Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — The Other Side. [ARTICLE]

The Other Side.

President Harrison, in his last message? calls attention to the great increa'scfin wealth among manufactur-

dent states the facts correctly, otherwise he would have to confess that the protective tariff failed to accomplish its avowed object—the enrich* ment of the American manufacturers. But a glance at the farm statistics of the United States would reveal a very different picture. For instance, statistics published bythe Ohio Farmer show the average value of land in Ohio per acre in 1880 vyfl ß $27.00; average value per acre 1890, $22.08; decrease value per acre 1800 of $4.92. Aggregate value of real estate in 1890, as equalized by board, $2,140,135,496; in 1880, as equalized by board, $1,097,509,830; increase over 1880, $42,625,666. Value of farmlands 1880, $684,826,516; value of farm lands 1890, $566,361,909; decrease from 1880, $115,564,607. Value of real estate in towns and cities in 1880, $412,583,314; value in 1890 $570,773,587; increase over 1880, $158,090,273. The total increase of real property in Ohio in 1890 over 1880, as equalized by the State Board In both years, amounted to a fraction less than 4 per cent. This increase remains as a balance of the increase of towns and cities, after canceling the appalling loss on farm lands. On farm lands the loss aggregates about 15 per cent in the decade, while the towns and cities gain a fraction over 38 percent. The St. Louis Republic shows that, “while the farmers of the South have suffered a loss of $180,000,000 on their cotton crop, the farmers of the West have suffered a loss of $168,000,000 on their wheat crop and $240,000,000 on their corn crop—rand the aggregate losses on these three staples alone amount to $558,000,000.” Verily this picture is not so pleasing viewed from the side of the unprotected farmer as from that of the protected manufacturer. —Oakland County Post.