The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-01-22

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4 Report O1 C6samIss1UneR Wells
The Aouusl Report Of the SpSsia
Commissioner Of The BeVenne for th
year 1888, has Just been made public
I It Is a important document, compre
/ hensiVe ia its details asd soahd abS
satisfactory in its conclusions We can
, mot but regard, however, its, extrem,
length IS q serious defect for its iuaG
encs on public opinion, and hence upor
! legislstiOB, would Be inmeasufSbIJ
!. greater, If it we're ia such Z shspe thai
|. it could, BY any possibility, be alI Eesd
! NJ. Wells does not take. into account
1 the 6Fevity Uf human lite.
{ We shall sndeayoF 20 present 10 sub
stance what this valuable report con.
tains. rrr s}ssa ae7fl '7l
rHEsENI JSDITfoS OF eArIrAt AxB ISBgsrEF.
The country ia rapidly recovering
from the effects Of the var, and is re-
Stunning its wonderful career Of progress
and Development The evidences are
l. That si0cs Jaly I, 1885, one null
lion BatiFes Of foreign countries have
settled permaaeBtly ia. The Unitsd
States, who have brought directly into
the country 80 millions Of specie and
have added indirectly 10 The wealth and
resources Of the country 500 millions Of
dollars. -ref ED ,lzeoi sa
q The general increase Of the pro
ducts Of domestic industry is Evidenced
by the fact that within The last Eve
years more cotton spindIes hare been
IPut in operation, more iron furnaces
eReoted, more iron smelte,l, more bars
rolled, more steel made, more coal and
copper mined, more lumber saved aDd
heWp, more houses and shops con-
atFucted, more manufactures os di1es-
eHt kinds started, and more petroleum
collected, refined aud exported than
during suy equal period in the history
OF the country; and this increase has
been greater both as regards Quality
and quantity, and greater than tbe Is-
gitimate increase 70 be expected from
the normal increase Of wealth and pop-
ulatioa. ~ 37s .l''a'i il''
3 That tie agricultural products Of
the United States have increased,
Whethss measured BY quantity Or value.
The aggregate crops Of 1881 are esti-
mated as greater than those Of any pre-
vious year, while those Of / s6s ey iced
those Of 1857, g p a ''J
4. That the number Of miles OF rail-
ways has steadily increased siiace 1885,
at the average rate Of 1855 miles per
annum, there being completed sa,9441t
miles at the close Of 1897. since and
including the year 1895, in which the
war terminated, 5000 miiss Of railway
have been Constructed, and the present
ratio Of annual increase Is mors than
double that Of former YeaFE "a 80
/ On the other hand, tbs AVERAGE ,r1S an.
nua E11.t. = increase Of railrqads iRIi Great
Britain from 1860 10 ise5-wss oolv
81 miles, and in France, during The
same period, 500. - ~, = \
An a9Alysis Of The railroad pysssm Of
the Uuited States presents vs. with, re- !
suits. which, il not founded on in
controvertable data, would seem ifabu-
iouA Thus The ratio Of The gross, earn
ings Of cost Of the railroads Of the whole
country for tbe year 1867, vas equal EO
about twepty-One per cent for the
Northern States about 90 per cent.
The railroads Of the country, therefore,
now receive their cost ina little more
than four years, aud THE ratio Of gross
esrriRgH to cost Is steadily increasing |
With Ihs incTeaee of,the railway sFs, !
tenn and traffic Of the eonntrysrq Hosl9,
In 1855 there we're erected 1000
miles of telegraph wire; in 1861, 3, 600
and ia 1868 5000 miles 5 -
8, As sfOrdihg further Indication Of
The material prosperity Of the country,
the Commissioner calls attention 10 the |
progress which has been made during
The past yesr in the reduction Of The i6Sl
iebtedness Of the several States. incur.
red in great part BY reason Of the war;
Thus for example, the reduction Of the
debt of The State Of New Hanp-
shire for Lhe year 1865, was SO per
cent? OF Vermont, 1872 per cent. /; of
Rhode Island, l5.7 per eent Of Con-
necteut, 81 per cent; Kentucky, 2Il
per cent ) Ohio, 40 per cent; Michi-
gan, 90 per cent, and Indiane, % per
,ent During the years 1857 and ls6s
he State Of Illinois reduced her debt
'o.5 per cent while New York, which
las comparatively the largest State in i
ieb'e inesA reduced her debt during
ne past year 10 The extent Of about 10
per cent West Virginia, Ksntueky,
-oWa, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Mime
0ta have at the present time practical
J no Indebtedness.
Mr. Wells is Of the opinion that the
IgeDciss mainly oonoerned in this na.
ional development hays been great
latutai resources in respect to abundant
md fertile territory, grsaf facilities for
ntercommunicatioH, abundant aud
beaP raw material diversity of climate,
nd form and spirit Of government
rhich has left man aad capital, free and
nFestraiaed 10 work out their own de-
eloPmentS M .us3l. 5ur5I 5 d
The agencies adverse to national de-
eloPment are, according to the Com
missioner, ifredeemsble paper cur
aney, unequal and heavy ta1ation, and
limited supply Of skilled labor. The /
commissioner shows By inc0ntFOverti-
le proofs and examples that our de-
ased currency does more to derauge
nd dePFess our foreign trade than sIII
her causes combined. We had ac!li
lsion some tine since TO show that the !
ennsy Vania pFotectiouists would exsI
,bls evidences of sanity, if they ceased q
wiling about 4 high tanf, and de- 2
anded of the GOvernment a sound ;
Irrency. 3
The Commissioner shows conclusive 7
that notwithstanding the advance IN 6
Ie wages Of the lsbOrer since 1860 \
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