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HflW DEMOCRATS DP THINGS
Dreamed They Fathered National Irrigation, but
Facts Show It Was Only a Dream.
TRUE HISTORY OF REPUBLICAN MEASURE
Federal Aid to Irrigation Originated with a
Republican Administration Fifteen
Years Ago Roosevelt's Per
sonal Triumph.
The Democratic party would have the
Uninitiated believe thrit it is responsible
for nil good tiling. Where it could not
be successfully contradicted within n
given til) 10, it would not lifluitntc to
elnitu the crcslit for this Decalogue, tlic
ChrintJ:m ora, the discovery of America,
the Declaration of Independence, the nil
ministnitious of Washington and Mn
cola, the cotiwt ruction of the Panama
canal, or. In fact. n,r old thing.
The Democratic pro1" now has the
harillhirod Ki openly assort th.it thu party
of negation ninl calamity is tnnmlblr
for tin National Irrigation Act. In
keeping with thi' tr.tl!tioiiil revelations
of iti notorious "hindsight it has dis
covered tliat this khiiic Natioihil Irrign
tion Act of President Roosevelt's Is cal
culated to mill n new industrial empire
to the ('tilted Stales. It would fain civ
tills, the "mo-too" accent, but it is too
late. What aro the recorded facta?
Let History tspeaV.
The first more on the part of the fed
eral government to reclaim thu nrid West
began ax tor hack a" 1880, under Presi
dent Harrison's Republican admlnistra
tion, when ti bill ia.s parted by Congress
nutlmiuinj, an investigation of this sub
ject with n view of ascertaining to what
extent the arid regions of the UulUd
States can lie benefited by irrigation.
Tills bill impropriated SIOO.UOO for topo
graphical surveys for tiie fiscal year end
ing .luiie HO, 1880. The money was to
bo used under the direction of Major
1 owcll, the then head of the geological
Mirvey.
Tho work wa placed under the super
vision of the Secretary of the Interior,
mid Major Powell was directed to make
his repmt n early as possible. Upon
his report and the recommendations of
the Secretary of the Interior, the $100.
000 was supplemented by an additional
appropriation ,,f $2.10,000 by the passage
of nu act for the further investigation
of the nrid regions. A committee of
Senators was appointed to visit the arid
regions of the different Western States
and territories, during the summer of
1S0O. It completed its work of Invest!
Ration and nmdc its report after having
tiuvelcd 12.000 miles and having been on
the road fifty days.
XriniliticiitiK I.eait the Wny.
The Rcpublic-iii national convention
.cl.l in rhiliiilclphi.i in .lunc. 1000. ic
ferrcd to Irrigation in thu national plat
form as follows; "In further piirMiance
of the constant policy of the Republican
party to piovide free homes on the pub
lic domain we iccommcud tidciti.ttc Na
tional legislation to reclaim the arid
lands of the United States, preserving
the control of the distribution of wuter
for irrigation to the respect!? States
find territories." The Democrats, of
cour.se. imitating nud following the lend
or the Republican party in all matters
of progress, adopted the following plank
in their platform at Kaunas City in July.
J'JOO: "We favor nu Intelligent sjtem
of improving the nrid land of the West.
storing the waters for the purpose of
irrigation and the holding of audi lands
for actual settlers."
Roosevelt Prime Mover,
III his message to the Fifty-seventh
Congress President Roosevelt clearly nnd
vigorously urged the enactment of legis
Intlou In nid of development by irrigation
of the great arid portions of our coun
try. Kncour.iged by the President's
earnest and vigorous recommendation,
the members of both branches of Con
gress from the arid nud letni-srld States
met in the early days of the session, ap
pointed a committee of one frotn each of
the said States and territoiles, with Sen
ator Warren of Wyoming, a Republican,
as chairmnn, for the purpose of drafting
an irrigation measure.
Tills commiftee labored earnestly mid
faithfully, nnd finally presented to the
full representation from the West a bill
which was accepted by them, introduced
in the Senate by Senator Ilansbroiigh,
a Republican, ami In the House by Rep
resentative Newlands, which bill, with
subsequent amendments, was the founda
tion for the present national irrigation
act.
On May 14, 1002, in presenting the bill
to tho House Congressman Newlands re
ferred to President Roosevelt's message
on irrigation and quoted the same in its
entirety, thus admitting that the Presi
dent's Influence fur the measure was the
strongest at that time.
President Alters IMI1.
