The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-07
HIS LAST MESSAGE
President Harrison Talks
to the Country.
GOOD WORDS FOR PROTECTION
But There Is No Defense of the Policy,
and the Whole Matter Is Re-
ferred to Democracy.
Special to THE MORNING GALL

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-PresIdent Har-
rison's message reads as follows:
To the Senate aud House Of Representatives:
In submitting my annual message TO Congress 1
have great satisfaction IN being able TO say that
the general conditions affecting the commercial
and Industrial interests OF the United States are
In the highest degree favorable Comparison 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
40 general a diffusion OF comforts OF life were
never before enjoyed by our people. The total
wealth OF the country Ia 1860 was $685.
346,O6s. In 1890 It amounted 10 s62 &c.
O0O. 900. an increase OF 2S7 per cent. The
total mileage OF railways in the United States In
1860 was 3o.626 In 1890 1t was 1877 741, an
Increase Of AS PER cent and IL is estimated that
there Will be about 1000 miles of track added
by The close of the year 1892. Tie official re-
turns Of the eleventh census and those OF the
tenth for seventy-fiye of the leading cities fur
nIshed the basis for The following comparisons:
In 1880 the capital invested in manufacturing
was 81, 232, 639.67o. In 1890 the capital In.
vested IN manufacturing was 81, 900, 735. SS4
In 1880 The number of employees was 1. sol 1888.
In $50 the number OF employees was 2,271, 1874
In 1880 the wages earned amounted 10 S5O1-
965.77S In 1890 the wages earned amounted
TO S1.221,17O,4 54. In 1880 the value of the
products was S27ll ,579. 999. In 1890 the
value OF the products was 81 $50, 2S6, 1877.
i am Informed by the superin endent Of the
census that the omission of certain industries in
1880 which were ineludt d In 1890 accounts IN
part for the remarkable increase thus shown
But after making full allowances for differences
Of method aud deducting the returns for all IN
dustTies not included In the census OF 1880
there remains In the reports from these seventy.
five cities an increase In the Capital employed
of 81 ,522 745, 604, In the value of the products
OF S2,024, 236.166, In wages earned OF S677,-
943, 929, and In the number of wage.earners
employed of S5e,029 The wage-esfnIngs not
only show al Increased aggregate but an In
creased pr capita from 1886 IN 1880 TO s547 in
1890. or All per cent The new Industrial
plants established since October g. 1890. and
up 10 October % 1892, ms partially reported In
the American Economist, number $40. and the
extension of existing plants 10S The neH capt.
tai Invested amounts 10 SAC, 449, 05o. aud the
number OF additional employees 10 81, 2S5.
The Textile " Grid for July. 1892 states that
during the first sixteenth OF the present calendar
year 135 new factories were built OF which
forty are cOtton-mills forty-eight kniiting.miIls
twenty-sx wooden mills, fifteen silkmlls, forty
plushmills and two lin. n-mills. or the forty
coitOn-mlllS, twenly-One have been built In the
SoutheI u States. Mr. A. B. ShepDerdson OF the
New York Cotton Exchange estimates the num-
Der OF working snndles in the United States on
September l. 1892, AT 1S6. 100000, an increase
of 100000 over The year 1891. TIE consump-
ton OF cotton by American mills In 1891 was
2396,OOO bales. and In 1892 25S4.0o bales.
an increase OF 186. 900 bales. From the year
1863 10 1892, inclusive, there has been an In
crease Ia tie consumption OF cotton In Europe
OF 81 pr cent, while during the same period
the increase Of consumption 10 the United States
bias been about 10 per cent.
The report OF Ira Aver, special agent OF the
Treasury Department. shows at date OF Septem-
Der 80 1892. there were thiTty-two companies
manufacturing tin and tlnDlate ia the United
States and fourteen companIe. building new
works for such manufacture. The estimated in.
vestments ia buildings al the close OF the fiscal
year on June 80, 1892. IL existing conditions
were 10 be counted, was $5.000000. and tie
estimated ate OF production 200. DOC. 600 pounds
per aunum. The actual production for The quar-
ter ending September 80, 1892, was 10. $50, 725
pounds.
The report OF the Labor Commissioner OF New
YORK shows that during The year 1891, In about
5000 manufacturing establishments 10 that
State embraced within the special inquiry made
by him snd representing sxIy-seyen different in
dusiries there was a net increase over Tie year
1890 Of S31.315.130 66 IN the value OF tile
product ana of S6,377, 1926 % in the amount of
wages paid.
The report Of the Commissioner OF Labor for
the State OF Massachusetts showed that
3I5 Industries Ia that State paid S129,-
416.23S IN wages during the year 1891.
against S126, o30. 303 In 1890, an increase of
SO, 435 945, and that there was an increase of
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 produc-
ton OF mig iron was o, 710,Sf9 tons. as against
92O9.703 tons In the year 1890. which was the
largest annual production ever obtained For
The same months OF 1S91-92 the production of
BessemeT ingots was 3, S7S.5S1 tons an Increase
OF 1870 gross tons over the previously UMPIRE
cedented yearly production of 1858, 81 gross
tons In 1890. The production OF Bessemer steel
rails for the first six month"; Of 1892 was 772.436
gross tons, as against 500. 0S0 gross tons during
the last SIX months OF the year 1891.