Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-09-30
GRAND RAPIDS WIS. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 80. 1880

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associations Many others never did 50 return
Were such Democrats to guides and influence a
Democratic Congress and Democratic admins
tratiOn their party would not be constituted and
controlled as it is. Because Sueh men and theiI
views and interests will not and cannot control in
| the event Of Democratic success much grave peril
arises As the Democratic party is const tUted
| not the men of the north, not the men whol were
r"r the Union and the Constitution but the men
of the south who were against the Union and the
Constitution men whose policy and purposes are
still hurtful to the country, and bound and pre-
destined to control q Democratic administration
and a Democratic Congress. The south has con-
troll of Congress. This Is true in this way: On
every committee there is a majority of Democrats
and of these Il majority IN all eases consists of
southern senator's. The same condition prevails
in the House. There are forty-two committees
The chairmen OF twenty-five are from the south.
All the committees are so constituted that the ma
jority is Democratic, and OF the majority more
than half is southern. during the two years
while this absolute power in both houses has been
SO lodged the existence of the veto power and the
approach of the Presidential canvass has suggested
urgent reasons for Going SLOW" Many expected
bills have not been introduced: many that have
been introduced have not beer passed; some that
have been passed have run against such obstinate
opposition as to secure present postpunement or
some modification. But whenever the hour strikes
that the veto power is in democratic hands put
there by southern votes, whatever the solid
caucus DEGREES will be written. That caucus will
be controlled by those who represent less than
One-seventh of the people of the Union.
OFFICIAL FIGURES.
have said also. that they represent not more
than one-fOurteenth OF the producing, CONNER
cial industrial taX-paying, and property inter
est of the country. time prove this by the Off
cial figures of the bureau of statistics 1879 Gus
toms duties, S137 .250,O4S; collected at Southern
ports, s l45, 500. This y per cent. or one-six-
tieth part Internal revenue, 1879, SIG S4S .22l:
paid by twelve Southern States, S203332 ,364.
This is II per cen. or one-siXth part Since the
war, Ohio alone has paid more internal revenue
than all the late confederate states united; so has
Illinois. New \ ork alone has paid nearly twice as
much. If custom duties were added the COM
parison would be more striking still Our domes-
tic commerce exceeds our foreign commerce
twenty fold. Railways move 90 per cent. of it,
In 1879, 423 ,0l3 freight cars carried this traffic
OF these the late confederate states employed
81 ,24S; this { 1-25 per cent. One-fourteenth
part. In 1879 the tonnage of vessels engaged in
in internal traffic 2,67S067 tons. The late
confederate states employed 242; ;54S tons; this is
per cent. or one-eleventh part. In 1879, to
june 80, 1880, our exports were SS35, ,633; ;595
The South exported SlSS 629 III this is 221a
per cent. two-ninths part. Of this, 81 per
cent was cotton, and the New York Cotton
Exchange reports that very little of it was moved
by Southern capital. All that came North was
handled by Northern capital That exported di-
rectly was moved mostly by Northern and for
eign capital. In 1869 to June 80, 1880, onr i'm
ports were S667 ,953 800. The south imported
Sl5 ,933;39l, this Is ~ per cent. or One-forty-
third part. Exports and imports together were
81 SOB, $50 S97. The share eff the South was
S204 564 los; this is Is 50 per cent or one
seventh. In 1879, Oct. 9. bank loans were $S7S.-
503, ,097, loans of Southern banks, SAG $50 ,007;
this is per cent. or one-nineteenth. In 1879,
Oct. ,, state and natioal bank circulation was
S3l4;l02 223: Southern Banks S23 AS 1876; this Is
y per cent. or ne-thrteenth. In 1873 for the
six months ending Nav 81 the latest returns de
posts III savings banks, were this is 40 of per
cent or One-two hundred and feftieth part. In
1879 the cost of railroads i'll the United Statss
was 81 l67 ,33l 92l; cost of Southern railroads,
S556 ,214 979; this is Is lib per cent. one-sey
enth. The latest returns show the weight of the
mails carried railroads was 35l $40 16S pounds;
on Southern roads, "a 1874 ,S53 pounds. This is
LIS per cent. or one-sixth part. In 1870 our
manufactures were S4. .232 .325 442; the southern
portion was S277 720.jJ7. This is ga per cent.
