The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-11-14
EIGH. N. c.. NOVEMBER "A, 1893.

they are largely under the mark; take
North Carolina, for instance, the two
reports from this State show hands
employed Nov. 5th, 1892, to be 105.
Sept. I'd, 1893, 72. Weekly wages paid
Nov. 5th, 1892, $745 20; Sept ID, 16s
1852 so, while we all know that in sucn
towns and cities as Winston and Dur
ham there were soma single tobacco
establishments employing quite that
number Of hands and paying no doubt
as much as $745, weekly wages, to say
nothing of the cotton and other manu-
factories. Then we may take Georgia
as another instance, and to say nothing
of her cotton, wagon, and agricultural
| implement factories. she had more than
720 laborers employed in the turpen
tine business, q have seen it stated at
over 1, 500 nearly ell of which are now
idle.
These six hundred reports disclos g
the fact that for the week ending Nov.
5th, 1892, there were by them alone,
143, 4O1 hands actually employed, and
that for the week ending Sept ID, 1898,
only Sc 384 hands were employed, q
decrease of S7O17, hands, and that
this 81, OH wealth producers are in en-
forced idleness.
In the matter of wages, the weekly
disbursements for the week ending
Nov. 5th, 1892, as reported by these
| six hundred correspondents amounted
to 81 500 891 35; but for the week end
ing Sept. I'd, 1898, in the forty one
States in the same industries aggre-
gated only $459 O89 O4, a decrease of
81 O5O, SO 81 of weekly wages since the
HORNLEss OWL from BUzzARD ROOsT
| threw off the mask in which his bull
doing tluDky robed him during the
campaign q year ago.
In all this we have presented to us,
and for our calm and deliberate in
spection, the sickening spectac Of a
President and . Congress of the United
States deliberately and Hilltully rob
bing and p!undering the people in the
interest of a few foreign capitalists!
The daily increase in wealth in the
United States was placed six " ars ago
at about $40, 600, COO, hat is that much
each day. And there can be no doubt
that it has largely increased since that
date; but taking it at $40, 600 900, IN
der favorable conditions, and that a
little over $25, ,0OO 900 goes to the pro
ducers Now see what the present
Administration, backed by less than
six thousand capitalists, is doing for
IS 600, 600 of American citizens.
The weekly individual loss is another
point brought out in this exhibit, the
weekly earnings of all hands was $40 sc
in November, 1892, but for the week
ending September 81, 1898 After
Congress, in violation cf every pledge,
both in the Chicago platform and the
pledges of all the Democratic speakers
on the stump, the Sherman act was re-
pealed We find the weekly average
of wages paid to be but $500
Taking our present population of 65,-
OOO,OOO Of people, and assuming, on the
basis of five persons to each household,
that there are 5000, 600 of wage earn
ers in the country, emitting the cases
where more than one is working in
each family, and offsetting these against
cases where the heads of families are
not obliged to work, we have on the
basis Of these reports, an aggregate de-
crease in the amount Of wages paid
and in the earnings of the people more
than $50, 600, 900 per week.
If we still further apply this weekly
loss of $4,000, 900 in the earning ca
pacity of our people to a whole year,
it gives us total loss Of one billion,
five hundred and sixty miIliors of
dollars annually in the distribution Of
money throughout the United States
1t means that the people have over
fifteen hundred millions dollars less of
money earned, and that much less to
spend or save each year, and conse-
quently the United States is to that ex-
tent impoverished; and in the interest
of whom2 We answer: A few English
and Wall street Jews
The following tabulated statement
shows the situation by sections: