The Portland daily press., 1892-12-07
What President Harrison
Says in His Message.
THE PEOPLE ENJOYING
GREAT PROSPERITY.
This, the President Thinks Is, Large.
lyDue to Protection,
..ARIFF REVISION SHOULD NOT BE
BEGUN THIS WINTER.

,,ARIFF REVISION SHOULD NOT BE
BEGUN THIS WINTER.
Dur Relations with Canada Not What
They Should Be-The President Re-
news His Recommendations AS to the
American Marine and the Nicaragua
Canal-He Believes in the Proper Re-
striction of Immigration and Has a
Word to Say About the ChoIera-The
Message Document Full of Informa
ton Well Presented.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-The following is
President Harrison's message to the Con-
gress, read in BIO tn branches to-day:
To 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 conditions
affecting the commercial and industrial in
terests of the United States are in the high
est degree favorable. A comparison of the
existing conditions with those of the most
favorable period in the history of the coun-
try will, believe, show that so high de-
gree of prosperity and so general diffusion
of the comforts of life were never before en-
joyed by our people.
The total wealth of the country in 1860
was $16,159.6l6068. In 1890 it amounted
MO n n mr. -
cent.
The Country's Prosperity.
The total mileage of railways in the
United States in 1860 was 30,626; in 1890
it was l67.741, an increase of 448 per cent
and it is estimated that there will be about
10000 more miles of track by the close of
the year 1892.
The official returns of the 18th census
and those of the 10th census, for Is leading
cities, furnish the basis for the following
comparisons:
In 1880 the capital invested in manufac-
turing was $l.232,839,67Q. In 1890 the
capital invested in manufacturing was 49,
900,735,884. In 1880 the number of en-
ployes was 1,301,3SS. In 1890 the number
of employees was 2,25l,l34. In 1880 the
wages earned were 1901. 965,77s. In 1890
the wages earned were $1,22l,l70,454. In
1880 the value of the product was $2,7ll,-
579,S99. In 1890 the value of the products
was $4,860,2S6,837.
am informed 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 remarkable
increase thus shown. But, after making
full allowance for differences of method and
deducting the returns for all industries not
included in the census of 1880, there re-
main in the reports from these seventy five
cities an increase in the capital employed of
1892 745,S04; in the value of the product
of $2,024,23616, and in the number
wage earnings not only show an increased
aggregate but an increase per capita from
1888 in 1880 to $547 in 1890, or 4I.71 per
cent. The new industrial plants established
since October 1890, and up to October %,
1892 as partially reported in the American
Economist Number $40 and the extension of
existing plants, l0S. The new capital in
vested amounts to $4o,449, 900 and the num-
Der of additional employees to 1926.
The Textile World for July, 1892, states
that during the first six months of the pres
ent calendar year 1856 new factories were
built, of which 40 are cotton mills, 48 knit
ting mills, 26 wooden mills. Is silk mills, 4
plush mills and linen mills. Of the 40
cotton mills, 81 have been built in the
Southern States. Mr.. A. B. Shepperson, of
the New York Cotton Exchange, estimates
the number of working spindles in the
United States on September l, 1892, at
l5.2O0,000, an increase of 100000 over the
Gar 1891. The consumption of cotton by
American mills in 1891 was 100000 bales,
and in 1892 2,584,00O bales, an increase of
$4,000 bales. From the year 1869 to
1892, inclusive, there has been an increase
in the consumption of cotton in Europe of
80 per cent, while during the same period
the increased consumption in the United
States has been about $50 per cent.
The report of Ira Aver special agent of
the treasury department, shows that at the
date of September 80, 1892, there were 80
companies manufacturing tin and terne plate
in the United States and IA companies
building new works for such manufacture.
The estimated investment in buildings and
plants at the close of the fiscal year. June
80, 1893, if existing condition were to be
continued, was $5,0O0,000 and the esti-
mated rate of production 200,000,000 pounds
per annum, The actual production for the
quarter ending September 80, 1892, was
l0,952,725 pounds.
The report of Labor Commissioner Peck,
of New York, shows that during the year
1891 in about 5000 manufacturing estab-
lishments in that State. embraced within
the special inquiry made by. him and re-
presenting 81 different indu tries, there was
net increase over the year 1890 of $751;
3l5, l30.6S in the value of the products and
of 377,925.O9 in the amount of wages
paid The report of the commissioner of
labor for the State of Massachusetts shows
that 3,745 industries in that State paid
$l29,4l6,248 IN wages during the year
1891 against $126.O3O,3O3 in 1890 an in
crease of 1896, 945 and that there was an
increase of $685., 400 in the amount of Gap
ital and of 1884 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,S19
tons, as against 9,2O2,zO3 tons in the year
1899, which was the largest annual produc-
ton ever attained. For the same 10 months
of 1912 the production of Bessemer in