This measure was known as the Hans-brough-NcwIaiids
bill, and became the
basis upon which the committee work
wai done, but as drafted It never became
a law. It was discussed by a self-constituted
committee of representatives
fioin all tho States concerned, which met
neatly every day during December and
on Dec. 28 ngreed upon the form of the
revised bill, which, after still further
changes by tho Senate committee, passed
the Senate without revision on March 2,
11102.
Rut in the form In which it was rec
ommended by tiie general committee of
which Mr. Newlands was secretary, and
in which it passed thu Senate, the bill
was unacceptable to President Roosevelt
as ulTordliig speculators and large land
owners oportiinIty to monopolize the
benefits of thu net, Mr. Roosevelt there
fore sent for Senator Ilansbroiigh; and
Representatives Mcte.ilf. Moodv and
It icder, nil Republicans, who woiiM have
ftWsreOf '10 "ill I" 'I"' Ihmse. nid UHl
ec)them that unless changed In cuitiln
respects he should bo compelled to veto
it.
Checkmate the Sharks.
The rpedfic changes that ho required
were, first, that the Secretary of tho In
terior should be empowered to withdraw
from entry all lauds promised to be Irri
gated, instead of only those required for
reservoirs and dltchos as provided in the
bill; thnt no water should be wold -or de
livered exoept tn liona tide settler, ac
tually living on tho iuikI to which the
water was applied which was not in
the Newlands bill and that tho words:
"but State and territory hws'shall gov
ern and control the appropriation, use
and distribution of the waters rendered
available under this nct'whould be strick
en out as virtually subjecting the control
of Federal work to State Legislatures,
some of which he doubtless believed, but
did not nay no, to be unfit to exercise
suck a trust, and as certainly exposing
the settlor to the dangers of endless
and ruinous litigation. At tho Presi
dent's express requirement the bill was
amended in these respect and became
the law as It stands to-day.
Unprecedented Force.
There had been nttompts for many
yeais to get the government to go into
the irrigation business, but all failed un
til President Roosevelt took hold of the
piojeet. In his llr.st annual message to
Congress In 1001 he called attention to
the necessity of providing water for tlio
arid lands and said: "The object of the
government is to dispone of the land to
settlers who will build homes upon it.
To accomplish this object water must bo
brought within their reach."
Tho national government's policy, he
pointed out. should bo to aid irrigation
in the several States and territories in
such a manner as will enable the people
in the local communities to help them
selves and as will stimulate needed re
forms in tho State lnws and regulations
governing irrigation. He likewise re
minded the Kast, which was against this
policy at the time, that the reclamation
nnd settlement of tho arid lands will en
rich every ikiNIoii of our country just as
the settlement of the Ohio mid Missis
sippi valleys brought prosperity to the
Atlantic States.
final Personal Triumph.
With hi.s accustomed vigor and intelli
gence President Roosevelt everted influ
ence in this direction on Congress, won
the timid and the vacillating over to his
side, and the National Irrigation haw was
enact isl on .fune 17. 1002. That law, be
it remembered, grew out of his message
of 1IHM. was enacted by n Republican
Congress, ably coached by Mr. Roose
velt. The measure became a law with
his signature. The Republican National
Irrigation Act of 1002. signed by Presi
dent Roosevelt, was a fitting nud natural
supplement to the Republican Free
Homes Law of 18l2, signed by President
Lincoln.
To President Roosevelt, therefore, and
to him alone, is due the fact that theTe
was any National irrigation at all in that
Congress, mid that the law. us enacted.
Absolutely protects the poor man and
re miers any largo homings of national
irrigated land imisistsible forever.
And this is Ikiw the Democrats are
"responsible" for national Irrigation.
Resolutions by limine Msn.
At the ninth annual convention of the
National Association of Agricultural im
plement and Vehicle Manufacturers, held
ut Minneapolis Oct. IS to 17. 1002. the
committee on resolutions reported as fol
lows:
lP..nl,flll -fM.a. nan .... . ..., 1 - .
..,.-. .,.!., ,i.,i ,TI. ,'iiuKiiiiuiaic mr conn
tiy oil the pAhsuge of the National Irilan
t Ion Act suit express our profound appre
ciation of the nid nnd reoperation of 1'ies
lilriit Itooscvclt, ami all friends of that
measure In the Senate and House of Hep-ri-scutHtlvea.
