The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-11-04
A COMPARISON.
CONDITIONS m GREAT BRITAIN WITH
THOSE or THE UNITED STATES.

THOSE or THE UNITED STATES.
Higher Taxes, Lower Wages. More Pau
pers. Smaller Savings Deposits and
Greater National Debts In England
Than In the United States.
Especial Correspondence
WASHINGTON, Oct. lido the people
who are clamoring for free trade ever
compare the conditions of the past and
present Of this country with the one es-
sential free trade country of the world
II not, it might be good
thing for them to do SO. have been
looking into the question little of late
and comparing the conditions in this
country and in free trade Great Britain.
Here are some of the things which find:
The annual tax collected from the peo-
pie by the government of free trade
Great Britain is $12.60 per capita, while
that of the United States is less than So
per capita.
The deposits in savings banks in Great
Britain amount to $3.50, 000, 900, or five
dollars per capita, while those in the
savings banks of the United States
amount to 81 1923, 079, 794, or twenty-five
dollars per capita.
The amount of money in circulation
In Great Britain is $17.90 per capita
while the amount in circulation in the
United States is $500 per capita. In
deed there is scarcely 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.
The national debt Of Great Britain
amounts to 500 for each individual in
her population, while that Of the United
States amounts to $13 for each individual.
The annual interest charge upon the
public debt in Great Britain is 1926 per
capita; the annual interest charge upon
the public debt in the United States is
IS cents per capita.
Great Britain, under her free trade
system, has decreased her public debt in
the last thirty-five years $500, 000, 900;
the United States, under protection, has
decreased her public debt in twenty-five
years 81 ,551 100000.
In free trade Great Britain there is
pauper for every 80 individuals, and
/ person in every 10 receives more or
less parish support; in protective United
States there is pauper for every 643 in
habitants.
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, 900 in round numbers, and
her imports amounted to 2,100, 000, 900,
making q balance on the wrong side Of
the ledger" of $500, 900, 900. Our exports
last year were 81, 039 1886, 828. and our
imports were $685., S91 1884, thus giving
rs balance Of $202, 944 ,342 on the fright
side Of the ledger"
The balance of trade was $500, 000, 900
against free trade Great Britain last
year, while it was $500, 000, 900 in favor
Of protected United States.
In the last ten years our exports have
exceeded our imports by $7O6, 8S3,814.
In that time the exports of Great Britain
have fallen $S,515, 0O0, 900 below her i'm
ports. In other words, in the decade
just ended protective United States has
. balance of over 500, 100000 on the
right side Of the ledger, while free trade
Great Britain, whose commerce rules
the world" shows $S,515, O00,0O0 on the
wrong side Of the ledger.
In free trade Great Britain bricklayers
get $1.17 per day; in protected United
States, % per day; carpenters in Great
Britain get $1.2S per day; in the United
States, $2.35 per day; in free trade Great
Britain engineers get $1.46 per day; in
the United States, $3.22 per day; in
Great Britain machinists get $1.20 per
day; in the United States, $3.50 per day;
In Great Britain compositors get 10 cents
per thousand ems; in the United States,
10 cents per thousand; in Great Britain
shipbuilders get So per week; in the
United States, $16.
Thus it will be seen that in every par
tcular our condition is better than that
Of our free trade neighbor. Our COM
merce is in infinitely better condition
because we receive hundreds Of millions
Of dollars more for our products than
We pay out for the things we buy, while
tho reverse 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 Brit
ain. We hsv decreased our debt in
% years 81 times as much as Great
Britain has been able to decrease her
debt in 80 years. Great Britain has
pauper for every 80 persons, while we
have for every 643.
Our government collects from her
people less than % per capita Of taxes;
that of GREET Britain collects from her
people over $12 per capita Of taxes. The
deposits In savings banks In Great
Britain average % per capita Of the
population; those in the United States
average t25 per capita Of population.
The money in circulation In Great Brit
ain IL t17.90 per capita, while that Of the
United States is $25.6 per capita. Wages
In the United States are from 70 to 100
per cent. higher than those paid in Great
Britain.
What good reason is there for desiring
10 exchange English free trade for the
protection which gives us these condi-