or one-siXteenth part. In 1870 the production VT
our mines was Sl52 ,59S ,994, of southern mines,
S4,996,052. This is 31i per cent. or one-thrty-
first part. From June 80, 1870, to June 80, 1850,
the number of immigrants who came to the Uni
ted States was 2.SI2 III. OF these 1902 came to
southern Atlantic ports and Al 23O to ports of the
Gulf of Mexico, making for tie whole south 40 :
f1,'pI' IHlS 10 dt-LOU per cent OF l-OUIn
The latest report of the commissioner Of Educa-
tion states the total income Of the public schools
Of the country at $50 97S l0l; the south paid for
public schools SS, $50 797. Thisis I-l2 per cent
or l-lOth part This itemis presented here be-
cause it belongs to the industrial interest.
Looking into this mirror of the country5 bust
ness, we see impartially and exactly reflected
the
RESPECTIVE PROPORTIONS
and features of the two seciOnS By ANALYSIS and
average We see that prediction industry com
mercc, capital, and revenue are. found l-l4th
i'll one section of the country AID l3-14th in the
other sections. These are hard stubborn facts. They
are not recited with pleasure; far from it. They
are recited with deep regret yet their recital will
be denounced as evincing aspirit OF eXultion, of
hostile, invididous criticism 1t will be said the
south was taunted with he, poverty. All this
will be mtruly unjustly sail As an American
profoundly do [ deplore the langUor, the misfor-
tunes, and every portion ofOur land. Southern
commerce is simple tardy aid dependent. North
ern commerce is complex Intensely active highly
organized, and independent Northern methods
and progression have contantly increased their
fruits: the reverse is true OF southern methods.
In 1860; the imports of Eew Orleans were So
932, ,773; last year they were only so $40 ,254.
They were less last year tlan in any year from
1866 to 1878. In 1860, exports from New Orleans
were Sl01 ,Sl2 $50; last yea they were only $50,
249S74, less than they werein 1870 and 1874 The
tonnage account varies this statement apparently
because steam vessels have been used of late and
steamers count more rapidly i'll tonnage than i'll
cargoes. Like retrograde and stagnatlcn appear
at other ports. Baltimore is not treated as a
southern port, because it Is the ocean terminous
of great east and west line of traffic.
Now turn to northern ports
1860 1880
Boston, imports S39 .566. 500 S6S. .61S ,55S
Boston exports 13 $50 40 IS, ,023. .5S7
New York, import. E. .233 ,s92 941 543, ,595 1898
New York, exports .I20630,9 $50 3SS, Al ,664
Philadelphia, imports. IA sol 35,95l ,292
Philadelphia, exports 55l2,755 1852 ,195
Baltimore, imports. 1884, ,733 1889 ,256
Baltimore, exports. ..S,S04,6 COG 1920 $40
The imports of these four ports in 1860 were
S279 49l ,O15, their exports S24S 479 ,OS6; total
S545, $50 ,l61. In 1880 their imports were $685.
l12 604 their exports 1872 29S 81 ); total 81 240
420 920. In 1850 the foreign commerce of New
Orleans was "a per cent of that of the four ports
Just named. In 1880 it is only per cent, falling
off from Sl30 735 $50 in 1860 to 10I 092 lbs in
1880. The foreign tonnage of 1859 is 659 GS3; in
1860 it was $50 39S; in 1880 it was 760, ,9lO. The
foreign tonnage of Charestoni in 1859 was l2S. .I64:
in 1860 it was I26. All; 1880 it is 116 ,2S3.
In 1860 year ending June 80, the tonnage OF
vessels entered at seapOrts south of the Potomac
was third as large as the tonnage of all northern
ports, both Atlantic and Pacific This year, end
ing June 80 1880, it is only about one-seventh.
Democratic orators bid us look at
THE EXPORTS Or COTTON.