Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1895 — An Argument For Protection. [ARTICLE]

An Argument For Protection.

“The free trade and anglomaniac organs like the New York Times are making much of the recent article of Mr. Mulhall in the North American Review for #Hne,” says the Indianapolis Journal. “It is an excellent article, but the mere striking of the facts were brought out in the census reports of 1890. All the rapid increase of wages in cities was presented in census bulletins which tho Time s and other Cleveland organs were not newspapers trough to publish iD 1891 and 1892. Now these papers are giving the Mulhall tables as if original discoveries. Here is one d£ them which republican papers printed in fullfnce type all the oampaign of 1892, showing the study increase of wages. . Dollar* Wages. !>er opTeor. Millions. erative, 1860 379 289 1870 620 302 1880 948 347 1894 2,283 485 “Again the Times gives the following, as if Mr. Mulhall had made the discovery, when, as a matter of fact, it was all in the last census: “ ’The changes in the distribution of average wealth in the last forty years throughout the different parts of- the country are very striking. In 1850 New England led with $413, and was followed by the Middle States with 1340, the Southern 1314, the Prairie S2OB, and the Pacific $lB3. In 1890 the order was as follows: '•Pacific, $2,247; Middle, $1,260; Prarie, $1,130; New England, $1,112; the Southern, $539. The average for the Union in 1850 was S3OB, and 1890 $1,039/

“It was ‘very striking’ in 1891 and in 1892 when first published by American newspapers and silently ignored by free trade organs or else denounced as republican lies.. “It needs to be added that all these figures, presented by a British statistician, are testimonials to the wisdom of the republican policy of protection which the Times has so bitterly fought all these years. In no other country have wages shown an increase so large from decade, to decade, both per capita and in the aggregate. Iu no country in the world has the average wealth .risen in such long strides from decade to decade. Never was there such a splendid testimonial •ta the -efficacy - of the republican policy of protection.” The death of Hon. Wm. Dahncke, of Wheatfield, County Commissioner Elect, will not, if we are correctly informed, leave any vacancy in the County Board, after December. As he had never qualified for the office, we understand that Capt. Faris will holdover, at least until the next general election.