Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-07
BENN|E'S PARTING SHOT,
Full Text of the Presidents
Message.
A Dreary Waste of Words and
Figures.
Sarcastic Filings at the Incoming
Administration.
He Trusts That the Tariff will Be
Speedily Revised by the Next
Congress-The Force Bill
Still a Necessity.
Compliments of the Western Union npany.

lOompHmehts OF tne western Union Company.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-President Hal
rison's message reads as follows:
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
In submitting my annual message tt
congress l have great satisfaction il
being able to say the general condition,
affecting the commercial and industria
interests of the United States are il
the highest degree favorable. 4 com
parison of the existing conditions with
those of the most favored period in the
history of the country will itself show
that such degree of prosperity and &c
general diffusion of the comforts o.
life were never before enjoyed by oul
people. The total wealth of the country
in 1860 was $16,159, ,06S; in 1896
amounted to $62, $4,000 600, an increase
of 2S7 per cent. The total mileage oi
railways in the United States in 1860 il
was 30,626; in 1890 it was 1S7, ,741, an
increase of 44S per cent, and it is esti.
mated that there will be about 1000 miles
/ of track added by the close of the year
1892. The official returns Of the eev-
enth census and those of the tenth for
rs leading cities furnished the basis for
the following comparison:
In 1880 the capital invested in manu-.
featuring was 81 ,232 ,S39 $40. In 1890
the capital invested in manufacturing
was $4,000, ,735 1854. In 1880 the number
of employees was 1901, ,SSS. In 1890 the
number of employees was 1871, ,134.
In 1880 the wages earned were 1901 $685.
IT'S. In 1890 the wages earned were
| 81, ,221 ,170,454. In 1880 the value of the
products was $2.7l1, ,579,999. In 1890
the value of the products was 81, $780,
286, ,S37.
l am informed by the superintendent
| OF the census that the omission of GER
tain industries in 1880, which were in
cluded in 1890, accounts in part for the
remarkable increase thus shown. But
after making full allowances for differ
| ences Of method, and deducting the re.
turns for all industries not included in
the census Of 1880, there remain in the
| reports from these 75 cities an increase
in the capital employed Of 1922, ,745,- :
604; in hhe value of the products, oi
S2 O24 236, 1865; in wages earned, Of $677, ).
943, ,929, and in the number of wage
| earners employed, of 856,029. The
wage-earnings not only show an in
creased aggregate, but an increase per
capita from IS Sc IN 1880 to S5.47 in 1890,
or ALI per cent.
NEW INDUSTRIES ESTABLISHED.
The new industrial plants established
since October 6, $780, and up to October
%, 1892, as partially reported in the
American Economist, number 345, and
the extension of the exciting plants.
los. The new capital invested amounts
to $40, ,449, $50, and the number OF addi.
tional employees to 81 ,2S5 The Textile
World for July, 1892, states that during
the first elk months of the present calen-
dar year 135 new factories were built OF
which 40 are cotton mills, 4S knitting
mills, rs woollen mills, Is silk mills, 40
plush mills, and two linen mills. OF the
40 cotton mills q have been built in
the southern states. Mr.. A. 3. Shep-
perdson of the New York Cotton Ex-
change estimates the number of work.
ing spindles in the United States
OH September l, 1892, at 1S5,000,000,
an increase of 660,000 over the
year 1891. The consumption of
cotton by American mills in 1891 was
1886, 900 bales, and in 1892 1854, 900
bales, an increase of 1873, 900 bales. From
the year 1869 to 1892 inclusive there has
been an increase in the consumption OF
cotton in Europe of 90 per cent, while
during the same period the increase OF
consumption in the United States has
been about Is per cent.
The report of Ira Aver, special agent
of the treasury department, shows that
at the date of September so, 1892, there
were 32 companies manufacturing tin
and tin plate in the United States, and
IA companies building new works for
such manufacture. The estimated in
vestments in these buildings at the
close of the fiscal year, June 80, 1892, ii
the existing conditions were to be
counted, was $5,000,000, and the esti-
mated rate of production 100000, 900
pounds per annum. The actual pro-
duction for the quarter ending Septem-
Der 80, 1892, was l0, ,952, 725 pounds.
The report of the labor commissioner
OF New York, shows that during the
year 1891, in about 5000 manufacturing
establishments in that state, embraced
within the special inquiry made by him,
and representing 81 different industries,
| there was net increase over the year
1890 of $3l ,315, 1905 in the value of the
product, and of $6.377 1925 90 in the
amount OF wages paid. The report of
the commissioner of labor for the state
of Massachusetts shows that 375 indus.
tries in that state paid $l29, 4l6 23S in
wages during the year 1891, against
1926 030. .303 in 1890, an increase of $3,-
$780, ,945 and that there was an increase
of SO 993 $40 in the amount of capital,
and of 1896 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 9,710,-
8l9 tons as against s 209,7 tons in the
year 1890, which was the largest annual
production ever obtained. For the same
months of 1891 and 1892 the production
OF Bessemer ingots was 3,S78.58I tons,
an increase OF 1S9 7l0 gross tons over
the previously unprecedented yearly
production OF 3,6S8,S7l gross tons in
1890. The production Of Bessemer steel
rails for the first Six months of 1892 was
| 772, ,43o gross tons, ss against 502 08(
gross tons during the last six months o.
the year 1891.
INCREASED FOREIGN TRADE.
The total value of our foreign trade