The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-12-13
PRESIDENT HARRISON TO THE
SENATE AND HOUSE.
HIS LAST ANNUAL STATE DOCUMENT
The Four Years of His Administration Ex-
haustive Reviewed - Dur Country's
Prosperity Attributed to the Poll
cy of PrOtection-The Result
OF the Late Elections
Touched Upon.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6-Presidenl
Harrison's last annual message was
read in the house and senate at L:
o'clock. Following is the document:
To THE SENATE AND HORSE OF REPRE-
sENTATIyEs:-ln Submitting my annua
message to congress. | have great salts
faction in being able IL say that III. gen
eral condition affecting the commercial and
industrial interests of the United States
are in the highest degree favorable. In
comparison, the existing conditions with
those OF the most favorable period in the
history of the country will. believe show
that SO high degree of prosperity and 50
general diffusion of tie comforts of life
Were never before enjoyed by our people.
Our Counfry's Wealth.
The total wealth OF the country in ls,;,
was <lo, l59.GlG.0 GS; in 1870 it amounts 10
ST., 6l0, $1,000 an increase of 2S6 per cent.
The total mileage of railways in the
United States In lSJ was 3J,626, IN 1872
it was l67, al AN increase of AS per cent;
and it is estimated there will be ABOUT
4,00O miles OF track added by the close Of
the year of lS92. The official returns of
the eleventh census and those of tie tenth
census for seventy-five leading cites fur
nished the basis for the following CON-
parsons:
In 1881 the capital invested in manufac-
turing was $l,2 9 S69, 90. In 1890 the cap
ital invested IN manufacturing was
1890, 49,. SS4. In 1880 the number Of en-
ployes was l,.Ol 3sS In 1850 the number
of employees was eel, 81 Ia 1850 the
wages earned were S5Ul 96', .1s liz 1890
the wages earned were 81. 22l, i1J. "A In
1855 the value of the product was s2.1ll.-
SIG, 999. In 1891 the value of the product
was $4,S6O, PSI, So.
an informed by the superintendent of
H. HhnN fn, Of sasr
industries in 1885, which were included n
1890, accounts in part for the remarkable
increase thus shown. But after making
full allowances for differences of method
and deducting the returns for all indus
tries not included in the census of 1Ss0,
there remain in the reports from these
seventy-five cities, an increase in tine
capital employed of Sl,52..1 'H.6OI. in the
value of the product of S2024 2bi, l66 IN
wages earned of s611, 943 s,9. and in the
number of wage-earners employed of S5C,-
O29 The wage earnings not only show an
increased aggregate. but an increase per
capita from $3.50. in 1880, to $541 in l>9O, or
Il. n per cent
The new industrial plants establ shed
since October 6, 1890, ami up to October
q, 1892, as partially reported in the Amer
lean Economist number Al and the extern
sion of existing plants los; the new capital
invested amounts to $40, 4i9. 80. and the
number of additional employees to 31.2S
The Textile World for July. 1892 states
that during the first sixteen months of the
present calendar year, -. new factories
were built, OF which forty are cotton mills,
forty-eight knitting mills. twentysix
wooden mills. fifteen silk mills. four plush
mills and two linen mills. OF the forty
cotton mills, twen'y-one have been built in
the Southern states. Mr. A. B. Shopper
son. of the New York cotton exchange. es-
has. of
TIE United States on September |, lS92. at
10, 20O.0JO, an increase of 0J,0J) over :he
year 1851. Tho consumption OF cotton by
American mills in 1891 was 1885,. bales
and in 1892. ., IS ,.00j bales. an increase OF
1SS 0eJ bales From the year lS69 to 1892
inclusive there has bacn an in. Tease In the
consumption of cotton in Europe of % per
cent, while during the same period tine in
crease of consumption in the United States
has been about 10 per cent. The report
of Ira Aver, spec al agent of the treasury
department, shows that at the date OF
September 90 1892. there were thirty-two
compan es manufacturing tin ami terne
plate in the United States and fourteen
companies building new works Cor such
manufacture. The estimated investment
in buildings and plants at tie c'ose of the
fiscal year. Jure 20. ls9: if ex = ing con-
ditions were to b, col'inue ID would be
500 90 and the estiInatei rte of pro-
duction 200. 1000 pounds per amman.
The actual production for the quarter
ending September B. 1892 was 1895 12j
pounds. The report of Labor Commits
sioner Peck of New York. shows that
during the year 1891 in about SIX thousand
manufacturing establishments in that
state embraced within the special inquiry
made by him and representing sixty
seven different industries, there was
. net increase over the year 1890
~ ne value nf
the product. and of $f,3'., as1.09 in the
amount of wages paid. Tue report of the
commissioner of labor for the state of
Massachusetts,, shows that 3. AS ind istries
in that state paid $l.9 +.6.2iS in wages
during the year 1891, against SIS. 1888
in 1880, an increase of 8. :35 945. and tsat
there was an increase of 80 499 in the
amount of capital. and OF !, 346 IN the num-
Der Of persons employed in the same period.
During the last six months o. the year
1891, and the first six months of lS92. the
total production of pig iron was 81 $40
tons. as against 9 2O9.7j3 tons in the year
1890, which was the largest annual pro-
duction ever attained For the same
twelve months OF 1891. lS9. the production
Of Bessemer ingots was 3.S7o, 5sl tons, an
increase of 1S9 40 gross tons, over
the previously unprecedented yearly
production OF 3,6SS,S11 gross tons in 1890.
The production of Bessemer steel rails
lOI Tue uTSt SIX ulOutuS VI l~SS. Woo ss~.SoV
gross tons as against 702 0S0 gross tons
during the last six months of the year of
1891
Our Foreign Trade.
The total value of our foreign trade.
exports and manufactures, during the last
Ascal year was 81, So. 6SJ.6i0. an increase
Of SIPS. 263 6N over the previous fiscal
year. The average annual value Of our
Imports and exports of merchandise for
the ten fiscal years prior to 1891, was
q. Isl, 322 ,O19
1t will be observed that our foreign
trade for 1872 exceeded this annual aver
age value by 800. as, 391. and increase Of
37.47 per cent. The significance and value OF
this increase is shown by the fact that the
excess in the trade of lS9. over 1897 was
wholly in the value of exports. for there
was decrease in the value of imports OF
e17.513, .S. The value of our exports
during the fiscal year 1892 reached
the highest figure in the his
tory of the government, amounting to
$40 6,25S las, exceeding by $.45, 191 1888