Richmond Palladium (Daily), 26 October 1904 — Page 9

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RICHMOND PALLADIUM, RICHMOND, IND., OCT. 2G, 1904. DISTRESSFUL TIMES HARDSHIPS THAT FOLLOWED DEMOCRACY'S SUCCESS. Leson that Blioald Be Held in Vivid Remembrance So. that a Repetition of Industrial Disaster May Be Averted. The inauguration of a Democratic President in March, 1893, marked the beginning of the most distressful times ever known in this country In the preceding November the majority of the nation's working people had eeen fit to try the experiment of bettering their condition through intrusting political power to the Democratic party in 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 of 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 had set like the sun, there was a vast army 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 cthange in 1893 was wrought in the fortunes of the American people furnished a fearfully bitter lesson But it is a lesson fcfcat 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 through the files of almost any leading newspaper in the United States during the four winters following the Democratic summers of 1893, 1894 1895 and 1890 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 suffering of labor, was adopted by the Union Labor Club of Chicago, and was printed in the news papers December 10, 1893: Prom the midst of the most prosperous era that the people of the United States have ever known, we are suddenly submerged to the 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 nolnt of the com pass in our fair land comes the wail of woe rrom freezing men and starving women and children. Never before in the history oi our country nas mere Deen so many men, women and rhlldren 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. i ne suiciual policy or Tree trade. wmcn u rover Cleveland at Its head proposes to establish regardless of the suffer lug It waf engender, is now thoroughly understood by the workimr DeoDle. and un less we, that are most interested in its preservation, awake ourselves and speak in trumpet tones that policy will be pushed to the utmost extremity. W. C. romeroy, vice president of the American Federation of Labor, wel corned the thirteenth annual convention to the Chicago City Hall (December 12, 1893) in the following language "In the name of the homeless wan derer, in this desert of stone and steel, that wayfarer whose wolfish hunger hounds him ever onward, whose sleepless eyes wildly seek shelter and slumber, whose black despair grows darker and darker every hour, whose heart grows faint for want of food, whose shivering, shrunken form grows eick at the sight of his own shrunken shadow, whose soul is dead, I welcome you to the city, whose motto is, '1 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 subcommittees appointed to make a canvass of the unemployed in Terre Haute reported by wards, snowing nearly 1,500 men out of work." An Associated Press telegram from Boston, December 13, said: "A circular was issued to-day to landlords by the associations for the unemployed, asserting that 80,000 workmen, having as many persons dependent upon them, are unable to find employment, and asking that no rent be required of auch until they are employed. Another appeal, addressed to the cttitens of Boston, asks them to see that the city provides work. A movement is on foot for a procession of the unemployed on the Common, and a meeting in Paneuil Hall next Tuesday." Sleeping in the City Hall. (Chicago Inter Ocean, Dec. 13, 1903.) That contingent of 'the army of the unemployed" which has found shelter for a few nights in the corridors of the City Hail returned to its old quarters again last night, bringing along many recruits. The night before, forty or more of the lodgers thought to regale themselves with sandwiches, but were set upon by their less fortunate and famished comrades, and a "bread riot" was precipitated wmcn caned forth police officers to quell it Awiwitnstanding 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 corridor from Washington to Randolph etreet was covered with men and boys, fast sleep on the cold, damp pavement. Men were half reclining on the stairways, and the poor wretches on the floor .had others standing over and about them, envious of the place upon which they lay, cramped, drawn up, and crowded by others who shared their miserable bed. Last night Mrs. Helen M. Gougar thought to give Editor Stead a lesson in the problem of unemployed and proposed distribution of 1,000 sandwiches among the night lodgers at police headquarters. This was forbidden, as a repetition of the Previous night's riot was feared, and such andwiches or other food that was sent in was stored away for the night, and when morning came, and along with it the enforced exodus of the sleeping hun

