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MAGNIFICENT IHGREAS
EX-PRESIDENT HARRISON
SUSTAINING HINLEY.
Issues Are Now Just the Same as They
Were Four Years Ago.
WHY HE WILL CE UNABLE TO MAKE ANY SPEECHES.
FDR AMERICAN FARMERS
Crop and Live Stock Gainsof Over a Billion
Dollars in Value.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PROSPERITY AND DEPRESSION.
Marvelous Statement by the Department of Agriculture,
Which Shows WhyFarmers Are with the
Administration.
The United States Department Ag
riculture has just issued its statert'nt of
the value of nine of the princip-J crops
'if the United States. Comparing this
value with the value of the s:ie crops
in l!S!; and .Tilling the increast value of
live stock ul ready published, ere is an
increased gain of over one billion two
hundred million dollars. i
It is the difference between prosperity
and depression between ytepublicauisni
and I cnioci ney. f:
The increase is given VIow:
I.creaie in Nine Cropil 7 10,722,017
Increase ia Live tock4! 501,444,474
, f
Total Gai. to Farn-
em J. $1,21 2,167,091
The value on the firm of the nine prin
cipal crops raised n the United States
was $710.72J.J17 larger this year than
in 1S!it;. .?
The fig'ires are Supplied by the TVpart
nient of Agi icul-Airc. those for 100l hav
ing just been completed. The details by
t-rops fallow: T
FARM
isrm.
$313,871,912
319,970,437
205,9-.900
120,24 S.SS9
73.IJ7O.302
1 8,204,99
H.34 (8,399
CG9,293,34
4,931,424
Corn ...... . i .
Cot ton .... .
Y beat ..'!...
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Potato
lljrley-.
Wye.. ;i
Hay. t
liucbrheat..
f
'otal
,.$1,U9G,331,SM3
imerican farmers received almost
$ i J. "i, 10,000 more money for their wheat
Ins year, under Republican prosperity,
'fAian they did in ISM under Democratic
depression. This year the people can
f afford to buy bread. In 1S9U thousands
of them were starving and begging for
bread.
The American farmers received $.14,
OOii.OQv) more money this year for their
corn crop than they did in lSUti.
sorniEM PROGRESS
AXD PROSPERITY.
Shown by the Activity cf Railroads
and Factories.
The increase of earnings of the South
ern : and Southwestern railroad systems
of the Contli and Southwest is .an excel
lent indieatioii of i the improvement of
business conditions in that . section of the
country. The alvance since lCOf i shown
in the table below: " -
Earnings
in August. 1WV).
Southern $r..r,S-4.2U" $n,sriS,4U.-
Southwestern .. o,.)11.77G S,432,OC4
Total $12.41 1.041 $1S.2!U0!
Money has loaned at lower rates of
interest; both agricultural and manufac
f.ictuiin interests have been stimulated
thereby; :ind what stimulates these ioter-e-ts
directly stimulates the business of
railroad. The out-bound shipments of
the raw cotton may v.. it have been heavier
b.-r-ause more was ued in the Southern
iniiN: but the out-bound shipments of
textile Roods have greatly increased. A10
the in-bound shipments of the luxuries of
life have increased enormously, and this
cla-.s of freight is the best paying of all.
( ictiing up new markets in Cuba, l'or
to Rie.i and the Philippine-, for the pro
ducts of the South has siren great addi
tional stimulus to the Southern railroads,
which, geographically considered, derive
unusual advantages from the expansion
policy.
The extent to which new factories have
been erected in the States of West ir
ginia, Kentucky and Virginia is shown
by the number of establishments started
aiong the line of the Norfolk and West
ern road during the past year. These in
clude: Three new cotton mills.
One silk mill.
Three knitting factories.
One pu'.p mill.
One cotton and linseed oil.
One coke bi-product plant.
Four iron and steel works.
One hosiery factory.
One Hour mill.
Two canning works.
Three peanut factories.
One furniture works.
Four wagon and buggy works.
One handle factory.
One stave works.
Three planing mills.
Sixteen saw mills.
The future of the South is in developing
its manufacturing interests and there are
thousands of Southerners who already
realize this and who are alive to the
value of the protective tariff.
To Govern the Philippines.
They (the Philippines will not be gov
erned as vassals or serfs or slaves: they
will be given a government of liberty,
regulated by law. honestly administered,
without oppressing exactions, taxation
without tyranny, justice without brilie,
education without distinction of social
condition, freedom of religious worship,
and protection in "life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiuess." William McKinley.
