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1 ! ; ' PAUPERISM AND ENCOURAGE
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M. FURLOW ■
hislrii t •Ui'.scr. Madison, Ga.
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THE GEORGIA EXTERPRIiE, COVINGTOX, <JA., FR,d 'Y
MORNIXti.
g§pi the cost of living.
Wages Compared With f ood and Necessities De«
termine the Measure of Prosperity.
*
Concerning the co^ta t u ' ^ T lng
Plied to the wages aP ' has actua Hj’ gone down. Now. I
earned \ 6 eS d
travagant claims ' ° not think there was ever a more
publican National €rroneous statement made on this floor
effect that this is an era of e ^ 1° Pr ^ ° S tha fr ° m " that I1Hno Same l < Mr one Boutell) ‘ The gentleman
Perity, madefn the following haHf p X( v> I ' 8 was very
epeech of Representatives the r * CarefUl figure8 Wh “ on sp the " Wng coet *<« of living. * us
in Inet0n by Let
Mr. ' m " S> ve you figures
Allan Benny of Vm"**’ some from Dun’s
Jan. 28 last sheds ° D Review > wb ich I suppose every man
much "aid g " ^ ^ IH take
subject. Mr Benny " ba 'e some weight at
least.
Chairman, that ’ Th figures based u P° n Quotations
wages ag f have lave ine ‘“teased -
’ a of 380 articles
i, 1- per npr cent, during , , the Republican with due allowance for
ministration, ad- the relative importance of each, are as
and that the cost of liv- follows:
Preadstuffs !?•*■ 1SU0. b July 1*57. 1, Jan. j<“T. 1, May 1, July i, Oct. i, Jan i.
... ■$h ! .7r» j: i.Sg| 1902. 1903. 1963. 1304
..........-• 7.62# 7.52)1 4 *19,9-54 $17,473 $16,69-7
Dairy and garden • j-'-Hio 7.25S 10.963 9,269 8.VO)
Other food * ;h i3.v,',» 14 737 13.! 93 12.609 ........
nothing .......'' ...... !',8aJ 7,887 S.1V0 8.742 9.196 S.171 ........
Metals \\ H.X45 13.89$ ’7.484 15.527 17,136 16.81U
Miscellaneous ........ TC.JVi 11.643 IS.('65 15.702 16,554 16.300 ........
la.lll 12,286 It, 3 16.654 18,765 16,89*)
Total $99,191 $72,457 $95,295 $102,2S9
$99,456 $97,37S $ 105,142
"These figures indicate that the cost
of living was 6 per cent, higher in
1900 than in 1890; 41 per cent more in
1902 than in 1897, and 34 4-10 per cent.
more on Oct. 1, 1903 than on July l,
1897, and about 30 per cent, greater on
the first day of this year than on the
first day of July, 1897; 39 per cent.
increase in the cost of living and 12
per cent, increase taking the figures of
gentlemen on tne other side, in wages,
yet they say every laboring man in the
country and every citizen in the land
ought to be thankful that the Repub¬
lican party has done so much for the
laboring man.
"There was one thing, Mr. Chairman,
that I did like in the speech of the
gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Boutell),
and that was Ids statement that he did
give some credit to Almighty God for
the prosperity which he claims exists
in this country. He was the first Re¬
publican that I ever heard on this floor
admit that. But even he did not dare
tell this house what percentage he
claimed of the prosperity of the coun¬
try was due to the Republican party,
and what percentage was due to the
goodness of the Almighty. I assume
that the percentage he was going to
credit to the Almighty was so small
that he was ashamed to state it.
"And then the gentleman from
Illinois looked around ihe room and
demanded of some Democrat to contra¬
dict his statement that the country was
prosperous. Weil, I wonder, Mr. Chair¬
man, what condition any man here
would expect the United States to be
In? Would not our country, under
natural conditions, he expect. i to be
prosperous? Why they remind me a
good deal cf the log of a ship that
came into New York some time ago.
The captain one day during the voyage
was on watch, and he wrote in the iog:
"Mate drunk to day.” The mate did
not like it very well, and the next day
when he was on watch he wrote in the
DIFFEBEXCE BETWEEN ElL!$:i
AND AMERICAN TRUSTS.
English trusts are comparatively
harmless affairs, and cannot and have
not arbitrarily advanced prices except
in a few instances, like that of brass
bedsteads, and then only temporarily,
The difference between a trust in a
free-trade country and one in a high
tarii'f country can be ’illustrated by
the Borax Consolidated, an English
corporation with $16,000,009 capita!,
This is a world trust, and the Pacific
Coast Borax Company, of this country,
Is Ihe greatest of the twelve companies
in the trust, and probably supplies as
much borax as all cf the other , ••cm
panics combined. This world trust
sclis refined borax to-day in this conn
try at 7“, cents and in England at ?>-,
cp:its P cr Pound. Much of the borax
sold in England is borax from the
mines of California, and is refined at
Bayonne, N. J., and exported to Eng-
5 cents .... per pound, ..... ..r and was on Z£F£ raised *rom
2 cents in 1897 by the Republicans.
