New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-10-07

and convenences in their homes read more travel
ana i've better generally than tho people OF any other
LIVING CHEAPER NOW THAN TwENTY-FoUR YEARS
AGO.
But absolute demonstration that the Republican policy
has benefited labor Is possible. Tables Of prices prove
beyond cavil that costs less money to meet al
the living expenses OF family, than cost in 1860 t.
buy the articles Yet labor receives larger wage,
J in money than paid for the same labor IN 1850
Thus the worker Is helped at both ends he gets more
money for the labor he has to sell, and he pays les
money for the things he has to buy.
We have cheaper breadstuhs than In 1860: Sl7 50
have bought In 1860 Butter, oh ese milk vegetable:
and fruit are also cheaper Sl4 02 will buy what $40
with fresh FISH, are also cheapcr s. A will buy OF that
| are higher Sl u will buy only much a. SO II
In 500 The short crops in 1881 caused great decrease
$40 - will buy much, with allowance for the quantity
OF each article actually Led S54 q would buy
the decline in cost Of transsporato from Chicago to
New York. The rates In August 800 we're $40 for the
same freight for which - Is now charged In the cost oi
food. which s half the cost of living - 80 for
every person. II you saw these are wholesale prices
answer retail prices vary with your whns II you
have fancy that you get better article ny going to
fashionable handsome store you pay for that fancy
but you always can be sure that retail prices will vary,
for those who wish 10 buy cheaply In close correspond
enco with Wholesale prices ON the cost OF food then,
You have saved about per cent B1t my iree tiIe
friends say you have been ontIaScously pundered by
| taxes on manufactured goods.
As 10 clothing al az events that Il nor te M0oiens
cheaper for So 81 will buy what = 81 would buy IN
1860 allowing each kind of goods proporiionate mpor-
lance Cotton goods are enc per- IN SPITE OF me iict "a .,
raw oloh is shade dearer 50 Ga viii buy what - ~
would buy in 1860 In leather and boots and shoes the
decline mas pecn Is PER cent WIN gIea W. ~ 6 i
quality. In silk goods, the imported product In 1850
cost 81 49, the duty being 20 per cent; now though the
duty per cent home made product costs 81 ~
IN rubber goods you can buy for 90 cents what
would have cost II cents and the Improvement IN utility
and elegance has been INN casrable. In linens the cost
Of aX has fallen that you can buy for about SO cents
costing Sls IL for each person. would have cost III
1860 S23 81 Here the saving is - 20, or ~ per cent
gaiil la
food the saving Ia clothing said TO be so heavily taxed
has been greater than the amount OF saving ID az ioo
But the free traders say grinding monopOeS IN iron
ana steel and other metals have robbed people, et us
see The quantity OF each article actually used III 1854
could not have been bought in $50 at any price. Bes-
steel IN such quantities could not then nave Deen
run NJ o Reseer rails had bre3 noct in $50
still the cost Of all kinds OF IRON ana s'ee amounting TO
- 29 alb MT 80 per The cost OF TIN has declined
40 per cent OF copper almost 40 and OF lead over 40 per
cent. Including hemp which has increased over 20 per
cent insignificant in importance, you have In this
class cost OF Sll Oh In 1851 while the same articles
would have cost sic 90 In 1860 saving OF 30 90, or
fully 80 per cent In this class toe, where 1t has been
said that the people most Outrageou'y robbed ana
taxed the saving has been greater than III all food as 1t
in clothing.
BENEFITS AccEUING TO THE FARMER.
Notice here that the farmer gains in this great ex-
Change Separate the items of food he has to sell and
you inl the cost at NewYork Sl7 20 in 1850. against
Sl4 IL In 1851 Tho difference only So OF, IL less than
the difference in of transportation on breadsufs
alone Prices Of wheat oats, pork and lard were as
high at Chicago In August 1860 as IN August Ssh Inc
farmer gets money, at the farm than he ala III
1860 But the other things OF which he Is purchaser
clothing metals glass lumber, paper drqSsho% % gost
Of SIG 80, or 20 per cent AT Ne" YORK, WIN lower
transportation thence to the farm He sells his wool
cheaper il is true, at % cents now instead of 80 cents IN
1850. but -. pounds vi" now buy the same rhppy OF
wOoen goods that 29.7 pounds would buy then. lie
gets more for his cotton ana pays less Tor ms cotton
goods 33 pounds of cotton will buy the same supply OF
cotton goods that - pounds would n1y III l7bo ~ gct7
little bette! price for his hide. and pays less Tor his
boots He for his cattle and hogs ami pays
glass lie gets NcwYork less for his wheat and corn
but can my more iron aud steel wh the same quantity
been reduced 80 per cent le sells his oats Tor less
money. bat can buy with them more agricultural lmpe-
How has it been with labor Farm labor we have
has gained; paying 10 per cent less io hs tAe
labor the Official report Of the Massachusetts, Labor
Bureau for This year compares wages IN go branches OF
employed in trade, and manufactures. were - J.
