St. Paul daily globe., 1894-07-15
PER CAPITA STATISTICS.

4HO lCpULt vi tuG StdLiSIlcldU OIL the
treasury for May has attached to it
table of financial and commercial statis-
tics of this country from 1867 to 1898
inclusive, which contains very interest
ing and valuable data. Beginning with
the population in 1861 of 1921, 900, and
closing in 1898 with &c. S2S, 600, the data
in the succeeding columns are reduced
to per capita basis. The debt of the
country less the cash in the treasury,
which in the first year was S69.26 per
capita, has fallen in the last year to
Sl2.55 While the interest charge fell
from 1854 10 81 cents, the pension
charge rose from 81 cents to S237. be-
ginning its rapid increase with the
notorious arrears act of 1879.
While the net ordinary receipts have
fallen from Sl355 to S6.91, or nearly
one-half, the net ordinary expenditures.
have decreased from S9.S7 to S6.S7. or a
little less than third. The effect of;
billlon-dollar congresses is seen in the
rapid jumps of the expenditures. which,
were s+.75 in 80, So 55 in '91. SIS 2S.
in '92 and S6S7 in '93. The mer.
chandiSe imported runs quite uni
formly through the years, being
SlG44 in '67 and sl2.64 in '93. The taxes,
on imports cost each individual zS4,65 IN
'67 and S2.97 in '93. They were 1867
per cent of the value of the dutiabfe
goods in the first year and 49, 50 per cent
in the latter. while from being 44.56 per
cent OH all imports, free and dutiable,
i'll the former year, they were 23.49 per
cent of all i'll 1893, showing that the ad-
ditions to the free list made in those
years were in the direction of protec-
ton.
The amount of money in the United
States in the first year was s2U.11, and
in 1898 it is S94.75 per capita, while the
amount in circulation in the former
year was SlS.2S and in the latter s23.S7.
The exports of domestic smerchandise
were S7.73 in '67, rising to Sl7.23 In Isl
and falling to Sl2.44 in '93, of Which
agricultural products have constituted
all average of 70 per cent. The imports
and exports of merchandise carried in
American vessels have, under the penign
influence of our navigation and tariff
laws, fallen from S33S7 to Sl1.54 in '93.
is shown in the statistics of sugar,
which were 24.1 pounds per capita in
1867, rising gradually to 52S pounds in
1890, and under the Influence of the re-
moval OF raw sugar from the tax list
that year consumption leaped to g. l in
1891. The trust by 1892 had regained
its grlp, and consumption fell to 63.5
pounds that year and 63.4 in 1893. Cof-
fee is getting to be more extensively
used. It's consumption having risen
from 81 pounds per individual in 1867
to 9.63 i'll 1892. falling to S.25 in 1898. In
the consumption OF all staple articles
enumerated there is marked decrease
from 1892 TO 1S93 while distilled spirits,
malt, liquors and wines show slight in.
crease.
Not the least interesting of the col
umns is that which gives the per cent
of the domestic production of wheat ex.
ported in each of these years. furnishing
as it does information instructive to those
who insist that increased protection has
had nothing to do with the fall of that
cereal, and that it is solely due to some
occult sympathy with silver bullion. In
1867 we exported ouly 1211 per cent of,
the wheat grown In the country. With
the return toward normal conditions
from the disturbances of the war, aided
by the enormous influx of immigrants.
then beginning,the percentage of wheat
exported rose, with some rapid fluctlua-
tlons, until it reached 37.2 per cent in
1898. 1t fell from % per cent in 1876 to
10 per cent in 1877, rising 10 40 per cent
in 1880. The table, as whole, is oife,
of the most interesting and valuable of
the very valuable reports Issuing from
this bureau since a statistician repl aced
politicians in its charge a.