Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-06-18
Pertinent Questions by Robt. p. Porter
Never Answered., Continued.

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the five principal textile industries
declined from 919,817 in 1881 to
883, 1903 in 1885, in England, and the
number so employed doubled in the
same period in the United States?
Why has the silk industry practic-
ally gone to the wall?
Why has the linen industry declined
in England in the last twenty years
and increased 300 per cent. in pro-
tective Germany?
Why have the number Of wOrkmen
employed in the iron and steel indus
tries IN Germany increased since the
return of protection 40 per cent; the
wages paid 81 per cent; and the av-
erage paid to each workman TIA per
cent?
Why are these facts substantially
true of many other industries in Ger
many?
Why has Germany increased her ex-
ports of manufactured goods under
protection when free traders said she
would ruin her export trade by re-
turning to protection?
Why do the official reports of Brit
ish consuls inform us that the Ger
man Empire has been SO benefited
by protection that it is in the same
atmosphere; that it is the strongest
of government policies?
If protection has been SO ruinous to
the United States, why have we, in
twenty-five years of it, increased our
population 2O,OOO,OOO? Doubled
the population of our cities? In
creased our coal product from H.,
100000 to 1OO,OOO,OOO tons? In
creased our iron ore output from
100000 tons to 100000 tons? In
creased the number employed in our
metal industries from SO 900 to $780,
600? Increased the number employed
in our wood industries from 13O, 900
persons to 100000 persons? The
number employed in our wooden in
dustries, 60, OOOto 100000? Robbed
England of 100000 customers In
the cotton industry? Employ 35,
900 instead of 1000 in thepottery,
stoneware and glass industries? En-
ploy 10000 instead of 5000 in the
chemical industry? Increased our
railway mileage from 10000 to $780,
900 miles? Increased the number of
our farms from two millions to four
millions? And their value from six
billion dollars to ten billion dollars
Our production of cereals from l $780,
100000 bushels to nearly 3.OOO,
100000 bushels? Our live stock
from one billion dollars to more than
two billion dollars? Our focks from
twenty-five millions to upward OF fif-
ty millions? Our wool products from
sixty million pounds to three hundred
and fifty million pounds? The num-
Der of persons engaged in gainful oc-
equations from 12,5OO,OOO to IT,
100000? And our aggregate of wealth
to such figures that it makes Americ-
ans dizzy to contemplate the totals,
and fills the advocates of British free
trade with envy, hatred and other
wrongful passions trying to explain
that which isn't? Why are the wages
of the laborer higher here than in any
other country? Why do greater
percentage of workingmen own their
homes? Why do their children 60 to
school we'll fed and we'll clothed !?
Why is labor respected and ework-
ingman supported in every legitimate
endeavor to better his condition?
Why do a greater percentage of work
men become masters here than in any
other country in the world? Why do
intelligent American wage-earners, as
rule, support protection with their
votes, and defeat free-traders like
Hurd and Morrison? Because it is a
winning cause and the cause Of the
American people. All of which is re-
spectfully submitted.