PROGRESS AND THE CAMPAIGN. In the coming election there is much more to be decided than a mere choice between individuals. individ-uals. "What policies are to rule Is the real question. ques-tion. After the birth of the nation up to 18G0 eighty-five years the accumulated property of the country aggregated ?13,000,000,000. Since then it has increased to more than ?100,000,000f-1 ?100,000,000f-1 000. This increase has been under Republican policies, for the gain under Mr. Cleveland's first administration of John Adams up to I860. When during his second term. The Democrats wjere in power most of the time after the close of the administration of John Adams up to I860. When out of power In the White House, they generally held Congress so that no legislation hostile to their policies could prevail. The cardinal principle prin-ciple of their faith $vas free trade, that is, a tariff for revenue only. That is the belief of the party today. Much as Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Bryan (distrust each other, they agree perfectly on this point The party has fought all Republican legislation legisla-tion on the tariff question. We can all recall the denunciation of the party against the tariff on tin plate, on the McKinley bill generally, on the Morrel tariff, which steadied the nation through the great war. Another point which the parties clashed on was giving subsidies to railroads. The subsidies which made it possible for a person to go from New York to San Francisco in four days, was a ' prolific theme of denunciation by the Democratic party for thirty years. But to the tariff and to ; the overland railway are more due the mighty advance of the Republic in wealth than to any other twenty agencies. The tariff gave employment employ-ment to the hosts of men seeking work, the road made possible the swift settlement of the frontier and the utilization of the metals" and minerals in the deserts and mountains of the vast interior region which forty years ago was a wilderness. I The Ohio carries 22,000,000 tons of freight annually, and the great lakes handle more inter-I inter-I nal commerce than all the outside nations of the I earth handle One-fourth of all that this country I exports is in the various forms of manufactured I Products, still two wonderful facts) stand out clearly to view. All manufactured articles In our v country are cheaper than they were before. 0T&f tariff was laid, and, at the same time, the wagvM paid to American artisans are higher than wer4, ever paid before for the same class of work since the beginning of time. It is a serious business to put in jeopardy a progress of this kind. A mere intimation to do It is a dangerous business, even as we saw in 1893, when the threat of the Wilso. Bill hung over the country like a pall, and free soup houses were the welcome given to American artisans. When this is thought over it will have its effect. The Herald the other morning had a cartoon representing the prosperity of the country as illustrated by the strikes. That is a double-edged double-edged sword. It is only the well-fed horse that kicks the stable down; the starved mustang is glad to get his small ration of alfalfa and then go to sleep. Democratic administrations cure strikes. All that men have to strike for under them is for hash. -'We expect before December that most of the Labor Unions will, in a most formal and ostentatious osten-tatious way, declare for Roosevelt. They cannot very well help it. They can in thought see the progress which the country is making. They can contrast the condition of the millions and tens of millions of toilers in our country with the rest of the world, and will hardly vote for a change. They know, too, that President Roosevelt is in full sympathy with them, that whatever else may be said, no man can accuse hfm of favoring any class or any faction of his countrymen. He knows by experience that the edict was true, that man by the sweat of his face must earn his bread, but that those who toil are entitled en-titled to justice. This is the trait that makes him enemies of those whose work in life is to secure se-cure for themselves more than their share of the country's profits. The signs in the sky all point to a Republican victory and a continuation of the policies that have made the country great.