dreds, each man as he passed out was

given a bite 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 i no better advised man upon the deplorable situation than Col. W. P. Rend. Early identifying himself with "relief measures," he has kept himself advised about "the gravest problem," as he declares it to be, "ever presented to Chicago for solution." Besides the thousands who have drifted into the city, he estimates "over 100,000 resident workmen in our city are out of employment." TROPICAL POSSESSIONS. We Need All We Have and Could Profitably Increase the Number. The Democratic and "Anti-Imperialistic" opponents of Republican national control say we do not need tropical possessions. Such, for instance, as the Philippines, Porto Rico and Hawaii. In saying this they overlook the fact that our imports of tropical and sub-tropical 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 following record, using figures compiled by the chief of the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Commerce and Labor: 1870 $139,800,080 1890 297,716,578 1904 430,550,775 The increase here given of $158,000,000 da twenty years, and $291,000,000 in thirty-four years, emphasizes our need of tropical possessions in the most striking manner. Our imports from the Philippines, Porto Rico and Hawaii are included in the following proportions: Hawaii $25,133,533 Philippines 12,000,934 Porto Rico 11.57G.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 consume. 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 products. More than that, we also need more possessions of the same kind. It would pay us to buy some moj-e the Danish and other West Indies, for instance. It stands to reason that as we must pay out so large an amount eacih year, it would be best to send the money to our own possessions, 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 imports in the years 1S70 and 1904 were: 1870. 1904. Sugar, lbs.. .1,190.000,000 4,075,000,000 Coffee, lbs.. . 235,250,000 998,831,000 Rice, lbs.... 43,123,000 154,201,000 Tea, lbs 47,408,000 112,898,000 India rub ber, lbs.... Tobacco leaf, lbs... Cocoa, lbs... Cotton, lbs.. Silk, lbs..... Olive oil, gallons . . . 9,G24,000 59,44G,000 0,250,000 3,040,000 1,098,000 583,000 33,548,000 72,777,000 G9,S22,000 10,722,000 251,000 43.000 1,713,000 299,000 products inFibers, tons In some of these raw creases we see the value of the iro tective tariff against foreicrn roods mart of the same classes of raw products. Raw silk, for example, thirtyfold increase in a single generation. Hence our silk factories. Then fibers, a nearly sevenfold increase; india rubber, a sixfold increase. In money values the main comparisons are: 1870. Sugar $09,802,000 Coffee ........ 24,234,000 Silk 3,017,000 India rubber.. . 3,459,000 Fibers 1.37G.000 Fruits & nuts. 7,410,000 1904. $105,734,000 70,000,000 4G, 100,000 42,214,000 34,403.000 24,990,000 2J ,803.000 18,229,000 10,227,000 10,171.000 Tobacco &mfrs 4,181,000 13,803,000 2,511,000 1,288.000 418.000 Tea Vegetable oils. Gums Cocoa 9,G00,000 Cotton (Egyp tian) 331,000 9.402,000 Spices ... 1.513.000 4,300,000 Cabinet woods. G70.000 4,124,000 Rice 1,007,000 1,770,000 3,075,000 2,350,000 Opium Dye woods and extracts 1.337.000 1 koo nort Iudigo 1,202,000 l,282!o00 vx me excellence of Porto TtiVnn mf. fee over the cheaper crades from Rmril and other countries. President T?vvelt and others have testified. Porto Kico needs help, particularly in her coffee industry. Buying more of her coffee would be an easy way for us to ffVr,l some of the help she needs. It is now trenerallv known that in h Philippines there are many varieties nf cabinet woods in profusion, eaual in final ity and more beautiful in appearance than those we now buy .from Smith America. The forests of the isla nds fllsr abound in gums of all the kinds wo ii co The islands also produce indigo, dye woods and extracts, and several of the products named. (See "Philiooine Onreteer" and "Philippines, products of," Encyclopedia Americana, in press.) in tne race of the above facts, the only Imperialism" is our inmerinl ntA nf tropical possessions to grow our own xropicai products. WALTER J. BALLARD. Schenectady, N. Y. Catholics Prefer Roosevelt. Archbishop Messmer of Milw n ii L-ai voices the sentiments of thonaamli p members of the Catholic church when he says: I believe that President Roosevelt's policy in regard to the Philionin friars has met the approval of the V fltienn mi. thorities, and that there is a feeling that in case of his election they would be as sured of straightforward and consider ate treatment. Personally I shonM tn glad to see President Roosevelt elected president. "The waare-worker wonld do wn remember that if protection is robbery, and is ts be pamished accordingly, he will bs the first to pay the penalty! for either he will be tarned adrift entirely, or his w a ires will t cat dowa to the starvation point." Roosevelt's letter of accepUnoe. Onlv r - r- -" w a a. 141, DflrtV in nnwpr nA in Knth aF fTiAoa w sr C - - t - va, t-uvC stances its victory fell like a hlirht nnAn the country. Why repeat the experi ment?

