The daily gazette., 1878-05-21

Ih- duiy paid 70 the Treasury bead !
@tsflE ,. O. ty The family. - IL
fArref.gr fslAg~-s ihzf, ~ hiJe each family
pap - the Fe,i=rzl G0rsTuIneu1 81 ,o-
IL p-0'-eri0- y Es- ciEsz II. each fz-z.iy
pas 50 iFsosass 70 The pzivil-ged c1.ss-.-s-
VITO ere the p,sts AMI parasites q tn
Government
Sow. M Chairman. if ihis iA-a
policy do-s eTe4z= large p-iyijezel clzs--a
IN Htis country, 3ef ne next inquire En0
are the yr.sIIHgsd class
By the csf>szs Of lss0 / fiRd thai tie
total 81 lsersOn- engaged in ali the irs1G--
the Oi the [ nii>ad Ssz-ezs vac lz-5sts-s-S5
r'eopie; In agriculture. 5-ss2-2. al. or ! PEI
esns-s IN The professions and personal
s--rvlcss, 2-6ei, ,s.c. or u T.-E cent. il trade
aud Ean- IoFTzfleu, -lsf .9--, OF E-s
cent, IN Manufactures and mining, ?.
go Al: OF - Per cenf- OF these last lsE,,-
- were engaged IN iron and the manu-
facrGr=p thereof, I-j-.Sf8 in cotton. Iflj.-
al IN wOolens- Now. here l. o1ly - I-er
c-ut- Of our population engaged IN the
manufacturing and mining indnsiTles oi
this country. kepreseniing that fraction
of the labor Uf the land. they demand a
Tribute ffOin 1e Per cent Of the labonng
population Of this peOpl-, and InurrnuT
absolutely murnur. II fhree-iourJhs OF
the people Of the country thus buriened
with this exActlOn for tTlbute to that
braLeh Of industry dare TO favor a bill TO
reduce the tribute y or - psr c-nt-
The people do not complain Of taxa
con nsedfui for the support Of their
GoVSrnment, but they do groan under
the burden Of this heavy tribute paid TO
Uphold by compulsory bounties priv
Iedged rank in this free county.
might refer 70 the relative amount OF
capital engaged in manufactures In
1870 II was s2,lU,n0,0O while the
amount invested IN farming and farming
implements wa $50 go 90. So that
agriculture has not only more than double
the number VI people employed IN il. but
more than four times the amount Of CAPT
tai Invested Yet the agricul, urists with
tins enormously increased proportion Of
Interest In the question are to be tramp
led under foot by the manufacturing z
ci'ts-s--, and when ihey petition TO have
TIN eIact!Cn reduced are told. We will
shut down upon you by striking ont the
very "nacting clause Of this bin, Intro
ductsi for your relief"
SOW see the effect on the relative pros
peTty Of these two great interests. Let
Tn- here refer to statistics, showing the
amount Of real and personal property in
the nited States al different periods
DuriLg the free-Jrade decade from 1880
Ia l~D Penn yl.ailia nearly doubled her
property and the nited Statesf Increased
turiEs l<S per cent. Dunng the decade
Of the high tariff from 1860 10 1870 Penn
syiYama Increased her property 10 per
cent and the United States Increased
their- only IS. per cent. 30 that Penn
sSiVania Increased in property twice a.
much a. her sister under the high-tariff
policy. Look further. Capital in man
ufaci ures was doubled in the decade
from 1870 u loG0, and more than doubled
IN that from 1850 TO 1870. Manufacturing
products were nearly doubled in the de-
cade ending in 1860 and more than doub-
led IN the decade ending in 1870. 1t was
different thing with agriculture In
agriculture from 1870 to 1860 its value
was doubled, but ia the decade ending In
1910 II was only increased 90 per cent.
Capital in manufactures, therefore, has
greatly Increased in the last decade under
the influence Of this system. Capital in
agriculture has not Increased in the same
proportion.
BY the CENSUS Of 1870 it appears that
out OF a total product in manufactures OF
a ~, ,32j AZ. Pennsylvania produced
more than one-sixth of this enormous
sum. Out Of total capital invested in
manufactures Of S2,l1S, ,2O8, ,764 the South
had only sZ75 900, OF II per cent
Pennsylvania alone had nearly 20 per
cent, and the six States, OF Pennsyl-
wanna, New York, New jersey, Mas
saehusetts, Rhode Island, and Connects
cut had two-thirds OF the Iotal amount OF
the manufacturing capital of the coun-
try.