The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1893-06-06
The Da11es Daily Chronicle.
THE DALLES
OREGON
AHEAD OF EUROPE.
The United States in the Lead as
Manufacturing Country
Our Industrial and Commercial Progress
as Compared with That of Foreign
Nations A Splendid
Showing.

r. 81. Edmonds, journalist of Ba1ti-
more, one of the most eminent author
tiles on the conditions of recent prog
ress in the United States, contributes
to the Engineering Magazine an inter
esting and valuable paper entitled: ga
Decade of Marvellous Progress" from
which few conclusions are extracted:
The United States is now the leading
manufacturing country of the world.
We have far outstripped all other ma
tions in the magnitude of our indus
trial operations. It is almost incom-
prehensible that in ten years the in
crease i'm capital invested in manufac-
tures should exceed the total invested
only twenty years. ago. The value of
our manufactured products increased
about GO per cent; add 60 per cent to
the output of 1890 and we would have
S13, 3,7OO OOO, 900 in 19OO-but that is too
much to expect
The same rate of growth in mining
interests in this decade as in the last
would make our mineral output in
1900 nearly 81, 1,2OO,OO0,O0O, while a
smaller percentage of grain, only
equaling in volume the total increase
in 1890 over 1880, would bring the
figures to over $3.50, 900, ,O00 If our coal
miners add to the output of 1890 as
many tons as they added to that of
1880, ignoring in this the percentage of
growth, 217,0O0,000 tons will be the
production of 1900. No other country
in the world ever advanced in popula-
tion and wealth as the United States
is doing. The progress of the past
shows no signs of halting. In fact, the
development of our foreign and domes-
tic trade and commerce and of our in
dustrial interests is steadily broaden
ing out.
Contrast our position and condition
with Europe, with resources surpass-
ing those of all Europe, with wealth
creating possibilities in soil minerals,
timber and climate unequaled by
Europe and practically without limit
to their profitable utilization, with
homogeneous population of $4,000, 900
people unvexed by the arbitrary regu-
lations of half dozen different gov
ernments and free from the drain of
standing armies, the United States
justly commands the wonder and ad-
miration of the world.
Great Britain is no longer the manu-
featuring center of the world, for we
have taken the foremost position in
that line. Its vast iron and steel busi-
ness is yearly increasing in cost of pro-
sduction, while ours is decreasing. It
cannot meet the worlds growing de-
mand for iron and steel because it can
not increase its production to any great
extent. 1t produces less pig iron now
than it did ten years ago. Much of its
ore it imports from distant countries.
It's cotton is all imported. 1t spends
about $3.50, 100000 a year for foreign
food stuffs.
On the continent overv nation is bur-
dened with debt, and none OF them
ever can hope to pay off its obligations
Measured by their natural resources
and advantages for continued growth
against their. debts and the many dis
advantages under which they labor
they are practically bankrupt. In all
, of them the cost of production and liv-
ing must steadily increase. In the
United States we have scarcely laid
the foundation for our future great
ness In natural resources we are
richer than all of Europe; we are pay
ing off our debts faster than they are
due; we have barely scratched the
ground in the development of our min
eral wealth. and our agricultural
growth can scarcely be limited.
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