When the duty was 2 cents, borax sold
here at 5 cents. As a matter of his'Oiy
it may be stated that had there boon
no duty on borax here there would
have been no world trust, The ex
orbitant profits of the trust her-’ e -
aided it to sell borax at loss than -
cents per pound in Europe and to fo • •->
its competitors to sell their p
low prices. But this trust u «>m
1st America.
professor Jenks, in the employ cf tne
Industrial Commission, wen: m ^ .‘opt.
1“ 1901 and made a 300-pu o e repoit on
“Industrial Combination?” in EToy
He could enumerate but thirty-five
trusts in England. He states that in
movement tow. a ” -
England the
bination has not gone so far as m®
either Austria or Germany.' ‘
English trusts have had htue 01
ths the s.ight
no effect in advancing prices,
during the last two years be
advance
> a <? “ d,ie ,n eood part
In the prices of_ratv material.
log: "Captain sober to-day.” So the
Republican party comes here and de
Clares that the United States is pros
perous, as though it were an unusual
thing.
"Why, if you. on the other side,
would let us alone—would not by your
laws on the one hand help a few people
at the expense of many others, and by
your failure on the other hand to en
force the laws of the land, designed to
give all men an even chanee-and
would not divert the prosperity into
eeriain channels, and the money from
the prosperity into a few pockets, the
country would always be prosperous
It is only because of that kind of work
on your side that the country is ever
in any other condition, and yet to-day
you marvel that, we are prosperous
as though it was natural to expect any¬
thing else from our country. 1 expect
it to be always in that condition, and
it always will be if you will only give
it a fair chance, and let the country
and the people in it develop the re¬
sources of this, the greatest land iu the
world, and go along on their way in
peace, free from your miserable manip¬
ulation.
“And then they announce that Presi¬
dent Roosevelt is so sure of re-election,
that there is no use bothering at all,
arid that there is no sense in the Dem¬
ocrats putting up a candidate.
“Well, let me suggest to you, gentle
men on the other side, if you think that
is so, why are you making all this fuss;
what difference does it make to you
v, r.om we nominate, or what the plat¬
form is, and if you are going to beat
os anyway—why not keep quiet? You
remind me of the boy going through
the graveyard, who whistled at the to.)
of his lungs all the time, npt becaus)
he wanted to whistle, but just for t;.i
purpose of keeping his courage up, ;
That is why you talk so loud on tht
other side now.”
R: SO R T D
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Senator Lattimer, of South Caro- j
1
lir.a. says:
“There is no possible excuse for any j
Democrat in the land to withhold his
vote from Judge Parker, and there is
every reason in the world why patri
0 Gc Republicans should support him.
}{e stands for all that Jefferson. Jack- ^
son Lincoln and Tilden stood for— j
,
sound and constitutional govern
- ; ieat.”
i??nat* r Joseph \Y. Bailey £ >ys.
al -guincr.t is that when the conn
<ry jg most prosperous in a material
, vav jt 1)aS greatest need to call Urn
_
I)pni0Prrai( , party into its service in
or(ioJ . Uiat it m ay be reminded oi its
datjeg out3ide 0 f dollars and cents."
Edward XL Shepard, of New York,
says: “The modern Republican idea ,
that the use of a protective tariff is
to keep prices high to the American
drummer in order that the profits of
other Americans engaged in gigantic
established Industries shall
be increased, would have been as ab
horrent to Abraliam Lincoln as it is
Judge Parker. ’
to
^ Shepard, says: “The
— that, under
Republican auspices, no committee
shall investigate, nor House of Con
consider, the working of the
tariff. On this subject there must bo
mute obedience as before a deity. If
manufacture of steel and iron be
tne industry’ to be
no longer aa ‘infant
cherished, but a practical monop
oly within the Ameri an republic,
of whose profits the vastest
in th- world have been
fortunes its products
built up—if it cells
foreigners more cheaply than to
to «* re mu “ r
Americans—nevertheless.
t-e sileo.36.’’ •_ - -
SUES ABROAD AT FIGURES BE¬
LOW HOME PRICES.
The Republicans try hard to find
Statistics to prove that but an insignifi¬
cant proportion of manufactured good*
,old abroad ar * Mid at redmfid prices.
They QU ° te the sp€ech of Secretary
in < ^. lca KO during the session of
the Repub,ican Ni “ional Convention,
ia .Z be said;
ur opponeBt * lay much stress upon
J* £ r “ * ™ * tl>a5 American manufao ^
f. at
t f l> . aD ? ,°“ fncnds sometimes deny J
' SOm< ‘ time8 apologize for
’ a “ ***’ “ Umes »“*• >»•»« i«ine<l
° Ur ° PPOne,US ln recommending a re¬
moval of the tariff from all such ar
tides. It is useless to deny, and, in |
my judgment, unwise to apologize and
little short of foolishness to attempt to
remedy the assumed evil in the man
ner proposed by the opposition.
