Telegram-herald., 1890-08-09
FRUITS OF PROTECTION.
Feusss SHOWING Qua ADVANCE
M A cyaRTEa or A CENTURY.

Oar weassa Nearly 2a@asasAss--1-ay
Re. tnzs.sxass Creats2-Hizs Standard
of sz<ss saalHsasAsd-EEezs@ss n tie
People s~slss~
Tas wealth % the Uaitst States n
iSeo was sxtoea ts4ousaaa Ea-sloa dol
isrs. one-Aaif IL waleh was destroyed
during tAe civil war. Ia Jaae. 1857, oar
wealth touched ths inpsrial fgunas CT
GrSg tA99saz4 millions. earning ssYea
Ea.lso2s e2ca day. IL 1850 the wsalta
q The United States was skl5 per capita;
Ia 1891, e 900 pr capita. Ia these years
OF Protection tho United States has
earned oTsr one-a&lf Of the san added
10 tbs wolids weAltA du-iag thai time.
We nearly equal GrsAt Britain il pro
Gaetion Of iron, aa4 excel her IL the
produssioa q ssoe.. Ia 1880 maaafse-
tu.es ia the United States amounted 10
si,S9), ,0oc ,so3i II 1897 70 ST.o99. .0c5 900.
Our tQt2l industries E0W aRoEng 20 Sll,-
c0o, ,o00, Coz.
Tho western states manufactured
nearly es maca il 1857 Is ths whols
eouztry il 1850 Ths soaEhsra states
alone now Iaaizs 70 per cent. laoFe PIC
iron than was nslein the United States
II 1850 Tho annual product Of ths
Unltei States exceeds that Of England
by more than o,le-aalf. and cur t.ade is
double that ot England Enslani has
increased her commerce less than six
times s.ace 1889; tbs United States has
increased her commerce more than SIX
times. While Eaglaad has Increased
her expert trade four tiIaes, the exports
Of the United States have increased
eight times- Ia t.eso years, from the
third prodacins power, we have risen TO
the first. Up 20 1859 the entire exports
OF ths United States ws.s 5000, ,0o0.-
coo; since then tasy have amounted 10
Si4. .oo0, ,eoo, 600.
Protection has practically created
many great industries since le30-crock-
cry, six, steel rails, etc. employing
countless la5ors-s aad distributing thou
sands Of millions Of money among onr
people. From no steel rails produced in
1907 we hsve risen 10 ,, iol ,e04 tons pro-
duced in 1851. chsspaning the cast os
rails, enabling Us 10 increase cur rail-
roads from 50, 600 miles 20 i6i ,O0a, and
reducing cost of transportation to less
than hale what it is in England. We
have now more miles Of railroad than
all Europe, with rolling stock worth nine
times the merchant marine OF England.
and cur inland trade is twenty times
greater than Der foreign commerce.
Protection by creating homo markets
/ has increased the value of our farms
from $685., ,o46, ,0o7 in 1850 10 G10, 192,.
COS, no in 1880. 1t ksa IL tac came timo
increased our farm products from ST ,675.-
724.Syo 70 S3, 72S, 81 ,i22. Or this vast
increase less than oae-telth has been
exported; moro thaa Iino-tenths has
boen consumed at home Tho want of
an adequate home market for our wheat
has pat our wheat growers az the mercy
Of half civilized India The only remedy
is 70 diminish productiea or increase the
hc.ae market.
Protection has maintained the high
standard Of wages In the United States,
which il double that of England Il
the American labo-er would live as En-
giish labcrsrs do he could cave 81 per
cent. of his wages. They save only 2
Per cent of their Wages. American peo-
pie should not, and Will not, submit to
the low standard OF wages prevailing in
other countries, They decreaso tbs pur.
chasing pswer aad'taa consuming power
of the people Free-:rade il England
meant cheap bread and has ruined hsr
farmers. Free-traae IN this country
means cheap labor, diminished power TO
consume, low prices for farm products,
and IA tho end ruin for ous farmers.
Protection has increased the saviags
cf our people. There Is dcpositsd IN the
savings baalrs OF the stats Of New York
alone 500, 600, 600, which Is Si0o, ,0o9. ooo
| more than the entiro accr.nulat;oas In
tao savings banks CT EaglaHd In four
| centuries.
Protection has diversified IS well as
created industries. Il has opened new
aad fruitful h:Ids for tho csaployrlent
of women. l. hac enrichsa en6 educated
our people and qualified thel for TIC
duties Of fraenen. high wages has
msdo happy homes and good citizens.
/ There never was on tina earth O people
so free, so prosperous and with such
splendid possibilities as tie 10000, 600
that dwell II tlis republic. Shall the
protective policy whic,l has accomplished
| his be evorthrovn?
/