New-York tribune., 1906-08-17

:rOm 800 TO 1865 the increase IN the number Of
8wage earners employed was Is per cent over the
cent greater: in other words, the increase in the
snerease in eTanoymeat. 70 nv mind there could
Ae no more complete answer TO the complaint that
wages have not advanced Stree 1900
SIGNIFICANT CENSUS FIGURES.
But the most significant figures IL this new cen en-
fus are those which show where the greatest IN
rrease in industrial plants. capital, employment
Wages and output took place II was in the Cen
sral, Western and Southern states, which a few
secfons Of the county. OF the three 6iliion and
half dollars OF new capital put into ndps6Fla g IT q
was in the Central Western and Southern states
:SsOo0co5: the Middle Atlantic states 81 SlSs4OOOOO6
she Southern states $50 o00 the Central states
she percentages Of increase were: New England.
ern q per cent: Central, ~ per cent ana MesIeIn
20 per cent While the increases I'm the old man
heaithy the Increase in the Central western and
southern states was in the nature of a great boom
sn Industrial development.
The comparative increases in labor and wages
also were much greater in the West and South
than in the old manufacturing centres OF the East
The IncreaSe IN wage eaTners IN New Engiaho @ o. IA "a
the fTe years was little more than 10 per ceiI au
the total wages paid l9s per cent IN the Maqse
16 PEI cent; total wages 25s per cent; SouInern -
steS M wage wage e9EgS e1frs per a9e earners 157
ssTnsTs % t,r cent nj Taes 70 per cent More than
shis The wonderful deyeiopment Of manufacturing
Industry In the South and West has already moved
4eographicai centre and is safe to say that to-
day fully one-halt OF the capital wSee t S
an the Central. Southern and Western states. The
tfrates that under the economic policy of the Re
9ubliaan party. with its steady and prosperous de-
Hanced into great agricultural sections, placing
5eiween fhe two great bodies Of producers the
snore direct and equitable. and make them more
Net alone In manufacturing has there been this
CO. adE,inistta tation Tb9 farmers have doubled
their crops and the money they have received in
N iSes sro1nted "a sqss M coo and last year it ag-
sgelue in the last year OF Denocratic administra-
the same period, increasing from Sl'I2s'VOW~ IN
10 the and wheat belt of the country. Like
al aescendea upon Gi' our friends in the south, who
sti refuse TO beeye that prosperity can exist un-
Sso6eooo60 in 1894 the last year for which we have
si1tistics The miners doubled their output of coal
.Bnd iron, and in very line of Industrial develop
with this Scripturel Injunction TO make two blades
our foreign trade has been along the same dou-
ole track lines our imports increasing from $3.50
from sSS800G0 in 1895 to S54OO50OO in 1906. The
total yoane Of our foreign trade N 1ss6 %
shat trade TO Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Phil
sn the last year grand total 50 O45 100000 the
amount OF business done between the people of
ghe United States and he rest OF the world , thls
e greater than The foreign commerce OF any & 4ther
.Ta
cause that ration imports her food products, her
imports being almost double her exports while our
exports exceed our imports by S5o0@0@
REVISIONISTS ANSWER THEMSELVES
While this unprecedented prosperity has come in
S t aii qa4e LIE M 10 ~ b I ted tba{
q q e rodcer T boIb 5 for f6e peope and
the government, we occasionally hear the old wall
Ter Of monopoiy The tariff revisionsts are, how
ever. answering their own complaints ] find in
most uncompromising organs of tariff revision. an
soT Ger locked mon nv free traders as nononoiy
and that il has steadily declined in its proportion
The widest interest in the Steel Corporation re-
port attaches what is least discussed-that IS
the conditions IN the trade reflected by the first
hand facts available 1t is true that the Steel
Corporation is not the steel trade. Big as it is
81 is neither the majority interest nor even the con
trolling interest. In fact, its proportion of the
trade IS relatively declining, while coacurrently IT
earning It's S prodnotien Of pig has uetuated
since its organization within narrow range and
.hearth and Bessemer castings has fallen by about
g per cent ~ per It's dominance Is great
est in the wire nail product, which, although de-
clinng, remains at 66 per cent In short the trust
possible that The trust should prosper and the
The Dngley bin was substantially the first leg
Kinley, i was enacted at a time when the reve-
nues OF the government were short. when all our
able 10 realize reasonable profits upon their re-
a minimum for the want of steady employment by
our people at fair wages. In its operations that
Jaw has spread evenly and justly over all
lProduction in the United States than any tariff
icams hope confidence employment. profitable pro-
.duction and universal prosperity. which has grown
f1nG increased from year TO year up the present
.time Under it the people worked out their own
Il did not and does not please the Democratic
4arty- That party denounces the policy of protec-
zion IS robbery and declares for tariff for reve
age only his Is has been me position OF ne Dem
dav and the position of ali its leaders incIudine
seadeF OF the minority IN the House Of Represent
atives WAC time and again during the late session
be, clothed with power, not to destroy protection
expressed it-but TO Journey toward a tariff for
revenue only. He would not kill the patient out
eight stroke but would gradually starve II
20 death. Such policy means less wages for labor.
both skilled and u2skiled IN every avenue Of pro
n1ctlon ana with decrease Or wages ana slack EN-
ployment the great mass Of the people would be-
people, who are customers for each other, and
lpeated
DANGER IN TARIFF REVISION.
Tariff revision in time cf prosperity always has
and always will halt business activity production
sbsT Is p reasonable cerair,tT Of reaZing its cost
prOvements and consumes less because there is
shortened demand for MS products The. decrease
amount 10 many hundred million dollars Where
there is confidence and prosperity without prece-
Sdencs
heartily indorse the platform lately adopted by
the Republicans OF Indiana which. IN substance
says that the Republican party Will revise the
tar!n when II viii 10 more good tnan harIn 10 the
great mass Of people. . --..,, -
main in power for the coming Two years: In ORDER
that the legislative and executive departments OF
friends The enemy should be successful in
DNrhnrc vrnss