They received nearly $164,000,000 more
money for their cotton than they did in
1S0. This year the mills were open and
there was a demand for cotton.
American farmers received nearly $42,
OOO.OW more money for their crop of
oats this year than they did in 1890.
They received nearly $22,000,000 more
money for their potatoes this year than
they did in LSIMJ. People could afford to
buy potatoes this year, as the mills were
open and good wages were being earned.
They received over $14,000,000 more
money for their barley this year, and
barley is one of the smallest of the sta
ple crops.
They received almost $C.OOO,000 more
money for their rye crop, which is an
other of the small staples.
American farmers have also gained
over $."00.0(K.(MK) this year in the value
of their live stock as compared with
ISfMi, according to the Department of
Agriculture's figures. Thus we have:
Increase this year, $710,722,017 in nine
staple crops.
VALUES.
1 OOO.
$839,810,000
483.750,000
3S0,0O0,00O
102,187,500
97.350.000
32,337,300
14,242,500
67 1,000,000
O,3S0,OOO
Increase In
1900.
$343,938,089
163,773,363
114.301,100
41,938,611
21,670,638
14,042,304
3,896,101
1,704,436
1,448,376
$710,722,017
$2,707,037,300
Increase this year, $301,414,474 in live
stock.
Total increase, $1,212,107,001 in farm
er's property in 1H00.
The farmers will not throw away the
substance for the shadow. They will
vote for a continuance of Republican
prosperity as against a return of Demo
cratic adversity. They will vote for Mc
Kinley and Roosevelt. They will not
vote for Bryan and Stevenson.
PROSPERITY CERTAI.Y
A.YD LIBERTY ASSIREP.
Views of a Noted Jewish Publisher on
the Country's Future. , .
'
. -
As far as human judgment can fore
see at least so it seems to the "Writer
the next four years should be more pros
perous than anything this country has
ever before seen. There will I an enor
mously increased demand for out natural
products, such as iron, and just now coal;
and our manufactured proda3fs are also
validly making their way. ; In certain
lines, swHns agricultural implements,
tools and 1TJ-V.? vehicles, ir. fact whatever
it is necessary to cVin3 lightness with
strength, we are away 'iihead of the rest
of the world, ami it is only because we
have not cultivated the foreijru markets
with sr.JHcient assiduity that we have
given our competitors h ghost of a show.
In other lines than those mentioned
above, such ns ladies' line shoes and
others that the writer could mention, we
also form a class by ourselves superior to
the rest of the world. These conclusions
are drawn from personal observations in
many countries.
A second point which ought to be
well presented is that of expansion. You
no doubt are aware of the greater or less
persecution which the Jews have under
gone in all the countries of the world, and
are still undergoing to-day. Therefore
one of the things ihat we desire to see
established above all others is the univer
sal principle of the right of any decent
man to go anywhere where he thinks he
can improve his condition and enjoy all
the rights and immunities f a native,
without being put to any disadvantage
because of his religion. There are really
only two countries that give this privi
lege: these are the United States and
Great Britain.
We know that freedom for all, equality
for all, and safety and protection for all,
are guaranteed wherever the Stars and
Stripes float; hence we were expansion
ists from the start and will be until the
end. Wherever a country is practically
under American jurisdiction, it is a good
thing for that country: it is a good thing
for humanity, and a thing that is so good
cannot fail to be a good thing for the
country itself in the end. though it may
be costly in the beginning.
These are the points which we think
ought to be emphasized. The questions
ought to be treated in the very broadest
way; details do not count.
LEO WISE.
Cincinnati. Ohio, Sept. G, 1900.
Kailrnatl Men for McKinley.
Bryan and the I'opo-Democratic party
have been claiming the railroad vote this
year, especially out in Kansas. On the
train going to Topeka a few days ago the
conductor, brakeman and engineer were
all found to be enthusiastic Republicans.
Station agents along the line were also
found to be faithful Republicans and
working among their railroad friends for
McKinley. Bryan at any rate won't get
the whole railroad vote.
WILL YOU?
Yon vofetl In 1HOO for prosperity
and got ic. Will yon now vote against
1U
V lnor....n fjW $J7&XZ&
m $501,411,474 M3i&Jm
Total sain tMs year
to Farmers br
Eepafiiicanisiti
.$'1,212,167,001
PRESIDENT r.VHIfJLEY'S MODEL OHIO FARk
Not a Political FartTi, but Managed in an Able Man
ner, and the. Place Is a Noted One in
the Countryside.
