The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-12-16
NE sSAeE.
President Harrison on the State
of the Nation.
The WORK OF FOUR YEARS.
Parting Discussion of Important
Public Questions.

Pensions, Elections and the Treas.
ury-New Mail Subsidies Urged
Also Continued Work on the New
Navy-Chiet Accomplishments of
the Departments.
Toshe Senate and House of Representatives:
In submitting my annual message to Com
gress have great satisfaction in being able
to say that the general conditions affecting
the commercial aud industrial interests Of
the United States ara in the highest degree
favorable. A comparison of tho existing
conditions with those of the most favored
period in the history of the country will I
believe. show that SO high degree of pros
perity and SO general diffusion of the COM
forts of life were never before enjoyed by
our people.
The total wealth OF the country in 1860
was SIG, 159. Gle, ,06S. In 1890 it amounted to
&62, 6l0, 900, 0O0, an increase of PSF per cent.
The total mileage OF railways in the
United States in 1850 was 80, 626; in 1890 it
and it is estimated that there will be about
1000 miles of track added by the close Of the
year 1892.
CENSUS FIGURES.
The official returns of the Eleventh Gen.
sus and those of the Tenth Census for rs
leading cities furnish the basis for the fol.
lowing comparisons:
In 1880 the capital invested in manufac-
turing was 81 ,232 S39. $40.
In 1890 the capital invested in manufac-
turing was 81, 900 795 1884.
J,SOl, sss.
In 1890 the number of employees was
In 1850 the wages carmel were s5o1, ,s65,
In 1890 the wages earned were 81. 29l, no.
454.
In 1882 the value of the product was ss.-
In 1890 the value of the product was 81
$50, 2S6, ,s37.
lam informed by the Superintendent OF
the Census that the omission Of certain in
dustries in 1890, which were included in
1895. accounts in part for the remarkable
increase thus shown. But, after making
full allowance for differences Of method and
deducting the returns Tor all interests not
included in the Census of 1887, there remain
In the reports from these seventy-five cities
an increase in the capital employed of
81, 522, I45, 6o4: in the value Of the product
of 81, t24 236, l66; in wages earned of S677,-
DAB, 929 and in the number of wage .earners
employed OF S56,020 Tho wagc-earnings
not only show an increased aggregate, but
an increase per capita from 1856 i'll 1850 to
t547 in lS9) or fl. ~ per cent.
The new industrial plants established since
October 6, 1890, and up to October ~, 1892,
as partially reDorted in the American Econo-
mist, number 345, and the extension OF ex-
lsting plants, los; the new capital invested
amounts to $40, 4,9,O5). and the number of
additional employees to 37,2S5.
The Textile World. for July, 1892, states
that durirS the first six months of the pres
built OF which 40 are cotton mills. 48 knit
ting mills, 26 WOODEN mills, Is silk mills.
4p'ush mills and 2 linen mills. OF the 40
cotton mills 81 have been built in the South
ern States. Mr.. A. b. Shepperson, of the New
York Cotton Exchange, estimates the num-
ber OF working spindles in the United
States on September l, 1892, at Is, 20O, 900,
an increase OF 6600CO over the year 1891.
The consumption OF cotton by American
mills in lSo! was 2,3oj 900 bales, aud in 1899
2,5S4, 600 bales, an increase OF 1SS, 600 bales.
From the year 1869 to 1892, inclusive,
there has been an increase in the consump-
ton OF cotton in Europe of % 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 Septe embcr 80, 1892, there were
thirty-.wo companies manufacturing tin
and terne plate in the United States and
fourteen companies bull ling new works for
such manufacture. The estimated invest
ment in buildings and plants at the close of
The ficai year June 3D. 1893, If existing con-
ditions were to be continued, was IS, 600, 600,
and the estimated rate,of production 2OO,-
100000 pounds per annum. The actual pro.
duction for the quarter ending September
30, 1892 was 10, ,0j27 7?5 pounds.
The report OF Labor Commissioner Peck,
Of New YorE, shows that during the year
1891. in about six thousand manufacturing
establishments in that State embraced
within the spec al inquiry made by him, and
representing " different III lustrles, there
wasa net increase over tho year 1897 OF
f31, ,3l5 1905 in the va.u, of the pro iuct,
and OF s6 3ii,95.00 in the amount of wages
paid. The report OF the commissioner OF
ioh fo,. lao, cot ,f a., Sln
that o145 industries i'll that State paid
kl29 4 6,24S in wages during the year 1891,
against $l26. 03 3J3 in 1897, an increase OF
e3, 1856, 945 and that there was an increase
of So "3?. 400 in the amount OF capital and OF
7346 in the number OF persons employed in
the same periot
During the last six months OF the year
1891 anu the fit six months of 1892 the to-
tai production of pig iron was O. 1lO, $40 tons,
as against 9,20!, T03 tons in the year 1890
which was the largest annual production
ever attained. For the same twelve month.
of lS9!-'92 the pro luction of Besssmer ingotS
was 3,SIS, ,5Sl tons, an Increase OF lS9, III
gross tons over the previous unprecedented
yearly production of 3, ,6SS. S7l gross tons in
1890. The productiau of Bessemer steel
rails for the first six months OF 1877 was
1i2 436 gross tons, as against 1O2,0SO gros
tons during the last six months of the yeal
1891.
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS.
The total value of our foreign trade lex
--.~i inlaorts of merchand.ael during
$1,000 a7S, lfs e1cSedinn e11coysdTinment amountin; +
t6e aims imSo Oh 1891 and cxc,eing III ti .'n S5S tn
imports by E2l2, So, GSG. 'ne value o
:, ooASrw'sE QUA AND INTERNAL TRADE
Ing dew @ ean,.ny e"ust%'Se ira 10 most cpc,nr.
nor o.i. n ''1 'aSt totr years nm innna naVing
Show that internal commerce the Ydsv ot 10
ever be- "T nrs no ls perod of prosperity
the coastwise tr,ic ti me freight carried in
NJ. NJ "sSresal. 2s 90, $50 tom LIES az in
lntni's, in Mi,sourl ,ss ana Ohio Rivers 1 ans vng
re .ntcI -, ,4Oj, C4j tom ye"r ,ne traffic ag-
River p"nase image passing through the fnI bnts. ves.
The vessel ullhg that year was Fl 6,l 900 toos
the foreign tIrndse trndss e enterei am cleared in
pooj "r,tn =" ol, to 49, 4sO 7G7 tons and nf 1890
Eeat u so' tons total for tbesa Se aver, YER
'"'pping ports of "a, AZ, 56s tons tons oni9 sTo