Show AMERICAN industries Acco according iding to the ceness of ino elicio were engaged in nil all gainful pursuits 19 persons agriculture in pro PM anil and personal services A trod trado and trans trang and mining 3 3 83 bow now just why tile the jirld n miners jre classed together it may be hard bard to gurm BUr inise icia by those not familiar famili ir with ill tile the coni maii intrigues ligues of man 1 but it is as safe to say say that there are lir e ns as man many on engaged gagel in minine and mechanics aw as in manufacturing and that less than half of those engaged in manufacturing and that lesa legs than halt half of those engaged in manufacturing are protected protect ell in in ai it degree so that it turns our oui that certainly much less than one in seventeen ore enga engaged cd in a any ny protected manufacturing and of tha thavone tolle million thui engaged less than one in ten tell or less lesa aban one hundred thousand are really benefited by it assuming ns as I 1 do that none done but itofe ally interested tere te eted in the plants are 0 30 o thit that certainly lees leeg than one person out of each five hundred persons per soni receive racen c a profit or oi diorec t benefit from any protected industry but the other four hundred and ni ninety neav nine are taxed an all average of forty fire anve per cent on most all of tile common almon necessities for this ones els benefit so to enri enrich clithe the less than one hundred thousand owners of tile shops the farmers far the pro still and per vices the LWOW trade and trans ind and all tile miners mechanics and laboring men of tho the country are taxed based an average of forty five lier cent on oil most of the com common moll necessities 0 you iou sep while the total product of t the it is manufacturer w wa fa s caf lyv t hilt ha it double didble tile the farm output the farmer exported 1837 or 74 per jer cent manu manufacturer fa ta I 1 or 19 per cent and this after tile the fa farmer taxing himself twenty teven years to build up tip a home market now who vrho has hag the home market senator alienator lie aloar during the fifty first congress said that we could not consume our farm product and the foreign market was declining by reason of competition coulp and lie suggested as to ti 41 r remedy emedy ilia immigration alion of a nonagricultural population to consume our surplus let us see liow how ridiculous us an based upon tile the bread supply total wheat chop 1891 1801 consumption 5 bu per cap seed F sul plus to consume this surplus at five bushels per capital capita it would require oc r 1 2 OU persons or more i immigrants in i ir ants than have come coine in tile the list ono one hundred hu adred years beautiful thought what a boon aboon for tile poor working man G W UELL |