The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-12-09
President HarrisOn's Final Commune.
cation to Congress Read Before
Both Houses.
He Says the Country Was Never Before
in so Prosperous Condition as
Now,
And Gives Figures to Back His Asser.
tiOns-All the Departments
EulOgiZed,
But Those Presided Over by Rusk and
Wanamaker Come i'm for the
EET Liens Share.

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-Following is
the text of President Harrison's mes
sage to congress:
To the Senate and House of Representa-
tives:
In submitting my annual message to
congress have great satisfaction In be-
ing able to say that the general coudi-
lions affectin 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 history
of the country will, believe, show that
so high degree of prosperity and so gen
eral a diffusion of the comforts of life
were never before enjoyed by our people.
Wealth of the Country.
The total wealth of the country in 1860
was SIC, 159, 6l6,O6S In 1890 it amounted
to So, GIG, OOO, 900, an increase of 2s7 per
cent.
The total mileage of railways in the
United States in 1860 was 30,626; in 1890 ii
was 1874, an increase of AS per cent;
and it is estimated that there will be
about 1000 miles Of track added by the
close of the year 1892.
The official returns of the Eleventh CEN
sus and those of the Tenth census for 20
leading cities furnished the basis for the
following comparisons:
In 1880 the capital invested in manufac-
turing was 81, 232, SS9,670.
In 1890 the capital invested in manufac-
fnrinp WAS So 900, 735, 1884.
In 1880 the number of employees was
1901, 1888.
In 1890 the number OF employees was
2,251, 134.
In 1880 the wages earned were $501 $685.
IT'S.
In 1890 the wages earned were 81, 22l, 17O,-
In 1880 the value of the product was 81
III, 579, 800.
In 1890 the value of the product was 81, :
$50, 2S6, S37.
lam informed by the superintendent
of the census that the omission of GER
tain Industries in 1880 which were in
Guided in 1890 accounts in part of the re-
markable increase thus shown, but after
making full allowances for differences of
method and deducting the returns for all
Industries not included in the census of
1880, there remain in the reports from
these seventy fvo cities an increase in the
capital employed of s., 522, 745, 604; in the
value of the product of So, 024, 236, 1866; in
wages earned of s67, 943, 1929, and in the
number of wage earners employed of
$50, 029. The wage earnings not only
allow an increased aggregate, but an in
crease per capita from 1886 in 1880 to S547
in 1890; or Ali per cent.
Growth of Industrial Plants.
The new industrial plants established
since Oct. g. 1890, and up to Oct. %. 1892,
as partially reported in the American
Economist, number 345, and the extension
of existing plants 1OS; the new capital in
vested amounts to $40,449,0 50, and the
mum Der of additional employees to 81
2S5.
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 46 are cotton mills,
48 knitting mills, 81 wooden mills, Is silk
mills, plush mills and linen mills. OF
the 40 cotton mills 81 have been built in
the Southern states. Mr.. A. Is. Shep-
herson, of the New York Cotton En-
change, estimates the number of working
spindles In the United States on Sept. l.,
1892, at 100000, an increase of 66O,0OO
over the year 1891. The consumption of
cotton by American mills in 1891 was
2,396, 900 bales, and in 1892, 2, 1884, OD0 bales,
an increase of 1885, 100 bales. From the
year 1869 to 1892 inclusive. there has been
an increase in the consumption of cotton
in Europe of 90 per cent, while during the
same period the increased consumption
L. L.,
per cent.
The Tin Industry.
The report of Ira Aver, special agent of
the treasury department., shows that at
the date of Sept. 80, 1892, there were
thirty-two com panies manufacturing tin
and terne plate in the United States and
fourteen companies building new works
for such anufacture. The estimated
investment in buildings and plants at the
close of the fiscal year, June 80, 1898, il
existing conditions were to be continued,
was S., OOO, 900, and the estimated rate of
production 2OO,OO0,000 pounds per annum.
The actual production of the quarter end
ing Sept. 80, 1892, was 1O.952,725 pounds.
Commissioners Peck's Report
The report of Labor Commissioner
Peck, Of New York, shows that during
the year 1891, in about six thousand
manufacturing establishments in that
state embraced within the special inquiry
made by him, and representing 81 differ
emit industries, there was net increase
over the year 1890 of $31 ,315 l3O.6S in the
value of the product, and of S6,377, 1875. %
In she amount of wages paid.
The report of the commissioner of labor
for the State of Massachusetts shows that
8,745 Industries in that state paid $780,
4l6,24S in wages during the year 1891,
against $780, O3O, 3O3 in 1890. an increase of
@, 1876, 945, and that there was pn increase
of So, 932, 400 in the amount of capital, and
of 7,346 in the number of persons en-
ployed in the same period.
Our Foreign Trade.
The total value of our foreign trade
exports and manufactures during the
last fiscal year was s1,S57 $50, 610, an in.
crease of SIPS, GA over the previous
fiscal year. The average annual value of
ourimports and exports of merchandise
for the ten fiscal years prior to 1891 was
LAST, 1896, 019. It will be observed that
our foreign trade for 1892 exceeded this
annual average value by $4OO, 1855, 591, an
increase of 27.47 per cent. The signific-