The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-03-30

sagacious old Prince. They think it obso-
le.e, but it will most certainly not be very
long before they find ont their mistake.
In smau Manufactures lies our Hope for the
Future.
lFrom the Mobile Register March eardI
In an article published yesterday, upon
the unpleasant fact that Alabama was not
80 wide awake to her own interests as she
should be, we stated that her increase in
manufactures was the least of all the South
ern States in the last ten years. AS we have
always regarded manufacturing as the very
life-blood OF the prosperity of any American
State-and especially of the Southern States
which now have to work the problem of
their own material recuperation, against
all odds of enterprise, of excessive capital
and Of almost insurmountable prejudice
We promised to give to-day the figures upon
which we based our statement. The stat
allow very high and very gratifying
average of material result from the
energy and practical activity of our whole
people. This, too, there is every reason
to believe, would be largely increased could
the figures of the immediate past-.from
reliable general calculation. From these
statistics we find that the whole country
has advanced with rapid and most fatter-
ing strides in manufacturing especially in
the production of fabrics for supply of our
home, as well as of foreign, markets. In
this advance the South has shared to a
marked degree, though ofcourse in n 10 sort
of equality with the richer and more COM
pact North. These figures are 30 immense
and OF such primary Importance to have
well comprehended by our people-that
we reproduce the most marked of them
here for reference and study:
The total number of manufacturing est
IA in in
l23 OPS in 1860, 140, ABB in 1870, 252, 145.
The capital invested in manufactures in
creased from $1,009, s55,715, in 1860, to
S2,O1l .2O9. 769 i'll 1870 the annual wages
increased from 1878 ,e75,9GG, in 1860, to
s775, 1854 ,343, in 1870 the value of mater
1850, to 81, AS, 427 ,252 in 1870; and the value
of the products of manufactures increased
from 81 49,, s6l GIG in 1860, to 81, 232 $685.
4a2, in 1870. These figures are for the
whole country, and they show that nearly
all tue items were doubled In the ten years
succeeding ls6O-tae increase being mnch
greater than i'll the preceding ten years.
OF course, in considering this increase we
must not forget that the extraordinary de-
mands of the war stimulated manufacture.
ing in the North and that the immense
sums of money directed into it's channels
facilitated their rapid growth and appre-
citation from enhanced prices following in
creased demand. But, on the other hand.
we must remember that for the five years
of the war the whole South was nationally
unprodu ctive, and her results are neces.
sarily excluded from the above calcula-
tions. Moreover, for several years succeed
ing tne termination OF that exhausting
s sg.e-ann, IN Iact, 10 very apPrecla-
. Gie essent at tne P,esent moment-the en-
eile south was oadly crippled, not only in
e cue anu ID business mofate, but also in
Ine more materlat FEATURES or capital and
laoor. hence we regard TINS national in
crease et as the more noteworthy and, with
en!s nuch premlee, Will proceed TO ltemlze
a,rara paat S,A 1t "nu Wes'eln states
not one of them doing Iess than TnnhI;oG;
the vaIne of her man1factnres % ~ oi'ny
see. The vaIne os mannfactnred n We Snal
of Nav Yort in Isen 20 500 00np GOO uo =:
1870 il was s7a5 mo noo INTERCHANGEABLE "a
Increased from S2S5 50o 0oo in 1870 ~ essu
600 O00 in 1S7S psnnsvIvania o $4,000 W. 100,
from 5000 400 OO1 in 1870 to szio GOO a eoo
in 1870 Missonri ;ncreosed fron, 81 40
900 in 1860: to seO; Ola 600 in 1870 ~
creased of Ave told IlIiDois increesaJ I'm, ~
S5z $50 0na in iSGo 80 soS5 600 nnn 90 ie eo6
Iowa increosad Srnn, q ala o2I 400 ~ ao'o;