This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...that paper contained an editorial article under the title of "The Export Problem/' in which a parcel of absurd allegations were presented as so many established facts. Our cotemporary should have learned by this time that it is far easier to make than it is to prove an assertion. For example: The most material bearing ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...that paper contained an editorial article under the title of "The Export Problem/' in which a parcel of absurd allegations were presented as so many established facts. Our cotemporary should have learned by this time that it is far easier to make than it is to prove an assertion. For example: The most material bearing that the American tariff has upon the export of American breadstuff's is, that since 1861 the American producer has received in exchange for his exports from one quarter to one third less in quantity in other commodities, such as iron, and cotton, and woolen clothing, than he did between 1846 and 1861. Here, as usual, we have assertion without proof. The facts contradict the Tribune. Little more than three months ago a woolen manufacturer in Indiana, whose business was started in 1854, made the following statement in our columns--a statement derived from his personal experience: But to show you just how cheap you are buying woolen goods (cotton goods will make nearly the same showing), I will give a table of prices in i860 and 1874, simply for a contrast: Choice tub wool, well washed, sold in i860 for $.25 per ft). Average highest wages paid for hands in i860 1.50 per day. Price for 9-oz. jeans, wholesale.... 6operyard. Tub wool, poorly washed, 1874, sold for 50 per ft). Average highest wages paid in 1874 3.00 per day. Price of 9-oz. jeans, wholesale 50 per yard. This exhibit emphatically denies the assertion made so dogmatically by the Tribune. The wool-grower obtains double the price, and the mill operative double the wages he did in i860, and the wholesale price of the same class and grade of goods has declined 163 per cent. Is that an illustration of the way in which Western farmers are literally fleeced by our Protective system, and ...
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