The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-25

Is e from Atltutic, 1t. says:
Senator Allison was greeted by a large
and enl husiasiic audience Of l 900 people
at the opera house this afternoon. The
senator held the attention Of his audience
closely throughout and was frequently APP
plaud-d. Local bands furnished music
for the OCCASION. The stage and audience
room was nicely decor ated with gold rod
Several prominent Iowa Republicans
were on the stage. The speaker WAS fire.
quently interrupted with applause.
In speaking of the prosperity which
this country enjoyed during the R.publi-
can administrations, he said:
ITO re-establish the Union required
great waste of treasure and the sacrifice of
the best young blood of our land. bringing
suffering to every household and desola-
tion to many homes, but triumph came
through it all
with all this sacrifice our country de
veloped like giant. The census of 1860
disclosed an aggregate wealth. including
slaves. of SIC QUO. 900. 900; that of 1870. with
the wars de ISOLATION Of four years, aud ex-
Guiding slaves ss property, disclosed an
aggregate wealth of $780, 900. 900 90; that
of 1SS0 nearly 81. 600 600. 000 and that of
1890 So. 000, 600. 900. The development
from 1880 to 1890 was marvellous; the iu-
crease in ten years being one-third more
than all the wealth Of the United States
thirty years before. The wealth per cap
ita more than doubled in thirty years, aud
the increase from 1880 to 1890 was sl69 per
capita, or about 40 per cent. whilst the
population in the same period increased %
per cent.
''The creates. increase Of wealth in the
aggregate aud in percentage is found in
the states where agriculture is the largest
Interest. The wealth OF Iowa increased
1866 O00. 900, or from $l.059 per capita to
81. 1875 per capita, or SO 80 per cent, and the
population increased Il IS per cent. The
wealth of Massachusetts in these ten years
increased $4,000. coo. ner cent, whit
her population incrs ased 25 81 per cent, aud
her per canlta wealth was reduced from
81 AL in 1890 to 81. 252 in 1890, whilst the
total wealth # New England was in
creased only S23 per capita, and though
much complaint is made of the unequ |
distribution of wealth, that charge cannot
be brought against Iowa; here neither
riches nor poverty prevail; We have no very
rich and relatively but very few poor
The average wealth per capita in New
England TOR 1890 j. s., 232 per capita; in
Iowa Sl.l96, or $50 less than New En-
land, aud doubtless more equally distrib-
uted. aud our increase in ten years is rea-
lively much greater. These facts. drawn
from the census, show that the manu-
featuring states are not robbing Iowa of
her just increase, nor are they increasing
in prosperity and wealth AS rapidly as we
are relatively in lows. This is true except
that the two great states of New York aud
Pennsylvania INV York having the two
greatest cities. New York and Brook
Ign, and Pennsylvania The two
great cities Of Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh, having increased more rap
idly than the rest, having in their great
cities the accumulations OF a century of
growth. Nor has this progress and d-ve-
opment been confined To any one section of
our country as shown in the last census,
but has diffused itself throughout every
part Of our country, stretching into the
New South, desolated aud impoverished
by the war and retarded for many y-ars by
the discomfort OF its people, aad by the
natural processes involved in the sudden
change from slave labor o free Agricu
ture has shared this prosperity During
these last ten years there has been an
increase in the valne OF farm lands to
the extent of $50 % per cent, and
still larger increase in the value OF
farm lands in Iowa, showing our prosperi-
~ IN that regard TO be greater than the
states around us. The value of farm i'm
plemeuts has increased nearly 90 per cent,
and when we take into account thas the.
price of farm imDlem ents has decreased
one half, it shows the enormous increase
of he number of implements and utility
Of farm machinery as compared with 1890.
Il do not say that all this progress and
growth is due to the tariff and other
) olicies of the Republican party, but
believe 1t is largely due 10 them.