Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-18

4uc TcOuIuS VI lou, ICOUs anu 4OfV
are given on about the same basis and
can be compared with more justice
than those of any previous census.
The census of 1920 is nearly valueless
as a basis of comparison 50 far as its
manufactures are concerned; the IN
dustries of the country were entirely
neglected in the census of 1880, and In
1910 the facts obtained under this head
are meagre in the extreme. Even IN
1850 the schedules of manufactures
were net embodied till 1858, and the
results have never been arranged by
counties. The capital and product in
county, State, and nation, the first sta
tistics for the county gathered from the
State census of 1855, under the head Of
manufactures of fermented and dis
TILED liquors during the last twenty
years, are as follows:
COUNTY.
Distilled liquors -Fermented liquors
Year. Capital. Product. Capital. Product.
1855. 1851 900 S22Is,2 30 Sff7 200 s1tB77, 292
1850. 10000 1,O9i,e3O 1,6o5,O99 2.149,SI5
ls7o- 5000 2g.Coo 5.OoO,ooo s,77O,Seo
1859. 81 1905 sis7O,4g7 sI,sss,sOO s2,5sss57
Ise0-- 3,I45,2OO I,s7l,sis 4,4s3,Ieo ESQ 52t
ioiV-- AfSttttO osAst'i+o 47st-Sso- 4o'otosooO
NATION.
1850. IS 400 SS3 sl5,7IO2iO si.072.ssO s5,T2s 563
1850 II III 915 34,793, $50 157S23f2 2i,S1O, 933
1870 6545,l16 36,19l,l 1873 4S,T79,4S5 55,To6,6i3
In the first two columns it VIII be
seen that the country at large shows a
steady increase, rather more than doub-
ling IN the twenty years, which IS about
the ratio of increase IN the time IN
population, in gross capital, and gross
products The advance In the gross
products In all manufactures from 1850
to 1870 is almost exactly in the ratio
which is shown by the increase in the
production Of whisky; that of the popu-
lation is a little slower-in other words,
rather fewer people want whisky, now
than wanted it twenty years ago, but
the price has risen, and it remains Just
as profitable to supply the diminishing
demand as one which was larger, about
the same proportion Of capital seeking
this investment now as was the case in
1850. The manufacture of distilled
liquors in the conntyillustrates forcibly
the gradual growth of the manufacture
for ten years. If the same process goes
on for ten years longer, New York IN
stead of being the fourth State of the
Union m the manufacture of ardent
spirits will be the tenth. Ten years ago
New York was the second State on the
list, but the decrease in this manufac-
ture has been much more rapid in the
last half OF the ten years since 1864
than IN the first half
The manufacture of fermented
liquors tells an entirely different story.
There has been nothing to check the
steady advance in city, State, and ma
ton, and the advance in the first has
been by far the most rapid. The ad-
vance IN capital in the five years from
1856 to 1860, is four-f0ld, nearly twice
that of industry in the same period,
and the advance In the State IN the de-
eade ending in 1860 was quite as rapid,
and has also no parallel IN any other
manufacture. The German population
of the city at the three dates given
above has been: 1855. 1852; 1860,
l19,9S7; and 1870, 151,216. The cor
responding increase IN the production
of lager has been In Just about twice
the ratio of the increase in the German
population, with an increasing ratio IN
the last ten years, as the children of
German emlgrants of a previous
generation begin to form a
part of the consumers 1t VIII
be noticed that the last line under
county" is about the same as the first
urder nation" so that New York alone
manufactures and there is every reason
to believe consumes as much lager now
as the whole country did twenty years
ago. As New York mas a population
about twentieth as large as the en-
tire country in 1850, this fact points
out an increase in the number Of con-
sumers which is larger here than any
where else. The corresponding in
crease in the country at large is only
about half as great The relative de-
crease in the manufacturers and consump-
ton of ardent spirits as compared with
fermented liquors containing not a
tenth part of the same amount of al
cohOl Will be readily seen when it
Is remembered that the first two
columns show only the nominal in
crease of the population, and the last
two one that is five times as great;
more than twice as rapid also as the
increase of the German population by
immigration, an indication which seems
to point to a change in the habits of
the American born population as well
as in those of foreign nativity. Anoth-
er indication is that while the pOpula-
ton has increased barely fourth. the
wine product has advanced skiold in
the last ten years. If the latter be
added to the product grouped under
fermented and distilled liquors, the
product for thirty years VIII be as fol-
lows, a steady increase of 100 per cent.
nearly: