Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 24, Decatur, Adams County, 2 September 1892 — Page 5

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©he democrat Jtatef of Subscription. One Year, In advance 11 M Six Months. 75 Four Month* 60 All subscriptions not paid during the year will be charged at the rate of 12.00. Office In Democrat Building, cast side of Second Street—ground floor. ' CARLISLESJCEYNOTE. The Kentucky Economist Dissects High Tariff Claims. ALDRICH’S FALLACIES EXPOSED. * vThe Tendency of Civilization Is to Produce Cheaper Goods and Higher Wages. The McKinley Bill Beversed That Tendency—The Cost of Living Increased by That Act.

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Mr. President—Perhaps I ought, to apologize to the senate for attempting on such aday.as this, and at so late a period in the session, to occupy any part of its time tn the discussion of a subject which we all agree cannot be disposed of; but the recent report made by the committee on finance in relation to the prices of commodities, the rates of wages and the cost of living in the United States has been so thoroughly misunderstood or so grossly misrepresented in the public • press and elsewhere, that I have felt it to be the duty of some one on this side of the chamber who assisted in making that investigation t<r State our views of its results. I think it is the unanimous opinion of economists and statisticians who have investigated the subject that for many years, in all the great industrial and commercial countries of the world, the prices of commodities have been decreasing and the rates of wages, especially in those occupations which require a considerable degree of skill and intelligence, have been increasing; of course there are very many and very conspicuous and" aggravating exceptions to this general rule, but they are all attributable, in my opinion, to abnormal and artificial conditions, created by unequal and unjust tax laws and by improper governmental interference with the private affairs of the people, discriminating in favor of some and against others. The Folly of Protection. Whatever makes it easier for the people to live decently and comfortably, whatever makes the necessaries of life which the people are bound to buy and use cheaper and less expensive to the masses, is a blessing to mankind, and 1 have never been able to appreciate the wisdom of that policy which compels men to work longer and harder in order to procure food, raiment and shelter for themselves and their families; I have never been able to appreciate either the economic truth or the humanity of the proposition that the people can be made happy and prosperous by taxation, whether the purpose of, that taxation be to defray extravagant expenditure* on the part of the government* or to tncreaee the prices which the people pay for what they eat, drink and wear. Mr. President, any one who contends in this day, as the senator from Nevada (Mr. Stewart) apparently has this morning, that high prices of commodities are beneficial to the community at large, is at war with the spirit of the age in whioh he lives, at war with the genius of discovery and invention which during the last half century more than during any other like period in the history of the world has ameliorated the condition of mankind by bringing all the necessaries of life, and many of its luxuries, within the reach of every man who is willing to work. " I speak of production and distribution together, because cheap and easy distribution is just as important, both to the producer and to the consumer, as cheap and easy production; therefore every shackle imposed upon commerce, every restriction upon honest trade, every interference with the free exchange of products in the markets of the world increases prices and de prives the people of the benefits which they have a right to enjoy, and which they otherwise would enjoy, resulting from improved industrial and commercial methods. But, Mr. President, it is unnecessary to pursue this line of argument further, because at last it appears to be admitted by the friends of the protective system that Cheap commodities for tho us? of the people ■ are beneficial, and the senator from Rhode Jsland (Mr. Aldrich), speaking here three day* ago as the chosen champion of that system, bases his defense of the tariff act of 1800 almost solely upon the ground that it ha* reduced prices and enlarged the for eign commerce of the country. That was riot the purpose of the authors and supporters of that law at the time it passed congress, as is conclusively shown by the report which was made to the house of representatives when the bill was presented to that body. In that report Mr. McKinley, speaking for himself and all the Republican members of the committee, ■aid: i “We have not been so much concerned about the prices of the articles we consume as we have been to encourage a system pf home production which shall give fair remuneration to domestic produce!* and fair wages to American workmen, and by Increased production and home competition insure fair price* to consumers.’ 1 - And again, the report says: « 1 • “Your committee has not sought by the proposed legislation to further cut down prices at the expense of our own prosperity, but to provide with certainty against that increasing competition from other I «wuMe» ieWwAWhw W Wit an

