Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-28
DALZELL ON PROSPERITY.

Keystone States Advsncement-AP Plea
for tho Ship Canal-How Pennsylvania
Has Prospersd.
Hon. John Dalzell, always . welcome
speaker, had the toast pennsylvania. All
through it he was greeted with prolonged
applause. He said:
There is no rhetoric moro burning, n o
logic more convincing than the rhetoric and
logic of facts and figures Pennsylvanta Is
an empire within herself Reaching from
tide water to the great unsalted sea- she en-
braces more than two degrees Of latitude
and an area OF $4,000 square miles. Her
population now over 6,250.0o0, has increased
22.H per cent in the last ten years, and 1t is
to be noted that this population is almost
equally divided between her cities and town
325 in number, where men engage In manu-
facrur1ng, mining and commercial pursuits
asr COUNTRY to "heTs wns %sn
40 per cent in the last decade,
her rural population has increased
sny only a little e.. over per p centmthus hu,
people. In 81 industrial centers for which
the eleventh census collected the statistics
OF manufactures, the population increased
nearly 521x per cent, while McKeesport leads
the list in an increase of over l52H per cent.
But one thing wish 20 call your special at
tention to in the statistics of our Quaker
State, and that is that her cities are cities
not Of dwellings, but OF homes.
Pennsylvanians for Their Homes.
That people comes nearest to being Gods
people who stand foremost in the march OF
Christian civilization. where men and wo-
men go in the morning to face their daily
toll from houses sacred to their own fami-
lies, and return with the evening shadows
to the sanctifying influences OF their own
households. The ten years just past have
seen an increase of % per cent in Pennsyl-
vania dwellings and Pennsylvania families.
dwellings as New York City, while 1914 per
cent of the population of New York live.
over ten in dwelling, and 81 40 per cent
aepha less 20 than In S per cent en- fha i've
In dwellings containing over ten
persons each. In these figures there is
thrilling music Of Pennsylvania thrift and
enterprise and morality, and the possibilities
of noble ambitions and pure aspirations.
Pittsburg has increased her dwellings 50 per
cent. and Scranton. that gem of a city
which some of us know-64 per cent in the
last decade: 1t Is conceded maxim that
the natural law of economic growth lies in
harmonious Developments Of agriculture,
manufactures and commerce. Let us test
Pennsylvania's title to greatness and
lands exceeds sI.95o. o.ooo. 600 and the Increase
in value within ten years has been 20 per
cent.
Finest Farm Lands in tho World
While we have eight and four.tenths of the
total population OF the United States, we
have nearly 10 per cent Of the total value Of
farm land. Ohio alone exceeds Pennsylvania
in this regard. She has per cent or the total
population and II per cent OF farm land
value. But the richest agricultural counties
L. Al-:~ A. g.
as Lancaster and others that might name
are good to look upon, and make the heart
glad. In all that makes agricultural wealth.
in increase OF cultivated acres, in value Of
farm stock, we are still making strides for
ward. The vine and fruit trees are making
conquests of our fields, while our acreage for
cereals has increased in the last ten years 8
per cent and aggregates now 1850, ZOO acres:
But Pennsylvanfa's wealth is under ground
as well as above; in natures storehouse OF
useful metals, of coal, iron, petroleum and
natural gas--heat, light and power ready
in the gift of the few and power alongside
the raw material to be worked. Last year
we put upon the market nearly 81, ,000, 000, 900 ,
tons of coal, and that was "a per cent more
than we produced in 1850. or iron ore, we
mined l,000. 500 tons; of petroleum. we pro-
duced q, SOC, 600 barrels, and $1,000, 900 worth
OF stone left its hiding place to add to our
evidences of wealth.
Great Strides In Manufacturing.
But it is as a manufacturing State that
wears her crown of glory. 1 |
may not stop to speak of the varied products
of her labor, for figures are untnteresting
and wearisome. Look for a moment briefly |
1T one or two OF her industries. Between |
1880 and 1890 the State increased its produc- |
ton of pig iron nearly 1873 per cent ALLIE |
,heny county increased her production 1893 |
per cent. She made Is per cent of all made |
IN the State. During the same period Penn |
'ylvania's crucible steel product in
'tesi product ass % per- cent aan sedSensr and nsr
open hearth steel product over S74 per cent. |
And while the whole United States increased |
N the same time their production of iron
Ind steel l65 per cent, Pennsylvania's in
crease was ls2 per cent. She made so per
cent of the total product Men no longer
eek for foreign plate. Gone are the glories
With Yankee ingenuity, Penn
ylvania thrift and enterprise. Within but
! short distance from where we are the
argest plate glass establishment in the
world, equipped with the most approved
machinery and ingenious appliances, fur
fishes labor to 1000 Pennsylvania workmen,
nd has q capacity to turn out 10, 0O0, 900
quare feet of plate glass per annum.
Pennsylvania wool manufacture has in
reased in the decade just passed over 80 per |
ent in its products, while it has increased |
W per cent in the wages paid its employees,
nd 931a per cent in its investment of capital.
lot to enlarge, Pennsylvan1a's industries in
lude almost every article of necessity, of
omfort, of luxury, filling the entire field of
he arts of peace, and furnishing the appli-
noes of offensive and defensive warfare.
of foods, of cottons, linens,
roolens, carpets, manufacturers of wood, of
sather, chemicals glass, machinery. steel
nd of iron. manufacturers OF everything |
ssential to the industrial freedom of a peo- |
ie politically free.
Another Plea for the Erie Canal.
I may not stop to dwell on the figures of
commerce. The great instru-
rents of commerce are money. the measure
f value, the transportation facilities the
leans of exchange. Honey-combed as
already was with railroads,
er railroads have increased in the last de
ade over An per cent. Contemplate for a
loment the business of the PENNSYLVANIA
nd branches between Philadelphia and
ittsburg, last year was over 81, 900 600;
100000 q month. Its tonnage mileage
liieage nearly 4O0O0OOOO. Its average
ost of freight transportation was
ss than four tenths of a cent per ton per
ile. This is to say nothing of the traffic
pom our magnificent water ways, the care
nd improvement of which a wise states
anship must make more and more q sub
ct of generous national concern. Now,
ote the harmonious development of Penn
'lvania's wealth. Population has in
'eased, home life has been preserved, agri-
llture had spread to new fields with multi
lied products, industries have been diver
,urces have been developed, great cities
le centerS as they always are Of the COM
ercial life of a civilized people have grown
I'd prospered, while the intellectual ana .
oral Advancement of our people has con-
nued.
GUESTS AT THE BANQUET.