Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-07-17

pay their passage to land where only
French or Italian or Greek or German
or Scandinavian or Sanscrit is taught.
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Manufacturing VS.. Farming.
Giving heed to the cry of the profess
sional Free Trader in America, Mr.. Glad
stone feels sure that. though the pro-
tected manufacturers in the United
States may flourish and prosper. they
do so at the expense of the farmer, who
is in every conceivable form, according
to the Free-Trade dictlm. the helpless
victim OF Protection. Both Mr.. Glad
stone and tho American Free-Trade
have, then, the duty of explaining why
the agricultural States of the West have
grown in wealth during the long period
of protection at a more rapid rate than
the manufacturing States of the East.
The statement of the Free-Trader can
be conclusively answered by referring
10 the census of tue United States for
the year 1860, and also for year 1SSa.
In 1860, eight manufacturing States
of the East (the New England to.
gether with New York and Penn
sylvania) returned an aggregate
wealth OF S5,123, 100000 Twenty
wears afterwards, by the census of
1880. the same States returned an
aggregate wealth of $40, 22S, 600 600
The rate of increase for the 20 years
was slightly more than PIG per cent.
Let us see how the agricultural States
Jared during this period. By the
census of 1860, eight agricultural
States Of the West illinois. In
diana. Iowa. Kansas, Michigan.
Minnesota. Nebraska and WiseOn-
sin) returned an aggregate wealth
of S2.271, 000,0 Twenty years
afterwards, by the census of 1880
(protection all the while in tull
force) these same States returned
an aggregate wealth If S11, 26S,000,
00C. The rate of increase for the
20 years was 500 per cent, or $50
per cent. greater than the increase
IN the manufacturing States of
the East.
The case will be equally striking il we
take the fifteen Southern States that
We're slaveholding in 1860. By the
census of that year, the aggregate
return of their property was IS. 1872
000. 900. But $4,000. 100000 was
slave property. Deducting that,
the total property amounted to
81, 792, 600, 600. Their aggregate
return of wealth by the census of
1880 was IS, 633, 900, 900. The rate
of increase for the twenty years
was 80 per cent. Consider that
during this period eleven States of
the South were Impoverished by
civil war TO an extent far greater
than any country has deem des-
poiled in the wars of modern Europe
Consider that the labor system on
which previous wealth had been
acquired in the south was entirely
broken up And yet at the end of
twenty wears, the Southern States
had repaired all their enormous
losses and possessed nearly double
the wealth they had ever known
before. DO not these figures incon-
testably show that the agricultural
sections of the country, West and
South have prospered even beyond
the manufacturing sections East and
North9 And all this not merely with
Protection, but because of Pro-
lection.
AS Mr.. Gladstone considers Pro-
lection immoral he defines its specific
offense as robbery" To have been
fully equal to the American standard
of Free-Trade vituperation, Mr.. Glad
stone should have denounced our manu-
facturers as "Robber Barons." This is
the current phrase with class who are
perhaps more noisy than numerous.
The intention of the phrase is to create
popular prejudice against American
manufacturers as growing rich at the
expense of the people. This accusation
is so persistently repeated that its auth
ors evidently regard it as important to
their cause. 1t may perhaps surprise
! Mr.. Gladstone to be told that out of the
! fifty largest fortunes in the United
/ States those that have arrested public
attention within the last ten years
certainly not more than one has been
derived from protected manufacturing
and this was amassed by a gentleman
of the same Scotch blood with Mr.. Glad
stone himself The forty other
fortunes were acquired from railway
and telegraph investments. from real
estate investments, fran the import and
sale of foreign goods, from banking
from speculations in the stock market
from fortunate mining Investments
from patented inventions. and more
than one from proprietary medicines =
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