Nevada County picayune., 1888-02-01
EAVORS TO THE RICH.


 New York. New Jersey and Penn svlvania-ninc in all. They are industrial States because they are engaged chiefly in manufacturing, and to distinguish them from the twenty-ninc States, which are en- gagged chiefly in farming. The nine industrial States represent the manufacturing interest of the country, and the twenty-nine oth- CT States represent it's a2ilcul- ture.
 It is held that the manutactur- ing interest cannot thrive without the special favor ot the govern ment--anh the policy of the gov ernmcnt has been founded on this theory for twenty five years. The manufacturing interest has been favored at the cost of the agrlcuI- tural. The nine industrial States have been granted special prlyi- leges of enormous value at the expense of the twenty nine farm ing States.
 And yet these industrial States, which, on the plea of being unable to help themselves, are assisted by the government. are the richest in the Union. They are the capi- tai States. They are the ahodeS of wealth and opulence. They are the homes of thousands of million aires. of hundreds whose fortunes are Sj.o00.0 to S1O,000,000 each, and of not q few whose fortunes are S2j, j,O00,00O to S50,000, ,OO0 each. The nine industrial States are as rich as all the other twenty-nine States put together; they own halt of the wealth of the entire country. The settled policy of the country, then, tor twenty-five years, has been, and still is, to compel the twenty nine farming States 10 pay an enormous tribute every year to the rich capital States to tax the poorer sections of the Union for the benefit of the wealthiest sec ton. There are no milIionalreS l in Kansas. That whole State, with all it's farms and railroads, is mort gagged for half it is worth to rich money lenders in the industrial States; and yet the United States government forces a Kansas farm. CT to give 20 to 100 bushels of wheat. raised on his mortgaged farm, every year, to the prosper ous manufacturer in an industrial State who holds tue mortgage.
 The per capita wealth in the in dustrial States is twice as great as in the farming States. It is S1.259 in Pennsylvania; Sl, 26l III New Jersey, 1868 in Connec- ticut: Sl ,499 in New York; S1,JI9 in Rhode Island, and S1 ,56S in MassachuSettS-the largest per capita being in that State where manufacturing is the largest inter est. In the farming States it is s299 Ill Alabama; S307 in Arkan- sas; s75S in Indiana; SS37 in Michigan; s737 in Wisconsin; S6ll in Nebraska and SSl7 in MinneSo- ta.
 The whole farming interest of country, that is of all the thirty eight States and six Territories, with Sl2 1000, 00,000 capital and i 7,610,000 workers, made total farm product in 1880 of S2 ,213 ,402 GOO, while the nine industrial States, with less than one seventh as much capital t@l, 120,0O0,000) and less than one-fOrth as many workers l,17S,000, made a net product manufactures (eXclusive of the cost of materials used) of l Nl,21l,142,0 900, or more than one. half as great as the value of all the fam produce in the entire coun- try.
 The net profits on manufacture ing in the industrial States in 1880 amounted to S43i 900, O,000, or p per cent. on the total capital in veStcd(S1, ,720, ,O0O,0O0) The United States agricultural report for 1886 estimates that the net profits on the farming industry of the whole country are 3 l-2 per cent. on the capital invested.
 The average value of the labor of the 7.G70,000 persons engaged in agriculture in the country in 1880 was S2SS and the average value ofthe labor of the l,17S.000 persons engaged in manufacturing pursuits in the industrial States