The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-01
Protection and the Farmers.

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In his addres before the Union
League of Philadelphia, Col. William
M. Grosyenor summed up his re-
marks as follows:
eff statistical details were not tire.
some to an audience, 1 would COM
pare the wages and cost of living here
and In England. Let me make five
statements. for any one of which l
have here the proofs, if this audience
desires to hear them:
81. The average wages of labor are
60 per cent. higher here than in
Great Britain.
so. The same quantities of food
which this country consumes, cost
ing in New York $50 for each person
will cost in London over S55.
$50. The British taxes on liquors
and tobacco make the cost OF the
quantity which our people consume
greater in England than the cost here
by about So for each person. Great
Britain takes care to put taxes where
her own people will have to pay the
whole of them, so as not to lose GUS
toners. That is British free trade.
We are glad to put taxes where the
British manufacturers shall pay as
much of them as possible,
"a. The cost of all other articles
entering into consumption hereof
clothing, metals. coal, oil, lumber,
glass other house-building articles,
paper, soap, drugs and chemicals-is
not more than $12 greater for each
person here than in England I; SO
that,
"5. The entire cost of living, if the
articles and quantities are bought in
England that are consumed here. is
less in this country than in England,
while wages are 60 per cent. greater.
"These are grand results. Grander
were never achieved by any govern
ment in any age or land. The glory
of ancient Rome eliminated in a
Caesar, who waded through 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 a Napole-
on, who sent French eagles conquer
ing around the world until they were
buried beneath The SHOWS of Moscow,
and whose sun of Austerlitz rose, as
his sun set forever at Waterloo, upon
a people ground to pieces under the
wheels of his cannon. upon lucky
soldiers crowned, and toiIing millions
forgotten, The glory of Great Brit
ain has eliminated 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 is a government of
the people, by the people, and for
the people, which lifts up whole
nation to a higher level of comfort
and intelligence than any other peo-
pie have enjoyed. Because our labor
is enabled to save, it has come to
pass that this nation is growing rich
faster than any other nation on the
globe. l close this part of the argu-
ment with one fact, in which, so to
speak, all other facts are wrapped up.
The 50,000,000 people of these United
States are now saving more and add
ing more to their wealth every year
than the III, 900, 900 people of France,
Germany and Great Britain. That
is my computation. If you doubt it,,
take instead the estimate of the most
eminent statist of England, Mr.. Mul.
hall, He estimates that Germany is
adding yearly to its wealth 100000,
900; France, 1915. 200, 900, and Great
Britain, 1926, 600. 900, making for the
three, $500, 900, 900, while even he es.
Inmates that the United States is adj
ing to its wealth 1915, 100000 yearly,
and he says Every day that the
sun rises upon the American people