In securing the pannage of thnt
net. e believe this action by Congress
innrLrd the conception of one of the great
est projects ever midei taken tiy any cot
eminent, and that It Inaugurates a new era
In the progress of tills nation nud the de
velopment of Its Intel unl trade and com
merce nnd the enlargement of the home
market for nil our manufactures; that the
Irrigable arid lands, width are estimated
to comprise n area of over 100,000,000
acres, ens and should lie reclaimed Just ns
rapidly is settlers will take them and re-
i...j .-r .....t i, ,,,i- Ki.TiTuuiLMit or irrita
tion works built for their reclamation.
Why Justice Ha Not Iloen Done
lie fore.
The West has boen for years insist
ing that some legislation should lie in
nugurnted by Congress looking to the re
clamation or the arid public lauds owned
by the government nnd constituting In
some States US er cent of the area. One
icason this agitation has progressed slow
ly has been that the portion of the coun
try most interested iu the question is
t-cantily settled ami has not the influ
ence in national councils which numbers
give.
Another reason was that it was dim
cult for those living in humid States to
form any proper conception of tho irri
gation question, and the Senators and
Representatives from States having no
direct interest tn tho question have been
slow to acquire the information neces
sary to bring them to n full realization
of its importance. It Is not specially
strange that so many American citizens
i-hould bo unfamiliar with this subject.
It is one that does not present Itself in
n practical way iu the portion of our
country which contains nine-tenths of
our entire population. While tho arid
region is of vast extent, It is hut thinly
settled. It is estimated that under tho
National Irrigation Act tho West will
lit: capable of sustaining SO.000.000 peo
ple. Well Merited Tribute.
Ill n leading editorial in Maxwell's
Talisman, George H. Maxwell, one of
the best Informed men on Irrigation in
the United States says:
And thoke of this generation who will en
lev these benelltB und advantages and the
untold nnd comitlens millions who will In
the years snd Iu the generations to rotne In
habit these lands and lire In 'he homes
which will be there created, will ewe the
Itreat Keen which will he theirs to the clear
fitchted emirage and InflnlMllty f purpose
f President Uecsevelt. It Is not possible
to explain In rnich a wny as to be under
stood by anyone nut familiar with every
detail of the Ittiatlnn how much the ftlpaitt
of the national Irrigation inoveintat we to
rreiHdfiit Hnnsevelt for his aM In brlaglne
iibont t RMendmeuts to the IrrlfatUn bill
In this aeeolan uf ConirfM. YfKkont his
Interest and friendly Interposition It la
dmihtfnl whether the amendments at the
hill conld have boon ncromplhktd Ma It
not been for the President, tha friends of
the national Irrigation incitement who stand
for home making as against lasd specula
tion, would have Und to litt and defeat
the compromise committee bill nnd then be
gin all ovrr again, cat her their firi-a and
make a new start Iu the next Cuutret. As
It Is now, the wrk of the Inst three vears
has hen preserved by the action uf the
l'reelilent and the bill Is now In such atiapc
thnt every friend ut the huaic-iniiker can
heartily support It.
An Idanl American.
WhatAhls country wauls now Is men
not n few of them, but a multitude a
vast majority of her citizens who shall
be Just such men ns Theodore Roosevelt,
of strong and rugged phytdqiie, shirking
no labor, however h.ird, able to stand
the Httuln of sturdy Integrity, guided by
high civic ideal, standing Indexible and
inexorably for the truth and the right.
Hltt own words from his address, "The
Strenuous life." may be taken as the
very basis and foundation for n new
sonrce of philosophy nnd national policy
which will guard aguinst all social dan
gers if the peopln of this country will
but heed thorn:
In the lust analysla. n healthy stntt can
exist ouly when the men and women who
make It up lead clean, vigorous, healthy
lives; when thu chlldien are o trslned Unit
they shall endeavor not to shirk illQlonltlM
but to ovcrcuiuc them, not tn aeek isu but
to know how to wrest triumph from tell
and risk. The man must be glad to do a
mail's work, to dare and endure and li
Inbur, to keep himself and to keep tho.
depeudeiit uiinti him. Thu neman must ho
the housewife, the helpmeet of the home
maker, the wise nud lesions mother of
anauy healthy children.
Herv la a remedy that goes to tho
foundation. The words urc those of n
leader amd carry with them a warning
and nu admonition. Tlieodoro Roosevelt
has coined a word that we should take
as a national watchword and set it up
an a beacon light on every hilltop
throughout the uutlon: "Ilomcniakcr."
