We demand strict economy in public affairs, and the abolition of all needless offices and commissions.

The salmon fishing industry, so fruitful a source of revenue to the State, should be fostered, and to that end we favor State aid in the artificial propagation of salmon, and their distribution in the waters of this State.

We reaffirm our allegiance to the principles of the Republican party of the United States as enunciated by the Republican convention in St. Louis in 1896.

We denounce the fusion party of Oregon as an aggregation of spoilsmen, who are ready to subordinate principles to offices. Each of the parties to this compact is willing to stultify itself and form alliances with the elements which it has heretofore denounced as dangerous and unfit to be intrusted with power; we declare that good government can not come from such an alliance.

ELECTION OF 1896-POPULATION, ILLITERACY, SAVINGS DEPOSITS, MORTGAGES, ETC., OF THE GOLD AND

SILVER STATES.

TABLE I.-Population, education, wealth, etc., according to the Eleventh Census, of States arranged by Presidential vote in 1896.*

TABLE I.-Population, education, wealth, etc., according to the Eleventh Census, of States arranged by Presidential vote in 1896-Continued.

TABLE I.-Population, education, wealth, etc., according to the Eleventh Census, of States arranged by Presidential vote in 1896-Continued.

It will be seen that the area carried for free silver is nearly double the area for the gold standard, while its population does not greatly exceed half the latter. The average of inhabitants per square mile in the gold standard States is three and one-fourth times that in the free silver States.

The percentage of electoral votes is larger in the free silver States than that of population, showing that those States are favored by that method of choosing the President.

EDUCATION IN THE TWO AREAS.

Of the total number of illiterate native whites, the free silver area contains nearly three-fifths. Relatively to total native white population over 10 years of age, the percentage of illiterates in the free silver States is three times that in the gold standard States. Including all whites in the comparison, the percentage in the free silver States is not increased. Over the western part of this territory the foreign born of the white population are relatively more illiterate, in about the same degree as throughout the gold standard States; while over the southern part the native whites are, except in Texas, relatively more illiterate than the foreign born. The percentage of illiteracy in the gold standard States, owing to the relatively large proportion and deficient education of the foreign element in those States, is greatly increased by including it. The general average is, however, brought very little above one-half of that for the free silver States.

The reported total expenditures for schools (excluding “colleges, academies, normal schools, and other educational purposes") in the gold standard States are three and a half times as great as in the free silver States. This is higher than the ratio of population, as is shown also by the data in column 9. It is also higher than the ratio of personal property, and even higher than the ratio of real property. The average expenditure per capita is in the gold standard States very nearly double that in the free silver States.

The gold standard list includes one State, Kentucky, whose vote was so nearly an even balance that its decided position in either rank will perhaps be questioned. The inquiry may, therefore, arise, how the gold standard average would be altered by omission of that State. Hence it appears worth while to add that the 40.7 per cent of native white illiterates would be thus reduced to 31.9, the ratio of such illiterates from 3.7 to 3, little more than onefourth of the free silver average, and the ratio of total white illiterates from 6.1 to 5.7, just half the free silver figure. The average per capita school expenditure would be increased to $2.79, more than double the free silver average, by the same omission.