The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-12-08
THE MESSAGE.
PRESIDENT HARRISON TELLS CONG.
REss ALL ABOUT THE NATION
AL GOVERNMENT.
The Farewell Is Of Glorious Things Accom-
plished by the Republicans and an Init,
maticn Of What They Would
Continue 70 Do for Us If
Retained in Power.

In submitting my annual message
to congress, have great satisfaction
III being able to say that the general
conditions affecting the commercial
and industrial interests of the United
States are in the highest degree favor
able. A comparison of the existing
conditions with those of the most
favored period in the history of the
country will, L believe, show that 80
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 coun-
try in 1860 was SIG, 139, GIG ,O6S. In
1890 it amounted to $62,6l0, 900, ,0O0, an
increase of 2S7 per cent. The total
mileage of railways in the United
States in 1860 was 3O,626, in 1890 it was
l67, ,741, an increase of 448 per cent. and
ii is estimated that there will he about
1000 mil Of track added by the close
of the year 1892. The official returns
vi sho OioNOutH CououS anu buOo0 vi
the tenth census for seventy-five
loading cities furnished the basis
for the following comparisons:
In 1880 the capital invested in manu-.
featuring was ST. ,232, ,S99,67O In 1890
the capital investe! in manufacturing
was $780, ,73j ,854 In 1880 the num-
ber of employees was 1901, 1888. In
1890 the number of employees was
2 251 ,134. In 1880 the wages, earned
was $501 ,9G5,778 In 1890 the wages
earned were $l,221 ,170,454. In 1880
the value of the product was $2,711,-
SO, 800 In 1890 the value of the pro-
ducts WAS $4, 1850, ,2S6, ,237. L am in
formed by the superintendent of the
census that the omission of certain in
dustries in 1880 which were included
in 1890 accounts in part for the re-
markable increase thus shown. But
after making full allowances for diff
ference of method and deducting the
returns for all industries lot included
in the CENSUS of 1880, there remains in
the reports from these seventy-fve
cities an increase in the capital en-
ployed of 81 ,522, 5,G04; in the value
of the products of 81, ,2O4 1856, 1866; in the
wages earned of $677, ,943, ,949 and in the
number of wage earners employed of
S56,020. The wage earnings not only
show an increased aggregate but an
increase per capita from 1886 in 1880 to
$547 in 1890, or AIS per cent. The
new industrial plants established
81 CO Oct. 6, 1890, and up to Oct. %,
1892, as partially reported in the
American Economist, number 345,
and the extension OF existing plants
l0S. The new capital invested
amounts to $40, ,449, ,050, and the mum.
Der of additional employees to 81 1856.
The Textile World for July, 1892,
states that during the first six months
of the present year 1876 new factories
were built, of which 40 are cotton
mills, 4S knitting mills, 26 woolen
mills, Is silk mills, plush mills and
2 linen mills. OF the 40 cotton mills
q have been built in Southern states.
Mr.. A. b. Shepperson of the New
York cotton exchange estimates the
number of working spindles in the
United States on Sept. l, 1899,
at II, 10000. an increase of 660, ,000o over
the year 1891. The consumption of
cotton by American mills in 1891 was
1886 900 bales and in 1892, 1854 600
E,nI fnn Of hall
From the year 1869 to 1892 inclusive,
there has been an increase in the con-
sumption of cotton in Europe of 92 per
cent, while during the same period
the increase of consumption in the
United States has been about Is per
cent. The report OF Labor Commits
sioner Peck of New York, shows thai
during the year 1891 in about six
thousand manufacturing establish
ments in that state embraced within
the special inquiry made by him, and
representing 67 different Industries,
there was net increase over the year
1890 of S3,131 ,516,03S in the value of
the product and of $637, ,792, 500 in the
amount of wages paid. The report of
the commissioner of labor for the state
of Massachusetts, shows that 3745 in
dustries in that state paid $129, 9,416, ,248
in wages during the year of 1891
against $l26,030,30 in 1890, an in
crease of So, 1896, ,945 and that there was
an increase of So, 1902, 400 in the amount
of capital and of 7346 in the number of
persons employed in the same period.
During the last six months of the
year 1891, and the first six months of
1892, the total production of pig iron
was 9,7l0, ,8l9 tons, as against 9,209, 703
tons in the year 1890, which was the
largest annual production ever OBJ
tanned. For the same twelve months
of 1912, the production of bessemer
ingots was 3,878,851 tons, an increase
of 1910 gross tons over the previ-
ously unprecedented yearly produc-
tion of 8, ,68S, ,S71 gross tons in 1890. The
The production of bessemer steel rails
for the first six months of 1892 was
772, ,436 gross tons as against 702,080
gross tons during the last six months
of the year 1891. The total value of
our foreign trade exports and manu-
factures) during the last fiscal year
was 81 1857 $3.50, $40, an increase of $12S,-
203, ,604 over the previous fiscal year.
The average annual value of our i'm
ports and exports of merchandise for