The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1892-12-10
HARRISON S last
The Presidents Message Very
Comprehensive.
Every Department Of the Govern
ment Reviewed.
Blessings Of the Nation Enume-
rated at Great Length.
This Country Is Happy and Prosperous,
Wages Are High, Living Is Cheap,
and II You Don't Believe Il
Co to Europe.

Co to Europe.
WASHINGTON, Dec. G.--Presilent Harri-
son's message reads as follows:
To the Senate and House of Representa-
ives: In submitting my annual message
TO congress have great satisfaction III
being able to say that the general condi-
lions affecting the commercial and indus
trial interests of the United States are In
the highest degree favorable. A compar-
ison of the existing conditions with those
Of the most favored period in the historyo of
the country WILL believe, show that such
= degree OF prosperity and so general u
Intrusion of the comforts of life were never
before enjoyed by our people. The total
wealth of the country in 1850 was SIG, 1884,
bl6,O ,O4S. In 1880 it amounted to sG2,8l0,000,-
UO0, an increase of PSI per cent. The to-
tai mileage of railways in the United
states In 1850 was 30.b26; in 1890 it was
16I, ,14, an increase OF 44S per cent: and
1t Is estimated that there will be about
1910 miles of track added by tho close
Of the year 1892, The official returns of
sus for seventy-tive leading cities fur
nished the basis for the following compar-
isons:
Interesting Comparisons.
In 1880, the capital invested in manufac-
turing was 81 ,232 $50 $40. In 1890 the capi-
tai Invested in manufacturing was S2,9O0,-
7S5, ,ss4. In 1850 the number of employees
was 2,27l ,134. In 1850 the wages earned
were s50l 1865, ,T7s. In 1890 the wages earned
were $1,22l l70,454. III 1889 the value of
the product was 2,7ll $1,000. In 1890 the
value of the products was =, 500, ,2S6, ,S37.
am informed by the superintendent of the
census that the omission of certain indus
tries in 1880 which We're included in 1890,
accounts i'll part for the remarkable in
crease 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 1880
there remain in the reports from these
seVenty-five cities an incrense in the
capital employed of sl,522 745 ,604 in the
value of the product of g, ,O24 ,s23G, 166. in
wages earned of S677,043,929 and in the
number OF wage earners employed of 1885,,
90. The wage earnings not only show an
capita from 1856 in 1850 to ss,47 in 1890. or
A,7l per cent, The new industrial plants
established since October 6. 1890, and I'M
to October 22, 1892, rs partially reported
In the American Economist, number 345
and the extension of existing plants, 10S.
The new capital invested amounts to $40
2 449, ,050 and the number of additional en-
ployes to 81 ,2T5. 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 forty
are cotton mills, forty-eight knitting mills,
forty plush mills and two linen mills. OF
the forty cotton mills, twenty-one have
been built in the southern states. A. B.
Shepherdson, of the New York Cotton
exchange, estima ties the number of work
ing spindles in the United States on Sep
tember ], 1892, at 1S5, ,000, 600. an increase of
$50, 900 over the year 1891. The consumption
Of cotton by American mills in 1891 was
1895 900 bales and in 1899, 1854, 600 bales,
an Increase of 1SSO00 bales. From the
year 1869 to 1892, inclusive, there has been
an Increase in the consumption of cotton
In Europe of 92 per cent, while during the
same period the increase of consumption
in the United States has been about 15O
per cent. The report of Ira Aver, special
agent OF the treasury department, shows
atdate, September 30, 1892, there were
thirty-two companies manufacturing tin
and tin plate in the United States and
fourteen companies building new works
for such manufacture. The amount in
vested in buildings and plants at the close
of the fiscal year June 80, 1892, if estimated
conditions we're to be continued, is s. ,000,-
600 and the estimated rate of production
200, 0000 600 puonds per annum The actual
production for the quarter ending Septem-
Der 30, 1892, was 10,925,2T5 pounds. The re-
port of Labor Commissioner Peck of New
York. shows that during the year 1891
In about 6,0O0 manufacturing estab-
lishments in that state en-
made by him aud representing sixty seven
different industries there was net in
crease over the year 1890 OF $3l Bis l3O, ,GS
In the value of the product and Of SG,377,-
a25.09 in the amount of wages paid. The
report of the commission of abor for the
state of Massachusetts show that 375 in
obstetrics in that state paid $l29, 4lG,24S in
wages during the year 1891 against Sl26-
030, BOB in 1890, IN increase of &, 3:}5 94:5 and
that there WAS an increase of s.. .032. 400 in
the amount OF capital and Of 1915 in the
number OF persons employed i'll 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
$3.50, ,S1g tons as against 9.209.703 tons in
the year lss1 which was the largest
annual production ever obtained For
the same l2 months of 1882 the produc-
tion OF besss;i:ss ingots was ass, 5sl tons,
az increase of i,S01,1l0 gross tons
over the previously unprecedented yearly
prodnctioi, of 3, ,GSS, Su gross tons in 1890
The production of bessemer steel rails for
the first six months of 1892 was 772.43G
gross tons rs against 702, ,080 gross tons
during the last six months of the year of
1871. Tic total valnc of our foreign trade
exports and mannfactures) during the
last fiscal year was II ,S57 $50 ,61O. an iu-
crease Of $l2G ,263, ,6OI over the previous tis-
cal year. The average annual value of
Of onrimports and exports Of mcrchan-
disc for the ten fiscal years prior to 1891
was 81, ,557, ,3222, ,019. 1t will be observed that
our foreign trade for 1899 exceeded this
annual average value by $500. .35s, ,391, an
increase Of 27.47 pcr cent. The signif-
cancc and value of this increase are
shown by the fact that the excess in the
trade OF lS.9 over 1891 WIS wholly in the
value of exports, for there was decrease
IN the value of imports of sl7 7,513,254. Tie
value OF exports during the fiscal year
1852 reached the highest figure in the
history of the government, amounting to
q, ,030, ,27S, las, exceeding by sl4,797,:3S3S the
Of the imports by Sc OBS, 1855. A compar-
ison of the value of our exports for 1892
with the annual average for the ten years
prior to 1891 shows an excess of s265. 142,
671. or of 81. 65 per cent. The value of our
Imports Of merchandise for 1892, which
average value OF the tell years prior to
1891 by s185,2i5oiO. During the fiscal
year 1882 the value OF imports free OF duty
amounted to S457 800, ,65s, the largest ag-
gregatc In the history of our commerce
The value of imports of merchandise en-
tered free OF duty inls02 was 55.35 per
cent Of the total value of imports. as com
pared with ABB per cent in 1901 and So 66
per cent in 1890
In our coastwise trade n most encourage
Ing development is in progress, there hav-
ing been in the last four years an increase
OF ~ per cent, In internal commerce the
statistics show that no such period of
prosperity has ever before existed.
Wages High and Work Abundant.
There never has been time in our his
tory when work was so abundant or when
wages were as high. whether measured
by the currency in which they are paid or
their power to supply the necessaries
and comforts Of life. II is trne that the
market prices Of cotton and wheat have
been low. II is one Of the uIfavoiable in
cidents Of agriculture that the farmer
sannot produce upon order. Hemust sow