The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-10-25
The ADMINISTRATION UNDER FIRE.

The gsosstaEy Of Ssats and His Statioisn On tn
Stand 70 Prove That PFOtsetioa is Right
ROCHESTER,, N. Y, Oct. 2S.-Ion.
James G. Blaine spoke here tonight.
He said np&rt:
Mr.. CHAIRMAN:I beg 20 bring TO
your attention and to the notice of the
audience q statement mada by MI.
I,ayard in speech two weeks ago. l
lguote his exact words. HS1aid: 81
want you to think of the progress of
the United States since these tariff laws
were made and what the consequences
are. Various inventions have come
into play since that tariff reached its
present proportions. Here are some
figures that I believe TO be reliable.
They come from high authority, Mr..
Edward Atkinson, of Massachusetts,
who is our leading statistician and an
upright and honorable man. From
United States increased 90 per cent,
the dairy products of the
United States, the cheese, the butter,
the milk and all that is created by the
dairy, increased 75 per cent. In these
seventeen years the products of cotton
increased 112 per cent, tho consump-
ton of wool increased 100 per cent, the
production of pig iron increased $50
ways increased 223 per cent.
What has been the result of all
the population increasing in so small
proportion of all those vast wares
which are needful to men, 1t proves
| to you that the country is making more
| than the people need or can consume,
In reply to Mr.. Bayard my first re-
mark is that it is great deal better
for people to have more than they
can consume than to have less than
| they can consume. Mr.. Bayard seems
to think that is an evil omen if the
wealth OF the country increases more
rapidly than its population. Pray
how early in our history would he ap
ply his principle that wealth must
develop only as the population develops
/ / do not, confess, quite comprehend
Mr.. Bayard's drift, for my own under
standing has been that according tt
the simple rules of political economy
where a nation is increasing in popula
ton more rapidly than in property
there must soon be suffering, but Wher'
the acquisition of property Outruns th,
ratio of increase in population, II
means that a nation is growing power
full, wealthy and great. AS Mr.. Bayar(
has endorsed Mr.. Atkinson as a Stats
tician and an economist, beg leave t,
use Mr.. Atkinson's figures and to tel
Mr.. Bayard where large proportion
of the increase Of wealth
in the United States has been made un
der the protective tariff. Mr.. Atkin
son stated in july last, that since 1856
the wages of foremen, overseers an
other specially skilled wOrkmen hav
advanced 106 per cent. and that tn
wages or average mechanics. carpen
ters, machinists and the like have ha
an advance of ninety per cent. tina
factory operators and others o
like grades of skill in tn
mechanic arts have advanced 70 pc
, cent and the wages of common laborer
! So per cent. You will please observ
that these are not advances over tn
wage rates of some foreign country
but over the wages paid in our ow
country quarter of century ago an
that these advances flow directly frOL
|, the protective tariff. Mr.. Bayard wi
see then. from the authority h
endorses that this large increase Q
wealth has not gone merely to enric
men already wealthy, but that it ha
before known in the history of this o
of any other country into the pocket
of workingmen. If had been search
ing for witnesses by whom the value @
the tariff of workingmen {
the country could be establishe
beyond doubt, would have summone
MIR. Bayard and Mr.. Atkinson to tn
stand. Mr.. Bayard further give
public warning that if W
do not take we shall produce in thi
country as much in seven months q
we shall need in twelve months. We
, that is the last thing that shout
alarm the American people. Ths
shows above all things our powe
to shorten the hours of labor.