People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-09
THE MESSAGE Is TN.
CONGRESS RECEIVED THE PART
ING INJUNCTIONS.
The Tariff Question the Burden of
ThOught---Ele and Lynch
ings Also Get q Word.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE presi-
dents message has been read before
congress.
1t was a lengthy document. compris-
ing about Is, 900 words, and in it, every
matter of public interest is fully dis
cussed.
The following is summary of text
and furnishes a clear conception of the
position of the president upon the
various subjects under discussion.
Upon the tariff and election laws he
maintains his positions heretofore taken,
and believes that public opinion will yet
bear him out in these. and other ques-
tions of policy. In openining his COM
munication he says:
10 the Senate and House of Representa-
tives:
In submitting my annual message to
Congress | have great satisfaction in being
able to say that the general condition
affecting the commercial and industrial
interests of the United States are in the
greatest degree favorable. comparison
of the most favored period in the history
of the country will, believe, show that
30 high degree of prosperity, and so gem
eral difference of the comforts of life
were never before enjoyed by our people.
The total wealth of the country in 1860
was SIG, 159, GIG 06S: in 1890 it amounted to
$62, 610, 0J0,0 900, an increase of 2S7 per cent.
The total mileage of railways in the
United States in 1860 was $685. in 1890 it
was 1874 an increase Of 448 per cent;
and 1t Is estimated that there Will DO
about four thousand 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 sevenCy-hye lead
ing cities furnish the basis for the follow
ang comparisons: In 1851 the capital IN
vested in manufacturing was III, @3%, $685.
go. In 1890 the capital invested in man
featuring was $4,000, 735, 8S4. In 1880 the
number of employees was 1901 1888. In
1890 the number Of employees was 2, 251,-
l84 In 1880 the wages earned were $501,-
$685. 78. In 1890 the wages earned were
1921, 40, 454 In 1880 the value of the
product was SO, III, $40. 1899. In 1890 the
value of the product was 81, $50, 286; 837.
The message goes into every different
detail showing the increase IL the num-
her of wage earners and the money
paid. 1t also shows the increase in the
humber of factories of all kinds that
have been built. Of the cotton mills
the president says:
OF the forty cotton mills twenty-o one
have been built in the Southern states.
Mr. A. b. Shepperson. of the New York
Cottont Exchange, estimates the number of
working spindles in the United States, on
Eeptember l, 1892, at II, 200, coo, an increase
of go, 900 over the year 1891. The con-
aunption of cotton by American mills in
1876. - 2 29s 600 b4les, and in 1892 ASA,
900 ba e., an increase of 188000 bales from
the year 1891.
Exports and Imports.
The total value Of our foreign trade lex
ports and imports of merchandise during
The last fisal year was 81, 839, $50, $40, an in
crease of $12S, 2S3, 604 over the previous
fiscal year
The value of our exports during the fs-
cal year 1892 reached the highest figure in
the history Of the government, amounting
10 ST, 000,2 7S, 148, exceeding by Sl45, 797, 1873
he exports of 1891, and exceeding the
lports by 1902 49, $50.
/, !, another indication of the prosperity of
= country is found in the fact that the
s4gn Der of depositors in savings banks in
creased from SOB $40 in 1860, tod, 25S, 1913 in
1890, an increase of 513 per cent. There
never has been a time in our history when
work was 50 abundant or wages were as
high; whether measured by the currency
In which they are paid or by their powers
to supply the necessaries and comforts of
of life. 1t is true that the market prices
of cotton and wheat have been low. 1t IS
one of the unfavorable incidents OF agrlcul-
ture that the farmer cannot produce upon
orders he must sow and reap IN 1gnor-
ance of the aggregate production of the
year, and is peculiarly thOughtless to the
depreciation which follows over-pro duc-
tion. The value of our total farm pro-
ducts has increased 81, 1868 646, COON 1860 to
$4,000, 600 900 in 1891, as estimated by sta
tisticians-an increase of 239 per per.
This is a GoodIy Land.
If any are disconnected with their state
here: if any believe that wages or prices,
i,
they should not fail to remember that
there is no other country in the world
where the conditions that seem to them
hard, would not be accepted as highly
prosperous. The English agriculturist
Xvoufd be glad to exchange the returns of
his labor for those of the American farmer,
and the Manchester wOrkmen their wages
for those of their fellows at Fall River. l
believe that-the protective system, which
has now for something more than thirty
wears continuously prevailed IN our legls-
iation, has been mighty irstrument for
the development of our national wealth,
and most powerful agency in protecting
the homes of our workingmen from the
invasion of want. L have felt a most
Rolicitious interest to preserve to our
working people rates of wages that would
not only give daily bread, but supply
comfortable margin for those home at
fractions and family comforts and ENJOY
ynekSts without which he is neither hope
9ul nor sweet They are American oiti-
gems, part of the great people for whom
our constitution and government were
framed and instituted, and 1t cannot be
narversion of that constitution TO SO legls-
Nate as to preserve in their homes the
Amfort, independence, loyalty and sense
az interest in the government which are
essential to good citizenship IN peace, and
xvhich will bring this stalwart throng, as
IN 1851. to the defense of the flag when it
"a assailed 1T is not my purpose to renew
here the argument in favor OF q protec-
tive tariff.
he accepted as having introduced a new
~olicv Wemust assume that the present
tariff. constructed upon the lines of pro-
Saction. is to be repealed and that there Is
Ia he substituted for it a tariff law con-
etructed solely with reference to revenue,
that no duty is to be higher because the
increase will keep open an American mill
ar keep up the wages of an American
workman, but that in every case Such
rate of duty is to be imposed as will bring
TO the treasury of the United States the
largest returns of revenue.
The constitution has not been between
schedules but between the principles and
IL would be offensive to suggest that the
prevailing party will not carry into leglS-
fation the principles advocated by 1t, ana
the pledges given to the people, and the
tariff bills passed by the house or repre-
gentatives at the last session were, as
suppose, even in the opinion OF their pro-
rnoters inadequate and justified only BY
The fact that the senate and the house
of representatives were not IN accord, ana
that q general revision could not therefore
1ah a