South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1892-10-07

The value OF ell farm crops and
products of whatever kind. In Mis~
souri, was CSC. 900, 900. The value
OF all manufacturing products IN
Massachusetts was t53i. l3s. 600:
hut from this nanst be ded uotod The
value OF the materials used, eSs6,-
e72 ,o00--leaving t24&, les, 900 @
the net product.
Look at these figures carefully.
They are full of meaning. They
hare in them the kernel Of the tar
iff policy. They show that Massa-
ehusetts, with one-third less capi~
tai invested in manufacturing than
Missouri has invested in farming.
and the same number Of persons
employed, makes elias. 600. 600
more money in year than Missou-
ri. The 353, 900 persona engaged
in farming IN Missouri turn ont
SOC, COO, 600 worth Of farm pro-
ducts, while the 355. 900 persons
employed in manufacturing In
Massachusetts turn out tS4<, 163~
coo worth OF manufactures. The
gross earnings OF q misunderstanding
haud in Massachusetts, are nearly
s7C0 year, ar the gross earnings
OF farm worker in Missouri are
$273. The manufacturing product.
in Massachusetts, was so per cent
on the capital invssted--and the
farming product in Missouri waa
ouly 90 per cent on the capital ia
vested. The net profits Of Massa-
chusetts manufacturers, after de-
Quoting tho wages paid (sl2S, O00,-
o00) were 38 per cent on their cap
ital-and the net profits Of Mis-
souri, farmers, after allowing $500
q year per hand, as the cost Of tha
labor employed. were 5 per cent.
Q. The comparison certainly
makes very unfavorable allowing
for Missouri farmers; but 10 the
case Of Massachusetts, and Missouri
fair one? Would not compare
SON between other manufacturing
and other farming states giva dif-
ferent results?
RHODEISLAND AND KANSAS.
A. Let US see. Take Rhode Is
land and Kansas--one an Eastern
manufacturing state; the other q.
Western farming state. In 1880
Rhode Island had population Of
276, 900; $4,000 persons employed ).
and S75, 100000 capital invested in
manufacturing; while Kansas, with
a population of 1000, 900, had
206, 900 persona employed IN farm
ing, and 1912, 600, 900 invested in
farming. You will observe that
Kansas had nearly four times as
great population as Rhode Island,
four times as much capital invested,
and three times as many persons
employed in farming, as Rhode Is
land had in mannfac turing. It
might reasonably be inferred, there
fore, that it would show three or
four times as valuable product
or, to state the case differently, that
the 100000 workers in Kansas
would make, altogether, three
times as much money az the go, GOO
workers in Rhode Island. But.
they do not. The value of all the
farm products in Kansas was $50.
240, 900; and the value of all man..
ufacturing products in Rhode Ia
land, after deducting the cost of
used, was $40, 163, O0e: SO
that 81, 900 manufacturing workers
in Rhode Island made nearly 80
much money as 206, 900 farm work
era in Kansas. The gross earnings,
in Rhode Island. were $3.50 hand,
per annum; and in Kansas, only
1855; 80 that it took about three
farm workers in tho Western state
to earn as much money as one fac
tory worker earned in the Eastern
state.
Q. The figures certainly make it
appear that manufacturing is bet
ter paying busineas In NJ massachusetts,
aud Rhode Island than farming is
IN Missouri and Kansas. But
ought we to envy their prosperity
Ought we not rather to rejoice ia itf
A. We ought to rejoice st the
'alrly-earned prosperity Of any state
n the Union. But that is not the
question. The real question Il
that can be wise and fair
policy which, for twenty-seyon
Ioara, has made the unprosperoas
'armers Of Missouri end Kansas pay
tribute TO the prosperous maDufaot.
lrers Of Massachusetts, and Rhode
STAND, aud which makes the nine
Industrial states Ia the Northeast
'ich ct the cost Of the others.
Q. Does the protective tariff.
make Massachusetts, and Rhode Ia
and manufacturer rich ct the exe,
,ense Of Missouri farmersg
a. It does.
Q. HOgP
A. BY compelling Missouri aud
Kansas farmers 10 pay Masaachu-
cts and Rhode Island manufaet-
IreTs $3.50 for every dollars worth
{ goods they by from them.
q. Bot why not buy the goods
boy want in other statosp
A. It would be al the snna.
Wherever. in this country. p~otoof.