Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-12-10
THE MESSAGE.
President Harrison on the State
Of the Nation.
the WORK OF FOUR YEARS.
Parting Discussion of Important
Public Questions.

Tensions, Elections and the Treas.
ury-New Mail Subsidies Urged
Also Continued Work on the New
Navy-Chiet Accomplishments of
the Departments.
To the Senate and House of Representatives.
In submitting my annual message to Con.
gress have great satisfaction in being able
to say that the general conditions affecting
the commercial AMI industrial interests of
the United States are in the highest deerae
favorable. A comparison 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 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 ia 1860
was SIG, 1853 6l6,06S In 1890 it amounted to
s62, GIG, 600 000. an increase of PSF per cent.
TIE total mileage of railways in the
United States in 1859 was 3),625; in 1899 it
was l61, 74l, an increase of AS per cent.
and 1t is estimated that there will be about
4OOo miles OF track added by the close of the
year 1892.
CENSUS FIGURES
The official returns of the Eleventh Gem
sus and those of the Tenth Census for Is
leading cities furnish the basis for the fol.
lowing comparisons;
In 1880 the capital invested in manufac-
turing was 81, 49,, s39, 60
In 1890 the capital invested in manufac-
turing was s., 900, 735 ,SS4
1901, 3SS
In 1899 the number of employees was
225l, 1874.
In 1880 the wages carmel were $50i, SOS.
454. W.
la 1881 the value of the pro luct was So.
Ill, 519. 500
In 1890 the value Of the product was 81.
$50, 2S6, s37
am informed by the Superintendent of
the Census that the omission of certain in
dustrles in 1880, which were inclu led in
1871, accounts in part for the remarkable
increase thus shown. But, after making
full allowance for differences of method AMI
deductlng the returns for all interests not
included in the Census of 1881, there remain
IN the reports from these seventy-iive cities
an increase in the capital employed Of
81, 81 "a, 6)4; in the value of the product
OF 81, t24 236, lG6 in wages earned OF s677,-
9I3,9<9, aud IN the number OF wage learners
employed of SjS 029. The wage-earninrs
not only show an increased aggregate, but
an increase per capita from 1886 in 1880 to
S547 in 1897 or All psr cent.
The new industrial plants established since
October 8, 1870, and up to October %, 1892,
as partially reported in the American Econo.
mist number 345 and the extension of ex.
listing plants, los; the new capital invested
amounts to $40, 4l9, 05l, and the number of
additional employees to &c, 2S5
The Textile World, for July, 1892 states
that during the first six months of the pres.
ent calendar year 135 new factories were
built, OF which 40 are cotton mills, IS knit
ting mills, 90 wooden mills. Is silk mills
4 push muis and 2 linen mills. OF the 30
cotton mills 81 have been built in the South
ern States. Mr.. A. B. Sheprersop of the New
\ ork Cotton Exchange, estimates the nun.
Der of working spindles in the United
States on September |, 1892 at IS 200 900
an Increase Of $50, 900 over the year 1871.
The consumption of cotton by American
mills in 1891 was 2, 1876 900 bales, and in 1892
z, 5S4, QUO bales, an increase OF 1SS, 900 bales
From the year 1859 to 1892, inclusive,
there has been an increase in the consunp
ton OF cotton in Europe of % per cent.
while during the same period tn increased
consumption in the Unitel 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
thirty-two companies manufacturing tin
aud terne plate in the United States and
fourteen companies building new works for
such manufacture. The estimated invest.
inent in buildings ami plants at the close of
the tcal year, June g, 1928 il existing con-
dltions were to be c)ntinue1, was IS 900 600,
and the estimated rate Of production 200
OO0 600 pounds per annum. The actual pro.
ductlon for the quarter ending September
4 h,
The report OF Labor Commissioner Peck.
