Wichita eagle., 1888-08-24

then, Is the inference? That the wage
workers among Sc, 000, 900 of people have
saved the one sum while the wage workers
among 1900, 900 Of people have saved the
other, or that nineteen wage work
ers in England have saved 500
while one wage worker in Mas
saciusetts has saved $l5a5o, Oh
that one wage worker in Massachusetts
has saved as much as twelve wage workers
IN England. But / anticipate the fling
from the Democratic editors that these
and that she has always been especially
favored in the accumulation of wealth by
the protective tariff, and has grown rich
at the expense of other states OF the union.
Let them, then, turn TO New York,
whose electoral vote transferred the
national administration to the Demo
cratic party: New YORK has
somewhat less than one-sixth of the pop
ulation of the United Kingdom. Their
savings banks contained at the beginning
in smaii fraction, or if the
exchange be correctly made, the full
equivalent of all the deposits in the saw
ings aud postal banks of the whole United
Kingdom. If the United Kingdom had
the same proportional amount Of deposits
in her savings and postal banks Of New
York, the sum total would exceed
So, 600, 000, 900, and would almost
offset her gigantic national
debt; Or, if you please, take another and
another state which helps to give the
country Democratic administration.
Connecticut, with only little over 600, 0G0
people at the last census. she has Si02, goo,
600 deposited in her savings banks; or if
you choose, without further considering
individual states. let us group New York
with the six New England states, and
you will find that the aggregate amount in
the savings banks of the seven states today
is 81, 100000, 600. The amount in these re-
spective states belonging TO wage workers
i'll every state except Connecticut is reck-
Oned at 75 per cent Connecticut estimates
IS, while in New York the estimates eX-
coed 50 per cent. But to make the state
ment abundantly safe, take IS per cent for
the whole. and you have over SIS, co. 900
in the savings banks of the seven states
credited to wage workers. To state the
fact in other words, you find an American
population of II 900, 600 in which the present
savings OF the wage workers are four
times as great as the savings of the work
ers among the IS, 100000 people of Great
Britain and Ireland At this point the
Democratic advocate of free trade answers
that these great gains TO the wage workers
came from their Industry and theft and
tective tariff. Let us see. For
twenty years, preceding the enac-
menJ of a protective tariff in 1861,
with the exception of a short period of
between three and four years in 1912 -i6,
the country was under low revenue tar
if, precisely of the kind now recommended
by President Cleveland and approved by
the Democratic party III congress. At the
end of that period the savings banks of
New York and New Finland had total
deposits of $40, 1000, 00G0 Allowing the
wage workers of that day to have the
same proportion of the total deposits as
they now have, their share would be
$91 100000. We are now in the twenty
eighth year of a protective tariff enacted
by Republican congress and made more
effective from year to year, as industrial
experience enabled congress from time to
time to correct and adjust its workings.
How, then, stands the matter at the end
of twenty-eight years of protection
The wage workers of New York
and New England have s715, 600 600 to their
credit or nearly eight times the amount
gained under twenty-eight years of free
trade in the same states. The population
of the seven states at the close of the long
era of free trade was S7.250, 600, and their
population in this twenty-eighth year of
protection is presumed to be 100000.
The wage workers of these states, toll
ing under a revenue tariff such as is
recommended by the president, had earned
surplus amounting to $3.50 for each
person or the entire population, while the
wage workers for the later period under a
protective tariff, have earned S65 per head
for the total population, or in other
words the average wage worker I'M
der a protective tariff in the United
States has been abled to save five times
as much as the average wage worker
un6or a tariff Rnt tho
Democratic advocate of free trade thinks
that he can escape from the crushing force
of these figures by his favorite cry that
these earnings of the laboring man In New
York and New England have been made
at the expense of the agricultural
states IN the west. L first answer
that manufacturers are so rapidly
spreading that there are no longer agricul-
tural states in the sense of that term as it
was used a generation ago. Under pro-
tectlve tariff manufactures are springlng
up everywhere. and already some states in
the west, notably Ohio, Indiana and Illi-
nois, have an annual product from manu-
features amounting high up into the mill
ions. But, secondly, l answer
that l have no need to inter
pose the manufacturing interest in stating
the progress and development of the west.
For IN twenty years of protective tariff
wealth has increased in a far greater ratio
in the agricultural states of the west than
in seven manufacturing states which have
adduced in the east in 1861, for instance,
the six western states of Michigan, Wis
consin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas and Ne
braska had population of 2, 500,0 600 and an
aggregate wealth by the census of 1850 of
sS70, OU0, 600. Today they have a popu-
lation of perhaps 1l,000,OU0, the
equal of New YORK and the whole
OF New England. We cannot give the
statistics of aggregate wealth either in
the west or the east later than the census
Of 1880, but in the twenty years between
1860 and 1880 these six western states had
their aggregate wealth from $50,
100 600 to So 305, 900, 900, an increase of more
than seven fold.
New York and New England had three |
times the population Of these western |
states in 1860 with an aggregate wealth of |
b, 700, 00O0O0. Today the population of |
ern states, while their wealth in twenty |
years between 1S60 and 1850 increased only |
; fold, amounting in 1880 to 81 ,296 0O0, 900. |
The ratio of development between the !
states of New York and |
New England has, therefore, not been |
,ne-half so rapid 81 that of the six /
agricultural states, which / have named. !
Of cash TO the credit Of the wage workers,
1ut they have in great and flourishing
titles, in long lines of railways, in i'm
9roved farms, in the increased values in /
great cities, in new towns, in the prodig
,us products of grain, in the countless
locks and herds, in the agricultural |
wealth TO the expense OF the western
armers under revenue tariff bears the
slight comparison that it can hardly be /
tated. Lastly. to the objections to the
conclusion present comes from the south
IN Democrat VINO, forgetting the interest
y his secrioy1 If urvinv the revival