unwilling to adopt. Wj have not believeU that our people, already suffering from low prices, can or will be satisfied with legislation which will result in lower prices." Its Advocates Swept Aside. Here is a clear and emphatic declaration by the authors of the measure, that it was not intended to reduce prices, thatit would not, in fact, reduce prices, and that the people would not lie satisfied with any legislation which would produce that result. The theory that high prices of commodities are beneficial to the community at large, and that the McKinley law would Increase them, was abandoned by the advocates of that measure immediately after its passage, and in every part of the country they faced about and either denied that higher prices, in fact, prevailed or contended that they were not produced by the tariff act. The people, however, knew better from personal experience and observation in their daily transactions, and in November, 1890, the authors of that tariff act were swept from the house of representatives by a majority of more than 860,000 votes. Never in the history of the country has there been such a storm of popular indignation against any single act of legislation as that which overwhelmed the advocates of this measure in 1890, and ps a result we now have the senator from Rhode Island and all the other friends of the protective system who have recently spoken upon the subject confessing that high prices are not beneficial to the people and that the original and avowed purpose of the act was wrong; in other words, they now contend that the act has been a success solely because it failed to accomplish what it was intended to accomplish. Aldrich's False Conclusions. My purpose here today is to show that the tariff act of 1890 did, in fact, interfere with this natura 1 tendency -toward a decline imthe prices of commodities and a rise in the rates of wages; that it, did, in fact, make it harder and more expensive for the masses of the people of the United States to live. [The senator here read pin extract from tho speechof Senator Aldrich, whoclaimed that prices find so far declined and wages so far advanced as to make a total gain to the people of $325,000,000 per year as a result of the Mckiuley bill and continued]; Mr. President, I admit that on a single day after t he passage of the McKinley bill, and durjng.the period covered by the investigation, the retail prices of the 215 articles selected by the committee, taking them altogether and giving to each one the same importance, lf ß4-100ths of 1 one per cent, lower than they were at the beginning of the period, and that on the same day, which was the last day included in the investigation, the cost of Jiving in the United States, giving to each article its relative importance as an element in , expenditures for consumption, had decreased 44-100ths of I per cent, from the rate prevailing at the beginning of the investigation—that is, the cost of living, including rent, which was not investigated by the committee at sll, had been reduced 44-100ths of 1 percent, below what it was during the first three months of the investigation. But that single day has been separated by the senator from Rhode Island from all the other days embraced in the twenty-eight-.months, and taken as the basis of all the tables presented and statements made by him, as if it was a fair representative of the whole period. The investigation began on the Ist day of June, 1889, and continued month by month in seventy different cities in the United States until the Ist day of September, 1891, embracing a period of twentyeight months. The prices of these 215 articles for the first three months at these seventy different places and at quite a number of establishments in each place were taken as the basis of the investigation—that is to say, the average prices which prevailed during the months of June, July and August, 1889, on all the articles were taken as the unit of price, each unit or index of price being represented by 100, and as the prices subsequently rose or fell the f.'