wee ~ IN 1850 and 80 % IN l775. an increase o!
there has been decline Of 10 per cent since st yrri
hence the labor that earned 500 IN 1850 earns
SID % now With lever hour ay b4o 70 5I' Inc tie
1hprrr now pays TS3 90 ana het cI'te Wou. NV Icy
~3l N6 every 500, II he should purchase te Hahe
working peOln throughout TIE 'oHnty ii'e 'a''y
enjoy vastly comforts and are able 10 MAKE better
provision Tor their families. fora rainy day ana i"r lhe
education of those TINS country hereafter
How any deny in the light of these facts. that
system For 1860 had enjoyed the blessings OF
Democr1tc revenue tarih Tor fourteen years WIN an
our industries stimulated by the discovery OF gold in
California by famine IN Europe and extraordinary lmni-
.grlpn wo lad eni0ye a great prosperity To this day
the advocates tariff point 10 the glorious days
hco the wa II to turn back tho hands OF time That
far were close approach 10 the millennium. But how
real and great the prosperity then here are the
that labor fares vastly better now FOR
every rl0O then earned aud spent tho workers of this
nn3n either save s5l IS. employ It III hettor pro-
vision for their families their comfort their educdon or
IN useful ways which they unwisely prefer In at IL
the reason the hnml grants by thousands yearly
That ia the reason the savings bank deposits have III
creased % per cent tor every year
RESULTS SUMMED UP.
Sir that IS not all Ifatsca details we're not tire
some to an audience would compare the wages and the
cost of living here and IN England. Let me mako five
statements any OF which have here the proofs
this audience desires to hear them;
Firs'-rhe average wages Of labor are 60 per cent
hgher here than IN Great Britain.
Ssc0nd-The quantities OF food which this country
consumes costing in NewIOrk 500 Tor each person. viii
Ihird-rne British taxes liquors and tobacco ma Ike
the cost 81 the quantity which our people consul ne
each person Great Britain takes care to put taxes
where her own people will have to pay me whole OF
them 50 a, to lose customers That Is British free
trade We glad to pat taxes where British alanuiac-
turers shall pay as much OF them as possible.
Fohrhe cost of an other articles entering into con
sumption hereof clothing metals, coal OIL lumber.
rlss other house building articles paper. soap drugs
and chcmicas-is not more than so greater for each
person here than In England; 80 that,
FTdb-rhc entire cost of living If the same ariiclse
and uantities bought in England that are consumed
here Is less In tbs country than ID England whe wages
These are grand results Grander never achieved
hy any Government in any age or land The glory or
ancient Rome eliminated in Caesar. who Wndrd through
slaughter riumunui urchcs and Imperial crown ana
then fell by the hands at the people he forgot lie glory
of old France eliminated in Napoleon, Nhp SEN lcnoh
eagles cuuuucriug around the world untl they we're
n the uf Niu~cUw. aud whose SIN Of Anslc
liI fuse his sat forever Ht Waterloo upnn people
ptnud To- tipres under the wheels of MS onuunu upon
lucky SOLDIERS crowned. and tping millions foisOtton
The enry Of Grcnt Britain has cniuuNel m the the ~
Empress fUr Queen Yctprla. nnd n England thiiiy 0nt
llnuers for eytry Thousand prfsUns But the glory ~
United 81 fhe iieuiie, ~ me
people anl Inc people which iiis up Thpe niinh
10 hithpr lrtr ~ comfort AMI intelligence ihln any
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save y Inns rin - ppss That thls hniih "a growing
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