New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-03
In commenting on some of these reports the
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Norddeutscke saws:
Those figures speak the more loudly as tney
IN exclusively industrial groups o De
ing quite particular Proect0nists with singe excrp.
ton. everywhere the fact could be ascer,aneu saa
wages ouatatiyey tended howard; IN places where
the annual average wages could BE- ascrrfaned as Tor
Instance the steel and IRON INDUSTRY iny @ ~ tha
TO height reasonable for the suDsstahce Oh lne
aborer
The facts and figures thus far obtained in Ger
many show beyond doubt that IN the principal iron
districts, the wooen and worsted regions IN the
northwestern part of the Empire he cotton regions
of Saxony, the linen regions with Bieleield for
CENTRE the busy textile Industries clustering around
Gera, the velvet and velvet nbbon industries OF
Crefeld and the varied industries of Barmen ana
Elberfeld, decided upward tendency both in the
average wages paid and numbers employed set IN
when the New Tariff law came into force. and that
an upward tendency has continued through 1857
and for the first quarter of the present year. In
every step of the way am sustained by trustwor-
thy official data which could quote mncb more IN
detail did space permit do not claim that protec-
ton has been the only cause of the great industrial
progress of Germany during the last four years but
can hardly imagine anyone carefully examining
the official data quoted in this and some oil nv pre-
vious letters and not arriving at the conclusion
that the New German Tariff has done much 10 H.
ylgorate German industries. give employment 10 'he
unempIoyed. advance the wages of the workingman
and make the country more sef-supportng ana
prosperous.
But the advocates of free trade. when these facts
are presented attempt to weaken their purport py
claiming that the cost of the necessities OF ie nave
increased in the same proportion as wages. ms L
deny is the case in Germany. For example. take
the average wholesale prices of wheat, rye and oats
for the year 1879 and 1882 in the principal dis
tributng points of the Empire. Beginning with
ha
mart of Europe. and find the average wholesale
nr,ce of wheat during the year 1879, $40 go per
1000 Kilograms (2,200 pounds and during 1857
$40 II. an increase of two cents on 2,200 pounds
Allowing, say about twenty ounces of bread day
for each person European Army allowancr) one
working man will not consume IN year nearly 200
pounds of wheat 50 while protection has increased
his wages from 10 to 40 per cent 1t has bowed INN
down under the heavy yoke of nearly two cents a
year more for his bread In Berlin the same official
figures show rnat the average price OF wheat 10
1879 was S47 0S per 900 Kilograms and IN 1857
S4S 81; in Munich the price OF wheat actnalIy
averaged less in 1882 than 1879. In Cologne u nad
Increased about So on 2,2OO pounds but thls "
must be remembered, s a distributing point Tor the
"a eat iron seel coal aud textile REGIONS OF Moth
western Germany, in which districts protection pas
called INTO use probably 100, 900 more workers tn2n
were employed during the depressed times OF 1878.
Rye winch Is more of a staple tnan wheat among
the Germans. has increased IN price IN b rim from
an average of 3l 60 per 900 Kilograms in 1879 to
S36 20 IN 1887. At Breslau the increase was only
81 on 2 200 pounds; ID Danlzic about 49, AT Lelpsc
about S3. The prc OF oats and barley have hardly
changed Ia all he great markets of Germany. lne
price of raw ana refined sugar has increased tre'
bu in no market moe than III on ZZO p"unhs'
coffee of ali kinds has decreased III price on an aver
age of $40 on 22O pounds. Rice has decreased from
81 rs and SO Is 10 Sd 81 aud So 10 Lard and
Bacon has increased the latter "a o. 20 on ZZV
mounds Raw cotto rema us stationary ana wool
has decreased i'll price. Considerable complaint has
been made by manufacturers who use cotton yarns
A. "a W material about the increase IN the duiY o"
fine cotton warns and anti-Pro ectlon writer's have
pointed out no the extra duty would Kill many IN
dustres M used cotton yarns. The Oihclal STATE
rent average prices for the last four years q IS
not indicate any increase IN cost TO the German con-
sumner At first the price increased. but none COM
petition has brought about slight decrease. Can
II he thai this is another instance of the duty COM
ing out OF tue foreign producerr
Price of cotton yarn per Ky: