The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-22
TERRIBLE STATISTICS
Ex.Gov. Fishback's Famous Indict.
ment of Grover Cleveland and
the Gold Bugs.

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and have twenty-o one times as many peo-
pie as Rhode Island-just as earnest,
Just as honest, just as industrious peo-
pie, all toiling just as eagerly to make
wealth.
Mr.. Cleveland, will you please pause
long enough from pushing your schemes
to inquire why this astounding change
In the two decades?
II had INDUCED with many others the
belief that the New England tariff was
the chief factor in this congestion of our
national wealth, but recently published
statistics, gathered since the passage of
the Wilson tariff bill, forbid this con-
clusion. For they show a still more
startling condition of the disease.
TARIFF CUTS NO FIGURE.
I'm one single year. from 1893 to 1894,
the state of Massachusetts grew in
vsnia grew upward of $46, OOO, 900; New
York grew upward of s2s5, 900 900, three
times as much as all the distinctively
manufacturing states combined, while
the entire South and West suffered an
aggregate loss % more than $400, 900 900
In this one singh year.
These are not predictions, Mr.. Cleve-
land, nor yet theories, but stubborn facts.
Nor Is the story all told yet, Mr..
Cleveland; these same telltale census re-
ports disclose upon whom these enor-
nous losses are falling, as well as into
whose hands this enormous increase of
wealth Is falling.
"Mr. Carroll D. Wright's census bulle
tin No. SO shows that, Notwithstanding
the immense increase in the wealth of
Massachusetts,, 81 per cent, upward of
four-fifths of all the families residing
in Boston, have no homes but live in
rented houses, while large percentage
are fighting under constantly appreciat-
ing mortgages.
Notwithstanding the enormous in
crease. the wealth of Pennsylvania, II
per cent, or more than three-fourths of
the families, residing in Philadelphia
have no homes, while a large part of
those who have homes are struggling
against constantly approaching mort
cages. Notwithstanding the increase
In the wealth of Rhode Island, 70 per
cent, nearly four-fifths of the families of
Providence, have no homes.
HOMELESS PEOPLE OF NEW YORK
Notwithstanding the enormous in
crease of the wealth of New York, "a
per cent, more than nine-tenths of the
families who reside in New York city,
have no homes, while large part of the
6 per cent who nominally own their
homes are desponsently battling against
constant approaching mortgages.
This same bulletin shows another sig
nificant fact-that larger percentage of
foreign-born citizens Of the United States
own their homes than of natives. This
might have been anticipated, for, having
been bred in monarchical countries,
where government by experts hedged
around by the doctrine of divine right
has long obtained, they are better pre-
pared for the condition which we, in this
country. are but inaugurating.
who are the people who have no
homes? Are they the bankers or pro-
tected manufacturers or other financial
'experts?'
But these census reports do not stop
even here in their disclosures.
"They show that right alongside the
factory-made home markets in Massa-
chusetts nearly 1900 farms have been
abandoned, upward Of 700 of which had
houses upon them. In Pennsylvania, in
New York, in all New England, agricult-
ure is in unprecedented distress and
farms are being abandoned.
81 am aware that men of your class,
who are far and more eager to find eX-
cuses than remeAies for existing condi-
tons, glibly tell us that the fertile fields
of the West have rendered the farms of
New England and the older states un-
profitable by reason of their competition
But these same census reports brand
this as false.
DECREASED VALUES IN ILLINOIS.
"Take for illustration, Illinois. Before
the war this was the farmers paradise. AL
most every acre of it Is as fertile as the
valley Of the Nile and is in high state OF
cultivation, giving :ndisputable evidence O.
unremitting toll and energy. Every county
In it has from one to twenty railroads. Its
cities have grown m wealth during the last
decade about $500, 900 900. Yet the aggre-
gate wealth of Illinois during this decade
has decreased 100000, and during the
single year from 1893 to 1894 it decreased
upward of $24.O00,0 900.
upon whom has this loss fallen. Mr.
Cleveland? Certainly not upon her cities
which have grown enormously. Not upon
her manufacturing interests, for they have
increased in the city of Chicago alone 1927 ;
100000 during the last decade, while II pei
cent of the families who reside in Chicago
have no homes.
1T is the same old tale told in New Eng.
land and the middle states. 1t has faller
upon the great to.ling masses who make
their living by the sweat Of their faces-the
farmer and the laborer?
"In no part Of the world is agriculture
prospecting except In the s:lver-using coun.
tries. These are prospecting phenomnally
and at the ex pense of the farmrs of gold
using countries.
These are not theories, Mr.. Cleveland
still less are they predictions, but stern, I'm
relenting facts stupendous facts thai
might we'll startle into remorseful reflection
a fiddling Nero, if not reckless bond-issu
ing president!
JAPAN AND HER MANUFACTURES.
"Mr. Cleveland. while you and your allies
are so prolific of predictions (f there is {
single argument in favor of the gold stand
ard which Is not based upon predictions an(
predictions not one of which has ever We
been fulfilled it has so far escaped my at
tenton), has it ever occurred to you to cas-
your prophetic vision far enough n tn
future to predict what the result will be i
this state Of things continues until Japal
and other silver-using countries shall hav
supplanted both our farmers and manufac
turers in the markets Of the world, as the,
have already rapidly begun?
mot single selfish prophecy of Sher
man or Carlisle was ever as well founded a
the prediction that in this event, on
masses VINO labor, whether in factory or o.
farm will become 80 Impoverished that on