Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-12

According to the census of 1861 the aggre
gate wealth of these eleven western states
was something under four thousand mil
lions of dollars, and in 1880, twenty years
afterwards, by the national census. the
wealth of those states was $500, OO0,OOO
Applause}. 1t had increased and grown
fourfold in twenty years, and IN the last
| eight years enough has been added to carry
up the wealth Of those eleven states fan
beyond twenty thousand millions OF dol
lars or a vast deal larger sum than the
whole wealth of the United States the day
Lincoln was inaugurated. Applause.
| You can test the question in another way
! In 1860 these eleven states had ten thou
| sand miles of railroad, or scarcely that
and today, twenty-eight years afterwards
they have nearly eighty thousand miles
Mind you. these states have almost
within their borders rs the whole union
had before the war. Something OF other
! has enabled you western people to get
along pretty rapidly, for these states have
prospered in a degree far beyond that OF
the old eastern states in ratio far greater
| than the eastern states have maintained
AS another proof of that progress | have
here a singular table from the official cen
sus of 1860. think you will agree with
me that it is a very suggestive table.
| Here a disturbance, caused by the
crowded condition of the hall. interrupted
the speaker for moment. was calling
the attention of the audience to table in
the census Of 1860. in which the principal
towns and cities in the United States are
given. l will quote these of the eleven
western states and give you their popula-
ton. At that time Cleveland was 1900
| Toledo was not large enough to be In
Guided in this statement at all; Detroit
was 5000; Grand Rapids, that now has
$4,000, was not mentioned; Chlcago-What
do you think the population OF
Chicago was in 1850 - 100, 900.
have been much impeded by the protective
tariff for it is now three quarters of mil
! lion at least Applause. Milwaukee
was A, coo; ST. Paul and Minneapolis had
not grown to enough consequence In 1860
| to be mentioned in this table at all. To-
gether they now contain nearly 100000 PEG
| pie. Columbus, O., had $4,000; now Is, 600.
Louis 10000. Kansas City-The census
| did know there was such a place. Denver
| it had never been heard of in the census.
| Indianapolis-how much do you suppose it
was in 1860? under $4,000. Des Moines
| something over 5000. Omaha-well, Onla-
! ha had no mention at all. The aggregate
| of these cities was $4,000 in 1850 and is to-
! day 3,5O0, COO This is the way the pro-
tectiye tariff has been retarding the
! growth and development of the west. Ap-
| plause1 This is the great hardship that
| the west has suffered by the protective
| tariff.
| When you drive the free traders from
every other ground they tell you that the
! protective tariff has stopped the export
| trade Of the United States, that it has
| built up a lot of factories, and always that
| the foreign commerce of the country has
all gone to pieces. l again quote from the
census and show you from the time the
declaration of independence was made
down to the time Lincoln was elected
PRESIDENT will go further back; from
| the time America was discovered by
| Columbus down to the election of Abra-
| ham Lincoln, the aggregate shipment of
all those years, and all these centuries,
! from the United States amounted to
81, 000, 0O0, 900 in value. Now, mark you,
that covered the entire history of the gov
eminent down to 1860, and from 1860 to
| 1888 the aggregate amount has been ST.
| 000, 600 600, almost double as much in the
| twenty-eight years of the present protec-
| tive tariff as it was during the whole pre-
vious history of the American continent.
! Applause That is the way, gentlemen,
IN which protection has operated.
| | had occasion in speaking on this same
subject in the east when contrasting
what protection had done for the laboring
man of America as compared with the
| laboring men of Europe, to show what the
| laboring men of New England had in
savings banks as compared with those of
! old England and / saw in more than one
western Democratic paper the remark:
ooh, yes, you have got ali the money In
! the east, Ii is we'll enough tor you to up
| hold protection" But, gentlemen, you
must remember the different conditions.
/ The wealth of the west has been in grow
| ing towns, in settled farms, in great lines
/ of railway. in vast agricultural develop
ment. all of which gees forward more
rapidly in the west. Those investments in
| the west take the place of the cash deposits
| which the laboring men of the east have
placed in savings banks, but the ratio of
| increase of prosperity under the pro-
tective tariff for the last twenty
seven years has been largely in
| favor of the west against the east, so that
| the policy of protection has not proved a
| sectional policy Why. gentlemen, there
manufacturing states and the agricultur-
/ al states. Do you reckon yourselves here
J in Indiana as an agricultural state simply?
/ Your manufactures this very year in lndi-
ana have larger cash vaue than your to-
! tai agricultural product. Applause. !
| Manufacturers are no longer concentrated
| on the eastern side of the Aileghenies. The
/ city of Chicago is the largest center of
steel manufacture in America. 1t has
/ been ahead of Pittsburg and under the
/ influence of this tariff, the manufacturing
interest has spread each year farther and
| farther westward, bringing the home
market nearer and nearer the source of
/ food supply, and proving all the while TO
every intelligent voter in the country that
the nearer You bring the food consumers
/ to the food producers the more certain is
! the prosperity of bosh
! had occasion TO show the other dav in
! Michigan, from Indispensable statistics,
! that the little region of New England.
with not so much population as Illinois
and Indiana, with scarcely so much area
as Illinois alone, | had occasion TO show
that little area, with six small states, takes
more from these western states than is
shipped 20 old England, and that these
little states take from the other states Of
/ tie union every year in food and raw ma
( terra! for manufacture the enormous ag-
/ grcgate OF over four hundred millions OF
J dollars in money. Add to that the amount
( that New York, Pennsylvania and New
Jersey take from the south. the southwest
and the great west and you have an aggre-
! gate of more than one thousand millions
/ of material. Applause. land this country
viii have realized the great objective point
/ of the tariff system when every agricultu-
/ raj state shall have its market nearer to
/ the producers Farmers OF the west,
you have been complaining Of the
price OF wheat and enormously
! charging the fall upon the protective tariff.
I Why has wheat fallen during the last ten
years. Because you have 20 meet in the
markets OF Europe the wheat OF Russia,
| that is raised in that vast country with
| labor that is not more than eight 20
twelve cents per day. and, besides that you
are meeting vast imports Of wheat from
| India, where England has been expanding
/ hundreds Of millions OF dollars to cheaper
/ and expedate transportation TO EG-
rope. Neglect your home market and
/ the larger amount you viii find unsafe
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