METHUSELAH ANDTHESPHINX
Come sll ye Itryan Democrats,
Your peerless leader .slinks;
Conic nil ye ulouted plutocrats,
Forget your former kinks;
The banners lloat for nud you must vote
for
Methuselah and the sphinx.
I
Come all ye scattered Democrats
That sulk like frightened minks,
So lean that we can nee your slats,
As hungry as the lynx;
The banners flout for nnd you must
vote for
Methuselah and the sphinx.
Come nil ye hopeless Democrats,
While Parker thinks he thinks,
Climb off the ship like frightened rats,
lleforo the old thing sinks;
The banners float for and you must
vote for
Methuselah and the sphlux.
Chicngo Chronicle.
Words of Clieor fpr the Democracy.
It has been given out to the forlorn
and drooping Democracy that "Willie
Hearst is looseulti.it up"; that he has
been induced to put iu a few thousands
to open headquarters for the National
Democratic Clubs. The hungry know
well that this means that Hearst aspires
to be a candidate again, but they are not
worrying about 1008 now.
Four years ago Hearst was presi
dent and footer of bills for the National
Democratic Clubs. Tho members met,
If memory serves aright, at Indianapolis,
expecting to greet their president. Rut
he went one of his hired men to receive
the greetings of his admirers. This
dampened the ardor of tho crowd, de
spite the fat that their fare back home
was paid. The November election set
tled the whole concern, but It seems that
the N. D. C. is to be resurrected, what
little there is left of its ashes.
Democratic PinnncUl MnnaKSinent.
On the 1st of July, 1802, the last year
of the Harrison administration, the total
bonded debt of the United States was, in
round numbers, 1585,000,000. On the 1st
of July. 1807. the lust year of the sec
ond Cleveland administration, the total
bonded debt was $K4H,000,000, an in
crease of 5258,000,000 during four years
of perfect peace.
July 1, 1802, the annual interest
tharge on the iiubh'c ilebt wns - Ki:t .
000. July 1, 1807, it was $:i4.:i87,000,
n increnso or $i 1,404,000 during four
yoars of Democratic administration.
A nartr that cannot silminlotn,. ti,
government during a short poriod of
lour years without largely increasing the
public debt and the annual intort .
count is not fit to be cutrusttd with ii
control of nffairs.
Two Judges with Political Pasts.
Democracy can always bo depended
on to blunder. The nomination of Judge
Parker was n blunder, because he re
ceived his early political training from
D. 11. Hill, one of the most notorious
wire-pullers and workers In devious ways
Now York has produced. The nomina
tion at 1). Cndy Herrlck for Governor
of New York, also was a blunder, be
cause 'he was "boss" of the Democratic
"machine"' at Albany before his election
to the bench. The Albany "machine"
has reputation as unenviable ns Tam
many's. The last few yeirs of Republican ad
ministration have added lllltobl mllllnna
to the agricultural wealth of the country
tiy opotnng new markets for farm pro
ducts nt constantly Improving prices. The
beauty of the Republican iKilicy of pro
tection is that it develops manufactur
ing and agricultural interests ou paral
lel lines.
'Wcdonot linvc to cucsn nt our con
victions, uml then correct the cues if
it seems unpopular. The principle
which wo profosn nre those In which
wo believe with heart nnd nnul and
wtrenRth, Men niny ill O'er from imi
hut they ennuot license iih of shiftiness
or insincerity."-Hooicvelt'i letter of ac
ceptance. According to astronomers it is nbout
25 trillious of miles, as tho crow file?,
from tho earth to Alpha Centaurl, the
nearest fixed star. It is about the same
distanco from Ksopus to thu White
House by tho Democratic route.
WAGES AND COST OF LIVING
Grotesque Attempt by Democrats to Twist Facts
for Campaign Consumption.
GROSSLY INACCURATE STATEMENTS
Country Is Not in Throes of a Disastrous
Business Depression, and Workingmen
Continue to Prosper What
the Figures Show.
Nothing could better Illustrate the In
finite capacity of the .Jrnioeratle party
for doing the wrung thing at the right
moment than its'ntteiupt to out face
acknowledged industrial conditions with
the bald statement of Its campAlgn text
book "that business depression of this
)ear is greater than was that f ISOIl nud
1M)4."
As there are as many mllllou Ameri
can voters as thero arc millions engaged
In Industrial pursuits whose experience
spans the decade, and who know this
to be most fortunately false, there is no
need to waste time in refuting it. Tim
Democratic depression that prevailed
from 1803 to 1807 paralysed industry in
every section of the United States, and
its pinch was relt lu every home. Tho
"business depression of ...is year" Is so
largely n ligmeiit of Democratic Imagi
nation tiiat it requires n magnifying
gloss to bo seeu. and what there is of
it is rapidly fading from sight ns the
prospects of a great ltcpuhllc.ui victory
become mora certain.
Rut the Democratic campaign book Is
not satlsliod with this grotesque general!
ration, so It attempts to controvert the
Republican claim of prosperous times iu
farm, ofllco nud workshop with thu as
sertion that no one is better off by rea
son of Increased incomes, because the
cost of living has increased dispropor
tionately. How utterly and Irrationally absurd Is
t'tls contention Is proved by the fact thut
If prices were advancing more rapidly
than the earnings of thu great mass of
tie people, the great mass of tho people
would soon lx irretrievably Insolvent or
tlelr purchases won.u be so curtailed
tlat the volume of business would bu
eiorniously reduced.
There is no possibility of making a
sc'cntlfic comparison of uie relative in
crease Iu wages and the cost of living,
bciause they are controlled by different
favors. The rate of wages is controlled
bj .industrial conditions; the cost of liv
ing! is'controlled by thu Individual. No
mai can lix ills income at will: any man
cai.( limit his expenditures. Let condl
tioip provide snfllcient wages to the
woiklngman, and it rests with him to
say by what margin he will live within
his Income. The larger that Income the
lsrr his possible surplus. If better
wiis breeds extravagance, tho result,
iu tjo language of Micawlicr, is misery:
If tbey are expended with economy, the
rcsut is nu accumulation of wealth and
linpilness.
Convluclni: Testimony,
Guiil times under Republican admln
Istrailon has provided the better wages,
and tlie economy of the American peo
ple Ins piled up the means of content
ment and happiness, as is evidenced by
the fillowing Ktntcmeiit of the number
nf depositors nud deposits In the savings
bank of the United States for the eleven
years from 1803 to 11Hn, inclusive:
- ' i'i '"iiiiihi iniiwsiin
18j:i sxio..vi' $i.7H-.f.vi,!i.yr
I I P. 1 1 I tiltkitttl trif a,...tule.a
ms S,7T,l,S7
103 4.h7r..r.lll
1MI8 r..KTi,4IU
1WI7 n.L'Ol.t.lJ
ip'.is n.r:s.-..74ii
1MI0 fi.iM7.Hlrl
lttoo j. . . .it. i07.os;i
loot ij.:ir.H.7L':i
lfKK! ii.nnu.ii7L
IDO.'I I. . . .7..T0.'. '!S
l,747.oni,2m
l.Slll..-.!l7,0-.,:i
l,IKI7.1.r,n,277
l,l,l!l,37(l.(i.T.
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a.'jr,i),.ti:an."i
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L.7.().I7T'JHI
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The Democratic depression of 1803
and 1801, to which the campaign book
Inadvertently directs attention, was
marked by a falling oft iu deposits of
over $37.000,hjO in one year. Retween
18l3 and 1008 the average due each
depositor increased from $300 to $417.
More slgnifiihnt than the Increase in
deposits Is thelfact that iu 1003 there
were 2,471.020 absolutely new savings
bank depisltor In the United States,
marking un ln -ease of nearly 50 per
cent, during a period when the total
population only increased 24 per cent.
Col. Wright's nummary.
Turning now in the direct cnmnnrfson
of tho advance i i wages and cost of liv
ing during the eriod under revlnw, the
Democrats afTe : the greatest contempt
for the govern lent statistics, which,
under tho able, conscientious nnd tin
biased direction of Carroll I). Wright,
present tho fol iwing instructive sum
mary: Course of cmlloyment. wogra, hours
ioom nml DurtT,,JK' P"wer of weekly
(ttclatlve nuubrrs computed on basis
Kiiinloyes
Itelnllvo
lfonrs
nrek-,
Year,
i8o:i
IStH
1MKS.
