Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-26
NINE FAVORED STATES.
What Protection Does for ORe Section M
tho Expense of other Sections.


s.. Louis Republican.
Mr. Blaine's florid arithmetical illustra.
hons Of the marvellous benefits of pro-
tective tariff are addressed TO the henefi-
Charles of 1.-THE people Of the nine East
ern states (Which do the larger
amount Of manufacturing for the country,
VIZ, the six New England states,
with New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania He shows that In tine
twenty-five years from 1861 to 1885 the
savings bank deposits in these states mul.
tiplied from $3.50, 900, 900 to 81 ,020, 100000
an increase of SIX and half fold. In
Maine, his own state, the protective pol
icy was so emphatically beneficial that the
savings bank deposits increased in
the TWENTY-FIVE years named from
a half-million 20 thirty-six mil
lions-from 100000 to $4,000, 0oO-an
increase Of seventy two told. The aver
age was $500 to each 10000 depositors.
ain the period referred to-" says Mr..
Blaine, ''it must be remembered that
the increase OF population in the nine
states has been about SO per cent,
while the increase Of deposits In savings
banks has been at the rate Of 800
per cent? That is, these nine states In
creased their wealth twenty-three times as
fast as they increased their population.
And even these figures do not tell the
whole story OF the prosperity OF the nine
protected states. They contain only 20
per cent. of the population OF the country
less than one-third, but they possess A
per cent. of Its taxable wealth
nearly one-half; and they are SINH
lsrly fortunate In the ownership Of
United States bonds. OF the S644, 900, 900
registered bonds in this country In 1880,
these nine states owned SS2S,000, 900, or
more than one-half, and OF all the United
States bonds owned in the country
now the nine protected states own
more than 4 half. OF the 7S,l14
Tilted States bondholders in the
Union in 1880, 26,6l9, or more tAan one
third, lived N New England, and $4,000
lived in New York, New Jersey and Penn
sylvania, making 1858, or three-fourihs,
living in the nine manufacturing states,
while only 1880, or about one-fourth,
lived in the other twenty-niuo states and
territories.
The nine manufacturing states OF the
East, whose industries are conducted I'M
der the protective tariff, therefore, really
exhibit all the remarkable prosperity and
claims, and the fact is probably due, as he
says, to the working OF the protective
tariff, which taxes the people OF the
other states and territories for their ben.
eft. The tariff has been, and still is, an
advantage to them beyond a doubt.
But protecting one interest aud one
part of the population means taxing all
other interests aud all other parts OF the
population, and this fact is illustrated Ia
the condition OF the agricultural states
Massachusetts. one of the protected
manufacturing states, owns $45, 900, GEO
United States registered bonds; illinois,
an agricultural state, with much larger
population, owns only $4,000
900. Maine, protected manu-.
featuring state, owns - 000,-
900; Kansas, with third larger popula-
ton, owns only sl,1ss,000, Pennsylva-
mis-, another protected state, owns 340,-
22s 900; Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska
and Minnesota, with larger pop
ulation, own together, only S3,80O,-
00e. The two protected manuiactur-
ing states of Massachusetts, and Penn
aylvania own more United States bonds
on which no taxes are psid--than all the
Western and Southern states put togeth-
er. The little manufacturing state OF
Rhode Island, with only 276, 900 populs.
tioD, owns e4,7l7,000. while Iowa, with a
population Of J, 624 600, owns only 81 1885,
900.
The protective tariff has certainly
brought enormous benefits TO the nine
manufac uring states, but it has been At
the expense of the other states. These
nine states have savings deposits Of
81, O2O, 00Q, 600; but all the other states
together do not have third as much.
Mr.. Blaine boasts that his own state OF
Name, with less than 100000 pOpuls-
tIon, shows $50, zoe 900 deposited 10 saw
ings banks aud owned by 10000 persons
1920 a head, But the people OF Iowa,
Kansas, Minnesota or Nebraska, cannot
make such boast. There Is no such
sum in their savings banks. Indeed all
the people in these four Western states
cnnnet show as much money IN savings
banks as the 10000 deposl.ors
lin the single state Of Maine.
/ Neverthelesp these Western states have