The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-11-01
WE LEAD THE WORLD.
The United States Il Now Ahead of Europe
in Manufactures.

The United states L. Now Ahead OF Europe
in Manufactures.
The United States is now the leading
manufacturing country in the world.
We have far outstripped all the other
nations in the magnitude of our indus
trial operations. 1t is almost incom-
prehensible that in ten years the in
crease in the capital invested in manu-
features should exceed the total invest
ed only twenty years ago. The value
of our manufactured products increased
about 60 per cent. Add 80 per cent to
the output of 1890 and we would have
s13, 700. 600, 900 in 1900; but that is too
much to expect.
The same rate in growth in mining
interests in this decade as in the last
would make our mineral output in 1900
nearly 1000. 600. 900, while smaller
percentage in gain, only e9ualing
in volume the total increase in 1890
over 1880, would bring the figures to
over $3.50, 10000 If our coal miners
add to the output of 1890 as many tons
as they added to that of 1850. ignoring
in this the percentage of growth, 217,-
600, 900 tons will be the production of
1900.
No other country in the world ever
advanced in population and wealth as
the United States is doing. The prog
ress of the past shows no signs of halt
ing. In fact, the development of our
foreign and domestic trade and COM
merce, and of our industrial interests,
is steadily broadening out Con-
trast our position and condition with
Europe. with resources surprising
those of all Europe, with wealth-creat-
ing possibilities in soil. minerals. tim
Der and climate uneqaled by Europe,
and practically without limit to their
profitable utilization with a homoge-
nous population of IS, 900. 900 people un-
vexed by the arbitrary regulations of
half dozen different governments
and free from the drain of standing
armies, the United States Justly com
mands the wonder and admiration 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 bust
ness is yearly increasing in cost of pro-
duction, while ours is decreasing. It
can not meet the worlds demand for
iron and steel. because it can not in
crease its production to any great ex-
tent. 1t produces less pig iron than it
did ten years ago. Much of its ore
it imports from distant countries Its
cotton is all imported. Itspends about
$3.50, 900, coo year for foreign food
stuffs.
On the continent every nation is bur
dened with debt, and none of them can
ever 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 la Dor.
they are practically bankrupt In all
of them the cost of production and liv-
ing must steadily increase
In the United States we have scarce
IL laid the foundation for our future
greatness In natural resources we
are richer than all of Europe. we are
paying off orr debts faster than thev
are due, we have barely scra tched the
ground in the development of our min
eral wealth, and our. agricultural
growth can scarcely be imited.-En-
gineering Magazine.