G. O. P. "Irrevocably and Firmly Fixed."

A GREAT QUALITY. Roosevelt Quick to Think and Act, bnt Always Wisely. President Roosevelt is being attacked as a possible danger to the country because of his alert, quick mind and prompt action. The scare-cat variety of politicians are crying him down on this issue. It is a common error, the belief that because a man thinks quickly, and acts promptly in an emergency, he is a rash or dangerous individual. To the slow man, one whose mental processes are naturally labored, it is incredible that another mind, differently constituted from his own, may arrive almost instantly at the solution of a question which would occupy the attention of the heavier moving 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 attribute of them all. Whenever this quality ds 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 enemies 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 situation, judge accurately as to distances, chances and certainties, and act, with the rapidity of Kght, upon the mind's direction. "Dispatch is the soul of business." 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 moat 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 same thing, taking in the entire situation in one comprehensive glance. The born soldier does this. So does the born statesman. When the ship of state is headed toward the rocks the executive officer must be quick to see and prompt to steer away from the danger. To wait would be fatal. 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 DubhV H and believes in the man of quick thought and action. It has more faith in the man who knows his own mind thin it can have in the man who waits for help irum wrenm or witliout to make it up. Events have shown that President Roosevelt thinks ouicklv ami thinks riffht; that he acts promptly, and wisely. What more could be asked, brethren nf the slow-going order? The Safest Strip. The strip of land which lies between the Rocky mountains and the Pacific ocean has practically already gone RepuDiican. it may be said frankly of our friends, the enemy, that they need not waste time or money on the Pacific coast. AH the trade and commerce of the

"TO HAVE AND TO HOLD."

Pacific coast is going to float westward The Republican party is endeavoring to promote this trade in every way, and the Democratic party, under the cry of "Im perialism," is trying to embarrass it in every way. Well, the western fringe oi. tne atates or tiie united states is peopled by intelligent human beings. Is there any question as to how they will vote? REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTS. They Receive Abuse of Democrats and Support of the People. According to the Democrats, the Re publican Presidents, every one of them, have been a bad lot, personally and po litically. Each 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 bis duty to tne people Mr. Lincoln became a martyr. No ruler was ever more vilified and denounced. His body in life, his spirit in death, represent the dividing line be tween loyalty and disloyalty, between the cohesion of the States or their disintegration. When a Democrat, be he leader or follower, writes or talks of the Republican party as a nation-destroyer through its measures or its Presidents, it is because he does not know or does not care to remember that Buchanan, who, 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 Jegions of officeholders ulcerated with a disloyalty that the stern lessons of war and years of Christian peace have not entirely eradicated. And before Buchanan were Democratic administrations whose acts were seemingly studied preludes to his crime. The lineage of the Democratic party is a record of broken pledges conceived in political iniquities and strangled at their L'iriu. u is tne democratic party to which the people owe four years of civil war and eight years of such misgovernment that the rich became poor and the poor starved. It has been the province of the Republican party to undo the work of its opponents; it has again and again saved the nation from degenerating to a low graae m nationalities, and it has enforced respect throughout the world for a country which the Democrats had brought in to contempt. Of course the Democrats assail Renublican Presidents and their nominees for the place of Chief Executive; they do uiis more Dy innuendo than by direct ac cusation a stabbing in the dark rather than a fight in the sunlight. But there is always this in favor of the Republican i"11 ij o resiuenis rrom the time tnev legin to make history for the nation that for their support in the ordeal of public criticism they have had the Constitution of the Union, its Congresses, and the voice of the people. His Morning Plunge. When morning dawns, the next day after. Then Parker will with chilly shiver Dive where he will not hear our laughter He'll take his swim in old Salt River. Bryan, in likening Parker to Moses, who wi slow of speech, rapped the Democratic candidate very hard. Biblical authority says Moses never entered the Promised Land.

