The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-10-23

Ivy, anu therefore All American need
and should receive more.
In the United States 1t ia estimate,
that each inhabitant consumes annual
about forty bushels oil grain, whiio h
Great Britain each inha6itant consume
twenty bushels and In Italy ten bushelg
In the United States about 100 pound
OF meat are consumed per year by eacl
inhabltant; In Great britain 1O5 pounds
In France "A pounds; Germany O!
pounds, and In Italy % pounds. The
average Tor all Europe being G3I pounds
Tho world produces about 5000 OO(
tons Of sugar, Of which the United State
consumes about 100000 tons, or nenrl,
~ per cent. Theie arc $50, 900 tons q
coffee produced In this world, Of which
the United States takes 100000 tons, OF
about 80 per cent. There arc produced
about 25.000,000 tons OF iron In the
world, OF which the United States con.
SHINES over 5000, 600 tons, or about one.
third. OF tho 100000 tons OF s,eel
produced In the world, the United
States Ises about oue.third. OF the lead
production Of the world the United
States consumes about 30 per cent, OF
tho 100000 bales OF cotton pro.
duced In tho world, the United States
uses and consumes 100000, about
one fourth. Tho United States con.
sumes six hundred million tons Of wool,
which Is about one.third OF the produc.
ton oil tho world; It uses about one
third OF the India rubber produced in
the world; more than half OF the tin,
and nearly fotty.per cent OF all the coal
produced in tho mines OF the world. In
q word, the United States consumes
from % to 80 per cent OF the leading
products OF the world. 1t is estimated
that the trade Of Chicago and philade|.
phia aggregates more than that of all
South America and Canada: and that of
New York, Chicago and Philadelphia,
more than the trade Of South America,
Canada, and Mexico. What we suli
abroad Is iniinitesmal compared to
what We BELL at home. According to
the Bureau OF Statistics, in 1880 the
productions OF the United States were
worth ten thousand millions OF dollars,
81! per cent Of which was consumed at
home, and S! per cent was sent abroad.
10 get things cheaper we are asked to
allow Europe to share in this maenili.
cent home market, the best in the world,
by removing the tax against the Euro.
pean producer, and putting him on an
equality with the American producer.
Az the cost Of everything we consume
is about % per cent for labor, thjse0ual.
ity cannot come about except by forcing
down the prices OF American labor 10 q
level of prices paid In England, France,
Belgium, Italy, Russia, and India, ali
our competitors in the. markets of the
world. II we remove the tax one Of
two things must happen-0ur people
must work for the same wages that the
European wageearner does, so we can
on our own ground, or we
must close most Of our mills, factories,
furnaces and industrial plants, millions
Of people would thus be thrown out Of
and disaster and financial
ruin would follow.
What would be the situation IL the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans were oply
a mile wide? On one side, only mile
away, we would have, according to good
free trade writer, the following wages
paid to ordinary mechanics: Great
Britain, per day, Of cents; France, per
day, so cents; Germany, per day, 72
cents; Italy, per day, G5 cents; Russia,
per day, IS cents.
On the other side, only mile distant,
We would have staring us in the face
the following wages paid to the same
class OF laborers: Chins, per day, 20
cents; Indin, per day, 10 cents. The
we removed the onerous tax OF
which our Democratic friends complain,
We would be flooded with products OF
these countries until our people con.
sented to work for the same wages.
With the great Improvements making in
steamships, the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans are not as wide for purposes OF
as they were n hundred years
ago.
The Republican party will never con-
sent that the wages of the American
people be forced down TO meet those OF
England and the East, 80 that there can
be free trade and cheap products. There
is too much liberty, too much humanity
and too much manhood abroad in this
Tree land ever to submit to this. 1t cost
rivers OF blood toreach the present point
IN our civilization; it will cost oceans
0f blood TO even try to turn backward
The tide. The people control this coun.
Try; they will never make laws TO put
and their families back into
he black midnight OF barbarism and
he dark ages.
PROGRESS OF THE SOUTH SINCE 1850.
The prosperity Of the South furnishes
an unanswerable argument in favor OF
protection and m answer to free trade
notions and theories. Under protection
10 part Of the country has made more
substantial progress than the South.
with disaster quarter OF
/ century'ago, ruined in fortune, defeat
ID and discouraged, sitting in tho ashes
If despair-no past OF the country has
made more progress than the South;
money has accumulated, rates OF interest
rot only have everywhere decreased,
out vast amounts OF capital have gone
INTO railroads, mines. furnaces and fac
ories. Iron and steel industries have
1een established in Alabama and Ten.
lessee, adding millions and millions
If dollars to their industries
md furnishing home market to
farmers for their products. In Georgia
cotton and other mills have been estab.
ished; railroads have been built. The
assessed value OF real and personal prop.
srty has more than doubled in Alabama,
Arkansas and Florida, nearly doubled ia
and Louisiana, in Mississippi
increased fifty millions; in North Caro-
lima seven million dollars; in South
Carolina fifteen millions; in Tennessee
more than one hundred millions; more
than doubled in Texas, and increased
ninety millions in Virginia, showing an
aggregate growth in tho wealth Of these
States in ten years from two billion to
three billion six hundred million dol.
lars. Southern debts have decreased in
the aggregate from two hundred millions
10 one hundred aud seventy millions.
The railroad mileage has increased
from 1850 to $4,000 miles, and there
are now $500 miles in process
Of construction. In the last ten years
there have been built nearly one hun.
dred cotton mills, and the number OF
spindles quadrupled. Pig iron is pro-
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