Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-27
DO THEY KNOW?
SOME FACTS FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE
cLAMoRlNe FOR FREE TRADE.
Comparison Of Commerce., Taxes. Deb,.
wages AMI Balance of Trade In Great
Britain with That of the United stntes.

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Especial Co~rrespondence.1
NEW YORK, Oct. H.-There is a grow.
ing feeling here that there can be only
n explanation of the desire of ANYBODY
In this country to exchange protection
for free trade-that explanation must be
In a lack of accurate information on the
subject. If people should calmly take
up and compare item by item the con.
ditions in free trade Great Britain with
those of 6Toteesel United States, they
could Scarcely want to exchange our
system for that of Great Britain.
What They Would Find.
They would find that in every particu.
lar u condition is better than that of our
free trade neighbor. Our is
IN Infinitely better condition because
we receive hundreds of millions of dol.
lars more for u products than we pay
out for the things we buy, while the re.
verse Is true with Great Britain. Our
public debt is less than one-sixth per
capita that Of Great Britain, while our
annual interest charge is only about one.
tenth per capita that in Great Britain.
We have decreased our debt in twenty.
I'VE years 215 times as much as Great
Britain has been able to decrease her
debt In thirty-five years. Great Britain
has l pauper for every 80 persons, while
we have / for every 643.
Our government collects from her
people less than So per capita of taxes;
that of Great Britain collects from her
people over $12 per capita of taxes.
The deposits in savings banks in Great
Britain average S. per capita Of her
population; those in the United States
average S25 of population. The none
In circulation in Great Britain is ST.. 90
per capita, while that OF the United
States is $25.62 per capita. Wages in
the United States are from IS to Hooper
cent higher than those paid in Great
Britain.
As to Details.
Let us look into it a little more in de.
tail.
The annual tax collected from the
people of the government of free trade
Great Britain is $l2.60 per capita, while
that of the United States is less than Sc
per capita.
Savings banks deposits in Great Brit
ain amount 70 $780, 200, 900, or $ per
capita, while those in the savings banks
of the United States amount to 81 ,623,-
079, 794, or SIS per capita.
The amount Of money in circulation
in Great Britain is $3.50 per capita,
while the amount in circulation in the
United States is $25.62 per capita. In
deed there is scarcely a country Of any
importance on the map Of the world
which has as large an amount of money
per capita as has the United States.
Great Britain's national debt amounts
to 500 for each individual in her pOpula-
ton. while that Of the United States
amounts to sl3 for each individual. The
annual interest charge upon the public
debt in Great Britain is 1925 per capita;
the annual interest charge upon the pub
lie debt in the United States is IS cents
per capita
Under the free trade s,stem Great
Britain has decreased her public debt ia
the last 35 years $500, 000, 900; the United
States under protection has decreased
her public debt in % years 81. 551 ,000, 900.
There is n pauper for every 80 indi-
viduals in Great Britain, and / person
in every 12 receives more or less parish
support; in protective United States
there is / peuper in every 643 inhabitants.
The balance of trade" is hundreds of
millions of dollars against Great Britain
every year. Under her Wanted free
trade she imports vastly more than she
sells, Her exports last year amounted
to 81, 300, 000, 0O0 in round numbers, and
her imports amounted to s., 100, 900, 900,
making a balance on the wrong side of
the ledger" of $500, 000, 900. Our ex
ports last year We're Sc, 030, 49,, 626, and
our imports were 1927, 39I ,284, thus Civ
iU; us a balance of S2U2, ga ,342 on the
Eight side of the ledger"
Bricklayers get in England SILT per
day, in protected United States So per
day; carpenters in Great Britain get
SIPS per day, in the United States $2.35
per day; in free trade Great Britain,
engineers get S1.4S per day, in the United
States S3.22 per day; in Great Britain
machinists get s1.20 per day. in the
United States $3.50 per day; in Great
Britain ~compositors get fifteen cents per
thousand ems, in the United States forty
cents per thousand; in Great Britain
shipbuilders get s. per week, in the
Tinted States SIG.