Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1884-11-01


70. The entire cost OF living,if the
same articles and qualities are
bought in England that are consum-
ed here, 10 less in this country than
/ in England, while wages are go per
I cent. higher.
s'These are great results. Grand
er were never achieved by any gov
| eminent in any age or land The
! glory of ancient Rome eliminated
/ in Cesar, who waded through
I slaughter to triumphal arches and
an imperial crown, and then fell by
\ the hands of the people he forgot.
] The glory of old France eliminated
in Napoleon, who sent French ca
giles conquering around the world
until they We're buried in the SHOWS
Of Moscow, and whose sun OF Aus
terlitz rose, as his sun set forever at
Waterloo, upon people ground to
pieces under the wheels of his can
mons, upon lucky soldiers crowned,
and toiling millions forgotten. The
glory of Great Britain has culmina-
| ted in the title of Empress for Queen
/ Victoria and in England thirty four
paupers for every thousand persons.
But the glory of the United States
lis a government of the people, for
/ the people, and by the people, which
lifts ap whole nation to higher
| level of comfort and intelligence
than any other people have enjoyed.
| Because our labor is enabled to save
it has come to pass that this nation
is growing richer faster than any
| other nation on the globe. / close
this part of the argument with one
fact, in which, so to speak, all other
facts are wrapped up. The 50,000,-
900 souls of these United States are
now saving and adding more to
their wealth every year than the
III, 900, 900 people Of France, Germa-
ny and Great Britain. That is my
computation. If you doubt it, take
instead the estimate Of the most en-
inent statist of England, Mr.. Null
hall. He estimates that Germany is
adding yearly to its wealth $780,
900 600; France, 1915 900, 900, and
Great Britain, 1926 900 900, making
for the three, 900, 900, 900, while even
| he estimates that the United States
is adding to its wealth 1876 200, 600
yearly and he says, Every day that
the sun rises upon the American
people it sees an addition of two and
half million dollars to the accum-
ulated wealth of the republic, which
is equal to one third of the daily ac-
cumulations of mankind"
HOW THE FARMER is PROTECTED.
And to the farmers especially he
thus addressed himself.
1.-THE Republican party serves him
by a protective tariff. BY that means
! it defends manufacturing labor dur
| ing foreign panics, and from the de-
structive force of competition at all
times. 1t says to the farmer: You
shall uot be deprived of eaters to
consume your products. The sweep
of commercial cyclones abroad shall
not drive the whole people to COM
| pete with you in your industry. The
Homestead bill guarantees to all the
wages that free labor can earn on
free land; the tariff guarantees a
| fair return for labor on the land.
The two are parts Of one grand sys-
TEN, and as such they should be
treated. While the Homestead bill
has increased the number of farms
SO per cent. since 1860, the tariff has
increased the number of workmen
employed in manufactures los per
cent. In 1860 the farmers had for
every 10000 acres of improved land
so manufacturing workers to eat his
products; i'm 1880, for every 10000
acres, 80 manufacturing workers.
Because the wages of labor had adj
vanced the sum which the consum-
ers were enabled to spend in buying
the products of the farm had increas-
ed. In 1860. the wages of manufac-
turing laborers amounted to 1888
for every acre of improved land in
farms; in 1880, the proportion had
risen to 1892. The increase, 43 per
cent. fixes the return for labor on
the land. Of this there is curious
evidence. In 1860, according to the
Massachusetts, Labor Reports, farm
labor in that State was paid $l363
| per month. But now, according to
| the latest statement of the Bureau
of Agriculture, the average wages
of farm labor in the whole country
are $1S5S, an increase of 43 per cent.
The farmers return, you see, keeps
pace with the amount that other
people can spend in buying farm pro-
ducts And yet there are men who
call themselves economists, and 9TH
ers who call themselves statesmen,
who pretend that tariff can do
nothing to help the farmer, and is
effective only to tax and to burden
him.
WHAT PROTECTION HAS DONE.
"You need no labored defence of
a protection policy. 1t defends it.
self as it defends your labor. No
argument for it can be so powerful
as bare recital of what it has done.
In twenty four years it has lifted
this nation past France, past Ger
many, past England, to the position
of the richest, the most powerful and
the most prosperous nation of the