Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 9781230058719

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...demand for American labor in the expansion and diversification of industries. WaGns or FARM LimoE. The wages of farm labor, as exhibited by oliicial reports of the Agricultural Department, disclose the operation of the same influence. Because there is a greater demand for all labor, when new establishments are constantly being completed and put in operation, through the withdrawal of hands from the supply available for farm labor, there results an advance in the wages of such hands which bears strong testimony to the power of the upward influence. The oflicial statements (see Table D) show that the average of wages paid to farm hands per month in all the States has advanced 1.4 per cent. during the last two years, 2 per cent. during the last four years, 3 per cent. in the last seven years, and 15.7 per cent. since 1879, the year of specie resumption. While this advance makes the cost of production somewhat greater, the farmers have compensation in the far greater efliciency of farm implements and machinery, in their greater cheapness, especially within the past two years, and in the reduction of more than one-half in the cost of transporting their products from the farms to distant eastern markets. Tun NATION'S MARVELLOUS Paoonnss. This is but an outline of the magnificent results which have followed a steady maintenance of the Republican policy of protection for more than thirty years. The progress of the nation has been greater than that of any other nation, and so great that this has surpassed every other in aggregate valuation. The wealth-producing power of the people has gained so greatly that foreign statisticians now estimate the annual addition to the wealth of the United States as greater than the annual addition to the wealth of...

Download or read book Republican Campaign Text-Book written by Anonymous and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...demand for American labor in the expansion and diversification of industries. WaGns or FARM LimoE. The wages of farm labor, as exhibited by oliicial reports of the Agricultural Department, disclose the operation of the same influence. Because there is a greater demand for all labor, when new establishments are constantly being completed and put in operation, through the withdrawal of hands from the supply available for farm labor, there results an advance in the wages of such hands which bears strong testimony to the power of the upward influence. The oflicial statements (see Table D) show that the average of wages paid to farm hands per month in all the States has advanced 1.4 per cent. during the last two years, 2 per cent. during the last four years, 3 per cent. in the last seven years, and 15.7 per cent. since 1879, the year of specie resumption. While this advance makes the cost of production somewhat greater, the farmers have compensation in the far greater efliciency of farm implements and machinery, in their greater cheapness, especially within the past two years, and in the reduction of more than one-half in the cost of transporting their products from the farms to distant eastern markets. Tun NATION'S MARVELLOUS Paoonnss. This is but an outline of the magnificent results which have followed a steady maintenance of the Republican policy of protection for more than thirty years. The progress of the nation has been greater than that of any other nation, and so great that this has surpassed every other in aggregate valuation. The wealth-producing power of the people has gained so greatly that foreign statisticians now estimate the annual addition to the wealth of the United States as greater than the annual addition to the wealth of...