The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-12-02

mOulus tney nave Deen on duty no case
| OF contagious pleuro pneumonia has been
| reported. This inspection abroad and the
domestic inspection of live animals and
| pork products provided fer by the act of
August Both, 1890, will afford as perfect
guaranty for the wholesomenesS of our
meats offered for foreign consumption as
Is anywhere given to any food product,
and It's non acceptance will quite clearly
reveal the real motive of any continual
restriction Of their use, and that having
been made clear, the duty of the execu-
tive will be very plain
The Sugar.Beet Industry.
The information given by the secre-
tary of the progress and prospects of the
beet-sugar industry is full of interest
! 1t has already passed the experimental
stage, and it is commercial success.
The area over which the sugar beet can
be successfully cultivated is very large,
and another field crop of great value is
offered to the choice of the farmer.
Congratulations About the Mckinley
Bill.
| congratulate the Congress and the
the country upon the passage, at the
drst session, Of a number of laws Of very
high Importance; that the results of this
legislation will be the quickening aud
enlargement of our manufacturing indus
tries, larger and better markets for our
breadstuffs and provisions both at home
and abroad, more constant employment
and better wages for our working peo-
pie, and an increased supply of a safe
currency for the transaction of business.
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Defeat.
[ do not doubt some Of these meas
ures were enacted at so late a period thar
[ the beneficial effects upon commerce
which which were in the contemplation
of Congress have as yet but partially
manifested themselves
The Balance of Trade.
The general trade and industrial con
: ditions throughout the country during
the year have shown marked improve
, 'uent. For many years prior to 1888, tbs
merchandise balances Of foreign trad,
: had been largely in our favor, but dur
: ing that year and the year following the,
turned against us. 1t is very gratifyin,
to know that the last fiscal year agaiI
shows balance in our favor of owe
g $6S, 100000 The bank clearings, whic
e furnish good test of the volume 0
It business transacted for the first te
II months of the year 1890, shows as com
q pared with the same months of 1885
z an increase for the whole country Q
u about s per cent, while the increas
!, outside of the city Of New York wa
re over 13 per cent. During Octoba
G. the cearings Of the whole countr
$, showed an increase of 3 per cent. owe
< October, 1889, while outside of Ne
le York the increase was / ] per cent. Thes
re figures show that the increase in tt
a. business was very general throughor
ut the country. That this larger busine'
G. was being conducted upon a safe an
Id profitable basis is shown by the fact th;
Sc there we're three hundred less failur,
te reported in October, $780, than in tt
to same month of the preceding year, wit
ut liabilities diminished by about $4,000
ly 900. The value of our exports of d
of nestle merchandise during the last ye;
ny was over $115, 100000 greater the pr
er ceding year, and was only exceede
once in our history.
e. Pig Iron a Guage of Prosperity.
About 500, 900, 900 Of this excess W
O. in agricultural products. The produ
It's tion of pig iron always a good gau
lot of general prosperity-iS shown by
,w recent census bulletin to have been
"a per cent. greater in 1890 than in 1Se
ILL and the production of steel $50 per Ger
elt greater. Mining in coal has had
to Limitation except that resulting frc
deficient transportation. The genel
ap testimony is that labor is everywhe
fully employed, and the reports for t
y, last year show smaller number of e
tn 40 ployes affected by strikes and locko'
tn tnS than in any year since 1884. The {
~ ~ preston in the prices of agricultu
' products has been greatly relieved a
80 a buoyant and hopeful tone was beg
.o of ming to be felt by all our people.
,ro- The Recent Money Panic.
ac These promising influences have bt
in some degree. checked by the surpris
and very unfavorable monetary eve
IS which have recently taken place in E
"a land It is gratifying to know that tn
did not grow in any degree out of
gri- financial relations of London with
in people or out of any discredit attacI
cen to our securities held in that market.
agl- A Special Plea Against Tariff Refo
the M The apprehension that our tariff T
'Ie again, and at once, be subjected to lmE
oe tant general changes would undoubte
len' aa add depressing influence of the n
oata ue serious character. The general tariff
ess' tan has cnly partially gone into operatl
O"n nf some of its important provisions OF
~ VI limited to take effect at dates yet IN
ole va future. The general provisions of
ooo oo law have been in force less t
oo,, oou' sixty days. It's permanent ei
~ -, upon trade and prices
.om non, largely stand in conjecture. II
~ i9n curious to note that the advance IN
o.. oo a prices of articles wholly unaffected
'e'1, ooi the tariff act was by many hastily
nv nv cribed to that act Notice was not ia
,ano ~. of the fact that the general tendency
100 zoo the markets was upward from lntiue
, ooo, wholly apart from the recent tariff
yn o@' islation. The enlargement OF our cure
uuu @ by the silver bill undoubtedly gav'
W. upward tendency to trade and h'
~ marked effect on prices, but this nat
a;o 10 and desired effect of the silver leglsla
u ,Saa was by many enormously attribute
llone VIC .e'' ~ "o' ~
29,- An Ih.liha'toI 'nat 'helo 1""' =
oo.o Change in the Tariff Laws.