.ct was noted, and the percentage of rise or fall was recorded in the tables. Now I submit to the senate and the country that no just or valuable conclusion for any purpose whatever can be drawn from calculations based upon ■ prices which prevailed on 'one single day during those twenty eight months, that day being, as I have said, the last one on which an investigation was made. The Cost of Living Increased. [Senator “Carlisle here referred to a Statement of Senator Aldrich that in the same time the cost of living had increased in England. He declared that the committee had made no such inquiry; that no such results could be drawn from any facts before the committee, and that other statements in 'Senator Aldrich's speech were not in evidence before the committee, and continued]: Mr. President, I propose to show, or at least endeavor to show, that the prices of commodities in the United States, whether considered by wholesale or by retail, were enormously increased by tho passage of the McKinley act and the agitation which preceded it, and that the cost of living in the United States, giving to each one of these articles its proper degree of importance in expenditures for "consumption, was increased (luring the period covered by this investigation more than $285,000, 000, and that over $185,000,000 of that increase occurred after the passage of the net of 1890. I venture to make the stateptent, which I think nobody cim refute, that a very large proportion of the increase in prices of manufactured articlesand in the cost of Ijvlng which occurred before the passage afTliiit act was on account of the fact that it was pending in congress with an almost absolute knowledge on the part of the producers of protected articles everywhere that, it Would be passed and become a law. I propose to show,in the second place, that the rates of wages in fifteen substantially unprotected industries in this country, selected by the committee, were increased during the period covered by the investigation, and that during the same period the rates of wages in fifteen protected industries In the United States, also selected by the committee, fell, and that the fall was greater after the passage of the McKinley bill than it was during the whole period preceding its passage. Unless the 215 articles thus se’ected by the committee are fairly, representative of, the total quantity of articles consumed by the people, pur investigation is worth but . little, so far ns It attempts to ascertain the cost of living, of course be ‘ valuable to show the course of prices on , ..those 815 articles; but I repeat, unless they fairly represent all the articles which enter into consumption, the investigation is of but»Httle- value so'far as it attempts to state the effect of increase in prices upon the coat of living. (The senator h<-

ere presented elaborated ' trick in the committee’s met. ig a decline in pr’ces; It took .. a date in 1889, when they had risen lu i. . ipntion f the McKinley bill, ami at another in 1891, when they were at the lowest. He,added]: To go no farther back to find the influence of the McKinley act upon the retail prices of commodities, we (Ilid Ihnkfroin and including Oct. 1, 1890, until June 1 1891, the prices increased as follows; Ou Oct. 1, 1890, the increase was $1,333,8330ver the prices on Sept. 1; on Nov, 1, 1890, the increase was $3,416,066; on Dec. 1,17,500,(MX); on Jan. 1, 1891, it was $10,038,838; on Feb. 1, 1881, it was $11,083,333; on March 1, 1891, it’ was $11,080,000; on April 1 It was $12,000,000; on May 1 it was 18,750,000, and on June 1 it wa5"53,060,000. What the People Spend. Mr. President, there have been many attempts made to ascertain the total annual expenditures of tho people of the United States for articles of consumption. Mr. Edward Atkinson, a gentleman who has given this subject a great deal of thought, estimates from our census reports and other data .that of the total population of 65,000,000 people in the United States 23,000,000 are engaged in what are called gainful occupations, earning wages, or salaries, and that the average annual income of these 23,000,000 people, upon which they and all the other people of the United States depend for support, is S6OO, making for the year $13,800,(MX),000. Deducting 6 per cent, from that for federal, state and municipal taxes and 10 per cent, for savings or additions to the permanent wealth of the country, there is left $11,582,000,000 to be expended by the people for their support. The Hon. D. A. Wells, by a different process, arrives at the conclusion, after deducting 6 per cent, for taxes and 10 per cent, for permanent savings or additions to the wealth of the people, that there remains to be expended for their support the sum of $11,957,400,000, or a little more than Mr. Atkinson estimates, butjie thinks that is somewhat too large. If SIO,(XX)JMX),OOO represents the annual expenditures for commodities, then $833,333,333 represents the monthly expenditures, and as we have the increase of prices according to the importance of the articles stated by quarters, the result is not difficult to ascertain. This is the table heretofore referred to, and it requires no explanation except to say that the second column shows the increase in the cost of living at the end of each quarter over what it was at the beginning of the period: » >» -g F 5 -y 2 j '1 § s ~ . iXX F t —a :- - r ’■ » -a “2 e 3 *S:~ I- “ Last . First quarter, 1890 11X1.96 101.80 1(1).11 Second’quarter, 1890... 