all banks;
1804 $520
1899 oo:
Mr. Bryan says we are not prosperous.
The bank deposits say that we are.
RECORD OF THE
AMERICAN RAILWAYS.
Greater Volume of Business Shows the
Country's Prosperity.
that
large
as a
and
1809
It may be taken as axiomatic
when the railroads arc doing a
volume of busluess, the country
wholo Is doing the same-
The record of railroad building
railroad business in 1895 and in
compares as follows:
MILKS OF ItAILItOAD BUILT.
Yeur. Miles.
1892 4,441
189.1 h 1,050
1899 4,500
1900 5,100
Estimated by Interstate Commerco
Commission.
GROSS ItAILHOAD RECEIPTS.
Year. Amount.
1892 $1,100,030,840
1804 1,000,013,358
1899 1,313,010,118
Decrease of $102093,482 between 1892
and 1804.
Increase of $240,000,700 between 1804
and 1899.
TONS OF FREIGHT CARRIED ONE
MILE.
1899 123,007,257,153
1895 85,227,515,891
BANK CLEARINGS TELL
THE STORY OF PROSPERITY.
The Record During; the Last Three Ad
ministrations.
Bank clearings tell the total volume of
business transacted In the country ut any
time. Hero la tho record In round mill
Ion during three administrations, those
of Ilurrlson, Clovclund and McKInley:
HARRISON.
Year. Amount.
1889 $50,321,000,000
189Q 00,807,000,000
1801 5(1,81)5,000,000
1802 01,902,000,000
Average
$58,058,000,000
CLEVELAND.
1803 $54,020,000,000
1804 45,390,000,000
1895 53,028,000,000
1890 50,032,000,000
Average
$50,844,000,000
M'KINLEY.
1807 57,085,000,000
1808 08,500,000,000
1800 .'. 03,503,000,000
1000
Itepubllcan Increase... 38,430,742,202
RAILROADS' NET EARNINGS.
1890 $450,041,110
1895 340,051,047
Republican increase $100,090,072
1'ONtul lteunlptH.
1890 $95,021,384
1801 70,983,128
Republican Increase $18,038,250
More business In tho country means
greater postal receipts. The PostotUco
Department tells which party has brought
plenty to tho couutry.
Average $73,020,000,000
The record shows the .ebb and How of
busluess aud largo business truusuctlous
mean a prosperous people.
Typlonl "Western Ravings.
Tho deposits lu tho savings banks of
Mollno, 111., Rock Island, III., and Dhv
enport, Iowa, have gained 01 per cent
since the election of 1890. The deposits
In the auvlngs institutions of these three
cities compare as follows:
Oct. 1, 1900 $10,230,304
Oct. 1, 1890 10,070,73!
Gain $0,150,002
The largest gains were made by the
small accounts.
Farm Value of Cotton.
Department sfAgrlcutture's Figures.
Year. Amount.
1805. $208,04 1,020 1 n
1800. UIO.070,437
1800. 112,000,41101,.
1000. 483,700,001 "eP
Prosperity in the South.
On the whole, theSouth Is rapidly de
veloping Into what God Intended It to be,
the garden spot pf North America.
With our ulversllicu industries, increas
ing manufactures, farming on a more
careful and scientific scale, and our sis
ter States marketing pig Iron and coal
in Europe and making steel rails for all
tho world, our prospects are Indeed
bright, and wo arc ready to crown cotton
king, with pig Iron standing as heir ap
parent to tho throne.
ROBERT P. MADDOX,
Vice-President Maddox-Ruckcr Banking
Company.
Augusta, Ga.
Farm Value of Oats.
Departnieat of Agriculture' Figure.
Year. Amount.
1800. $108,705,381 ) -.
1800. 120,248,880 J uem
1800. 170.104.1110)
lOOO. 102,187,500 I ""
Money in Circulation.
Sept. 1, 1000 $20.85
July 1, 1890 21.10
Republican Incrcaso $5.75
Mr. Bryan said that the reverse would
bo true were Mr. McKInley elected In
1800. This Is only another disproof of
Bryan tho prophet.
Farm Value of Barley.
Department of Agriculture's Figures.
Year. Amount.
1800.
1800.
1800.
lOOO.
1 8,204, OOOj
U2.838.340),
32,337,000 J lteP
Unidn Labels Printed.
times the people smoke
Iluro Is tho record for
the first' six mouths of
In prosperous
moro cigars.
1805. 1890 aud
1000:
'Labels printed.
1895 47,815,000
1800 55,140,000
1000 (six months ouly) 30,855,000
-Farm Valuo of Potatoes.;
Popartincnfof Agriculture's Figures,
Yeur. Amount.
1805
lttOU.
1800.
1000.
$05,115,058 1
87,300,0001 "ep
