Arizona republican., 1891-05-06
AMERICAN INDUSTRY.
WHAT OUR WORKlNGMEN MAKE BY
 HOME PRODUCTION.

Benefits to Our Farmers--Forcisn as Com pared with Homo Consumption-Take the TariG Away and We Are at the Mercy of Great Britain.
 At the annual meeting of an Illinois steel company the presidents report showed that during the year 1890 3,642,- eco tons of raw material had been re- ceived and 92S, ,169 tons of finished prod ucts shipped. Of this aggregate, 8,S16,- 246 tons were transported in 209, ,42l cars, or nearly 1000 trains of thirty cars each. The balance was carried by lake vessels. The company employed an average of 9,64S men, paying for wages and salaries total of $6, 1863, ,4l6.3S, expending at the same time for stores and supplies $l ,751,- 5S7 10. It will be noticed that about so per cent. of the expenditure noted, $S,- l5,003.4S, was paid for services rendered. If the same proportion of labor is sup posed to enter into the "stores and sup plies account" it will be seen that 96 per cent. was expended in remuneration for personal services, or, in other words, the payments on this account were about eight and quarter million dollars. In addition to this the wages of the engi- neers, tiremen, brakemen and conductors employed in forwarding 5S, ,616 carloads of finished material to its destination should be counted. So that the number of men employed by these works cannot have been less than 10000, and their average earnings for the year must have been at least 500. Those employed at the works averaged $711.3S each.
 Our farmers, and others engaged in productive occupations, are assured by the .'reformers" that it would have been better for them if the Illinois steel in, dustry had not been created by protec tive tariffs; if the eight million and odd dollars had been expended in Great Britain, and if the 10000 men employed had either been engaged in raising cheaper cotton and cereals" or sup ported on the other side of the Atlantic.
 It is urged that steel and iron would have been cheaper if it were not for tht tariff! Who ever knew of the Englisf spending their money to cheapen any thing they had to sell!
 ut fOolllOlis II llSoC iO.VV' men had withdrawn from consumption and had become competitors in graiI raising, is too apparent to require com ment. Let us examine the situation i they were employed on the other side O the Atlantic.
 The report of the chief of the bureau of statistics on the foreign commerce O the United States for the fiscal year end ing June 30, 1890, shows that the valu, of our exports to Great Britain and Ire land of the following products-viz. animals and fowls, breadstuffs, broom corn, fruits and nuts, hay, honey, hops oil cake, lard, cotton and inseed oils provisions, including meats, oleomar garine and dairy products, seeds, vege tables, including pickles, beeswax anC wool, was $220, 4l0,22 This include grain sent to England for orders to pro ceed to continental ports, and meats dairy products, canned goods, etc., whicl it is necessary to send there because sh controls our over sea transportation anC can charge our products freights to Eng land and factors charges at Liverpoo before they are allowed to start on direct voyage to their consumers. Al lowing that all goods shipped to EnglanC are consumed there, the 39,0O0,0 ,00O in habitants of the United Kingdom eaci consumed $j.6 worth of the above men tioned produce last year.
 Tobacco to the value of $7,90S, ,1S6 un manufactured, and $l,017,74S manufac tured, is not included in the above, as i is not food product. And it is heavil, taxed; as taxation on tea, tobacco an' spirits bears with greater hardship ol the poor than on the rich. Nor is $l4S, 297 ,171 worth of raw cotton included We should manufacture all the cottol we send out of the country, as it woult give direct employment to over milliol people
 The value of the people employed b. the Illinois Steel company as customer to our farmers would amount, as shown to $56,500, if they were employed il England But their wages could no have been less than $7,000,000. If W assume that they spent only 40 per cent of their wages for food, and that is very small percentage, their custom wa worth $2,S00,0O0 to American farmers or enough to give 4,0OO farmers $70 each. There is also another considera ton. Any time the English owners 0 the railroads in India are willing to re ceive smaller dividends on their stock the Hindoos can wipe out about all 0 the $94, 900, 900 paid for breadstuffs; bu with duty of twenty cents per bushe S on wheat, the custom of the Illinois iro ! works seems assured to the wester |H farmers.