St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-07
BEN'S MESSAGE,
Harrison Sends His Last An
nuaI Communication to
Congress.
He Acknowledges That the
Protection System Has
Been Condemned.
No Serious Controversy With
Other Nations Now on
Hand.
He Makes a Plea for the
Other Dead ISsue--the
Force Bill.

WASHINGTON, De-. 6.-President
Harrison's message reads as follows:
To the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives: In submitting my annual
message to congress | have great salts
faction in being able to say that the
general conditions affecting the COM
mercial and industrial interests of the
United States are in the highest degree
favorable. A comparison of the existing
conditions with those of the most ia
vored period i'll the history of the coun-
try will, l believe. show that so high
degree of prosperity and so general
diffusion of the comforts of life were
never before enjoyed by our people.
The total wealth OF the country in
1860 was SIG, 159 616,06S; in 1890 it
amounted to S62, $40. COO, 900. all increase
of 2S7 per cent. The total mileage of
railways i'll the United States in 1860
was 30,626; in 1890 it was 167,74l, an in
crease of 446 per cent, and 1t is estl-
mated that there will be about 1000
miles of track added by the close of the
year 1892 The official returns of the
eleventh census, and those of the tenth
census for seventy-fiye leading cities
furnished the basis for the following
comparisons: In 1880 the capital in
vested in manufacturing was Sl,232. $780,
$40; in 1900 the capital invested in man
ufacturing was $4,000, 735, 1884; in 1880
the number of employees was l ,301, 1855;
in 1890 the number of employees was
2,251, 1874. In 1880 the wages earned
were $501, 1865, IT'S; in 1890 the wages
earned were 81. POI, 40, 454. In 1880 the
value of the product was $2,711.579, 500;
in 1890 the value of the product was
81, 500, 1856. 1877.
l am Informed by the superintendent
of the census that the omission OF Ger
tain industries IN 1880, which were in
Guided in 1890. accounts i'll part OF the
remarkable increase thus shown, but
after making full allowances for differ
ences of methods and deducting the re-
turns for all industries not included in
the census of 1880, there remain in the
report from these seventy five cities an
increase in the capital employed OF
81, 522, 745, 6O4: in the value OF the prod
uct of S2,024, 236, 1866; in wages earned
of $677, 943, 929, and in the number OF
wage-earners employed of S56,029. The
wage earnings not only show an in
creased aggregate, but an Increase per
capita from 1886 In 1880 to $547 in 1890,
or 41.u per cent. The new industrial
plants established since Oct. 6, 1890.
and up to Oct. az, 1897, as partially
reported in the American Economist,
number $40, and the extension of existing
plants 1903; the new capital invested
amounts to $40, 449, O5O, and the number
of additional employees to 1925.
The Textile World for July, 1892,
states that during the first six months
of the present calendar year 135 new
factories were built, Of which 40 are
cotton mills, 4S knitting mills, 26 WOODEN
mills. Is silk mills, plush mills and 2
linen mills. OF the 40 cotton mills 81
have been built in the Southern states.
Then follows figures showing the pro-
gress and extent of the textile and iron
and steel:industries, and the amount of
our foreign trade.