President McKinley owjs a farm. A
great deal has been wruten about Mr.
Bryan's farm, but heretofore no descrip
tion of Mr. McKinley8 broad expanse
of corn fields, meadojrs, cow pastures
and orchards, which (tf.mprise 1G2V4 acres.
His well-kept barns! corn cribs and wag
on sheds show care 'ind thrift. The wool
on the backs of 2'X sheep shines with
cleanliness, for cKinley's farm is a
model one and ariodern one. Unlike the
famous Nebraska farm of the Democratic
candidate for President, the public
knows little about it. Two miles from
Minerva, one mile from P.ayard, Ohio,
it stands on ' sloping parcel of ground
surmounted l.y the orchards of Raldwin
apples. The Cleveland and Pittsburg
Railroad crosses a corner of the farm and
the Big Sandy canal courses through the
field at one side of the main road.
m . it.
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The Main Barns on President McKin leys Farm.
McKinley's farm is a profitable one.
In any season when crops are good it
yields richly. This year's potato crop
will probably aggregate 2,000 bushels.
The corn fields have been known to pro
duce as high as 3.300 bushels in a single
vear. Last vear the meadows produced
aggregates some 700 bushels.
This is apple butter making time in
this section of the country. Many of the
apples on McKinley's farm, just at the
present time, are being made into apple
butter. The large orchard is an impor
tant part of McKinley's farm. One good
year 1,700 bushels of Baldwins were
gathered and as many more of other
kinds kinds, making a total yield of near
ly 3,500 bushels. Part of the produce of
the farm has been shipped to Canton
from time to time to the McKinley home,
but none has ever been sent to Washing
ton. Canton is about twenty miles from
the farm.
Selling milk is one of the industries of
the farm. There are twenty-five head of
cattle. There are nine milch cows. Some
of them are blooded stock. Raisins
REPUBLICAN PROTECTION
DEMOCRATIC LOW TARIFF
McKinley Act Wilton-Gorman Act Dingle Act
of 1890. of 1894. of 1897.
Horses and Mule $30 per head. 20 per cent ad val. $30 per head.
Cattle 1 year old or over. 10 20 " " 27X per cent ad. val.
Calves (under 1 year) ... 2 " 20 " 2 per head.
Sheep i.BO " 20 " 1.60 "
Hogs 1.60 " 20 " " 1.60 "
Barley 30 bushel. 30 " - .30 bushel.
Buckwheat .IS " 20 M .15 "
Corn 16 20 .15 "
(tats 15 " 20 " is
Wheat 25 " 20 - - 25
Potatoes .26 .15 bushel. .'25 -
Onions 40 - .20 " ".40
Beans 40 .20 " 46
Feas, green 40 .10 " .40
Peas, dried 20 " .20 " .30 ..
Cabbage .5 each Free .3 each. :
Other vese'ables 25 per cent 1 0 per cent .25 per cent ad. val
Apples, green or ripe... .25 bushel 20 " .2 bushel.
Apples, dried 2 1b. 20 " .261b.
Eggs .6 doz. .3 doz. .6 doz.
Poultry, live .3 lb. .2 lb. .3 lb.
Poultry, dressed .61b. .31b. .5 1b.
Bacon and ham .6 1b. 20 per cent .5 1b.
Lard .21b. .1 .2 1b.
calves is also an occupation. Ten fine
horses are constantly employed. These
are all draft horses. Two hundred sheep
graze on the hillside. One season 173
sheep were sold from this place. This
shows what a good market there is for
the wool and mutton which comes from
the President's farm. The chickens num
ber more than 200.
The man who has charge of Mr. Mc
Kinley's farm is W. J. Adams, formerly
of Canton, but who was raised in Penn
sylvania. He i3 a farmer who tinder
stands his business, and it is said, in the
vicinity, that there is not a more prosper
ous farm in all that section. He has a
half interest in everything. The fences
are all kept up and there is an appear
ance of neatness which marks his work.
Mr. Adams has lived on this place for
the past twenty years, and Mr. McKinley
is delighted with him.
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The residence is a two-story structure,
built sixty years ago. It is now getting
quite old in appearance. It shelters eleven
rooms. The porch is about the size of
McKinley's famous front porch at Can
ton, ami then on to the upright iart there
is a wing which is a story and a half in
height. The lawn is well kept, and
morning glories grow upon the fences at
one side.
