Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1900 — CONN’S COMMENT [ARTICLE]

CONN’S COMMENT

Why Indiana Manufacturer Re* fuses to Support Bryanism. Over his autograph signature in the Elkhart Truth of last week Hon. Charles G. Conn, a former Democratic congressman from Indiana and one of ’ the most extensive manufactur- ’ ers of band instruments in the ‘ world, denounces Bryanism and “ assigns convincing reasons for • taking up with McKinley. lie > says that in 1896 he employed • during July 181 persons, with . a monthly pay-roll of $7,230. i During the month just closed he employed 274 persons, with a / pay-roll of $11,438. To this lie i adds: “The-same rate of hi- ’ crease holds good in nearly ev- • ery factory in the country, and , published reports show that there are few idle Working peo- ’ pie. During the year of 1896 it ’ was estimated that there were • 'over two millions of wage-earn- ’ ers'out of employment. Do. you 1 want to return to that lamentable condition? Is there so much • fat oh your ribs that you can , endure another period of semu 1 starvation? The monetary re- • port of the United States treas- ’ urer for last month show-s that > there are over 453 millions of gold in the treasury, the largesti amount ever held at any one • time by the government. Rus- • sia and England are both nego- ■ tiattng loans in this country, 1 and we have become a creditor ’ Instead of a borrowing nation. • The development of South Afrl- > ca, which must follow the Boer war, and the new markets to be > opened in the Orient will tax ’ our resources to the utmost to • supply the increased demand, provided we are in a position to • meet it. But it can neveF be ’ done with a financial panic on : our hands, or with a depreciated > money. Our political as well as ’ our commercial policies must i be sound and progressive. It ‘ is folly to expect unsafe, un- ■ sound policies to insure national prosperity.”