OF New York, shows that during the year
1891, III about six thousand manufacturing
establishments in that State embraced
within the spec al inquiry made by him, aud
representing O. diff srent in tustries, there
was net increase over the year 1890 OF
S5l, 3l5, IL l6S in the vaiu9 of the product.
ana OF - 81 $500 in the amount of wages
paid. The reporJ OF the commissioner of
labor for the State OF Massachusetts, shows
that 3145 industries i'll that State paid
Sl%9, Z, 24S IN wages during the year 1891.
against Si26. Oh J. 3 - in 1872 an increase of
So 335, 945, and that there was an inc -eass
OF ~, 932 400 in the amount of capital and OF
$40 IN the number OF persons employed in
the same perioi.
During the last six months of the year
1911 ana the first SIX months of 1892 the to-
tai production of pig iron was 9, 40, Si9 tons,
as 5ainst 9,202, 103 tons in the year 1885,
Whlcn was tue largest annual production
ever attained. For the same twelve months
OF le9!'92 the pro iuction of Bessemer ingots
was 3,s7S, 5Sl tons, an increase of 1879, 10
gross tons over the previous unprecedented
yearly production of 3, 68S,s7 gross tons in
lagO. The productian of Bessemer steel
ra Is Tor the first SIX months of 1892 was
172, ABS gross tons as against ZOE. $50 gross
tons during the last six months OF the year
1891.
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS. -.
The total value OF our ,foreign trade tex-
ports aud imports of meiicaandise} during
the last fiscal year was 81 So. $50 alo an in
crease Of Sis, 2S3,64 over the previous fis-
cal year .
The value Of our exports during the fiscal
year le92 reached the highest figure in the
history Of the Government amountinr to
81, O30 21S, las, exceeding by =$t45 7q7, 33S the
exports OF 1921 and exceeding the value of
the imports by S2J2.s75, $50.
CoASTwIsE AND INTERNAL TRADE.
In our coastyise ira le most euc1utaz-
ng development is in progress, there having
been in tine last four years an increase of 16
per cent. In internal commerce the statistics
show that no such perio1 OF prosperity has
aver before existed. The freight carried in
5he coastwiss trade thu Great Lakes in
1890 aggregate IS, 29l, 959 ton. On the
Mississippi Missouri ami Ohio Rivers and
tributIies in the same year the traffic ag
greZatei -, 405, 04j tons, ana the total ves-
sci tonnage passing. through the Detroit
River during that year was 2E654, 900 tons.
he vessel tonnage entered AMI cleared in
the foreign trade OF J. IN lon during 1890
amounted to 10, $50. 767 tons, aud o. Liver
pool 109il 500 tons q total for these two
great shipping ports OF 81, AZ, 5jS tons, only
slightly in excess of the vessel tonnage pass
ing thrcu sh the Detroit River.
WINGS OF tbs PEOPLE.
Another indication of the general pros
perity of the country is found in the fact
that the number of deposit1rs in savings
banks increas Il from C9} so in 1861 to d.
25S. 1913 in 1890, an increase of 5i3 per cent.
sn1 the am ,uut OF dep sits from S149, 277,
5O4 in 1861 to 81, 81 S4t5 in 1899, au in
crease o. 9}t per cent. In 1891 tue amount
of deposits in savings banks was Sl.623 03a.-
749 1t is estimated that 90 pr cent of
these deposits represent the savings of wage
earners. fhe bank clearauces for nine
months eniing Septe nber 80, 1891 amounted
to Sal, 049, 390,Se. For the same months in
1892 they amounted to S45. 1S9, SOL. 94T, an ex-
cess Tor tine nine months Oh "a, lao, 21l, 1879.
There has never been a time in our his
tory when work was so album liant or when
wages e as high, whether measured by
the currency in which Trey are pail or by
their power to supply the necessaries and
comforts of life 1t is true that the marSet
pr 'ces of cotton and wheat have been low.
1t is one of the unfavorabie incidents OF ar
ricuiture that the farmer cannot produce
upon or iers. He mast SOW AMI r119 in IT,
norapce Of the aggregate production Of the