Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1893-09-02
TuI mtft
ner~nriai Frrrts of a Protective
rartH

state reported that IN New Work there
wer" 81, ,i5j paupcrs IN u population u
I3jnUO That wa ~, the cloee ~ four.
teen y-ars ~ "tatG Tor revenue only,
hut forgot 90 sny that tho census hui
letn - January l3. ls'rl. reported that
the sHm~ state, Nth j!,',,SlB populA.
ton, had only lu,272 pauperp, ih,s. after
thirty years ~ protection, or IN other
words forty tive pGupetH uDdcr the
democratic pudcy o. one under tepubh
can projection. No democrat has ever,
10 NV knoWle1se, attempted to explain
this glaring eXposut" Of the degrading
"dects u his pet theory Ne the
democrats Ere the professional working
mau's iricuds I, will not be amiss 20
enquire III what way they have carried
cut their professions. Labor IN the
working man's only capital, and Il ful.
loSs that tie higher Le Cau sell Il the
better of he will he like to quote
democratic huthorities. auG here IN one
Mr. Edward Atkinson, who is now rn
gagged IN helping Cleveland 10 wreck the
| Mckinley act, III the Forum oi Ma, ,,
ls.rl. makes the following horest con.
fcesl"n. Cut It out and preserve It, nay
good democratic irieudr. There has
been, during the twenty seven years
since l|iI subject 10 Temporary ysris.
tionr, Ia steady advance ~ the rate ui
wages, steady reduction III the cost II
labor per unit 81 product aud cor.
responding reduction ia the prce o.,
goods of Hmost every KIND 10 the con
sumer. There newer has O'een period
~ the history u this or auy other cuun.
try when the general rate ~ wages nna
as high as Il IA To day, nor "a period
when the Workman, III the strict sense "
the word, has so fully secured t. h,s
own use and enjoy m.nt such steadily
and progressively increasing proportion
of constantly increasing product"
Abran Hewitt, late democratic con.
gressmah and mayor % New York.
says: THE amount which pay out FOR
labor when ] include every particle oi
raw material beginning at the ground,
aud am miner both ~ ore and con.
! have never, with al my anxiety to ge.
u down, got IT below ~ per cent Oh H..
value ~ the finished product" That ir
~ per cent in wages and 10 per cent tn
the employer. But | may inform our
Il, inUcra,lc friends that their cnmpatrili,
Mr.. heA.tt. has said within n month TINT
the solution " the present business
problem is lower wagea Tor Uurklngmen.
But let w get down 10 tigures. II was
gwen In evidence before the tarltT com.
mission IN 1857 that ut Troy, New York,
! hRcklers " tiaX received sl per hundred
for dressing and IN 1882 they receiyou 81
Tor the same work. Women spnners re-
c-ived % cents u day in lsGl and 10 lss2
they received IL day. Boys and girls
received ~ cente week IN 1851 aud ~
lss9 they received s3.40 week. Tn
skilled men received % 10 G1i, cents n
| day and IA lSS2 they received 81 n day.
In 1850 the factories u the country EN-.
pioyed ~ ,l3 men and 22j,.rsa women
whose dslly wages were 81 and 10 c.nts
|
Tor each person. Ia 1870 they employed
l,6l5,59s men aud 3gi,71 women and
lli,G2s young persnns ut an average per
diem OF fl.ls, n gain OF 81 Ter cent IN
twenty years ! have Already shown by
the official statistics OF democratic Of
iic,als in New York that within one year
after the passage of that "sum of all IN
lquliy," the Mckinley act, there was n
oct increase of mechanics wsges In that
state alone ~ 81 FLJ, being Nh average
increase ~ the wages ~ 9SJ.OOO employs
OF ~, while the increase Of Hfty one
trade" cited IN tue report was si3 ~ Tor
| every person engaged therein per All
nun The sup.rint-nd dent ~ the bank
ing department informs ua that on Jan
uary |, 1859, there we're l,'s2, ,Aj2 deposit.
nrs. TINS sa, a year ana u haf before
the Mckinley hill went INTO effect. Two
years sitter u became ~ law, or on July ],
1892. the number ~ depOsitOrs had IN
creased 10 ,h6 lIi Ia other words,
there were l9j,2Dl more persons deposit.
ing money IN the savings banks oi New
ioak in 1892 than there we're IN 1850
The increase IN tue deposits during these
three years and h.if has been nearly
$500 100. From January | to July |,
ls5l, the lncrsnss has bssn SiU,OOO,OOO.
The report Of the special committee
u ths United States senate appointed
tor the express purppe" of HsceTtsinlng
the effect o! the Mckinley net IN wages
aud pscessariss ~ life reI,nItsd that from
the time Of the passage of aAid act (about
2 years. wages had Increased all over The
Union aud nscessaTl.s had decreased.
This COMMITTEES war con. paced of r.puL
licans and democrats. including Senator
Carlisle, aud said report Ma UNANIMOUS
Now. while wild. vague assertions are
mad. thst wages have not advanced un.
der prOtectIon, no democrat from their
lido, ol,Cleyesnd,d down ~ tue mos, ignorant |
pennya liner Ia their party has dared to |
show the slightest proof ~ sustain SAID
ssssrt,ons, the Sufii ,Isnt reason being
that there sre no such proofs. They 10, |
on the vile old maxim that, "a lie well |
stuck 10 10 90 good M truth"
rHE bALANCE 80 TRADE
Simply msans tbs balance sheet whch |
shows the differences between our eE