1HW
Nutnlier
miiutii-r
..,.,,
Dtl.2
04.1
on:i
OH 3
1W Will
1MIS 10fl.S
IK'Jil UO.O
10(Ki , 11, ',5
1001 110.1
low m.ii
llftM 1-2(1.4
These llgurcs prrleut the rosults of on
extensive invc-tign
ou Into the wages
nnd hours of labor
factoring and met
the United States d
cil, It has dosixiic
tho principal dotlm
u the leading maun
anlcal industries of
ring the period nam-
to cover thoroughly
ive occupations, nnd
Mr Wriifht, in sul
litlmg It (sen Rullc-
(in of tho Rurcuu oflilir, No, r3, July,
1001,) says: "Jt il believed that the
data presented arc luore coiuprehcmiive
nud representative il far ns tho manu
facturing and ineclnlilcal iudiutries are
concerned than any 1l.1t havo been hero-
toroio published,"
Ths figures ns to Incomo nnd expen
diture nro fliimmarizll from data gath
ered from 2,ri07 fainlies. iu 33 States,
wlioi-o nvoragu lncoinl from all sources
was $027 a year, whV-e average expen
diture was 5708, aul whom average
expenditure for food was J320 per fam
ll, or 42.54 per cent, of the average
expenditure for nil purposes. This data
was corroborated by other Information
in less detail form, front 25.440 families,
and so Is entitled to be accepted as rep
resentative. The most cursory examination of the
nliove tu hi reveals the foct that the
purchasing power of wages, measured by
letail prices of food, was 5 per cent,
greater Iu 1003 than in 1803. nud this
lu spite of the fact that the hours er
week hnd been reduced J1.7 per cent.
Rut more conducive to the wide ills
semination of the prosperity than these
proofs of thn inrreused purchasing jkiw
er of wages, Is thu fact revealed lu the
column giving the relative number of
Persons niniiloritit In tin. nutiilillulmiAiiiu
investigated. Retween 1804 nud 1003 the
increase lu the number of employes re
ceiving these wages with Increased pur
chasing power was 31.3 per cent,, while
In the meantime the population of the
United Stales only increased 21 per cent.
llcmocrncy's I. list Itenort.
Disheartened and disgusted with the
wide distribution of nrosneritv In the
homes, workshops and bank accounts of
American wage miner, demonstrated by
these liguies, the Democrats up pea I to
"railroad labor as affording the most ac
curate barometer of wages." Here, they
say, "a large proportion of the employe's
are union men. whose wages nrs com
paratively steady."
Then the compilers of the Democratic
campaign txxik begin to juggle with the
very averages am) percentages they af
fect to despise. They Institute compari
sons between 1802, when railway wages
were nt high tide, and 1001, when they
had scarcely recovered from Democratic
recession of 1803-18!Ml. They suppress
the fact that the statistical average of
railway wages was less itfTectcsl by tlie
Democratic hard times than the average
of other industries, for tlie obvious rea
son that as forces wcro reduced lu num
bers the proiMirtlon of high priced em
ployes rotalned becauso of their eipcri
enco was greoter.
They also conclude their comparisons
with the year ending June 30th, 1002,
well knowing that the statistics of the
Intcrstnto Commerce Commission f0.
that year only relied n month or two
of the advance iu railway wages of that
calendar year, which did not reach Hood
tide until July. 1003. Not until the
ftntistlcs of tlie Interstate Commerce
Commission for the year ll)0.l-l!jiM un
published next summer will it be pos
sible to miike an authoritative compuri
noil or the wages or railway eiuplojcs
nnd the cost of living In ilitt year 1003.
Rut the reisirt of the (Viuuiis.slon for
the fisiMl year HI03 Is available, and it
fiitulslies the following data, which
throws llght( on the rich slice of pros
perity which has fallen to the share of
railway employe:
Nl'.MIIKIt AND COMI'KNHATinV nil"
& wSraia
1!-' SJ3.47II 4(1.-. 0O1..-.1H
, Increase 48n.(K l-ToaMfcR-M
Iucreuse per cent.. fVJ.4 co.0
tin reuse nf loinprncutlon relathely
over niinilicr 7,1
That this relative Increase of compen
sation, compared with that In tho num
ber of railway employes, does not tell
the whole truth is proved by the follow
ing table:'
AV.".1 A,r,v 'mii:nhation or
r,A.'?i.''l''INf,TIVi: CLAKHCH OK
I AH.YVAV CMI'LOVKS kou tiu:
VKAItH IINDINO JI'Ni: .wit, iPri7
AND ItKVi (vide slxtfi-ntli minimi report
of tlie statistics of railways In the uililille
htntes for IPO.'), p. 4.'U
Dally Com pen- Increase
averafc sat Inn per
JJ'iss. 1WI7. 1IK1X c-Vnt.
l.iigliii'incn :t.(i.- f 4.01 ti.tt
Firemen iMVi a.L-fl u o
CoiHluitors H.07 3.8H lo.l
Other tralumeii l.fM) 2.17 14 a
Hei-tlon fnri'iiiril .... 1,70 1.78 47
Oilier trackmen i,i i.aa 18.8
WIiqi tho Figures I'rove.
