The Pleasantville press., 1912-10-23
Fourth Article.

The simple figures showing the
growth and present magnitude of the
industries of New Jersey that are the
product of the protective tariff system
read like romance. These figures are
official. They are part of the United
States census and therefore are indis-
putable, and they constitute an argu-
ment for tariff protection that the free
trader with his doctrines and theory
finds it impossible to combat.
1t is now three years since the manu-
featuring census of 1909, the last cen
sus, was taken, and in these three
years the state has progressed in its
Industrial growth at the same ratio as
between the years 1904 and 1909, which
period showed an enormous increase.
A comparison of the figures for 1904
and 1909 shows that the number Of
establishments increased 25.S per cent,
the wage earners 22.5 per cent, the
value of the product 47.9 per cent, the
value added by manufacture 40 per
cent and the capital invested 36 per
cent-all this in five years. Add three
years more of growth and see what
dizzy percentages we get!
During 1S49 an average of 1880
wage earners. representing II per cent
of the total population, were employed
in manufactures, while in 1909 an av-
erage of 326,223, or 1919 per cent Of
the total population, were so engaged.
The total value of the manufactures of
the state amounted to only $39.S51. 900
In 1S49, while in 1909, exclusive of the
value of the products of the neighbOr
hood and hand industries, it reached
81, ,145, ,529, 600, or nearly twenty-nine
times the value reported in 1S49, and
yet the population of the state in 1910
was only little more than FIVE times
the population in 1850. The gross
value of the product per capita Of the
total population of the state increased
from $S1 in 1S49 to $451 in 1909. New
Jersey reported 3.9 per cent of the
total value of products of the manu-
featuring industries in the United
States in 1S49 and 5.5 per cent in 1909.
holding sixth place among the states
in gross value Of manufactures at
both censuses.
Briefly, New Jersey in 1909 had SSH
manufacturing establishments, which
gave employment to an average of
371,265 persons during the year and
paid out $21S,046,OOO in salaries and
wages. OF the persons employed $780,
223 were wage earners. These estab-
lishments turned out products to the
value of S1,145, $4,000, to produce
which materials worth $720, 0,033 900
were used. The value added by man.
ufacture was thus $425, 10000, which
figures best represent the net wealth
created by manufacturing operations
during the year That is to say, the
manufacturing industries of New Jer-
sey. in 1909 created S425, ,496, 600 Of sol
Id wealth. At the rate of increase for
the five years the present annual net
product of wealth exceeds $500, ,0O0, 900,
and the annual salaries and wages
amount to fully $3.50, 100000.
We have seen in former article
where this enormous earned wealth
goes. It enriches every class. 1t fills
the Golfers of the banks and enables
them to loan millions to business men
for their enterprises. Without this
wealth no bank in New Jersey could
exist. 1t supports all the retail stores.
Without it the store owners would be
bankrupt. The great department stores
owe all their prosperity to the tariff
protected industries, and every corner
grocery is under the same. obligation.
Without this industrial wealth the
doctor, the dentist, the lawyer, would
have little or no business and small in
comes. More than half of them would
be starved out and compelled to take
up laboring work or brigandage for
living. And where would the wage
Garner and his family turn?
A free trade authority has said that
the great need of this nation was that
of driving the working population out
of the cities into the rural sections to
do agricultural work Factory labor.
he holds, should be discouraged in or
der to make farmers. But how IS the
factory worker to get the means OF
support in the rural sections? How
can he buy farm and stock It? How
Is he to learn farming? And If thu
city worker is impoverished and driven
out where is the farmer going to find