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15.59 395.05
Ohio.
Oklahoma ..
Oregon
52,522,084
166,025,731
113,503, 647
174,768
313,767
529.14
216.11
79.53
Pennsylvania.
1, 683, 459, 016
2,592, 841, 032
909, 382, 016
4,282,891
5,258, 014
393.07
493.12
54.02
22,77
Rhode Island
252, 536, 673
321, 764, 503
69,227,830
276,531
345, 506
913.23
931.28
27.41
24.94
South Carlina.
133, 560, 135
132, 182, 638
61,377, 497
995,577
1,151,149
134.15
114.83
d1.03
15 63
South Dakota
11,534, 958
131, 592, 587
120,057,629
98,268
328, 808
117.38
400.21
1,040.82
234.60
Tennessee
211,778,538
347,510, 103
135, 731, 565
1,542,359
1,767,518
137.31
196.61
64.09
14 60
Texas
320,364, 515
695, 842, 320
375,477,805
1,591,749
2, 235, 52:
201.27
311.27
117.20
40.44
Utah
24,775, 279
104,758,750
79, 983, 471
143,963
207,90%
172.09
503.88
322.84
44.42
Vermont
86,806,775
161,551,328
74, 744,553
332, 286
332, 42:
261.24
485.98
86.10
0.04
Virginia
308, 455, 135
362, 422, 741
53,967,606
1,512,565
1,655,983
203.93
218.86
17.50
9.48
Washington
23, 810,693
b124, 795,4 9
100,984, 756
75,116
349,390
316.99
357.18
424.12
365.13
West Virginia
139,622, 705
169, 927, 587|
30,304, 882
618,457
762,794
225 76
222.771
21.70
23.34
Wisconsin
438,971,751
592, 890, 719
153,918, 968
1,315, 497
1,686,880
333.69
351.47
35.06
28.23
Wyoming.
13, 621,829
631, 431, 495
17,809, 666
20,789
60,705
655.24
517.77
130.74|
192.01
& The assessed valuation of Oklahoma not being given, the population of that territory is omitted in calculating the assessed valuation per capita for 1892. of the United States.
b Annual report of 1889.
c The state board of equalization declares that in 1880 the assessed value was 50 per cent. and in 1890 only 25 per cent. of the true value, hence the reduction.
d Decrease.
e Assessment cf 1886; assessment made every five years.
STATISTICS.
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FOREIGN CARRYING TRADE.
Values of the imports and exports of the United States carried in American vessels and in foreign vessels during each fiscal year from 1857 to 1892 inclusive, with the percentage carried in American vessels.
IMPORTS.
EXPORTS.
YEAR ENDING JUNE 30.
In American Vessels.
In Foreign Vessels.
In American Vessels.
In Foreign Vessels.
Per cent in American Vessels.
1857.
$259,116,170
$101, 773, 971
$251, 214, 857
$111, 745, 825
70.50
1858
203,700,016
78, 913, 134
243,491,288
81, 153, 133
73.70
1859.
216, 123,428
122, 644, 702
249, 617,953
107,171,509
66.90
1860
228, 164, 855
134,001,399!
279,082,902
121,039,394
66.50
1861.
201, 544, 055
134, 106, 098|
179,972, 733
69, 372, 180
65.20
1862
92,274,100
113,497,629
125, 421, 318
104,517,697
50.00
1863
109, 744, 580
143, 175, 340
132, 127,891
199, 880, 691
41.40
1864.
81,212, 079
248, 350, 818
102, 849,409
237,442,730
27.50
1865
74,385,116
174,170,536
93,017,756
262, 839, 588
27.70
1867
117,209, 536
300, 622, 035
180,625, 368
280,708, 368
33.90
1869
136, 802, 024
300, 512, 231
153,154,748
285,979,781
33.10
1820.
