Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-09-01

$z6C, while one wage worker in Massachu-
setts has saved $15O.50, or that one wage
as twelve wage workers in England.
But anticipate the fling from the demo-
cratic editors, that these startling statistics
are In Massachusetts, and that she has al
ways been especially favored in the accu-
mutation of wealth by the protective tariff,
and has grown rich at the expense of other
states of the union. Let them then turn to
New York, whose ELECTORAL vote transferred
the national administration to the demo-
cratic party. New York has to day about
6,0c0, 0OO Of people or perhaps somewhat less
than one-si1th of the population
of the United Kingdom. Their
savings banks contained at the
BEGINNING of this year $5O5. 000, 900
within small fraction, or if the exchange
deposits in the savings and postal banks of
the whole United Kingdom.
If the United Kingdom had the same pop
ulation and amount of deposits in her saw
ings and postal banks as New York the sum
total would exceed So, O00, 0C0, 600 and would
almost Offset her gigantic national debt.
Or, if you please, take another state which
ministration, Connecticut. with only little
over GOO. 600 at the last census, she has S102,-
600, 900 deposited in her savings banks, or,
if you choose without further considering
individual states, let US group New York
with the six New England states, and you
will find the aggregate amount in the saw
t ioss banks S5 The fSs am s:aiss
in the representative states belonging to
wage workers in every state, except Connec-
ticut, which is reckoned at IS per cent,
while in New York the estimates exceed so
per cent. But to make the statement
abundantly safe, take 65 per cent. for the
whole, and you have over Sis, 0OO. 900 in the
savin zs banks of the seven states credited
ioo wage s other HSaisFs words s ssa.s ns
an American population of 100000
in which the present savings of the wage
workers are four times as great as the saw
ings of the wage workers among the 81, 0OO,-
900 people of Great Britain and Ireland.
At this point the democratic advocate of
free trsde answers that these great gains to
the wage workers came from their industry
and thrift, and were not in the least
US see, for twenty years proceed
ing the enactment of protective tariff
in 1881, with the exception of short period
of between three and four years in 1S42-46,
the country was under revenue tariff, pre-
cisely of the kind now recommended by
President Cleveland and approved by the
democratic party in congress: At the end
Of New York and New England
had total deposits of S149,OGO, 900.
Allowing the wage workers of that day to
have the same proportion of the total de-
post as they now have, their share would be
1897 ,000, 900. We are now, in the twenty
eighth year of protective tariff, enacted
by republican congress and made more
effective from year to year, as industrial
experience enabled congress from time to
time to correct and adjust its workings.
How then stands the matter at the end of
twenty eight years of protection? The wage
workers of New York and New England
have $715, 100000 to their credit, or nearly
eight times the amount gained under twenty
eight years of free trade in the same states.
The population of the seven states al the
close of the long era of free trade was
eighth year of protection is presumed to be |
II, 0O0.0 900.
The wage workers of these states toiling |
under a revenue tariff, such as is recon- !
mended by the president, had earned q sur
plus amounting to $3.50 for each person,
Or the entire population, while the wage
workers for the later period, under protec-
tive tariff have earned $65 per head for the
total population, or in other words, the aver
age wage worker under a protective tariff
IN the United States has been enabled to
save five times as much as the average wage
worker under a mere revenue tariff. But
he democratic advocate of free trade thinks
hat he can escape from the crushing force
If these figures by his favorite cry that these
earnings of the laboring man in New York
md New England have been made
It the expense of the agricultu-
al states in the west. l first
answer manufactures are SO rapidly spread
ng that there are no longer agricultural
states in the sense in which that term was
lsed generation ago. Under a protective
arif manufacturers are springing up every
notably Ohio, Indiana and Illinois,
nave an annual product from manufactures
high up into the millions.
n twenty years of protective tariff wealth
las increased in far greater ratio In the
agricultural states of the west than in seven
states which have addued in
he east. In 1861, for instance M the six
in, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas and Ne
,raska has population of 100000 and an
aggregate wealth by the census of 1860, of
1907 ,OOO, OOO To-day they have population
If perhaps 1900, 900, the equal of New
York and the whole of New England. We
annot give the statistics of aggre-
ate wealth either .s. in 1T the west
$40, but in the twenty years between 1860
nd 1889 these six western states had in-
rease1 their aggregate wealth from $780,
1900 to $50, 305. 900 900. sn increase of
more than seven-fold. New York and New
England had three times the population I
# these western states in 1860, with an ag- [
,regate wealth of So, 200. 100000
Today the population of those states is
bout the same as western states, while
heir wealth In twenty years between 1860
nd 1880 increased only three fold. The ratio
f development between manufacturing +.
tates of New York and New England has
therefore, not been one-half so rapid as that
# the six agricultural states which have ]
famed. They have not, it is true, the same
mount of cash to the credit of wage work
rs, but they have in great aud hOurishing
titles, in long lines of railroads, in improved j
arms, in increased values, in great cities, In ,
lew towns, in prodigious products of grain, I.
a countless focks and herds, in an increase
f agricultural wealth, to which the expense
t western farmers under a revenue tariff
Years so slight comparison that it can
srdly be stated. Lastly the objection to
he conclusions present comes from
outhern democrats, who forgetting the I
interests Of his section is urging the revival ,
4 free trade. He considers that the south
as been robbed for the benefit of tho north,
nd hugging this monstrous delusion he {
trives to place the union back under the |
Id free trade system Of the anti-bellum