The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-02-23

upon the bounty Of the mora enterpr sing
STATE thous md miles awsy, nesd look no
| further for a solution of the que lion of her
dependence. The mere statement of the
fact that Mass ,cbusstis imports her coal
with which to manufacture and supply the
actual nect ssities OF Indiana, and that she
sends the produces of her imported coal
even into the coal fields of this safe fer a
msrket, is a fact patent TO the most csralt IS
OTIS srgtr; and, while this fact is a high COM
pliment TO her, IL is a me- 81 scathing rsbuke
and CT ~ comment upon our want OF en-
ttrpr So. Costly, because thess very
goocs could be mora chesp'y pro-
duced in Indianapolis from the power
drawn from our own coal fields.
So, TOO, state like Indiara, having an
abundance OF iron ore within her bor iers,
and yet p rmits Ohio and Pennsylvania to
supply her with iron in its various frms,
need not look beyond this simple fact for an
answer to the inquiry why it is that others
are outstripping US in the race for develop
ment, wealth and power. Indiana hides
can be mora chesply tanned and converted
into SHOES in Indians p )lis than in Massa-
chusetts with tsn-bsrk imported rom Can
ads. We would at least have two thousand
miles less of transportation in our favor
Indiana lumber is transported from five
hundred to one thousand miles east, manu-
iactursd into furniture and agricultural i'm
PIGMENTS with machinery propelled with
| impor ed coal, and returned to us. These
could be more chesply manufsc ured in In
| disnap1 lis, and the money kept at home
Indiana ksolin is transported to New Jersey
| and re armed , us in the shsps of queens
ware.
A careful examination of the subject de-
velops the fact that although we have great
natural advantages for supplying our own
wants. ard taoss OF the great West and
Northwest, thst we are even more depend
ent than the states west of us, and that rev
have outstrippsd us in a divers of pur-
suits and consequent wealth. The p2pula-
ton of Indiana in 1870 was $50, 637, and the
true value of her real and psrs onsl estate
was 81 ,26S, 1S0,54S or an average of 1854 So
per head. The same year Illinois cont aimed
a population of ,539, s91, with a true value
of real and personal estats of 2,121 $50, 759,
an average OF 1886 50 psr head, or $50 n PER
hCdQ III cACtS5 VI IdlSSOuTl Gull
tanned a populstlsn of l,72l, 295, and her
true value YVES sl,2s4, 90, S97, or an
average of STAG So per head, or
only IS 03 Pr head less than Indiana.
But we fiid that the average production OF
values was great in Missouri than in this
state. For 1870, the agricultural produc-
tions of Indiana were valued at S122, 914 1902,
and her manufactures slOs, 6l7 ,27s, total OF
S231, 53l $50, or an average of only sI37 76
per head; while the agricultural products of
Missouri were valued at sl03 1855, 759, and
her manufactures at S206, 2lS, 429, making
total production of 1909, 249, 1Ss, or an aver
age of S179 &c per head, an excess of S41 80
per head over that of Indiana, showing
very conclusiveiy that her interests ere
more diversified, and consequently more
productive than ours, or in other words,
hat with population numbering only 40,
65s more than Indisns, she produced ST.
7l6,6OS mora new values, and that too
with a large pr centsge of her peo-
pie but recently liberated from slavery.
Iu 1870, Illinois col tanned a population of
1888, S9l, whose agricult Iral products wer5
valued ct $40, $50, 5S5, and manufactures
amounting to sos, ,672, making a totsl
production of SALE, 4Sl ,257, an average of
S263 81 par head, or s126 81 per head over
Indians.
Looking East, we find that in 1870, Ohio
with population of 2, O65, $780, with sgricul-
tural product valued at SOS, 256, sO7. and
manufactures 269, 1850, making total OF
S467, 97O, 900, en- average of 1926 50 par head,
or $50 81 per head more than Indiana. The
same year Massachusetts with a pOpul .tion
of 1 ,457 ,351, produced new values amount
ing . $3.50, 5,475, an average of s4O2 Is
per head, or an excess over Indiana
of 1894 Al per head. These ct It's
tics demons rate that with all our great
natural advantages, that we have not sui
fcientIy diversified our industries, and that
we sre paying dearly for our neglect of so
in p ortsnt a matter; and that as state hav-
ing failed to properly develop our resources,
that we ara loosing the rank that our CEN
trail position should command for US. So
too, with cities. Let us app y the test. In 1870
Cleveland, Ohio, had population OF 92,S29,
had ], 149 manufactures representing II, 1888
horse power, which, with her labor saving
machinery represented the equivalent OF
| 24O. 76O able-bodied men. Her cash capital
invested, was sl3,645. Ols, number of hands
employed, II 600: wages paid, "a 5S9, 065; raw
material consumed. l6, S6S, 357, and the
value of her products, 81, 100000. In 1875
the population had increased to 100000, and
her manufactures to 1000, 900. In 1870 Gin
cinnatl hsd a population of 2l6,239, with
2,469 manufactures, with IL, 1856 horse power,
which, with her lsbor-saving machinery,
represented 100000 sble-bodied men. Her
capital invested was $780, 52; hands en-
ployed, IS, 900; wages paid, s15,6O1 ,2ss; raw
material consumed, s44,s76,14s, and the
value of her manufactures, SIS. eO5, $50. In
| 1875 her population had increased about 80
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