—SUPPLEMENT TO— THE FRONTIER O’NEILL.NEBRASKA THURSDAY. OCTOBER, 27, 1904. DISTRESSFUL TIMES •HARDSHIPS THAT FOLLOWED DEMOCRACY-8 SUCCESS. Xeason that Should Be Held in Vivid Remembrance So that a Repetition of Industrial Disaster Mar Be Averted. The inauguration of a Democratic President in March, 1893, market! the be ginning of the most distressful times ever known in this country. In the preceding November the major ity of the nation’s working people had eeen fit to try the experiment of better ing their condition through intrusting po , titigal power to the Democratic party in i both the administrative and legislative branches of the government. In ex change for the confidence and power thus given it, the Democratic party gave, •within six months, the working people •f the country the most frightful dose of general calamity it had ever experienced. Within less than one year after the in dustrial workers had decided, in Novem ber of 1892, not to let well enough alone, prosperity bad set like the sun, there was a vast amny of unemployed men, and Starvation and misery reigned among tens of thousands of previously well to do. The suddenness and completeness with which this terrible change in 1893 was wrought in the fortunes of the American people furnished a fearfully bitter lesson. But it is a lesson tihat it is better for us to hold in vivid remembrance at this time rather than- learn it all over again by taking another dose of Democracy. A search througii the files of almost Any leading newspaper in the United States during the four winters following; the Democratic summers of 1893, 1894/ 1893 and 1896 would show graphic ac-: counts of the heartrending and awful want that followed the closing of the mills, the wrecking of banks, and the destruction of confidence by the Demo cratic party. Testimony from Union Labor. The following resolution charging the Democratic party with direct responsibil ity for the fearful snffering of labor, 4 was adopted by the Union Labor Club 4- -of Chicago, and was printed in the news papers December 10, 1893: From the midst of the most prosperous era that the people of the United States have ever known, we are suddenly sub merged to tfie depths of despair. In our own city 100.000 men and women are bat tling with starvation and cold. We are not alone In this; from every point of the com pass In onr fair land comes the wall of Woe from freezing men and starving women and children. Never before in the history •f our country has there been so many men, women and children dependent on the cold charities of the world for subsistence; never so many factories Idle; never so many attempts to reduce wages. For these cal amities there Is a cause to which we were hitherto careless and indifferent, but which we now thoroughly understand and appre ciate. The suicidal policy of free trade, which Grover Cleveland at Its head pro poses to establish regardless of the suffer ing It may engender, Is now thoroughly understood by the working people, and un less we, that are most Interested in its f.reservation, awake ourselves and speak u trumpet tones that policy will be pushed to the utmost extremity. W. C. Pomeroy, vice president of the American Federation of Labor, wel comed the thirteenth annual convention to the Chicago City Hall (December 12, 1893) in the following language: “lp the name of the homeless wan derer, in this desert of stone and steel, that1 wayfarer whose wolfish hunger bounds form ever onward, whose sleepless •yes wildly seek shelter and slumber, ■whose black despair grows darker and darker every hour, whose heart grows feint for want of food, whose shivering, Ahrunken form grows sick at the sight «f his own shrunken Shadow, whose soul le dead, I welcome you to the city, whose motto is, ‘I will.’ ” A Terre Haute, Ind., telegram of De cember 13 to the Associated Press said: "At a meeting of the Citizens’ Relief ■Committee this afternoon, the subcommit tees appointed to make a canvass of the unemployed in Terre Haute reported by •wards, showing nearly 1,500 men out of work.” An Associated Press telegram from Boston, December i3, said: “A oircu iar was issued to-day to landlords by the Associations for the unemployed, assert ing that 80,000 workmen, having ns many persons dependent upon them, are unable to find employment, and asking that tio tent be required of such until they are employed. Another appeal, addressed to the citizens of Boston, asks them to see that the city provides work. A move ment is on foot for a procession of the unemployed on the Common, and a meet- ■„ lug in Faneuil Hall next Tuesday.” ‘■iwcpm' m me my nail. (Chicago Inter Ocean, Dec. 13, 1903.) That contingent of “the army of the ■cnemployed” which has found shelter for * f°«’ nights in the corridors of the City Hall returned to its old quarters again test night, bringing along many recruits. The night before, forty or more of the lodgers thought to regale themselves with sandwiches, but wore set upon by their less fortunate and famished comrades, •nd a “bread riot” was precipitated which called forth police officers to quell It. Notwithstanding this ruction, the chilled and starving applicant was not refused lodging room last night. He came up to police headquarters dubiously, but was admitted. At 10 o’clock the long first-floor cor ridor from Washington to Hamlolplr •treet was covered with men and buys, fast asleep on the cold, damp pave ment. Men were half reclining on the •tairways, and the poor wretches on the floor had others standing over and alsiut them, envious of the place upon which they lay, cramped, drawn up, and crowd od by others who shared their miser able bed. Hast night Mrs. Helen M. <} mgar thought to give Editor Stead a lesson in the problem of unemployed and propn distribution of l.tHKI sandwiches among the night lodgers at police headquarters. This was forbidden, as a repetition of t'ae previous night's riot was feared, and tMii •andwidhes or other food that was scut lu was stored away for the night, and I orben morning came, and along with it ft* enforced exodus of the sleeping huu deeds, each man as he passed out was given a bate to help him through the cheerless day ahead of him, “It is a condition” that confronts the people of Chicago more favored than those for whom charity is evoked. There is no better advised man upou the de plorable situation than Col. W. P. Rend. Early identifying himself with "relief measures,” he has kept himself advised about “the gravest problem,” as he de clares It to be, “ever presented to Chi cago for solution.” Besides the thou sands who have drifted into the city, he estimates “over 100,000 resident work men in our city are out of employment.” TROPICAL POSSESSIONS. We Need A11 We Have and Could Profitably Increaee tha Number. The Democratic and “Anti-Imperial istic” opponents of Republican national control say we do not need tropical pos sessions. Such, for instance, as the Philippines, Porto Rico and Harwaii. In saying this they overlook the fact that our imports of tropical and sub-tropieal products in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1904, amounted to the enormous sum of $430,550,775—nearly $1,500,000 for each working day of the year. The great growth in these imports in a single generation is shown by the fol lowing record, using figures compiled by the chief of the Bureau of Statistics of (lie Department of Commerce nnd I/abor: 1870 .$139,800,086 1890 . 207,716,578 1004 . 430,556,775 The increase here given of $158,000,000 i:i twenty years, and $291,000,000 in thirty-four years, emphasizes our need of tropical possessions in the most strik ing manner. Our imports from the Phil ippines, Porto Rico and Hawaii are in cluded in the following proportions: Hawaii.$25,133,533 Philippines. 12,066,934 Porto Rico . 11,576,912 Total .$48,777,379 Here we see that our present tropical possessions are only sending us about 11 per cent of the tropical products we con sume. We not only need those islands and all they produce, but we also need to do all in our power to increase the total and diversity of their prodnefs. More than that, we also need more pos sessions of the same kind. It would pay us to buy some more—the Danish and other West Indies, for instance. It stands to reason that as we must pay out so large au amount each year, it would be best to send the money to our own pos sessions, to benefit our own native and American interests, rather than it should go to countries in which we do not have any personal pecuniary interest. By quantities, our main tropical im ports in the years 1870 and 1904 were: 1870. 1904. Sugar, lbs.. .1,196,000,000 4,675,000,000 Coffee, lbs... 235,250,000 998,831,000 Rice, lbs- 43,123,000 154,261,000 Tea, lbs. 47,408,000 112,898,000 India rub ber, lbs... . 9,624,000 59,440,000 Tobacco leaf, lbs... 6,256,000 33,548,000 Cocoa, lbs... 3,640,000 72,777,000 Cotton, lbs.. 1,698,000 69.S22.000 Silk, lbs. 583,000 10,722,000 Olive oil, gallons ... 251,000 1,713,000 Fibers, tons. 43,000 299,000 In some of these raw products in creases we see the value of the pro tective tariff against foreign goods made of the same classes of raw products. Raw silk, for example, thirtyfold increase in a single generation. Hence our silk fac tories. Then fibers, a nearly sevenfold increase; India rubber, a sixfold increase. In money values the mam comparisons are: 1870. 1904. Sugar.$69,802,000 $105,734,000 Coffee. 24,234,000 70,000,000 Silk. 3,017,000 40,100,000 India rubber... 3,459,000 42,214,000 Fibers . 1,376,000 34,403,000 Fruits & nuts. 7,416,000 24,990,000 Tobacco & in f rs. 4,181,000 21,803.000 Tea . 13,803,000 18,229,000 Vegetable oils. 2,511.000 10.227,000 Gmns. 1,288.000 10,171,000 Cocoa . 418,000 9,600,000 Cotton (Egyp tian) . 331,000 9.402,000 Spices . 1,513.000 4,366,000 Cabinet woods. 670.000 4,124.000 Rice . 1,007,000 3,075.000 Opium . 1,776,000 2,350,000 Dye woods and extracts- 1,337,000 1,522,000 Indigo. 1,202,000 1,282,000 Of the excellence of Porto Rican cof fee over the cheaper grades from Brazil and other countries. President Roose velt and others have testified. Porto Rico needs help, particularly in her cof fee industry. Buying more of her coffee w ould be an easy way for ns to afford some of the help she needs. It is now generally known that in the Philippines there are many varieties of cabinet woods in profusion, equal in qual ity and more beautiful in appearance than those we now buy from South America. The forests of the islands also abound in gums of all the kinds we use. The islands also produce indigo, dye woods and extracts, and several of the products named.—(See “Philippine Gaz eteer” and “Philippines, products of.” Encyclopedia Americana, in press.) In the face of the above facts, the only “Imperialism” is our imperial need of tropical possessions to grow our own tropical products. WALTER J. BALLARD. Sohenectady, N. Y. Catholic* Prefer Roosevelt. Archbishop Messmer of Milwaukee voices the sentiments of thousands of members of the Catholic church when he says: “I believe that President Roosevelt’s policy in regard to the Philippine friars has met the approval of the Vatican au thorities. and that there is a feeling tnat in case of his election they would be as sured of straightforward and consider ate treatment. Personally I should be glad to see President Roosevelt elected President.” “The wane-worker would do well to remember thnt If protection 1* rob bery, an l ia to be puniahad according ly, he will bn the first to pay the pen alty: f ,r either he will be turned adrift entirely, or kis wages will be cat down to the starvation point.”— Rooseve.t's letter of ncoeptunoe. Only twice in forty years have the American people placed the Democratic party in power, and in both of those in stances its victory fell like a blight upon the country. Why repeat the experi ment? “TO HAVE AND TO HOLD/' I _ A GREAT QUALITY. Roosevelt Quick to Think and Act. but Always Wisely. President Roosevelt is being attacked as a possible danger to the country be cause of bis alert, quick wind and prompt action. The scare-cat variety of politi cians are crying him down on this is sue. It is a common error, the belief that because a man thinks quickly, and acts promptly in an emergency, lie is a rash or dangerous individual. To the slow man, one whose mental processes are nat urally labored, it is incredible that an other mind, differently constituted from his own, may arrive almost instantly at the solution of a question which would occupy the attention of the heavier mov ing brain for a long time. Celerity of judgment and action are characteristics of some very great men, though not by any means is this an at tribute of them all. Whenever this qual ity is conspicuous in a man, his critics, friendly and adverse alike, accuse him of rashness. After a long trial such a man often convinces his friends that his instant judgment was well founded, his prompt action well taken. But his ene mies never will allow this. A practical illustration taken from the most commonplace fields of life shows how unfounded is the idea that quick thought and action are dangerous. A horseman, a football player, a locomotive engineer, a woodsman felling a tree, all these at times must instantly grasp a sit uation, judge accurately as to distances, chances and certainties, and act, with the rapidity of fight, upon the mind's di rection. “Dispatch is the soul of busi ness.” This is the motto of every great manipulator in the field of business and finance. The money-makers decide Instantaneously, in a crisis, and he who most quickly thinks, and thinks right, acting boldly upon his own judgment, is the winner. There was never any such thing as a successful fighter who was slow of brain, languid in motion. It is a great quality, that of being able to think quickly, and think right at the same time. It is said of some horses that they “look over the whole ground." There are men who do the sufne thing, taking in the entire situa tion in one comprehensive glance. The born soldier does this. So does the born statesman. When the ship of state is headed to ward the rocks the executive officer must he quick to see and prompt to steer away from the danger. To wait would be fa tal. When advantage to the State is waiting, the executive head should be instantly alert to the potentialities of the moment, and competent to act upon the case at once, for opportunity waits for no man. • Because