It will be observed that these' six dis
tinctive classes of railway employes, em
bracing almost half of all the railway
employes in tho United States (501,-17,pi
In 1003 against .':03,ri(13 iu 1807) were
receiving nu averugn daily compensation
of labor, weekly ea
n amines rtlatlv'i-ly
rulugs ant retail prices
u iniiva ui 100(1 le'Jil-
8tM809-1000,)
lletall I'tir. power
pi Ices weekly wnges
of feed rl. to price
of average for 1
per Weekly
relative earnings
relative.
101.2
07.7
OS 4
00r
i!i.a
Km I)
101 'J
101 1
lUMl
i(i!i.:t
1 iu.;i
4 1 lull it'. 01 ICJOII.
1U4.4
00.N
IOI.I
00 8
00.(1
tVI.7
00 1!
0.S.7
0S.1
07,:i
IHI.O
ono
00.7
07.S
n.vr,
0II..1
0S.7
ov.r,
lon.l
UK', 2
110,11
110.il
OHO
100.0
104.2
11X1.(1
301, it
101.7
lOil.O
100.7
08.(1
101,8
during tho year 1002-3 more than 10 per
cent, greater than during the year 18011
lb07. Moreover, it is a notorious fact
that these nverages do not begin to rep
resent tho increase in tho earnings of
railway employes during tho summer of
1003, when tho rnto of pay of certain
classes was raised from 10 to 15 per cent.
In that yeir, too, there wero 227.01''
more persons employed in thn six classes
named than iu 1807, and according to the
Interstate Coinmerco Commission they
wero receiving the Increased daily aver
ago pay v. hero they received nothing In
the year last named,
riimlly, returns gathered from tho an-
'u-n". ri',imU '"', Ue u'ur c,,,Ii Tn
.lOtli, 100-i. of eight representative lull
ways in different parts of tlie country,
having total mileage of 1(J,5S7 miles
Indicate that tho compensation of their
employes has increased i, t, 1Q ,
cent, over the year prevW,1 "idle Shi 1
number of their employe lis temalned
practically stationary, an Is ahow n ibo
following table:
Number and cotnttaiatlon of employes
eight representative railways:
leareitdisg cosapertea--'
.liiutllO Ke. emnleves. tion.
IIXM 4 104,844 00,4O,IMr
10(13
.103,691
eo,ae,o
llf
Increase 453 21B.B70
liureese per cent... 0.4 '1V.S
Here at last we see truly refleoted the
effect of the liorlsonral raise lu the wegM
of railway employes made on the result
of the widespread labor agltatiou In tie)
summer of 1003. The advonce wasj
variously est Indited at the time. e from
12 to Ifi per cent., and any statistics '
that fall to show It must bo distorted
by the Introduction of some fnetor, such
as 11 disproportion of low price labor
tending to reduce the nvrrage.
In connection with the above proof
of the 10 per cent, advance lu railway
wages In one year, it should be remem
bered that the decline iu prices beguu
ill 1003 continues.
If ths Deinocrnts are willing to ac
cept tlie pay of railway labor as th(1 most
accurate barometer of wages, the Re
publican paity can call to the wittieM
stand 1,312.337 railway emplojes to
testify to the fact that, measured by
vi hat It will buy, their income of 1004
Is higher than il was In 1807, tupl near
ly half a million of them can truthfully
affirm that they received no compensa
tion whatever In 1807 where, according
to the above s.istom of nverage compen
sation, they now divide some $27i",0(nJ,.
000 among them, or about fliOS apiece.
KILKENNYJtARMONY.
That la the Kind thnt J'revnlla Anions
New York Democrats.
Not since tlie traditional eats of Kil
kenny nore hour scrim n line by their
lulls has there been such nn amusing
harmony of subdued discord as Is heard
In New York, now that Judge D. Cudy
Merrick lias been nominated by the Dem
ocrats for governor. Judge l'arker want
ed Kd ward M. Shepnrd, or District At
torney Jerome nominated for governor hi
order to gnlvaulce his campaign Into the
srmblaiice of life.