Besides the house, there are six build
ings on the farm. " There is the main
barn, the sheep barn, the two large wag
on sheds, the scale house and the pig pen.
The accompanying picture shows the
main barn to the right and the main
wagon shed to the left.
The McKinley farm is visited each
year by people who, on passing through
that section, hear of the President's farm
and are curious to see what kind of a
farmer he is. One visitor once asked for
a fence rail for a souvenir of his visit.
The Adams family has liecome used to
kodak fiends and fully realize that to re
side on the President's farm is- to be, in
a sense, in the public eye. W. Frank
McClure.
Bryanites Get No Consolation from the Former President,
Whom They Claimed Was Lukewarm in the
Campaign.
Gen. Benjamin Harrison is emphatical
ly for the re-election of President Mc
Kinley. He silenced all statements to
the contrary by making his views known
through the medium of an interview.
"Is it true, general, that you have con
sented to make some speeches in the
campaign?" he was asked.
Campaigning Days Over
"No, that statement has not been au
thorized by me." was his answer. "I
have said to everyone who has spoken
or written to me on the subject that I
could not do any more campaign work.
I began to make Republican speeches
the year I began to vote, and have had
a laborious, if unimportant, part in every
campaign, State and national, since until
lS'JS.
"In ISfXi T submitted myself to very
hard usage, and then made tip my mind
and so said to my friends that I would
do no more campaigning. Following this
conclusion I declined to take a speaking
part in the campaign of 1SJIS. My retire
ment dates from that year, not from this.
Ills Work tor Party.
"Few men have made more speeches
for their party than I have, and no ex
President, I am sure, has made more.
Since I left Washington my retirement
from all participation in party manage
ment has been complete. All that I
have left to others, and I think they have
very generally and kindly acc?pted my
sense of the proprieties of the case at
least between campaigns.
"In a word, I have vacated the choir
loft and taken a seat in the pews with
a deep sense of gratitude to my forbear
ing fellow countrymen."
"But, general, it is said that you are
not altogether in accord with your party."
As to Porto Itico.
"Well, I have heard that my silence
was imputed by some to that cause. Now,
the only public utterance 1' have made in
criticism of the policies of the party was
contained in the interview, consisting of
one rather short sentence, that 1 gave
to the newspapers while the Porto Rico
bill was pending.
"It was, in substance, that I regarded
the bill as a grave departure from right
principles. I still think so. I do not
believe that the legislative power of Con-1
gress in the territories is absolute, and I
do believe that the revenue clause relat
ing to duties and imposts applies to Porto
Rico.
Is a Legal Question.
"These views. I know, are not held by
many able lawyers. It is a legal ques
tion one that the political departments
PROTECTION FOR
THE CATTLEMAN.
How It Helps the Northwestern Stock
Raiser to Compete with Canada.
Every one in Cass County, S. D., knows
James S. Landers of Argusville, and he
is pretty well known in the State. He
has lived here some twenty years, is a
most successful farmer, and attends
closely to his farm interests. Being of
English descent, however, it would be
natural that he might favor free trade
ideas, but he has evidently been studying
the effect of protection and free trade on
the farmer, and he sends in the following
letter for publication, which is worthy
of close perusal by all.
Argusville, Oct.
I came down to Fargo to hear the Hen.
J. D. Scanlan. and his speech was the
best argument I ever heard on a political
topic; there was no gas and no wind
just solid facts.
I can give you a good illustration of his
arguments, which I picked up on the
train going to Fargo; it was a freight,
and on the train was a cattle man from
Manitoba, and he was along with 102
head of 2-year-old steers. He had ship
ped these from his home, eighty miles
west of Winnipeg, to find a market in
this country. It had cost him $(100 for
duty to enter this stock; his freight was
23 cents per hundred from Neche to
St. Paul,- and then he had -to reship to
Chicago. He had been five days on the
way when he reached Fargo.
Now here is the point for my brother
farmers to study a little: This Manitoba
farmer ships his cattle from the other
side of the line to Chicago, pays heavy
duty, pays the freight, feed three times
on the way, suffers heavy shrinkage, and
then sees a better profit at the end than
he can get at home and after paying all
these expenses.
Here is where we free trade farmers
are blind to our own interests, when we
want these cattle to come in free, and if
this was allowed what would we get for
our stock? They would not be worth the
raising and we would return to beggary,
where thousands were before, under free
trade.