the mass of men are. slow In thought, scattered as to attention, late in action, they should not suspect the quick, alert, concentrated minds of men more gifted than themselves. As a mat ter of fact, the public admires, trusts and believes in the man of quick thought and action. It has more faith in the man who knows his own mind than it can have In the man who waits for help from within or without to make it up. Events have shown that President Roosevelt thinks quickly and thinks right; that he acts promptly, and wisely. What more could he asked, brethren of the slow-going order? Tile Safest Strip, The strip of land which lies between the Rocky mountains and the Pacific ocean has practically already gone Re publican. It may lie said frankly of our friends, the enemy,* that they need not waste time or money on the Pacific coast. All the trade and commerce of the Pacific coast is going to float westward. The Republican party is endeavoring to promote this trade in every way, and tho Democratic party, under the cry of “Im perialism,” is trying to embarrass it in every way. Well, the western fringe of the States of the United States is pebbled b? intelligent human beings. Is there any question as to how they will vote? REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTS. They Receive Abuse of Democrats end Support of the People. According to the Democrats, the Re publican Presidents, every one of them, have been a had lot, personally and po litically. Bach and all of them were declared to be ruining the country; but when the day of reckoning came, and the verdict of the people was handed in on their ballots, judgment was given—save in two cases in forty-four years—for the Republicans. Impartial history acquits every Republican President of criminal intents and acts. In doing lids duty to the people Mr. Lincoln became a mar tyr. No ruler was ever more vilified and denounced. His body in life, ihis spirit in death, represent the dividing line be tween loyalty and disloyalty, between the cohesion of the States or their disinte gration. When a Democrat, be he leader or follower, writes or talks of the Re publican party as a nation-destroyer through its measures or its Presidents, it ia because he does not know or does not care to remember that Buchanan, wiho, as a Democrat, shaped the course of his administration so that the advocates of secession might have a quick and easy victory; it was this Democratic President who left to his Republican successor and the loyal people he had been chosen to govern, an empty treasury, a corporal's guard of an army, a wreck of a navy, dismantled fortresses, and legions of of ficeholders ulcerated with a disloyalty that the stem lessons of war and years of Christian peace hava not entirely erad icated. And before Buchanan were Dem ocratic administrations whoss acts were seemingly studied preludes to his crime. The lineage of the Democratic party is a record of broken pledges conceived in po litical Iniquities and strangled at their birth. It is tha Democratic party to which the people owe four years of civil war and eight years of such misgovem ment that the rich became poor and the poor starved. It has been the province of the Re publican party to undo the work of its opponents; it has again and again saA>e rearranged and i rendjnst-d to meet the shifting needs of the country | but this can with safety be done only bv those who are commit ted to the cause of the protective sys tem.Roosu elf. li tter of Moaeptaooe. I>r. T. J. McCoy, one of the most prominent Democrats in Warrick county, i Indiana, has created a sensation at Boou ville by renouncing Democracy and com ing out strongly for Roosevelt and Fair banks. BOOMERANG FIGURES. DANGEROUS MATERIAL IN THE HANDS OF THE DEMOCRATa Comparison* Showing How that Party increased Government Kxponditnron Mors than 31 Per Cent. In a Twelve Year Period. The Democratic campaign writer* ant. speaker* are making use of highly dan* gerou* material when they use figures to show the large increase in government expenditures under Republican adminis tration. Alton U. Parker said to the Democratic editors at Rosemount: During Mr. Cleveland's first term the av erage annual expenditure was about $269, 000,000. For the last three years It ha* been about $519,000,(XX). The governmental expenditure last year mounted up to $582, txxi.OOO, which Is not equaled by any year since tlie civil war. with the exception of the year of the ttpanlsh war. Why did Mr. Parker use the figure# merely of Cleveland’s first term? Why did he not make use of the figures for President Cleveland’s second term? Had these entered into the comparison it would have been shown that expenditure* gained with (he same proportional rapid ity in Democratic times as in Republi can times—and in some directions, like