The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-07

| 81. 100, 00O,0U The amount in these re
spective States belonging to wage-worker,
in every State except Connecticut is reck
oued at % per cent. Connecticut estimates
65, while in New York the estimates exceed
50 per cent But to make the statement
abundantly safe, take s. per cent. for the
whole, and you have over s7l5. 100000 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, 600 600. in which the pres
ent savings Of the wage-workers are four
times as great as the savings Of the wage
workers among the 3S,OOl0O 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 in.
dustry and thrift and were not in the least
helped by protective tariff. Let US see.
For twenty years preceding the enactment
Of a protective tariff in 1881, with the ex-
ception OF short period Of between three
and four years in 1872 46, the country was
under low revenue tariff, precisely of the
kind now recommended by President
Cleveland and approved by the Democratic
party in Congress. At the end of that
period the savings banks Of New York and
New England had total deposits of one
hundred and forty nine millions of dollars
(sI49, 000.OO0). Allowing the wage workers
Of that day to have the same proportion of
the total deposits as they now have. their
share would be ninety seven million dol
lars (S97, O00,0 600. We are now in the
tGenty-eighth year of a protective tariff. en-
acted by Republican Congress, and made
more effective from year to year as indus
trial experience enabled Congress from
time to time to correct and adjust its work
iDgs. How, then, stands the matter at the
end OF twenty eight years protection! The
ws,ge-wOrkers of New York and New En-
gland have S7l50O0,O0O to their credit,
or nearly eight times the amount
gaihed under twenty eight years of free
trade in the same States The popu-
latioD Of the seven States at the close of
the long era of free tsTsde was Z, $50, 600,
and their population in shis twenty eighth
year Of protection is presumed to be II,
0OO, 600 The wage-worEnrs of these States
tOiling under a revenue tariff such as is
recommended by the President had earned
a surplus amounting to 1880 for each per-
son of the entire population, while the
wage-workers for the lster period under a
protective tariff have earned s65 per head
for the total population; or, in other
words, the average aye-worker under a
protective tariff in the United States has
been enabled to save five times as much as
the revenue wage-worker under q mere
revenue tariff. But the Democratic adv0-
cate of free trade thinks that he can es-
cape from the crushing force Of these fig
ures by his favorite cry, that these earn
ings of the laboring man in New York and
New England have been made at the ex-
pense of the agricultural States in
the West. l first answer that manu-
features are SO rapidly spreading that
there are no longer agricultural States,
in the sense in which that term
was used a generation ago Under pro-
tective tariff manufactures are springing
up everywhere, and already some States
in the West-notaoly Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois-have an annual product from
manufactures amounting high up into the
millions. But secondly, answer that 1
have no need to interpose the man
interest in stating the
progress and development of the
West. For in twenty years Of protective
tariff wealth has increased in 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, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa,
Kansas and Nebraska had a population Of
two and half millions e, 500, OOO) and an
aggregate wealth by the census Of 1860 Of
eight hundred and seventy millions of dol.
lars $50, 600 COO. To-day they have &
population OF perhaps eleven millions IT,
600, 00O), the equal of New York and tho
whole of New England. We can not give
the statistics of aggregate wealth either
in the West or the East later than the Gen.
sus Of 1880; but in the twenty
years between 1860 aud 1880, these
Six Western States had increased
their aggregate wealth from eight
hundred and seventy millions esq.,
900 to six thousand three hundred
and seventy-fve millions (s6, 3s5, OOO, OOU. 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 thirty
seven hundred million (s3 400, OOO, 0OO). To-
day the population of these States is about
the same as the Western States, while
their wealth in the twenty years, between
1860 and $780, increased only three fold. |
hundred and eighty-six millions (sl1, 2S6,
OO,OOV). The ratio of development between |
the manufacturing States of New York |
and New England has therefore not beSu |
,ne half so rapid as that Of the six agri- |
cultural States which have named They |
have not, it is true, the same amount to |
ash to the credit of the wage-workers, but |
hey have in great and flourishins cities, |
" of rail in
n the increased values in great cities, in |
lew towns, in the prodigious products of |
,rain, in the countless fiocks and herds, ar |
Increase of agricultural wealth to which |
he expense of the Western farmer under
. revenue tariff bears so slight COMPARE
on that it can hardly be stated.
Lastly, the objection to the conclusions
presented come from the Southern Demo
rat who, forgetting the interests of his
ection, is urging the revival of free trade
lie considers that he has been robbed for
he benefit of the North, and hugging this
nonstrous delusion, he strives to place the
Union back under the old free-trade sys-
EN- OF the ante bellum period. Yet the
enefccnt effect of a protective tariff can
e even better illustrated by the recent
istory and development of the South than
y the progress of the North. By the
ensus of 1850, seventy one years after the
'ederal Government was organized, the
southern States, or to describe them more
the slave-holding States of the
Tnion, had acquired property amounting
4 the aggregate to SC, 500, 100000. One
bird of this total amount, or certainly
yer $2,00O, 000, 900, was reckoned As the
alue of the negro slaves. Eleven of these
tates went into rebellion, at the
nd OF which they had lost the
,stitution Of slavery, with all its
ssured money value They had used
p four annual crops for war pur-
oses. They had lost their ready money