Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1892-10-29
DO THEY KNOW?
SOME FACTS FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE
CLAMORING FOR FREE TRADE.
Comparison of Commerce, Taxes, Debt,
Wages and Balance of Trade in Great
Britain with That of the United States.

NEW YORK, Oct. 17.-There is grow
ing feeling here that there can be only
one explanation Of the desire Of anybody
! in this country to exchange protection
+; for free trade-that explanation must be
in 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 protected United States, they
could scarcely want to exchange our
system for that of Great Britain.
What They Would Find.
They would find that i'll every particu-
lar our condition is better than that of Our
free trade neighbor. Our commerce is
in infinitely better condition because
we receive hundreds Of millions of dol
lars more for our products than we pay
out for the things 'n.e 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
five years 81 times as much as Great
Britain has been able to decrease her
debt in thirty-fve years. Great Britain
has pauper for every 80 persons, while
we have for every 6l3.
Our government collects from her
people less than 26 per capita Of taxes;
that Of Great Britain collects from her
people over $l2 per capita Of taxes.
The deposits i'll savings banks III Great
Britain average IS per capita ct her
population; those in the United States
average $225 of population. The money
in circulation in Great Britain is $17.90
per capita, while that Of the United
States is $25 562 per capita. Wages in
the United States are from IS to 100 pei
cent higher than those paid in Great
Britain.
As to Details.
Let us lock into it a little more IN Ge-
tail
The annual tax collected from the
people Of the government of free ira
Great Britain is $12 60 per capita, while
that Of the United States is less than Sc
per capita.
Savings banks deposits in Great Br'4-
ain amount 70 $3.50 0O,000, or $ pei
capita, while those in the savings banks
of the United States amount to $1,623,
079, 1884, or $25 per capita.
The amount Of money in circulate Il
in Great Britain is $3.50 per capita
while the mount in circulation III t"e
United States is S25.62 per capita. In
deed there is scarcely q country OF any
inlror4a5lce on the map Of the Wo1it
which has as large an amount of money
per capita as has the United States.
Great Britains national debt amount;
to 800 for each individual IN her l,opu
ton, while that Of the United State
amounts to $;13 for each individual. The
annual interest charge upon the publ,
debt in Great Britain is $3.50 per capita
the annual interest charge upon the pub
lie debt in the United States is 35 cent
per capita
Under the free trade s, stem Grea
Britain has decreased her public debt j:
! the last 35 years $500, 600, ,oGO; the Unite,
States under protection has decreased
her public debt i'll 30 years s ,55l ,G0o, ,OoO
There is ne pauper for every 30 indl
yiduals in Great Britain, and i persol
in every 70 receives more CT less paris
support; III protective United Stat
there i; pauper i'll every CAB inhaDltants
1.-The balance of trade" is hund .eGs q
millions of dollars against Great Brltat
every--year. Under her Wanted fra
trade she imports vastly more than sil
sells. Her exports last year amounte
to 81 300, 600, ,OGG in round numbers, an
her imports amounted to s., 100, ,GoO,O
: making a balance on the wrong side :
the ledger of $SoO,o0o,oco. Our es
ports last year We're $e,03o, ,335, ,62S, az
our imports were 1927, ,391 1884, thus gi>
ing US a balance Of $2L-, 944, 542 on tn
fright side of the ledger"
Bricklayers get in England $;1.17 pc
day, in protected United States So pc
day; carpenters in Great Britain &c
$1.2S per day, in the United States $2.a
per day; i'll free trade Great Britain
= engineers get$1. 4S per day, in the Unite
States 1922 per day; in Great Britai
machinists get s1.2o per day, in th
United States $3.50 per day; in Gree
Britain compositors get fifteen cents pc
q thousand ems, in the United States fort
= cents per thousand; in Great Britai
shipbuilders get $S per week, in tt
United States SIG.