Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-16
For the Herald and Tribune.
One Thousand Millions OF Dollars.

written by me which l desire to present
in a different form for your readers.
Its basis was, that from Nov. '92 to
Nov. 93, the laboring men of the
United States lacked fully 81, OOO, OO0,-
600 of receiving as much as they did
for the year preceding. The estimate
was based on carefully collected sta
tlstlcs. The reason for the large differ.
ence was, that during the preceding
year, all were kept busy at good wages,
whilst for the past year, a large num-
Der were without employment most of
the time, and those employed, only at
half or three quarter time.
No reasonable cause for this great
change in the affairs of the laboring
men can be found except that Cleve-
land q Co., coming into power pledged
to change our protective tariff system
to that of free trade or for revenue
only" compelled all our manufacturing
industries, as a measure of self preser-
vatlon, to manufacture only to supply
immediate orders, or, where stocks
were piled up for future sale, then at
such reduced rates of wages as to avoid
actual loss if sold in competition with
the cheap labor goods from abroad.
For the Staff l illustrated this great
loss to the laboring men by showing
what the amount would be if expended
in such supplies as %laborng men pur-
chase for the support of their families.
Let me illustrate for the Herald and
Tribune readers in a different way. A
thousand millions of dollars is a very
large sum-. Let us suppose the amount
to be in silver dollars. 1t takes eighteen
dollars to make a pound. At this rate,
the thousand millions would make
oo,OOO,OO pounds. That would be
oo'OOO wagon loads of 1000 pounds
each.
suppose this very large heap of silver
dollars were piled up at johnson CITY,
and it was decided to haul the money
TO Jonesboro, and a single two horse
wagon was employed for that purpose,
to make a trip every day in the year
except on Sundays, each load to be
1000 pounds or $4,000. Making 31S
loads a year, the wagon would be kept
running for 17S years, and on the last
day OF the last year, there would be still
left in johnson City 1856 loads or So, 49,
goo, over two thirds of a years haul
ing yet to do. Let the laboring man who
knows well what a 1000 pound two
horse wagon load is, study this ques.
ton of hauling, and think of the vast
pile of silver dollars each years haul
ing would make, and then, what each
n of the 17S years would add to the
bulk; and then remember, that it repre-.
sents the actual loss sustained by the
laboring men of the country during
the first twelve months that followed
Grover Cleveland & Co.'S election to
executive and legislative power; and
because of their avowed purpose, and
their effort ever since, and yet continu-
ing to revolutionize and destroy our
industrial system which for thirty years
past has given us a prosperity unparal-
leled in the history of my people on
the face of the globe. Then, let such
laboring man say whether he wants
more of this same kind of modern De-
mocracy. In a recent speech in the
Senate, Senator Plat, of Connecticut,
said, that from the most reliable sta
tistics at hand, the sinking of values
in real and pers onal estate, and loss of
wages to laborihg men since, and
manifestly because of Democracy's &C.
cession to power, would foot up not
less than ten thousand millions of dol
lars. All that, if in silver dollars,
would give a two horse wagon, rolling
ID miles a day, over 1,7SO years of
work. OLD REPUBLICAN.