Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-10-27
is PROTECTION A ROBBERY

is prOIectlon a ROBBERY, IN view or the
fact that our savings banks--not national
banks nor trust companies-hold more
than S3,300,000,000 ON deposit, against
S1,74S,000.000 in 1894, an increase of
Sl.0J2, 100000 in ten years, of which
seven have been protective tariff years?
Is protection y robbery, in view of the
fact that the savings banks of New
York and New England alone, the banks
of the working people, have more money
on deposit than had all the savings banks
of our country in 1894?
Is protection a robbery, in view of the
fact that the 1908 figures showed 1906
600 savings bank depositors, an increase
OF 2.240,000 since 1896?
Is protection robbery, in view of the
fact that the total deposits exclusive of
government bonds in our banking insti-
tntions generally in 1903 amounted to
S9,6s3,0O0,00O, an increase of $4,757,-
| 100000 over 1896?
Is protection robbery, in view of the
| fact that our export OF domestic man
| ufactures increased from SPIT ,0OO, 900 in
| 1897 CAST low-tariff fiscal year., to $751;
100000 in 1904 Qast complete protective
/ tariff fiscal year,, an increase of $175,-
| 100000?
| Is protection a robbery. in view of the
| fact that our home consumption of wheat
in 1904 fiscal year, was 517, 900, 900 bush
| els. or 100000 bushels in excess or
| 1903 fiscal year. in spite of the fact that
our 1904 wheat crop was $4,000, 900 BUSH
els short of that OF 1903?
Is protection robbery, in view of the
fact that our production of pig iron in
| al frnY = -,
| 1S,0O0,OO0 tons in 1903?
Is protection a robbery, in view of the
fact that our coal production increased
from $4,000, 900 tons in 1894 to $4,000
600 tons in 1903?
Is protection a robbery, in view of the
fact that our cotton mills used up 1924
900 bales OF raw c,tton in 1908, an in
crease OF 2,945,0UO bales over 1860, and
| 14l9,O00 bales over 1896?
Is protection a robbery, in view of the
fact that in 1903 the cotton mills of
North Carolina, South Carolina and
Georgia showed the following increase
over 1897, the last low-tariff fiscal year
Mills :. 1856
Spindles 3, A 1923
Bales consumed ............. 765, 462
is protection a robbery in view of che
fact that our public debt decreased from
1881 100000 in 1860 to 1896, 000,0 in
1904, a decrease of $1,436, 100000?
Is protection a robbery in view OF the
fact that our manufacturing and wage
earning interests show the following i'm
creases On 1908 over 1896?
Factories E. ............ 100000
Factory workers ........ 100000
Factory pay rolls, yearly SO, 900, 100000
Factory output, yearly. So, 900, 900, 600
Is protection a robbery in view OF the
fact that our importation of tin plate
decreased from 3S5,000.000 pounds in
1896 to 100000 pounds in 1908, while
our manufacture of tin plate increased
from 359,000,O00 to S20,O0000O pounds,
an increase of 4l6,OO0.000 pounds, in
only Nix years of protection2
! Is protection a robbery, in view of the
fact that since Abraham I4incolns first
election, in 1860, we show the follow
ing Increases?
Increased exports, 1904 . 81, 127, 100000
Increased imports, 1904. 63S,O00, 900
National wealth ........ "a 900, u00, 900
Money circulation .... 2,0S6, 000, 900
Farms and farm property. Il, 500, 000,0 900
Farm products, increase
loUf .............. 2,lO0,OOO,OOO
Farm animals, excess
1903 =. .......... 3.102, 100000
Government revenue, ex-
cess 1904 ............ 100000
Increased petroleum prod
uets, gals ............ 2,e4O, 1000, 900
Increased copper produc-
ton, tons ............. 263, 1888
Increased corn crop, bush
els ...... ....,.. 1,5Oo,OoO,OOO
Increased wheat crop,
bushels 49,. ...... 464,OO0,OO0
Increased gold and silver
production -. .... 1O1, 100000
Increased cotton picked,
bales ........... 5.s66,OO0
Increase steam railway
mileage -. ........ 10000
Newspapers, etc, increase. 16.434
Patents granted, Increase. 26,S21
Sault Ste. Marie tonnage,
yearly increase ....... 1888, 900
American shipping. domes-
tic increase. tons 80. 1891 600
And all the foregoing Is only part of
what might be credited to the protective
tariff. WALTER J. BALLARD.