Nevada County picayune., 1888-01-25
IS THIS FAIR?

0OO.O0 invested in manufacturing. and all the states and territories had total of @l2,000, ,C00,000 in- vested in farming. The farming investment was seven times as great as the manufacturing. But the total value of all farm pro- ducts was s2,2l3, ,402 ,0O0; and the total value of all manufactured products in the industrial states was B, ,1S6, ,142,OO0. Deduct from this latter sum the value et the raw material used (Sl,915.0oO, ,0O0) and there remains Sl, ,2ll, ,l42,COu aS the net product of the capital aud labor employed in manufact- uriug in the nine industrial states and this is one-half as much as all the farm crops raised in the whole couutry-thirty-eight states and six territories.
 The nine industrial states had l. | 71S.OOO employed in manutactur- ing. while the whole country had 7,670, ,O00 persons engaged in agri- culture. But the industrial states, with only one-seventh as much capical and one fourth as many workers employed in manufactur, i ing as all the states had in farming i turued out one. kalt as valuable a product.
 The entire agricultural product of the country (S2,2l3, 3,402, ,0OO dlvi- ded bs the number of persons C. 67O.000 required to produce It gives S2SS as the average product of each; and the manufacturing product ofthe nine indvstrial state (S1,2u,1t2,00W divided by the number of persons Q,TS,OO0 re. quired to produce it gives about S700 as the average of each. The average annual product of manu- featuring workers labor in the in Gnstria states is therefore more than twice as valuable as the an nual average product of an agrl- cultural workers labor in the whole country. It must be sup posed that the 1,71S,00O manufact- uring workers in the industrial. states receive all the value of their i labor. They get only @6o5, ,O0O, 900 of 1,21l, ,1I2,O00 they earn-less than one-half. The other and bigger half goes to their protected capitalist employe IFS The employer takes S35O of his earnings and pays him @350 to live on.
 It is we'll known that the bur den of protection fall with the greatest force on agriculture and the farming class. Somebody has to pay the s150,000;O00 a year, which goes to pay the favored manufac- tures-and the large part of the sum must come from the protected agricultural interests. The pro- tection policy which has been main tained for twenty-five years there fore, actually taxes a farmer whose gross earnings are S2SS a year to enrich the industrial states were the average annual product of la Dor is S1OO Ter capita. This in justice becomes more fragrant when it is reflected that farming yields au average net profit of on ly , l-2 per cent on the capital in vested, while protective manufact- uring in the industrial states yields 20, 10 40 per cent.
 We have seen that the net val ue of the product of 1, ,11S. GOO per Sons-one third of them women and children-engaged in manutac- turing employment in tine nine in dustrial states, is S1,2l1,14 ,000 a year. The following table shows the gross value of the product of 2,30O,0O0 persons employed in agriculture in nine agriculture stateS-fve southern and four western.
 Alabama $J6,S72,O00 Arkansas 43,706,00U Geoagia G7 OPS. OOO North Carolina 51,729 900 Virginia b, 126 ,0OO Michigan 9l,l59,000 Minnesota 5O,O00,0O0 Nebraska 3l,110,O0O n n,n nnn