The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-05
Growth of Manufactures.

''In the same year $685. So manufacturing
establishments used a capital of $1,000. 49,
90. They employed 3.2500o0 persons. and
TO these were Gisbursed as payments
81, 600. 200 600. The materials consumed ex-
ceeded in worth 81, ri. 900, 600 and produced
as a result more than s.. iS9 900, 600 worth OF
products This placed us in the front rank
of nations and exceeded Great Britain by
500 0oo, 600
"And the farmers who grow wool are
hardly conscious of the expanse the fabric
woven from their product would cover.
In this same year of 1890 we manufactured
$4,000 miles of wool, or 297. $4,000 yards. A
quantity which, If woven into a garment,
would furnish a whole coat for every man
and woman living on the now known
earth. In 1904, in a controversy existing
between the then professor of a seminary
and Thomas Jefferson's adherents, the OBJ
servation made that this country
would produce %. 100000 yards of cloth an
nually was regarded as the vaporings of
an idiot; and yet. in 1890 we made cotton
cloth alone which, were IL woven into a
web one yard wide would equal 1.641. 400
miles or more than sufficient to have cir
cled the earth TO the moon through it's
mean distance of "a, sl4 miles four times,
and then to secure that belt from slipping
the remainder could be wrapped around
the equator just twelve times
LAS an indication to you of how the
mind has progressed and the march of in
tellect kept pace with the resources of the
country. this whole forest of cereals. cot
ton, tobacco and cloth were all grown
within easy reach by your children of the
23lS16 schoolhouses, bearing on their por-
tails the maxim knowledge is power.
easily within the shade of the III. 416
churches of the everything God. bearing
on the glistening cross the undying truth
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of those who love God and keep His COM
mandments.' And, sitting upon your door
ways in the pleasant twilight of a well
spent day, your hands easily reach out TO
grasp the 15.117 daily newspapers. to say
nothing OF your periodicals, which fit
around your homes like the leaves of au-
tumn rustled by the winds.
This so displays the results that the
wealth estimated at the beginning of this
year is SOS. $50 000. 000 which. according to
the statistics Of the Old World in 1887.
makes us the richest nation on earth to
the excess of SIS 500. Coz, 900. In the last ten
years. between 1850 and 1890, the increase
of wealth equals ST.. s23, 600, 600. or enough
TO have paid the national debt or Sl,6I7,-
$4,000 eleven times, and then leave a sur
plus TO pay for the incidental entertain
ment of those in high places, who seem to
think such essential to the government of
the republic, the sum OF SIS, 10000
Surely. we may repeat with Amasis of
Egypt, when he dissolved his successful
alliance with the prosperous Polycrates, 1T
is not given by the gods to mortals to be
more prosperous
Continuing. Mr.. Lewis spoke OF the
pride OF the citizens OF Rome in their
. country as shown in the exclama ton, ''I
am a Roman citizen He spoke OF the
glories of the greatest OF republics and
stated that those who had been driven by
injustice and harsh laws from their
mother country should be content with
the laws they found in this great. free
and enlightened commonwealth. where
they were offered a harbor of refuge and
all the rights which are esteemed so sa-
cred by all true American hearts. He
branche1 off on the danger of disintegra-
ton which comes to every country, like