Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1892-01-15
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AAAA0 . A.Sn >C000mlDC: we nave
cached ~ tho United States what
AL beI.noxn in history - an epoch
i Dunicipal- and industrial develop |
lent, the parallel Of which cannot b |
Eound in the history Of any nation,
lnoientor modern-an epoch in which
we have added in ten years 1000. cool
10 the population of our towns and
cities; an epoch in which the urban
suddenly leaped from 223
IN 1880 to nearly 80 per cent Of the
aggregate population in 1890, aud in
which the cities Of 5000 population
and upward doubled in number in 20l
yean; IN epoch in which tie South
srn States, heretofore given over to
cotton, grain and tobacco, have felled
forests, developed Cities .leveled
mountains, built railroads, construct
I'd blast furnaces, and lighted them
At the, funeral pyre of slavery; an
epoch which has witnessed the de-
velopment ofthe coal, the. iron ore,
and the pig iron resources Of these
same agricultural Southern States to
. point where these industries equal
in tons Of product the total produc-
ton, Of bituminous coal, Of iron ore
and pig iron Of the nation In 1870;
an epoch which can point to : cotton
manufacturing industry in the cotton,
belt itself, employing nearly as many
hands in its cotton mills IS the state
Of Massachusetts, the Lancaster Of
America, did in 1870; an epoch which
has witnessed q raise and progress Of
American manufactures that have
placed the United States in the FIRST
rank as a manufacturing as we'll as
an agricultural nation; an epoch that
has put American industrial art in
many important branches Oh as high
70 plane AS European, and has demon
strnted that in originality in artistic
work, in the application Of science to
manufacture, in all that relates to the
technology Of industries, the Ameri-
can artisan is as we'll equipped as his
foreign rival, while in the important
sphere Of invention. he far excels him;
an epoch in which the wealth and
variety IF our infinite resources have
dawped upon the whole nation; an
epoch that must bind together all the
geographical divisions Of this vast con-
tinent rs never before bound.
In short, the Eleventh Census will
show that during the decade we have
added a nation to nation-a nation
complete in every particular. 1t will
show that the advancement OF popula-
ton, the increase Of agricultural pro-
ducts, the Investigation Of manutact-
uring, the development Of mineral
resources, the extension Of railroads
and the building up Of great CON-
mercial and industrial centers have
kept perfect time to the martial music
Of our national progress. There is
nothing discordant about this develop
ment. The farmer has extended the
area Of cultivation into the unsettled
region, the manufacturer has attached
thousands to the cities, and along the
streams and mountain ranges mining
villages having sprung Dip and myriad
furnaces tell the story Of the marvel
ous output Of mineral Wealth. p
I England, France, Germany and
Canals were all disappointed with The
numerical strength revealed by the
recent deoennial enumerations. We
should have felt happier with sixty
five millions, perhaps, instead Of sixty
three millions, but what Of that?
Time will soon remedy this defect,
and by the close Of this year we may
safely say, in round figures, that we
are sixty-6ve millions and be
correspondingly eestatic. Far more
important are the evidences Of agri.
cultural, industrial, commercial and
intellectual activity which the census
brings to light; that during the ten
years the products of our fields have
increased over fifty per cent.;:our cul-
tivated area over sixty per cent; our
vast cattle industry from a value
Of u, 100000 to $2,500,000,W 600;
or turning to industrial matters, that
the value Of our manu- featured pro-
ducts has reached $6,6UO,UUO,VO;
that We have added in the decennium
nearly 100000 wage earners to
those engaged IN manufacturing oc-
cupa,ions; that the value Of ouE mining
product. has gone from $3.50, GOO, 600
to nearly $500. O0O,O 600; that in COM
merce We can point tn a stupendous
increase IN our internal waterways
and coasting trade, and that the rail-
way mileage has increased in ten
years from $1,000 to $4,000 miles,
adding mileage about equal to the
aggregate railway mileage Of all Con-
tinental Europe in 1880. Surely all
these facts relating to the improved
condition Of the people are considers
lions as vital to the future Of the United
States q the question Of mere numeri-
cal strength From recent address
BY Robert P. Porter.
DULUTH NEWSPAPERS.