LOOKING TO THE FUTURE.

Another Bvldence of President Boose" velt's Sasacity. Mr. Roosevelt the President is proving himself to be a long-headed man. Jt seems he has anticipated the Dmperor of Germany as to The Hague Peace Con vention, where Avar may be considered in all its perplexities of inception and conduct. The American and German rulers are looking to the future with a view of decreasing the causes for hostili ties; or, if there must be war, of chang ing its conduct beneficially for non-com batant nations. Our government has steadily and persistently heid to certain propositions as to the rights of neutrals, and is prepared to urge their adoption at the convention. The positions taken by the United States are for our future concern and welfare in case this country should again be forced into fighting. This action is a long look ahead, it is to be hoped; but as long as war is a possibili' ty it is statesmanlike sagacity that seeks in advance to minimize its hardships; and where we are neutrals it is business on the part of this government to know beforehand the scope of a neutrality nec essarily international. This move on Mr. Roosevelt's part is not at all usurpation. as Judge Parker would be likely to define it if he were to be consistent. It is, rather, a diplomatic move in the interest of humanity, and a matter for approval by people of all nationalities, especially those gathered in America. If Mr. Roosevelt should be continued as Presi dent his ideas in this matter will un doubtedly receive consideration at The Hague convention when held; but if a Democrat be chosen to succeed him the matter will be dropped for two reasons at least it being foreign to the avowed policy of the Democratic party as to in terference in Old World matters, and also because the proposition is of Repub lican origin. It js well for the people to understand that the advancement of the nation as shown under Republican direc tion will halt under that of the Demo crats, and then be followed, as in other years of their supremacy, by retrogression and by ruin as soon as the vitality given to the country's affairs by the Republicans has been exhausted. The President Would Do. Here is an incident that illustrates one trait of the President's character a trait that tends to make him popular. While James Jeffrey Roche was having a chat with President Roosevelt in the White House last week the telephone bell was ringing somewhat persistently, says the Boston Herald. There being no attendant at hand the President excused himself and went to answer the repeated call. This is the conversation that took place on the line according to the testimony of the distinguished gentleman at the President s end of it: "Well, what is it?" "Hello, is Archie there?" "No, he's not." "Who's this I'm talking tor "The President." "Well, you'll do. Tell Archie to come over and play ball." And th? President proceeded to execute the order, as directed. "From time to time tariff schedules must undoubtedly be rearranged and readjusted to meet the shiftine needs of the country! but this can with safety be done only by those who are committed to the causa of the protective system.' Roosevelt' letter of scceptanee. Dr. T. J. McCoy, one of the most prominent Democrats in Warrick county, Indiana, has created a sensation at Boonville by renouncing Democracy and com ing out strongly for Roosevelt and Fairbanks.

bOOMERANG FIGURES.