153,237,077
309, 140, 510
199,732, 324
329,786, 978
35.60
1872
177,286,302
445, 416, 783
168,044, 799
393, 929, 579
28.50
18.3
174,739, 834
471,806, 765
171.566,758
494, 915, 886
25.80
1874
176,027,778
405, 320, 135
174,424,216
533, 885, 971
26.70
1875
157,872, 726
382, 949, 568
156, 385, 066
501,838, 949
25.80
1876
143,380,704
321, 139, 500
167,686, 467
492,215, 487
33.10
1877
151,834, 067
329, 565, 833
164,826,214
530,354,703
26.50
1878
146,499,282
307,407,565
166, 551, 624
569,583, 564
25.90
1879
143, 599, 353
310, 499, 599
128, 425, 339
600, 769,633
22,60
1880
149,317,368
503, 494, 913
109,029,209
720,770,521
17.18
1881.
133, 631, 146
491, 840, 269
116,955,324
777,162,714
16.22
1882
130,266,826
571, 517, 802
96,962,919
641,460,967
15.40
1883 ..
136,002,290
564, 175, 576
104,418,210
694,331, 348
15.54
1884.
135, 046,207
512, 511, 192
98,652,828
615,287,007
16.60
1885.
112, 864, 052
443, 513, 801
82,001,691
636,004,765
14.76
1886
118, 942, 817
491, 937, 636
78,406,686
581,973,477
15.01
1887
121, 365, 493
543, 392, 216
72,991,253
621,802, 292
13.80
1888
123, 525, 298
568, 222, 357
67,332,175
606,474,964
13.44
1889
120, 782, 910
586,120,881
83,022,198
630,942,660
13.70
1890
124,926,977
623, 676, 134
75,382,012
739,594,424|
12.81
1891
127,471,688!
676,511, 763
78,968,047
773,589,324|
11.94
1892
139, 139, 891
648, 533, 872
79,226,390
905,307,769
12.32
1866
112, 040, 395
333, 471, 763
213, 671,466
351, 754, 928
32.20
1868
122,965, 225
248, 659, 583
175,016, 348
301, 886, 491
35.10
1871
163,285,710
363, 020, 644
190,378,462
392, 801, 932
31.20
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RAILROAD MILEAGE.
RAILROAD MILEAGE IN WISCONSIN.
DECEMBER 31, 1892.
NAME OF COMPANY.
Miles.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul.
1,374.66
Chicago & Northwestern.
946.55
Wisconsin Central Lines
766.67
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha.
620.07
Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western
611.91
Minneapolis, St. Paul & Saulte Ste. Marie
271.42
Milwaukee & Northern. .
255.50
Chicago, Burlington & Northern
222.53
Green Bay, Winona & St. Paul.
224.80
Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic.
108.27
Chicago, Madison & Northern.
91.31
Northern Pacific ..
88.89
Kickapoo Valley & Northern
34.00
Port Edwards, Centralia & Northern
30.00
Chippewa River & Menomonie
22.00
Chicago. Fairchild & Eau Claire River
16.00
Abbotsford & North Eastern ..
15.16
Goodyear, Neillsville & Northern
15.00
Ahnapee & Western.
13.00
St. Cloud, Grantsburg & Ashland.
12.00
Milwaukee, Bay View & Chicago
12.00
Milwaukee & Superior.
11.60
Belt Line Railway of Superior
11.12
West Range Railway.
7.00
Wisconsin & Chippewa
5.00
Oshkosh Transportation Company.
4.10
Duluth Short Line.
1.75
Prairie du Chien & McGregor
1.75
Winona Bridge Railway ..
.53
Total.
5,849.60
Kewaunee, Green Bay & Western
32.91
Eastern Ry. Co. of Minnesota
22.10
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QUALIFICATIONS FOR VOTING IN EACH OF THE STATES.
STATES.
Requirement as to Citizenship.
State.
County.
Precinct.
Alabama .. Arkansas
Citizens or declared intention .. Citizens or declared intention .. 1 year.
1 year.
3 mos. .. 6 mos ...
1 month. 1 month ..
Required by law . Prohibited as a bar to suf- frage
California .
Colorado
Actual citizens . Citizens or declared intention .. Actual citizens
1 year. 6 mos.
