50 NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Fruition in the Twentieth Century of Andrew Jackson’s Ideas. 
the capitalist class. Only a very small percentage of 
the present millionaires were not at one time poor men. 
Tf the war tariff of 1867, which doubled the num- 
ber of our sheep between 1873 and 1884, had not been 
repealed, at the same rate of increase that took place 
under it long before the present time the United States 
would have produced its own entire wool supply. The 
Southern states alone are capable of supplying more 
wool than American machinery can use. Mr. Under- 
wood states that in view of the rapidly increasing popu- 
lation, if our people are to continue to use wool for 
clothing, a larger percentage of domestic consumption 
must be imported. Since 1894, according to the figures 
furnished in Mr. Underwood’s report, flocks in South 
America have barely held their own. European produc- 
.tion has decreased 7 per cent. Oceanica in the same 
period has decreased its sheep production 3 per cent. 
The United States under the protective tariff is the only 
country in the whole world that has increased the num- 
ber of sheep under adequate protection more rapidly 
than the increase in population. If we destroy the sheep 
industry of the United States, the first and only method 
for restoring it would be a bounty, which for that pur- 
pose in thirteen years would take out of the treasury of 
the United States $365,000,000., while the much abused 
Schedule K during that length of time has brought more 
than that amount of revenue into it. 
General Jackson doubtless would have been in en- 
tire agreement with the late President McKinley in his 
estimate of the value to the poor men of the United 
States of industries that have been built up and main- 
tained here by a protective tariff which without that aid 
could never have been established in the country at all. 
Some one said to him that Andrew Carnegie, who had 
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begun life as a poor man, was reported to be worth 
one hundred million dollars, which was too much money 
for any one ‘person to have. President McKinley 
promptly replied: 
‘‘Before you come to such a concluson, I would 
ask if you have ever estimated the amount of wages 
which Mr. Carnegie caused to be distributed to labor 
in America while he was accumulating this alleged 
one hundred million dollars. I am quite sure that 
while he was accumulating his fortune, he dis- 
tributed in wages fully ten times as much money 
as he saved. This would be one billion dollars. The 
value to the Nation of this distribution would be 
over ten times that amount, which you can easily 
comprehend. If you attempt to follow every dollar 
that is paid out in wages, as each dollar circulates 
from hand to hand, and see what is done with it, 
I am quite confident that every dollar paid out in 
wages will change hands on an average nearer 
twenty than ten times during the year; but to be 
within conservative bounds, I will assume that each 
dollar paid out in wages circulates on an average 
only ten times during the year.’’ 
You will thus see how wages employed in a new do- 
mestic industry, through the operations of only one such 
captain of industry as Mr. Carnegie, filtering out through 
the Nation in wages paid to labor enriches the whole 
country to the extent of ten billion dollars. 
This advantage to the Nation may be illustrated by 
a physical example, such as the throwing of a stone into 
a pond. As the ripples caused thereby radiate in every 
direction, so do the protective benefits of a protective 
tariff radiate beneficently to every part of the country 
for the country’s good. 
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