interest on the public debt, they gained more. The Democratic party, to use a legal term, is "estopped” from criticism of Republican increase in expenditures when the figures comparing Democratic expenditures, twelve years apart, show that the Democrats, just like the Repub licans, were forced to follow the rapid growth of the country with increased ex penditures for the government. The total expenditures of President Cleveland’s last fiseal year, 1897, wer# $365,774,159 as against $242,483,139 for those of his first year as President, 1886 —a gain of over 51 per cent, in th# twelve-year period. The total expenditures for the four years of Cleveland's first administration, 1886 to 18!X), were $l,052,0(i5,894. Th# total expenditures during Cleveland’# second administration, 1893 to 1897, wer# $1,441,674,184. Comparing the first year of Cleveland’# first term with the last year o< bis sec ond term, the following were the expendi tures: 1880. 1807. Civil and miscella neous .$74,166,930 $90,401,261 War Department ... 31,324,153 48,950.018 Navy Department .. 13,907,888 34,501,548 Indian service. 8,009,158 13.016,803 Pensions . 63,404,864 141,053,168 Interest on debt .... 50,580,146 37,791,117 Tot.expenditures.*242,483,130 *305,774,157 For the last fiscal year, 1904, the b*t ermnent expenditures were: Civil and miscellaneous (exclti- ! plve of *50,1X10,000 Panama * Canal payment) .*136,766,703 War Department . 115,005,411 Navy Department .... Indian service Total .*532,402,323 Interest on the Public Debt. As regards interest on the public debt, tiie figures of the Harrison administra tion that intervened between the two Cleveland administrations are of inter est. The interest payments for the year 1802, tiie last year of Republican rule, were $23,378,110, as against $51,580,146 for the first fiscal year of Cleveland’s first administration. Then, during Cleve land's second administration the public lebt was increased $200,000,000, and the Interest payments, which in 1892 amount* >(j to $23,378,116, in 1897 amounted to 537,791,110. But in 1904 the interest >n the public debt was only $24,646,490, :his reduction having been due chiefly to :he economy rendered possible through lie financial act of March, 1900, which aearly every Democrat in Congress voted lgainst. The most important increase in expond ttires under Republican rule has been for :hc navy—and this policy of upbuilding ;he navy was a pet policy of the late VV. D. Whitney, President Cleveland’s Secre ;ary of the Navy, whom Democrats often :erm the father of the modern American levy. During the Cleveland years, ex penditures for the navy increased $19, >J0,000, and the Navy Department ex penditures for 1904, compared with those lor 1897, Cleveland’s last year, show in Increase of $68,000,000, the bulk of which increase is for construction of new chips. In consideration sf the fact that the United States has increased nearly 50 ier cent, in population and more than 100 per cent, in wealth since Grover Uleveland was first inaugurated, the in ■reased expenditures ef government vould naturally seem to be entirely jus ified. If they are not, the Democrats should, it least in fairness, be willing to criti •ise the increase in Democratic years just is much as the increase in Republican ears. WORKINGMAN’S FRIEND. frMk Evidence of Roosevelt's Sym pathy with Wens Earners. It has been repeatedly stated that President Roosevelt never misses an op (oitnuity to show his sympathy for vage-earners. Hore is a fresh evidence if the truth of this assertien. “Dur ug the existing administration," says the Chicago Tribune, ‘’the United States for he first time has intervened in a private Inmage suit. Nothing was known of the irder until Senator Knox, late Attorney Jeneral, mentioned it the other day. A irakeman was Injured, after'the act r* luiring the. use of safety appliances on nterstste railroads had gone into effect, vbile endeavoring to couple cars which iad not been equipped in accordance vith law. He brought suit for damages n a United States court, but was nnsuc essful. The case was called to the at ention of the President, and, as he saw hat the decision of the lower court nulli ied a great remedial statute, he directed l petition for a writ of certiorari to be iled to remove the case to the Supremo }ourt. It will decide whether a law vhieh was passed to protect the lives of Kindreds of thousands of railroad work irs can be violated with impunity." The Democrats are everlastingly re ’erring to Jackson ami Jefferson as the lolitieal demigods of the past. No on* ■an tell what Jefferson would do wer* ic alive tu-Jay. He was n good uiau, ind a schemer and dreamer in politico. Anyone can tell what Jackson would do vere he alive to-day. He would be with Roosevelt. He in a less educated wa® was the same kind of man