Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-10-20
a COMPARISON.
CONDITIONS m GREAT BRITAIN VITA
THOSE OF THE UNITED STATES.
Higher Taxes. Lower Wages. More Pau
pers. smaller savings Deposits and
Greatsr National Bssts in England
than In the United States.
Especial Correspondence. |


Greater National ssssts in England
Thah In the Vni.ed States,
Especial Correspondence
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.--Do the people
who are clamoring for free trade ever
compare the conditions of the past and
present Of this country with the one cs-
sential free trade country of the world
England? If not, it might be q good
thing for them to dc 30. / have been
looking int, the question little of late
and ctnparing the conditions in this
Snntry 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 $126O per capita, while
that of the United States is less than &c
per capita.
The deposits in savings banks in Great
Britain amount to S1S0,0o9, zoe, or five
dollars per capita, while those in the
savings banks ct the United States
amount 10 81 1893, O79, 794, or twenty-five
dollars per capita.
The amount of money in circulation
in Great Britain is $119e pei Capita
while the amount in circulation in the
United States is $500 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.
The national debt OF Great Britain
amounts to 800 for each individual in
her population, while That of the United
States amounts to $i3 for each individual.
The annual interest charge upon the
public debt in Great Britain is S3. o5 per
capita; the annual interest charge upon
the public debt in the United Statea IS
81 cents per capita.
Great Britain, under her free trade
system, has decreased her public debt in
the last thirty-tive years $500, OOO, 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
l pauper for every 50 individuals, and
l person in every - receives more or
less parish support; in protective United
States there is pauper for every GLIB in
habitants.
The balance of trade" is hundreds of
millions of dollars against Great Britain
every year. Under her vaunted free
trade she imports vastly more than she
sells. Her exports last year amounted
to 81 800 ,OOO, 900 in round numbers, and
her imports amounted to $4,000, 900, 900,
making a balance on the wrong side of
the ledger" of $500, 00O,Oo9 Our exports
last year We're R1,0S9. 1856 ,626, and our
imports we're 1881, 1884, thus giving
us a balance of $202, 944, 342 on the fright
side of the ledger"
The balance of trade was $500 900, 900
against free trade Great Britain last
year, while It was 2OO,OOO,0OO in favor
Of protected United States,
In the last ten years our exports have
exceeded our imports by $7O6, $3.50, 314.
In that time the exports of Great Britain
have fallen $3.50, 100000 below her i'm
ports. In other words, in the decade
just ended protective United States has
u balance Of over $7OO,OOO,OOO on the
right side of the ledger, while free trade
Great Britain, whose commerce rules
the world, shows $s,515 ,COo,oOO on the
wrong side of the ledger.
In free trade Great Britain bricklayers
get $1.17 per day; in protected United
States, So per day; carpenters in Great
britain get $l.2S per day; in the United
States, 1886 per day; in free trade Great
Britain engineers get STAG per day; in
t1e United States, $500 per day; in
Great Britain machinists get Sl.20 per
day; in the United States, So. SO per day;
il: Great Britain compositors get Is cents
PEI thousand emss in the United States,
AZ cents per thousand; in Great Britain
sl.ipbuilders get IS per week; in the
United States, SIG.
Thus it will be seen that in every par
t;:ular our condition is better than that
o5 our free trade neighbor. Our COM
mt,rce is in infinitely better condition
because we receive hundreds of millions
Of dollars more for our products than
Wa pay out for the things we buy, while
tn, reverse is true with Great Britain
G';f public debt is less than one-sixth
pc capita that of Great Britain, while
ou:' annual interest charge IS only about
on- tenth per capita that in Great Brit
niii We have decreased our debt in
% >aars 2l5 times as much as Great
Bri;iin has been able to decrease her
debt in 35 Yeats. Great Britain has /
pat. III For every 30 persons, while we
nav, for every G!3
(CNp rnI1nnfS FROM, bo,.
peops less than S. per capita of taxes;
that If Great Britain collects from her
people over 81: per capita OF taxes. The
deposits in savings banks in Great
Britain average 50 per capita of the.
population; those in the United States
average $25 per capita Of population.
The money in circulation in Great Brit
ain is $3.50 per capita, while that Of the
United States is $S2s5. G2 per capita. Wages
in the United States are from Is to 100
per cent. higher than those paid in Great
Britain.
What good reason is there for desiring
to exchange English free trade for the
protection which gives us these condi-
tions, which in every case are SO much
better than those Of our British neighbor:
What business man is there who has
seen his business grow up and prosper
under the system which has been in
operation in this country for the past
thirty years who wants to endanger its
steady progress by the adoption of a
system which compares so unfavorably
with our own in it's results?
o. P. AUSTIN.
Democratic success next menth means
.hnt for the first time since lsG, the
Democrats will control house, senate and