The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1871-08-24
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Our Radical task-masters at Washing
ton boast Of ,"the wonderful resources Of
the country and how much money has
been drained therefrom in the aggregate
the point where the boasting eliminates
being "immense reduction of the public
debt, But the melancholy fact remains,
that IN spite of all boasting, their process
of treating sour wonderful resources" re-
ferred to results in taking hats from the
heads, keeping shoes from the feet and
stripping shirts from the persons of wi
dening numbers of the people. Lest this
may seem a statement made for political
purposes, we furnish from the New York
EUeNing Post Republican, the following
"Our population has increased by near
ly eight millions since 1860; We have
twenty-five thousand miles more of rail-
roads than we had them our climate has
not become worse, our soil IS not less fer
tile, our crops have not decreased.
We ought net, therefore, to be poorer,
or less prosperous, or less able to compete
in the worlds markets with other nations,
than we were in 1860. The increase in
our population, the improvements made
in manufacturing processes, the spread of
railroads, cheapening transportation, all
combined, would make up to US all that
we have to bear, of additional burdens,
by reason Of the late war.
But the fact is, that
Frst-We use less sugar and cottee per
head than We did in 1859; and also fea0er
boots, shoes, hats and other articles of ne
cesSitv and lI11iUersdL consumption and,
says Mr.. David A. Wells, IN an admirable
article in the North An1eTSeGn ReViea0,
from which we have condensed the above
statements, g.it is positively known that
the consumption Of cotton cloth, meas
ured in pounds, was less in 1870, with
thirty-nine millions of people, than in
1870, with thirty millions. And If we
buy less at home, at the same time,
Second-We send less of these and 9TH
er of our manufaotures abroad than for
merly and what we do sell abroad we
aend in foreign ships. 4s.-,.r-
tonnage fallen off thus, the coasting and /
FISHING tonnage has decreased. The ton
mage employed in the cod fishery in 1860
81 was I37, SIC, and in lS69-7o only S2,-
6l2.sEiasI .elssneE
In 1850 fifteen thousand men were en-
ployed in building and repairing marine
engines IN New York alone. In 1870
less than seven hundred found employ
ment in this, which is one Of the highest
and best paid branches of our industry,
and one in which we formerly excelled;
and this woeful destruction of a busines
of which the American people were justly
proud, has taken place, Mr. Wells reports.
IN che face of rise in wages in the same
calling in England"
WhIle there is a great abundance OF
Republican trumpeting about their man
agement there is less abundance Of shirts,
shoes and hats among the people. To re-
peat the startling statistics, that, while
eight millions increase in our population
In ten years there is a decrease in the use
of articles of prime personal necessity, is
equivalent to saying that the cost of Rad
ical political triumphs ind their best rep
resentation in diminished comfort for the
laboring. Statistics based on figures
which do not lie give theresults by which
the prosperity efiR people may be Judged,
and it seems that while wealth increases
witE the favored few, comfort decreases
among the laboring mary. The principles
Of government which furnish most of the
latter are the only true ones for the peo-
pie to sustain