Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-08-03
THE SOUTH STANDS STILL.

THE SOUTH STANDS STILL. i.
Factory System as Shown by the Eleventh
Census In the United States.
A study of the factory system of the
United States is profitable from the
standpoint Of industrial development,
and production. Why the
south or the southern states stand for
free trade may be accounted for from
the very small interest these agricul
tural states have in our great system.
The report shows that in 81 manufac-
turing and mechanical industries in the
United States there are 355, 401 estab-
lishments. Three thousand one hundred
and thirty-one Of these are located in
the territories and the District Of Co.
lumbia, leaving 352, 270 apportioned
among the states, with an aggregate
value Of So, 487, 900, 900; hands en-
ployed, 4, 687, $40; wages paid, So, 1884,
100000. Compared with this total the
10 southern states, exclusive Of Della
ware, Maryland and West Virginia,
give total of establishments Of So, 032;
aggregate value, 1911, 594, 900; hands
employed, $40, 025; wages paid, $685.
966, 900, showing the per cent as cora-
pared with the whole of the United
States to be: OF establishments, 16 per
cent; Of value, 10 per cent; of hands
employed, 10 per cent; Of wages paid, 10
per cent Some Of these states are as
old as the government, having had the
advantage Of all industrial enterprise
and development for more than hum
dred years, with climatic advantages
favorable to factoring. With resources
beyond approximation they do not
compare today with the factory system
of the Pacific states, some Of which are
scarcely 10 years old, and the Oldest,
California, is less than SO years old.
The Pacific states show the following
comparison: California, Colorado, Mon
tana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and
Wyoming, a total Of 13, establish
ments; value, $246, 900, 900; hands en-
ployed, IA, 1888; wages paid, $91, 800, :
900, showing a per cent far above that
Of the southern states, in most cases
four times greater than all of the ID
southern states; of establishments, 81
per cent; Of value, 38 per cent; hands
employed, 81 per cent; wages paid, 40
per cent
Here we find in the Pacific states that
the wage rate is four times that of the
southern states exactly, while the hands
employed are almost four times. Does
any reasonable man who seeks to en-
courage employment believe that these
results are q mere accident, or are they
the product Of thoughtful minds in di-
versifying the industries within all states
that are today scarcely organized in
their civil government, while the Older
states Of the south arc standing still,
occupying the same ground that they oc-
cupied half a century ago? In order tc
make this comparison Of value it will
be noted that all the other states, ex.
cepting the Pacific and southern, being
20 states in all, are shown to have 281,
1877 establishments Of SIS, 568, 900; 00C' Of
value; hands employed, 1858, 000
wages paid, $1,000, 900, 900, showing q
per cent of establishments of 80; Of
value, IS per cent; of hands employed,
Sc per cent; Of wages paid, Sc per cent.
In this comparison, without showing
the total figures, it is a significant fact
that Pennsylvania, with q smaller mum
Der of factories by 10, 900 than is shown
TN all the southern states combined, ex
ceeds all Of these states in her aggregate
value of establishments by showing o.
5000, 000, 900 worth Of property as com
pared with $671, 900, 900 in all the south
ern states. Again, Pennsylvania EN-
ploys $40, 900 operatives as against $40,
900 in all the south. Pennsylvania pay
in wages 1906, 900, 900 as against 1888,
0O0, 900 in all the southern states. Mas
sachusetts even exceeds in the paymen
of wages the whole amount paid by al
the Is southern states combined.
The foregoing statement is here elabo
rated for a single purpose-namely, t.
convince the laboring classes of all tn
great states of the Union that the Low
wage rate of the south is as degrading
and injurious in it's effects toward hon
orable labor in the United States as i
the low wage rate Of Europe or any o
the old countries of the world. If GU
laboring people hope to maintain tn
high standard which 80 years of pro
lection has given them, they must rail-,
once more to the political party which
proposes to either keep upon the statut
books or to restore to the statute book
protective tariff law that insures to in
dustrial employment better condition
of things than the old southern slav
owner is voting for in the two house
of congress today.
Traitors.
The Hon. Chauncey F. Black, who
by the way, is very good Democrat