90 days. 90 days. 6 mos. .. 1 mo ..
30 days. .. 10 days ... 6 mos.
Required by law Required by constitution. Required by law
Those unable to read and convicts.
Delaware.
Actual county tax payers. Citizens or declared intention ..
1 year.
6 mos. ..
No registration required. Required by constitution.
Idiots, insane, criminals, bettors on election, duelists.
Georgia
Actual citizens
1 year.
6 mos. . .
Legislature may regulate; no act Required by law
Idaho
Actual citizens
4 mos.
30 days.
Illinois
Actual citizens
1 year. 6 mos. 6 mos. 6 mos.
90 days. 60 days. 60 days.
30 days ... 30 days ...
Required by law No law for registration .. Required by law Required in cities only. . No registration required. Required by law .
Bribery, robbery, forgery, etc.
Idiots, insane, criminals.
Louisiana
Paupers and Indians, not taxed.
Maine
Actual citizens
6 mos.
3 mos. . 1 day ... 6 mos.
Required by law Required by constitution. Required by law
Michigan Minnesota .
Citizens or declared intention .. Citizens or declared intention .. Actual citizens . Citizens or declared intention ..
3 mos. 4 mos. 6 mos. 1 year
1 mo. . 60 days.
60 days ...
Montana. . Nebraska
Citizens .. Citizens or declared intention .. Citizens or declared intention ... Actual citizens . Actual citizens .
1 year 6 mos 6 mos.
60 days ... 10 days ..
Nevada ..
New Hampshire.
Twn 6 mos!
New Jersey .. ...
New York. North Carolina ..
Actual citizens Actual citizens
1 year.
90 days. 40 days. 30 days. 6 mos. | 6 mos. .. 5 mos ... 1 year. 4 mos. .. 1 year.' 90 days.
30 days ...
No registration required. Required by law Required by constitution .! Required by law Required in cities of 10,000 Required in cities of 7,000 Required by constitution.
Idiots, Indians, convicted of crime, lunatics.
Idiots, Indians, convicted of fel ny until pardoned. Idiots, Indians, convicts, Chinese. Persons in prison .
Connecticut .
1 year
1 year
Idiots, insane, paupers, criminals.
Idiots, insane, criminals, non-taxpayers.
Idiots, insane. convicted of felony until pardoned, bigamists and polygamists.
Convicts unless pardoned . Fraudulent voters and bribers.
Indiana ..
Citizens or declared intention .. Actual citizens .
Idiots, insane, criminals.
Iowa
Idiots, insane, convicts, rebels.
Kansas .
Citizens or declared intention .. Free white male citizens Citizens or declared intention .. Actual citizens .
2 ye'rs 1 year 3 mos. 1 year. 1 year.
10 days.
10 days ... 10 days ...
Required by law . Required by law Required by constitution. Required by constitution, cities only .
Inmates of asylums, poor-houses, and prisons; U. S. army .
Idiots, convicts, insane.
Convicts, idiots, U. S. army . Idiots, insane, convicts. Paupers. Paupers, idiots, insane, convicts
Election bettors or bribers, convicts. Convicts.
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Duelists. Idiots, insane, convicts. Idiots, insane, criminais.
Mississippi.
Missouri
Lunatics, convicts, guilty of bribery.
Maryland. Massachusetts
Citizens
Paupers, persons under guardians, non-taxpayers, unable to read and write.
Kentucky
30 days ... 1 year .. | 60 days ... 6 mos. . . | 30 days ... 3 mos ...
Florida .
RESIDENCE IN
Registration.
Excluded from Voting.
North Dakota Citizens or declared intention and civilized Indians.
Onio.
Actual citizens Citizens or declared intention ..
Oregon ...
Pennsylvania .. Rhode Island ... South Carolina ..
Actual citizens
1 year
Actual citizens
1 year.
Actual citizens
1 year.
60 days.
Required by constitution.
South Dakota ..
Citizens or declared intention .. Actual citizens
Non-payers of poll-tax.
'Texas
Citizens or declared intention ..