“A non-partisan commission ap
pointed by Congress to investigate the
subject with authority to compel the
attendance of witnesses, made a care*
ful and detailed report. Basing his
computations upon the facts set forth
in the report, Senator Gal linger, of
Hampshire, in a speech made in
United States Senate on April 23,
last, placed the value of exports sold
at a lower price abroad than at home
at $4,000,000. I cannot find that the
substantial correctness of this estimate
was ever questioned by the opposition.
But in any event the amount is so
SDla aS ccm i’ ared with the aggregate
0Utput 01 our factories as to be un
worthy of consideration."
Secretar - V Shaw is either a noviee
, wlt J', J ” S1! , res vote 0I ' !lG ” wlth is entirely big stati8tlc9 wi!lin S
whicn he knows are not true. It is
hardly possinte that our Secretary of
the Treasury does not know that we
do not produce $13,000,009,000 worth
of manufactured goods in a year ready
for final consumers, or anything URe
this amount. Our Census statistics o
manufactures coutain many duplica
tions. Thus we have manufactures of
cloth goods and of clothing; of iror
and steel, and of foundry products
machinery, etc.; of lumber and of
furniture; of leather and of boots and
shoes. In these few industries the
duplications amount to $2,t>00,000,000
or $3,000,000,000.” Were it possible to
take out the duplications—that is, the
products of one mill that are sold as
raw materials to another mill—it is
probable that the total value of finished
manufactured products would not be
more than half of $13,000,000,000.
Whether or not our census figures have
been stuffed in order to make a great
showing for protection can only he
surmised.
The statement that only $4,000,000
worth of our manufactured goods are
sold abroad cheaper than they are sold
at home is ridiculous. Secretary Shaw
says that he got his statistics from the
report of the Industrial Commission,
but he neglected to cite the page or
volume. As a matter of fact no such
statistics appear in any of the nineteen
volumes. Neither are there any state¬
ments from which he could reasonably
draw such a conclusion.
Secretary Shaw well knows, as doe3
every one of the Commission, that the
pretended investigation which that
partisan body made of export prices
was a farce and that it is absurd to
attempt to draw conclusions as does
Secretary Shaw, from data obtained in
answer to the scattering letter of in
quirv sent out by the Commission.
In the first place schedules of in
<? n-y were £--nt out to only - : >!J of
,lie C00 ' 000 manufacturing establish
uents cf this country—that is, only one
cf every 300. In the next place only
!JK replies were received. Of course,
the answers were mainly from those
who wffre net guilty. The guilty ones
did not volunteer information which
would incriminate them before the
American public. Moreover, they
doubtless understood the make-up of
t!m commission and knew that it did
not want evidence of the great extent
at' this business. Hence, nearly all of
guilty manufacturers either re
.rained from answering at all or put
1.1 ridiculous and absurd answers, such
as they supposed would please a ma¬
jority of the members of the commis¬
si ar. Under the circumstances it is
remarkable that even 75 manufacturers
Emitted that they were discriminat
i'-.4 ia f-vor of foreign customers. At
t:.: rata more than. l-.rn.9C0 of our
Licturers are favoring i'-- <ueners.
: cjul j w.ih far Letter logic and
lie n;u! 1 led from ih- e In
. si rial .Comini s-ion figures that, as
7 5 out of 416 manufacturers sold §4,
uitl.OOO worth of products cheaper
ulioad than at home that, out of the
1 ■- : t manufacturers in this country,
1 ' 8,900 would sell $5,708,000,000 worth
t f goods cheaper abroad than at home.
This result is obtained by simple pro¬
portion and is mathematically correct
c a ABIHET. ALL 8AMPAIGNIH3.
Affairs of State, the impending crisis
in China and all Governmental func¬
tions are passed upon by assistant sec
retaries these days. Not a member of
President Roosevelt’s Cabinet is in the
city. Secretary of War Taft, the last
of the official advisers c ( the adminis
tration to go out on cam*., ign work,
left the capital this evening—N. Y.
America a Washington Cor., Aug. £4.
Liwry, Feed And Sale Stable.
J. C. WEAVER, PROP.
New Luggies and Good Horses to Hire.
Prices Reasonable.
Mules and Horses kept on Hand For Sale,
CASH OR ON TIMH.
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MILLINERY.
Just received Fine lot Trimmed Hats
for fall and winter wear. Latest styles in
Childrens, Misses and Ladies shapes whioh I
will ofier at remarkably low prices. Also a,
line of ladies and gents furnishings.
Our notion department will be complete
Cali and examine our prices.
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