Show MONEY FOR LABOR mearla aalf a 1311 billion tion dollar dollars more for N nihei a ge the census of 1900 1000 showed that the wages of all classes of labor la in all the manufacturing industries of the united states was as 34 3 r baon at I 1 as against 1 Sli la to 1890 a gain of IW 50 1540 the census reports of wages tor for labor and salaries tor for clerks and officer officers em plowed in manufacturing industries for the last three decades are as follows 10 W av asua 1891 ivl bisbo W 94 oam 0 no as census talea taken llad ila etiene census reports included the period from 1804 to ejot the th campati xou on would be tar far more striking for thousands of workingmen lost their jobs shortly after the last democratic addala ri IW went ent into power ind there were very few workingmen of those abla able to leep keep their jobs who did not hare have to submit to at least ome some reduction redaction n wages a age tho were the days when democracy piled trouble on to trouble and seemed to leave lea re nothing undone that could b be done to bring impoverishment to the th american vior Lingman the entire country was made a sort of laboratory for original democratic el ex in various explosive products and product byproduct by products incle ling especial ly tree free trade free silver free riot and free soup it mattered not that desola tion was vias brought into thousands of american homes that the workingman and his wife and little ones were pinched for the th necessities of life eo so long as democracy was given the chance to ex peri penni meat ent with the idea of taking the home market away from american industry and giving it to the foreigner and antagonizing business interests at westa by agats uon tion against the gold standard after william mel mckinley unley was elected Prel president deat and the policies of protection out an ot of sound money once again limbed the phenomenal growth of the united states in wealth and prosperity attracted the wonder of all civilized na no lions and this growth has hits c continued with accelerating Telo velocity olty up to th the e pres ent eat time ilie census of 1900 recorded this great upward movement moT ement when it was on only Y about half way to where it Is now of course an so increase of nearly half a bill ion ton dollars in 9 wages dwi does not concern the workingman or kingman alone by any mesita it concerns every business man in the united states crery every farmer and nd every woman and child dependent on the labor of others for their support tot bor instance it if the wages of labor in manufacturing industries had bad not in creased in the millions the per capita consumption of vibert w beat could not hare have lc in creased from 3 44 bushels in 1894 to OM bushels in 1904 1004 and the price of u wheat heat almost doubled prosperity Is always made op up of an almost endless chain of 0 I 1 reu and it Is only by having every link sound and strong that bit proa verity for all can be preserved |