1 year.
6 mos.
6 mos. .
Vermont.
Actual citizens
1 year.
Virginia
Actual citizens
1 year.
Twn 3 mos
Lunatics, idiots, convicts, duelists, U. S. army, non-payers of capitation tax.
Washington
Citizens or declared intention .. Actual citizens .
1 year.
90 days. 60 days.
30 days ...
West Virginia .
1 year.
Wisconsin
·
1 year.
10 days ...
Wyoming
Citizens or declared intention Citizens or declared intention ..
6 mos.
30 days.
ʻ
Idiots, insane, convicts. Idiots, insane.
Idiots, insane, convicts, U. S army, Chinese. Non-taxpayers and political bribers. Paupers, idiots, insane, convicts. Insane; inmates of asylums, alms-houses, and prisons, U. S. army, duelists.
Idiots, convicts, insane.
Tenessee. .
1 year.
3 mos. 6 mos
30 days ...
No registration required. No registration required. Prohibited by constitution Required by law . Required by law
No registration required. Prohibited by constitution Req in cities over 3,000. . ..
Idiots, insane, convicts Lunatics, paupers, convicts.
Insane, idiots, convicts, bribers, bettors, duelists. No registration required.| Idiots, insane, convicted of felony until pardoned.
NOTE .- All the 44 states limit suffrage to male citizens, but in Colorado, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Nebraska, Minnesota, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Oregon, Wisconsin, Wyoming and Kansas women may vote at school-district elections.
QUALIFICATIONS FOR VOTING.
415
1 year. 1 year. 6 mos.
6 mos ... 30 days.
90 days ... 20 days ...
. 2 mos. .... Twn 6 mos
No registration required. No registration required. No registration required. Required by constitution. Required by law
.
Lunatics, idiots, paupers, convicts, U. S. army. Bribers.
6 mos.
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POLITICAL PLATFORMS AND COMMITTEES.
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
Adopted at Chicago, Ill., June 22, 1892.
The representatives of the Democratic party of the United States, in national] conven- tion assembled, do reaffirm their allegiance to the principles of the party as formulated by Jefferson and exemplified by the long and illustrious line of his successors in Democratic leadership, from Madison to Cleveland ; we believe the public welfare demands that these principles be applied to the conduct of the Federal Government through the accession to power of the party that advocates them ; and we solemnly declare that the need of a re- turn to these fundamental principles of free popular government, based on home rule and individual liberty, was never more urgent than now, when the tendency to centralize all power at the Federal capital has become a menace to the reserved rights of the States that strikes at the very roots of our government under the constitution as framed by the fathers of the Republic.
We warn the people of our common country, jealous for the preservation of their free institutions, that the policy of Federal control of elections to which the Republican party has committed itself is fraught with the gravest dangers, scarcely less momentous] than would result from a revolution practically establishing monarchy on the ruins of the Republic. It strikes at the North as well as at the South, and injures the colored citizen even more than the white; it means a horde of deputy marshals at every polling place armed with federal power, returning boards, appointed and controlled by federal author- ity, the outrage of the electoral rights of the people in the several states, the subjugation of the colored people to the control of the party power, and the revival of race antagon- isms now happily abated, of the utmost peril to the safety and happiness of all; a measure deliberately and justly described by a leading republican senator as "the most infamous bill that ever crossed the threshold of the senate." Such a policy, if sanctioned by law, would mean the dominance of a self-perpetuating oligarchy of office holders, and the party first intrusted with its machinery could be dislodged from power only by an appeal to the reserved right of the people to resist oppression which is inherent in all self-governing communities. Two years ago this revolutionary policy was emphatically condemned by the people at the polls, but in contempt of that verdict the Republican party has defiantly declared in its latest authoritative utterance that its success in the coming elections will mean the enactment of the Force bill, and the usurpation of despotic control over elections in all the states.
