The Kanzas news., 1857-08-08

only seven; that Pennsylvania produces
fifteen and Georgia only five; that while
Iowa produces thirty-s six bushels of oats to
the acre, Mississippi produces only twelve
that Rhode Island produces thirty, and North
Carolina only ten; that while Ohio produces
twenty-five bushels of rye to the acre, Ken
lucky produces only eleven that Vermont
produces twenty, and Tennessee only seven;
that while Connecticut produces forty BUSH
els of Indian corn to the acre, Texas pro-
duces only twenty; that New Jersey pro-
duces thirty-three, and South Carolina only
eleven; that while New Hampshire produces
two hundred bushels of Irish potatoes to
the acre, Maryland produces only seventy
five; that Michigan produces one hundred
and forty, and Alabama only sixty.
The difference in value of live stock,
slaughtered animals and farms, is, if posi-
bic, still more striking. The following is
recapitulation of his tables
Value of Live Stock, s2s6, 6,a7e,5n
Value of Animals slaughtered, 81, ,990, ,237
Value of Farms, Farming Imple
ments and Machinery, 1898 ,e5Ss6l9
Total, ss,s76. .4a5,397
SLAVE STATES.
Value of Live Stock, sass, ,7as6s7
Value of animals slaughtered, 81 ,3SS,3T
Value of FaEms Farming I'm
plements and Machinery. S3,995,1T4
Total, sl.49s. .lO7, 1888
DIFFERENCE N vALuE-FARAs AND DOMESTIC ANIMALS.
Free States, $2,576, ,425. 1897
Slave States, !, ,492, ,l07, 1893
Balance in favor of the Free States, $l0s4 3ls059
By adding to this last balance in favor of
Free States the difference in value of the
bushel and pound-measure products, we
shall have very correct idea of the extent
to which the undivided agricultural inter-
ests of the Free States preponderate over
those of the Slave States. Let us add the
differences together, and see what will be
the result:
BALANCE ALL IN Favor OF THE NORTH.
Difference in the value of bushel-
measure products, $44, ,7S2,636
Difference In the value of pound
Difference in the value of farms
and domestic animals, 1,0e4,31s,O59
Total, sI,la8 ,29s 500
Thus it appears that, in spite of all the
loud talk of Southern politicians about the
agricultural products of the South support
ing the country, the entire value of al the
agricultural interests of the Free States is
very nearly twice as great as the entire value
of all the agricultural interests of the Slave
States, showing balance in favor of the
Free States of one billion one Hundred and
eigltty-eight million ta0o hsndred ninety nine
thousand eight hundred and three dollars.
Of the mineral productions of the two
sections Mr. Helper does not give any de-
tailed statistics, but he states, upon what he
deems sufficient authority, that the marble
and free-stone quarries of New England
are far more important sources of revenue,
than all the subterranean deposits In the
Slave States, and that the total value of all
the precious metals, rocks, minerals and
mineral waters annually extracted from the
bowels of the Free States is not less than
eighty five millions of dollars, and seven
times as much as the product of the Slave
States from the same sources.
Mr.. Helpers tables show also that the en-
tire wealth of the Free and Slave States,
compared, is as follows:
Entire wealth of the Free States, $4,1O2, ,172,108
Entire wealth of the Slave States,
including Slaves, 1886, 6,090,737
Bal. in favor of the Free States, 81 ,l66 081 ,371
We will not attempt to follow Mr.. Helper
any further with his comparisons, which
are infinite in number and upon almost
every conceivable subject, but all tending
| to prove the same general truth, that free
labor has uniformly proved more profitable
than slave labor, and that the exchange Of
slave for free labor is the only resource
which is left the South for escape from be-
coming a waste.
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