Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-11-01
POLITICAL ECONOMY CONTINUED.


In considering the establishing of plants neces.
sary to the manufacture of the article Of hinder twne
alone, nd upon investigation that there are in the
United States thirty factories engaged in the
actnre OF the article, ten OF which located in
the State of Massachusetts with an investment of
twelve millions of dollars in the plants, employing FIVE
thousand hands at the wages ranging from seventy
five cents to two and half dollars per day, aggre
eating weekly pay roll of forty thousand dollars per
week. this basis of wages accounts for the great dis
crepancy of the amount placed in the Savings Banks
OF Massachusetts to the credit of the wage earners
contrasted with the wage carriers of England These
facts significant and does establish the point con-
cusvey that the higher the wages paid the better the
opportunities for savings and facilities for supplying
the wants of man. and when this condition exists over
production does not trouble people for distribu
tion Consumption increases in proportion to mans
ability to buy the necessaries of life, hence, under
consumption for want of means to buy, is a more
important factor in fair distribution of the products
of industrial pursuits, and equitable division of
prices in my opinion than is readily conceded by the
majority of our people My for selecting Mass
achusetts is two fold one, first is State that is large
ly interested in manufactures and commerce. and one
which the agricultural report of 1888 and 1885, does
not list producing wheat and in selecting the man
of demonstrating the farmer producing wheat that
they and the Irvine manufacturer mutually inter.
ested for while the is making the twne to sell to
the farmer to bind his wheat .be farmer is growing
wheat to feed the fellow that is engaged in making the
Irvine, this looks to reasonable solution of this
great binder twne difficulty believe this whole tar
R question is susceptible of this basis Of construction.
now wish to call the attention of farmers to the
fact that taking the District OF Columbia, Maryland,
Delaware, Pennsylvania, New jersey, New York, aud
the six New England States, that they do not raise
wheat enough by more than fifty millions OF bushels
to feed their people upon. 1t is reasonable suppose
that the States above named draw upon the farms for
beef pork poultry, eggs, dairy products fruits
tables and upon the mines for coal, iron and every
conceivable thing mined for the use of man and upon
the forests for lumber. l now want to know If the
consumption Of these people the above named terri
tory Of the articles enumerated does not establish the
fact that it is the farmers interest to foster and en-
courage in every reasonable way his neighbours pros.
perity engaged in other pursuits To Cypress them or
cripple them by legislation curtails their ability as
consumers of farm products hence their ability to
buy is destroyed, their wants decrease and a cheap.
enng OF prices necessarily follows. will next con.
slider the relation of the manufacturer to his employees
and will quote from Mitchell's World of 1S43 using
England to establish the relation. The manufactures
of this kingdom far surpass in amount and variety
those of any other nation that has existed, and
forms the most astonishing display of the fruits Of
human industry aud skill The vast numbers of peo-
pie employed in them give 40 adequate idea of their
immense extent as the great perfection to which labor
sarng machinery carried in England enables one man
to do the ,cork Of 100, The cotton manufacturer could
hare required half century ago 5O,0OO,OOO of men.
Taking London, Liverpool, Manchester, and its other
ontn AL H..
guage used The spectator here struck with aston.
ishment at the sight of the immense magazines of
goods designed for the markets of every quarter of
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test between the Republican Democratic
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Mr. Marshall. of ILL.,
In all Of their declarations
SLOW COACH JOHN T. JANNKY.