100.59 1(0.61 99.76 Third quarter, 1890 99.99 100.48 99.52 Fourth quarter, 1800:.. 100.43 101.83 1*9.95 First quarter, 1891 101.23 103.57 100.38 Second quarter, 1891... 190.1*4 1(B.15 1*9.01 Third quarter, 1891 99.56 99.85 98.95 [One hundred assumed as the price at the beginning of the time inquired into.] We find that during the last quarter of the year 1889 the increased cost of living over and above what it was during the third quarter of that year—the quarter which was taken as the basis of the investigation—was $27,750,000. For the first quarter of the year 1890 the cost of living over and above what it was during the first quarter covered by the investigation was $45,000,000. For the second quarter of the year 1890 it was $15,250,000, and I desire to call attention here to the fact that during the second quarter of the year 1890, before the passage of the McKinley act, the cost of living fell considerably below what it was at the end of the first quarter. The third quarter, which closed Oct. 1, 1890, the very day on which the McKinley act was approved, the increase was $12,000,000; but during the next quarter, immediately following the passage of the act, the increase was $45,750,000. The next quarter the cost of living was still going up, and the increase was $89,250,000; but the next, the cost having begun to decline somewhat from the point it had reached, it wSsss3,750,000, making, in the aggregate, the Increased cost of living to the people of the United States during the period covered by this investigation $288,750,000. Mr. George—How long? Mr. Carlisle—For twenty-four months, excluding September, 1889, and the three which were taken as a basis. The increased cost of living to the people of the United States during the twenty-four months was $288,750,000; but during the last quarter covered by this investigation, taking the three months together, there was a slight decline of 15-100ths ofT per cent, in the cost of living, amounting to $3,750,000, which I have deducted from'the gross sum, showing a net increase in the cost of living of $285,000,000, the largest proportion of which, or $185,000,000, occurred after the passage of the McKinley act, and a large part of the $100,000,000 increase which occurred before that time is directly attributable to the fact that the bill was pendingin congress with almost absolute knowledge on the part of the people that it would pass and become a law. Now, Mr. President, how does this compare with the statement made by the senator from Rhode Island, that there was such a decline in the cost of living during that period as to represent a saving jf $325,000,000 per annum to the people of the United States? Here is $285,000,000 added to the cost of living during that period, which the people have paid; and, no matter what decline may have come at its close, not one cent of it will ever be reimbursed to those who were compelled to ex pend it for the necessaries of life. Teat money is gone from them—gone forever—' and even though prices may continue to decline without fluctuation after the ex ph-ation of the investigation, it does not follow that such decline or a greater one yvould not have taken place if the McKinley act had never been passed. On the contrary, if the McKinley act had never been passed there would have been a greater decline undoubtedly, and this enormous additional expenditure of $285,090,000 would not have been extorted from the people. Mr. Grosvenor, a gentleman whom this committee-must indorse, because it had him employed for some time tb assist in collecting prices, made an investigation covering the eighteen months just preceding the beginning of this investigation, June 1, 1889, which showed that the prices of commodities in this country hud declined 14 per cent, during that time. Mr. George—During what year? Mr. Carlisle—During the eighteen months next preceding the beginning of this investigation. Fortunately it so happened that our investigation began, the very day that his investigation closed, and, while his investigation showed that during the eighteen months covered by it the' prices of commodities declined in this country 14 per cent., all the senator from Rhode Island can now show is that after twenty-four mouths of unnecessarily high prices the cost of living ou one day at the Very ynd of the period hud declined fl-100tha pfl per cent.! ? Is it pot perfectly clear, then, that the proposition with which I started out, that the McKinley act hud interfered with and arrested this natural tendency toward a decline in the prices of cbmpuxiities, was correct, and that by its passage the people of the United States were deprived of those benefits Which the people of all other fiblWUi'LSPun tries In the Wild W (V W Wff“

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