David It. Hill wanted John R. Stanch
Held, because Stauchfield best rcpieseiit
ed tlie organization outside of s'ew Vork
City, to which Mr. Hill ours his ascend
ancy iu the State Deumcrncy. Mr. Hill
bad no use for Herrlck. who, as Demo
cratic boss of Albiny County, has been
a thorn in his side for yoars, Rut, it
Is said, he accepted Herrlck nnd put
him In nomination on the priudpla of
thu salesman who sold a coat marked
$15 for $10. on doubtful credit, because
he would lose less If thu bill was never
paid. Hill will lose lesa In Derrick's
defeat than If he had succeeded iu nomi
nating his friend StiinchMeM.
Senator Patrick 11. McfJarren. tho
Brooklyn Ikiss, to whom Judge l'arker
owes his nomination, wanted Comptrol
ler firout nominated, and for a time he
hnd Mr. Hill's ostensible -support for
(Srout. Judge l'arker and Hilt went back
on MHJnrren; tho former to plaoato
Charles b Murphy and Tammany, nutl
the latter because he couldn't help him
self. Tammany accepted Herrlck liecause It
was willing to accept anybody who stood
for the discomfiture of Ross McCarren.
As a tomahawk lu the hands of Clio ties
!'. Murphy with which to dispatch Mc
Carren, D. (Jady Herrlck would sorvo
Tammany 'much better than cither Shop
nrd or Jerome.
llesldes, did not Judge Derrick's career
ou the bench present sterling claims on
the admiration and noernslj.lo'1 of Tarn
uiHiiyV His abuse of Ids Judicial posi
tion to the political evigencleu in Albany
is along the Hue of what Tammany con
siders thu higher walks of politics. More
over, lias ho not practically pardoned an
official blackmailer and protector of dis
orderly houses by imposing a paltry fluo
of $1,000 on the notorious imllco Cupt.-iln
Diamond? a struko of judicial leniency
toward corruption lu New York City pe
culiarly attractive to Tammany. U .
would so at as Judge, what prodigies
or clemency to "good men" might he not
perform as governor? So Tammany drop
peil Mayor McOlellan nud swullowed
Derrick and his record with genuine rel
ish and noisy gusto.
Not so, however, the Democratic press
of New York City. The WORLD takes
its medicine with evident nausea; the
TIMES turns. Derrick's picture to the
wall and flxs Its gate on Judge Parker,
nun me reuection mat 0110 honorable
uomlnatlim In four years Is as far at the
New York Democracy can Ito expected to
pander to the somewhat blunted moral
sentiment of its constituency. The
KVBNINO POST openly repudiates
Herrlck, saying that a proper regard for
Its own reputation forbids giving hint
the negative support of silence,
Krom this brief resume It may bt
gathered that the elements for a harmo
nious Democratic campu'gn in New York
are nil that could be desired- from
Republican point of view.
Parker's Admission.
Judge Parker's letter of eweptance
stands pat on Republican achievement,
but coyly admits that its writer would
be a safer man at tho National throttle
than President Roosevelt so Ions as a
Republican Seuate sits oil the safety
valve. If the protective tariff Is "rob
bory' he is willing to turn sneak thief;
if wo burglarized Panama ho is Milling
to kep the stolen goods; If order No. 78
ets down the bare for a pension ecmidal
he will revoke the order, but let the
bars remain down just tho same. It is
a very pretty confession that the Repub
licuns have ndmlnlstered the government
so wisely, diligently and effectively that
they deserve a vacation, -while he tries
His prentice hand at running it without
reversing a single lever.
.? ir,om a uncrntlcNewepoie..
The New York Times, one of the
Domocratic newspapers which has been
denouncing President Roosevelt's Philip
jdno policy, recently printed an editorial
leader on tho settlement of tho Friars'
and question. Tho artldo concludes:
'It is credltnblo both to the Intelligence
nud the humanity of the government."
If the Times was less partisan it could
truthfully say that every act nt tho
Roosevelt administration in dealing with
the Philippine question was creditable
to the United States.
"Tho expenditures of tlio Nut Ion have
heon muuuccd ' a spirit of couoinr
an fnr removed from wnsto ns front
lilKitardliiiesai unci lu the future every
effort will he continued to seenre an
economy as strict a is consistent with
cnielencjr.Rooii,velt,s letter of ucccpUeet.
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