Show FAR CENSUS BULLETINS SHOW AN INCREASE IN their NUMBER while are am shooting lont lug selves blourne over till the increase in production of manufactures they wisely silent about tie tiar I 1 arnn rits whilo while republicans kapu laicans and protectionists projectionists are shouting themselves hoarse over the increases in production of various irions Vc kinds of f manufactures and other products shown by posters cansas they should not neglect to mention the atai fling i in increases crea fes in fann fill nad home mortgages me shown by samo same census bulle bulletins tills the rc lorts have lieu completed for but nine states live five we western teru tareo bouthern and one eastern irate they show increases in nil all parts of this high tariff country and the increases lave have more inora than kept pace with the rise of our duties the bulletins last issued are for massachusetts chu and maryland it would naturally rall 1 posed that hat the good resu I 1 ts of protection would bo be manifest by great prosperity among tho the laborers and farin fann ers in these states filled with protected manufactories manu factories especially in massachusetts with its wi numerous protected horns markets for the tanners farmers and its thousands of busy hamming mills milli filled with workmen drawing besides their regular eal earnings aings a considerable share of the tha tariff bonus received by the manufacturers and of course coune turned over to the poor workingmen for whom it was obi ob i bained but these two bulletins are bat two more chapters in the sad fall story of the 6 struggle with poverty which was begun when porter issued the iho first farm home sud and mortgage gage bulletins bulletin in maryland the percentage of hired farms antrea ed from froin per cent in 1880 to in 2009 owners of farms in 1880 were overcome over como with protection pros prosperity penty by ISOO 1691 and were ing hirce farms besides these new farmers appeared upon the scene to cultivate farms owned by other people but many who now own farms are on their way to tho the poorhouse over SO 80 per cent of the alio owned farms are encumbered with mortgages representing per cent of their full value tho the annual interest charge chare 0 on these farms amounts to 05 per family the same signs of r it ity exist in the homes of maryland per cent of the home other than farm families live in hired quarters and 2363 per cent of alose those who own homes must pay an average interest of z 35 55 per family on oil mortgages worth per percent cent of the value of these thesa homes la in protected baltimore tile the situation is even worse among families on the average hire their homes 19 1971 7 1 own free of encumbrance cuni brance and own with ith encumbrance to the extent of per cent of the value of their homes tho the int interest crest on oil these encumbered homes average 0 Q za 58 per family but these figures are tamo tame as compared with those of the great commonwealth of massachusetts here is n part of this mtr introduction to the massachusetts bulletin told in porters own words during the 10 years 1 aw 9 real estate mortgages were made in ill una this state representing nn an incurred indebtedness of PO the debt remaining iu in force jan 1 laso 1690 is 33 secured by mortgages and of this debt encumbers acres and encumbers lots the mortgage mo movement of tile the 10 years N aich has bas been nn an increasing 0 one without interruption began with an incurred cm red debt of in isho ended with in in an in iii crease of per cent while file lation increased 2557 2357 per cint at the same time dunn during the decade a real estate mortgage dc debt it of was incurred in suffolk county containing boston and the existing debt in that county is in 8 of the 14 counties the existing debt is anum that than S t 0 each cach in the ratio between the debt and the estimated true value of leal ical detate massachusetts comp aies with other states as follows IL clr lent percent alabama AlA liaina antii lul L 1414 kiil liil I 1 i losia 1714 Neb nebraska 1 4 afi he kantas kari baj wj au renni tAie I 1 bill ii u in per capita indebtedness mas massachusetts ats is exceeded among these states only by kansas the debt per capita of population ii as aa follo follows wt Alu alabama baula ca ai illinois ita ii N MJ iwa ill U I la IN N hansas lu aenne ienne eu a 1 I the amount of debt on acres incurred in ill was U per cent more than in 1880 1680 while v lailo tile incurred acre acra debt increased from in isso 1880 to in 1889 the alio total debt incurred on in lots during the 10 years was ah 1 h gain in fit number of murt mortgaged mortgage hageb a in ilca over aloo of ia 1880 40 was 13 per cent in amount of incurred delit debt 17 3 25 per cent it will take many years of low tariffs and genuine prosperity for the farmers and la boreri to woi k their r way tint out from under thu the heavy loads of mck mckinley I 1 I 1 y pros prosperity penty that is now brea brealand lang their acir backs and to get back into their own homes unencumbered by debts incurred to pay bonuses to manufacturers let the new tariff begin at tile the cai liest possible datel date |