Believing that the preservation of republican government in the United States is dependent upon the defeat of this policy of legalized force and fraud, we invite the sup- port of all citizens who desire to see the constitution maintained in its integrity with the laws pursuant thereto which have given our country a hundred years of unexampled prosperity ; and we pledge the Democratic party, if it be entrusted with power, not only to the defeat of the Force bill, but also to relentless opposition to the Republican policy of profligate expenditure which, in the short space of two years, squandered an enormous surplus and emptied an overflowing treasury, after piling new burdens of taxation upon the already over taxed labor of the country.
We denounce Republican protection as a fraud: a robbery of the great majority of the American people for the benefit of the few. We declare it to be a fundamental principle of the Democratic party that the Federal Government has no constitutional power to impose and collect tariff duties, except for the purpose of revenue only, and we de- inand that the collection of such taxes shall be limited to the necessities of the Govern- n ent when honestly and economically administered.
We denounce the Mckinley tariff law enacted by the fifty first Congress as the cul- minating atrocity of class legislation ; we endorse the efforts made by the Democrats c'
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the present Congress to modify its most oppressive features in the direction of free raw materials and cheaper manufactured goods that enter into general consumption ; and we promise its repeal as one of the beneficent results that will follow the action of the people in entrusting power to the Democratic party. Since the Mckinley tariff went into opera- tion there have been ten reductions of the wages of laboring men to one increase. We deny that there has been any increase of prosperity to the country since that tariff went into. operation, and we point to the dullness and distress, the wage reductions and strikes in the iron trade as the best possible evidence that no such prosperity has resulted from the Mc- Kinley act.
We call the attention of thoughtful Americans to the fact that after thirty years of restrictive taxes against the importation of foreign wealth in exchange for our agricultural. surplus, the homes and farms of the country have become burdened with a real estate mortgage debt of over $2,500,000,000 exclusive of all other forms of indebtedness; that in one- of the chief agricultural states of the west there appears a real estate mortgage debt averaging $165 per capita of the total population ; and that similar conditions and tendencies are shown to exist in other agricultural exporting states. We denounce a policy which fosters no industry so much as it does that of the sheriff.
Trade interchange on the basis of reciprocal advantages to the countries participating is a time-honored doctrine of the Democratic faith, but we denounce the sham reciprocity which juggles with the people's desire for enlarged foreign markets and freer exchanges. by pretending to establish closer trade relations for a country whose articles of export are almost exclusively agricultural products with other countries that are also agricultural, while erecting a custom house barrier of prohibitive tariff taxes against the richest coun- tries of the world that stand ready to take our entire surplus of products and to exchange therefor commodities which are necessaries and comforts of life among our own people.
We recognize in the trusts and combinations which are designed to enable capital to secure more than its just share of the joint product of capital and labor a natural con- sequence of the prohibitive taxes which prevent the free competition which is the life of honest trade, but believe their worst evils can be abated by law, and we demand the rigid enforcement of the laws made to prevent and to control them, together with such further legislation in restraint of their abuses as experience may show to be necessary.
The Republican party, while professing a policy of reserving the public land for small holdings by actual settlers, has given away the people's heritage, until now a few railroad and non-resident aliens, individual and corporate, possess a larger area than that of all our farms between the two seas. The last Democratic administration reversed the improvident and unwise policy of the Republican party touching the public domain, and reclaimed from corporations and syndicates, alien and domestic, and restored to the people nearly one hundred million (100,000,000) acres of valuable land to be sacredly held as homesteads for our citizens, and we pledge ourselves to continue this policy until every acre of land so un- lawfully held shall be reclaimed and restored to the people.
We denounce the Republican legislation known as the Sherman act of 1890. as a cowardly makeshift, fraught with possibilities of danger in the future, which should make all of its supporters, as well as its author, anxious for its speedy repeal. We hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country, and to the coinage of both gold and silver without discriminating against either metal or charge for mintage, but the dollar unit of coinage of both metals must be of equal intrinsic and exchangeable value, or be adjusted through international agreement, or by such safeguards of legislation as shall insure the maintenance of the parity of the two metals, and the equal power of every dollar at all times in the markets, and in pay- ment of debt; and we demand that all paper currency shall be kept at par with and 1e- deemable in such coin. We insist upon this policy as especially necessary for the pro- tection of the farmers and laboring classes, the first and most defenseless victims of un- stable money and a fluctuating currency.