DANGEROUS MATERIAL IN THE HANDS OF THE DEMOCRATS. Comparisons 8howiag How that Party Increased Government Expenditures More than 51 Per Cent. In a TwelveYear Period. The Democratic campaign writers and speakers are making use of highly dangerous material when they use figures to 6how the large increase in government expenditures under Republican administration. Alton B. Parker said to the Democratic editors at Rosemount: During Mr. Cleveland's first term the average ttuutial expenditure was about Ouo.ooo. For the last three years it baa been abort f.-W,uuo.tKo. The governmental expenditure last year mounted up to $582,ouo.oou. which is not equaled by any year since the civil war. with the e&crptlou of the year of the Spanish 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 the same proportional rapidity in Democratic times in Republican 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 expenditure when the figures comparing Democratic expenditures, twelve years apart, show that the Democrats, just like the Republican were forced to follow the rapid growth of the country with increased expenditures for the government. The total expenditures of President Cleveland's last fiscal year, 1897, were 365,774,159 as against ?242,4S3,139 for those of his first year as President, 1888 a ga!n of over 51 per cent, in the twelve-year period. The total expenditures for the four years of Cleveland's first administration, 1880 to 1890, were $1,052,005,894. The total expenditures during Cleveland's second administration, 1893 to 1897, wer ?1,441,074,184. Comparing the first year of Cleveland first term with the last year of his second term, the following were the expend tures: 18S6. .$74,100,030 . 31,32 1.1.13 . 13.!M7.8SS . fi.UK). 1.18 . fi3.404.WM . 5U.5S0.146 1807.' $90,401 .Ml 48,9.10.016 34.501.046 13.016.803 141,053,105 37.791,117 Civil and miscellaneous War Department . . Navy Department . Indian service Pensions Interest on debt ... Tot.cxpenditures.$:U2,4S3,139 $305,774,157 For the last fiscal year, 1904, the government expenditures were: Civil and miscellaneous (exclusive of $50,000,000 Panama Canal payment) $136,760,703 War Department 115.035.411 Navy Department 10,95G,10t Indian service 10.438.35C Pensions 142,559,26$ Interest on debt 24.646,499 Total $532,402,322 Interest on the Public Debt. As regards interest on the public debt, the figures of the Harrison administratiuu i. ij n.L luiciti-ucu ' ucinccu iw iwt Cleveland administrations are of interest. The interest payments for the year 1892, the last year of Republican rule, were $23,378,110, as against $31,5S0,143 for the first fiscal year of Cleveland's first administration. Then, during Cleveland's second administration the public debt was increased $200,000,000, and tha interest payments, which in 1S92 amounted to $23,378,110, in 1897 amounted t $37,791,110. But in 1904 the interest on the public debt was only $24,040,400, this reduction having been due chiefly to the economy rendered possible through the financial act of March, 1900, which nearly every Democrat in Congress voted against. The most important increase in expenditures tinder Republican rule has been for the navy and this policy of upbuilding the navy was a pet policy of the late W. C. Whitney, President Cleveland's Secre tary of the Navy, whom Democrats ofte term the father of the modern America navy. During the Cleveland years, expenditures for the navy increased S 19,000.000, and the Navy Department ex penditures for 1904, compared with those for 1897, Cleveland's last year, show an increase of $08,000,000, the bulk of which increase is for construction of new ships. In consideration of the fact that ths United Stat?s has increased nearly 50 per cent, in population and more thaa 100 per cent, in wealth since G rover Cleveland wa. first inaugurated, the in creased expenditures of ffovernment would naturally seem to be entirely jus tified. If they are not, the Democrats should. at least in fairness, be willing to criti cise the increase in Democratic years just as much as the increase in Republican years. WORKINGMAN'8 FRIEND. Fresh Evidence of Roosevelt's Sym pathy with Waa-e Karners. It has been repeatedly fttated that President Roosevelt never misses an op portunity to show his sympathy for wage-earners. Here is a frasb evidence of the truth of this assertion. "Dur ing the existing administration." says the Chicago Tribune, "the United States for the first time has intervened in a private damage suit. Nothing was known of tha order nntil Senator Knox, late Attorney General, mentioned it the other day. A brakeman was injured, after the act requiring the use of safety appliances on interstate railroads had gone into effect, while endeavoring to couple cars which had not been equipped in accordance with law. lie brought suit for damages in a United States court, but was unsuccessful. The case was called to the attention of the President, and, as he saw that the decision of the lower court nullified a great remedial statute, be directed a petition for a writ of certiorari to be filed to remove the case to the Supreme Court. It will decide whether a law which was passed to protect the lives of hundreds of thousands of railroad workers can be violated with .impunity. The Democrats are everlastingly referring to Jackson end Jefferson as ths political demigods of the past. No one can tell what Jefferson would do were he alive to-day. He was a good man, and a schemer and dreamer in politics. Anyone can tell what Jackson would do were he alive to-day. He would be wita Roosevelt. He in a less educated way was the same kind of man. '