Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-05-06
PENNSYLVANIA.

Wednesday evening Of last week. Hon.
John Dalzell, always q welcome speaker,
had the toast pennsylvania All through
it was greeted with prolonged applause.
He said: There ia no rhetoric more
burning, no logic moro convincing than
the rhetoric and logic OF facts and figures
Pennsylvania is an empire within herself.
Reaching from tide water to the great an
salted sea, she embraces more than two
degrees of latitude and an area OF 4o,O00
square miles. Her population now over
3 $50. 900. has increased a per cent. IN
the last ten years, and it is to be noted
that this population is almost equally
divided between her cities and towns, 30
in number, where men engage IN manu-
featuring, mining and commercial pur-
suits, and her country places, where men
are devoted to agriculture. While her
city population has increased nearly 40
per cent. in the last decade, her rural
population has increased only little over
I per cent.-thus showing the character
istic pursuits of her people. In ~ IN
dustrial centers for which the eleventh
census collected the statistics of manu-
features, the population increased nearly
"A ner cent. In Pittsburgh it increased
nearly 524 per cent. while McKeesport
leads the list in an incrase of over l524
per cent. But one thing | wish to call
your especial attention to in the statistics
of our Quaker State, and that is that her
cities are cities not of dwellings, but OF
homes.
PESysYLvANIANs FOR THEIR HOMES.
That people comes nearest to being
Gods people who stand foremost IN the
march of Christian civilization, where men
and women go in the morning to face their
daily toll from houses sacred to their own
families, and return with the evening
shadow to the sanctifying influences OF their
own households. The ten years just passed
have seen an increase of % per cent. IN
Pennsylvania families Philadelphia has
more than twice as many dwellings as
New York City, while 834 per cent. OF the
nopulation of New York live over ten IN a
dwelling. and 81 7-10 per cent. live over
90 in a dwelling; in Philadelphia less than
| I3 per cent. live in dwellings containing
over ten persons each. In these figures
there is a thrilling music of Pennsylvania
thrift and enterprise and morality, and
the possibilities of noble ambitions ard
pure aspirations. Pittsburgh has increased
her dwellings SO per cent. and Scranton,
that gem Of a city-which some OF US
know-64 per cent. In the last decade IL
is conceded maxim that the natural law
of economic growth lies in a harmonious
development of agriculture, manufactures
and commerce. Let us test Pennsylvania
title to greatness and progress by this law
The value of our farm lands exceeds ST.
$50. 600. .O2O and the increase in value
within ten years has been % per cent.
FINEST FARM LANDS IN THE WORLD.
While we have eight and four-tenths OF
the total population of the United States.
we have nearly 10 per cent. of the total
value of farm land. Ohio alone exceeds
PENNSYLVANIA in this regard. She has
per cent OF the total population and Ii
per cent. of farm land value. But the
richest agricultural counties in all this
continent are ours. Such counties as
Lancaster and others that L might name
are good to look.Hpon, and make the heart
glad. In all that makes agricultural
wealth, in increase of cultivated acres, in
value of farm stock, we are still making
strides forward The vine and fruit trees
are making conquests of our fields, while
our acreage for cereals has increased IN
the last ten years per cent. and aggregates
now 4, $50, 900 acres. But Pennsylvania
wealth is under ground as well as above;
in natures storehouse of useful metals, OF
coal. iron, petroleum and natural gas
heat, light and power ready made. Here
is natures suggestion to work IN the gilt
of the few and power alongside the raw
| material to be worked. Last year we put
upon the market nearly 81, ,OOO, ,O0O,000
tons of COAL and that was "a per cent.
more than We produced in 1880. of iron
ore. we mined i 900. 500 tons; of petroleum,
we produced 81, 500, 900 barrels, and ST.
600, 600 worth of stone left its hiding place
to add to our evidences of wealth.
GREAT STRIDES IN MANUFACTURING.
But it is as manufacturing State that
Pennsylvania wears her crown of glory.
may not stop to speak of the varied pro-
ducts of her labor, for figures are unlnter-
esting and wearisome. Look for moment
briefly at one or two of her industries.
Between 1880 and 1890 the State increased
its production of pig-iron nearly l38 per
cent. Allegheny county increased her
production 1893 per cent. She made 10
per cent. of all made in the State. During
the same period Pennsylvania's crucible
steel product increased 6 per cent, her
Bessemer steel product 292 per cent. and
her open hearth steel product over o'4
per cent. And while the whole United
States increased in the same time their
productions of iron and steel 162 per cent,
Pennsylvania's increase was 1S2 per cent
She made so per cent. of the total pro-
duction. Men no longer seek for foreign
plate. Gone are the glories of French and
Belgian skilled workmen, in competition
with Yankee ingenuity, Pennsylvania
thrift and enterprise. Within but short
distance from where we are the largest
plate glass establishment in the world,
equipped with the most approved machinery
and ingenious appliances, furnishes labor
to 5000 Pennsylvania workmen and has
a capacity to turn out 100000 square
feet of plate glass per annum.
Pennsylvania wool manufacture has
increased in the decade just passed over
80 per cent in its products. while it has
increased 614 per cent. in the wages paid
its employees, and 93t per cent. in its in
vestment of capital. Not to enlarge
Pennsylvania's Industries include almost
every article of necessity, of comfort, of
luxury, filling the entire field OF the
arts of peace, and furnishing the apph-
ances of offensive and defensive warfare.
Manufactures of foods, of cottons, linens,
woolens, carpets, manufacturers, of wood,
of leather, chemicals, glass, machinery,
steel and of iron, manufacturers of every
thing essential to the industrial freedom
of people politically free.
may not stop to dwell on the figures
of Pennsylvania commerce. The great
instruments of commerce are money, the
measure of value, the transportation
facilities, the means of exchange. Honey
combed as Pennsylvania already was with
railroads, her railroads have increased in
the last decade over AL per cent. Con-
template for a moment the business of the
Pennsylvania Railroad. Its net income,
main line alone, and branches between
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, last year
was over $12, 600, 900; 81 900, 900 month.
Its tonnage mileage aggregated over 5,000,-
000,0 900; its passengers mileage nearly
400, ,000, 900. Its average cost of freight
transportation was less than four-tenths of
cent per ton per mile. This is to say
nothing of the traffic upon our magnificent
water ways, the care and improvement of
which wise craftsmanship must make
more and more a subject OF generous
nation concern. Now, note the harmonious
development of Pennsylvania's wealth.
Population has increased, home life has
been preserved, agriculture has spread to
new fields with multiplied products, in
dustries have been diversified, manu-
features increased, mineral resources have
been developed, great cities the centers as
they always are of the commercial life of
civilized people have grown and prosper
ed, while the intellectual and moral ad
vancement of our people has continued