Now, I am interested in cattle, and I
have been considering starting in stock
raising in the Canadian Northwest, where
you can raie a steer until he is three
years old for about $10. but what can
you get for him then? He is worth about
two cents a pound, and he has to be a
good one to bring that.
Oh. no. I guess I'll not try that, but
I'll stay in North Dakota and vote for
McKinley and protection. That is good
enough for me.
JAMES S. LAND IS.
of the government cannot fully adjudge.
The final and controlling word upon this
question is with the Supreme Court of
the United States. Cases involving the
question are, 1 understand, pending, and
a decision in which we all must acquiesce
cannot be much deferred.
"I think, therefore, that voters ought
to vote with a view to the right decision
of those questions that are directly and
finally in the control of the President
and Congress.
Firm Against Rryan.
"The general reasons I gave in my Car
negie Hall speech in 1S9J why Mr. Bryan
should not be elected still hold good with
me. His election would, 1" think, throw
governmental and business affairs into
confusion.
"We should not aid the election of a
President who would, admittedly, if he
could, destroy the gold standard and oth
er things that we value even more, upon
the deceptive suggestion that he has been
bound and that the Republican party will,
after defeat, still have strength enough
to save the temple.
"It will be much better not to allow the
man with destructive tendencies so much
as to lean against the pillars.
Quotes from the Past.
"Ferhaps it will save you much trouble
if I give you, and underwrite as of this
date, this extract from my Carnegie Hall
speech:
"'When we have a President who be
lieves that it is neither his right nor his
duty to see that the mail trains are not
obstructed, and that interstate commerce
has its free way, irrespective of State
lines, and courts that fear to use their
ancient and familiar writs to restrain and
punish lawbreakers, free trade and free
silver will be appropriate accompani
ments of such an administration and can
not add appreciably to the national dis
tress or the national dishonor.'
Prosperity Is Cited.
"The economic policies of the Repub
lican party have been vindicated by the
remarkable and general prosperity that
has developed during Mr. McKinley's ad
ministration succeeding a period of great
depression. A change of administration
this fall would almost certainly renew
conditions from which we have so hap
pily escaped.
"This full dinner bucket is not a sordid
emblem. It has a spiritual significance
for the spiritually minded. It means
more comfort for the wife and family,
more schooling and less work for the
children and a margin of savings for sick
ness and old age."
DAAIEL WEBSTER'S
ffARMG TO TIIE POOL
Only Demagogues Will Try to Incite a
Contest of Money.
I see in those vehicles which carry to
the people sentiments from high places,
plain declarations that the present con
troversy is but a strife between one part
of the community and another. I hear it
boasted that the poor hate the rich. I
know that under the cover of the roofs
of the capital within the last twenty
four hours, among men sent here to de
vise means for the public safety and the
public good, it has been vaunted forth as
a matter of boast and triumph that one
cause existed powerful enough to sup
port everything and to defend every
thing; and that was the natural hatred
of the poor to the rich. I pronounce the
author of such sentiments to be guilty
of attempting a detestable fraud on tht
community; a double fraud; a fraud
which is to cheat men of their property,
and out of the earnings of their labor by
first cheating them out f their under
standing. The natural hatred of the poor for the
rich! It shall not be until the last mo
ment of my existence that I will believe
the people of the United States capable
of being effectually deluded, cajoled and
driven about in herds by such abominable
frauds as this. I admonish the
people against the object of outcries like
this. I admonish every industrious la
borer in the country to be on his guard
against such a delusion. I tell him the
attempt is to play off his passions
against his interests and to prevail on
him in the name of liberty to injure and
ailiict his country and in the name of in
dependence to destroy that independence
and to make him a beggar and a slave.
Daniel Webster in the United State
Senate. Jan. 31, 1S34.
Bribed by Prosperity.
Mr. Bryan went to Salem, 111., the oth
er day and his remarks there have called
forth the following letter from a Chicago
man:
Chicago, 111., Oct. 1, 1000.
To M. A. Ilanna, Chairman Republican
National Committee:
Dear Sir I notice in Mr. Bryan's Sa
lem speech that he says "The Republi
cans are going to buy every vote that
can be bought and bribe every voter that
can be bribed," etc.
That interests me, and from my very
humble walk in life I must confess I have
been bribed myself. The three years of
unparalleled prosperity has bought my
vote. Call it what you please, but I
guess that is about all the bribery there
need be in this campaign. G. E. C.
Trying Park, 111.