We recommend that the prohibitory ten per cent. tax on state bank issues be repealed. Public office is a public trust. We reaffirm the declaration of the democratic national convention of 1876, for the reform of the civil service, and we call for the honest enforce- ment of all laws regulating the same. The nomination of a president, as in the recent republican convention, by delegations composed largely of his appointees, holding office at his pleasure, is a scandalous satire upon free popular institutions, and a startling illus- tration of the methods by which a president may gratify his ambition. We denounce a policy under which the federal office holders usurp control of party conventions in the states, and we pledge the democratic party to reform these and all other abuses which threaten individual liberty and local self-government.
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The Democratic party is the only party that has ever given the country a foreign policy consistent and vigorous, compelling respect abroad, and inspiring confidence at home. While avoiding entangling alliances, it has aimed to cultivate friendly relations with other nations, and especially with our neighbors on the American continent, whose destiny is closely linked with our own, and we view with alarm the tendency to a policy of irritation and bluster which is liable at any time to confront us with the alternative of humiliation or war. We favor the maintenance of a navy strong enough for all purposes of national de- fense and to properly maintain the honor and dignity of the country abroad.
This country has always been the refuge of the oppressed from every land-exiles for conscience sake,-and in the spirit of the founders of our government, we condemn the op- pression practiced by the Russian government upon its Lutheran and Jewish subjects, and we call upon our national government, in the interest of justice and humanity, by all just and proper means, to use its prompt and best efforts to bring about a cessation of these cruel persecutions in the dominions of the Czar and to secure to the oppres ed equal rights.
We tender our rrofound and earnest sympathy to those lovers of freedom who are strug- gling for home rule and the great cause of local self-government in Ireland.
We heartily approve all legitimate efforts to prevent the United States from being used as the dumping-ground for the known criminals and professional paupers of Europe; and we demand the rigid enforcement of the laws against Chinese emigration and the importa- tion of foreign workmen under contract to degrade American labor and lessen its wages, but we condemn and denounce any and all attempts to restrict immigration of the indus- trious and worthy of foreign lands.
This convention hereby renews the expression of appreciation of the patriotism of the soldiers and sailors of the Union in the war for its preservation, and we favor just and lib- eral pensions for all disabled Union soldiers, their widows and dependents; but we demand that the work of the pension office shall be done industriously, impartially and honestly. We denounce the present administration of that office as incompetent, corrupt, dis- graceful and dishonest.
The federal government should care for and improve the Mississippi river and other great waterways of the republic so as to secure for the interior states easy and cheap transportation to tide-water. When any waterway of the republic is of sufficient im- portance to demand aid of the government, such aid should be extended upon a definite plan of continuous work until permanent improvement is secured.
For purposes of national defense and the promotion of commerce between the states, we recognize the early construction of the Nicaragua canal and its protection against foreign control as of great importance to the United States.
Recognizing the World's Columbian Exposition as a national undertaking of vast im- portance, in which the general government has invited the co-operation of all the powers of the world, and appreciating the acceptance by many of such powers of the invitation so extended and the broad and liberal efforts being made by them to contribute to the grandeur of the undertaking, we are of opinion that congress should make such necessary financial provision as shall be requisite to the maintenance of the national honor and public faith.
Popular education being the only safe basis of popular suffrage, we recommend to the several statcs most liberal appropriations for the public schools. Free common schools are the nursery of good government, and they have always received the fostering care of the Democratic party, which favors every means of increasing intelligence. Freedom of education, being an essential of civil and religious liberty as well as a necessity of the devel- opment of intelligence, must not be interfered with under any pretext whatever. We are opposed to state interference with parental rights and riglits of conscien ce in the educa- tion of children as an infringement of the fundamental Democratic doctrine that the largest individual liberty consistent with the rights of others insures the highest type of American citizenship and the best government.
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