The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-11-20

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which you see at my right, for NOR,
than twenty years rang out n warning
TO the mother country against the Op
pressions visited upon our people, and
Georgia and the Carolinas and Virgin
ia and Delaware and Maryland stood
round the cradle of liberty when thi;
same bell rang out its triumphant
notes of Liberty and Equality to the
Western world and the inhabitants
thereof.
While calling the attention of Geor
gians to those things of which we boasi
in Pennsylvania, let me avail myself
of the opportunity to direct the atten.
ton of Pennsylvanians to some distin-
! gushing features in the history OF
Georgia. No State, no section, can
successfully boast of much more than
its proportionate share in the great
work Of national upbuilding.
GeOrgia's versatility of climate and
soil induced her law makers to estab-
lish the first State Department of Ag-
riculture in the land.
Georgia was the first and only free
aud anti-slave colony in America.
Her code of laws of 1893 was so wise
and symmetrical that it was after
wards approved and to some extent en-
grated upon the venerable body of
English Jurisprudence.
The first steamboat that ever crossed
the ocean sailed from Savannah.
The first female college in the world,
the Wesleyan Female College, was es-
tablished at Macon, Georgia.
The cotton gin was invented in 1888
by Eli Whitney near Savannah, on
the plantation of General Green, of
Revolutionary fame.
The first sewing machine was in
vented by Georgia preacher, F. r.
Goulding.
Georgia is the second State in the
production of cotton, and the first in
the South in all general lines of manu-
facture.
The State of Pennsylvania comprises
4i,2l5 square miles, and contains a
population of ), rs 600.
Within her borders there are erected,
by the voluntary contributions of her
people, l0,64 churches of all denomi-
nations. Her people worship in a
larger number of churches than those
of any other State in the Union.
Georgia comes fifth i'm order of preced-
ence with over 1000 churches, accord
ing to latest statistics
The total value of church property of
all denominations in our State amounts
to over $50, ,917 $40.
Mind training is an established in
dustry in Pennsylvania. IL is the
most profitable investment within our
borders. There are no dividends so
great as those that come from the
church, the schoolhOuse and the col
lege. Free education has become as
necessary part of our government rs
our legislature and our courts. No tax
is paid so cheerfully rs the school tax.
No expense is met so readily as that
for the education of the boys and girls
growing up around our family hearth
stones.
In Pennsylvania to-day there are
Il, ,7SS schoOlhouses and -. so school
rooms. The value of our public school
property in 1890 was 81, 900. We
have 26, 200 school teachers instructing
an army of ,0i0,O0O Pennsylvania boys
and girls for future usefulness and hap
piness. Our school teachers have re-
ceived in salaries in the past ten years
S73, l46, 800. / was informed only last
week by our Superintendent of Public
Instruction, who, at my request, made
a careful estimate, that the total ex-
penditure for the pIblic schools of our
Commonwealth from 1885 to 1894, in
elusive, was SlSS, 10000.
The total expenditure for the support
of public schools in Pennsylvania is
more than the aggregate of expendi-
lures for schools i'm the States of Della
ware, Maryland, Virginia, West Vir-
ginia, Moth Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia and Florida.
Pennsylvania school expenditure
exceeds that of the South Central divi-
sion of States, which includes Ken
tucSy, Tennessee, Alabama, Missis-
sippi, Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas.
The. expenditures for her public
schools exceeds the combined expendi-
tdres of the Western division, which
includes Montana, Wyoming, Colora-
do, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Neva-
da, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and
California.
Agriculture, the chief occupation of
our people, which, in every adjustment
of legislation, has always received our
first consideration, has kept pace with
the development of all other branches
of industry.
Last year we raised 2,7I0,OOO tons
of hay, 100000 bushels of patatoes,
ii, ,226,7 40 bushels of oats, 3,7j0,OOO
bushels Of rye, ls,s4s, 200 bushels of
wheat and 50, 7S9, 1916 bushels of corn,
which yielded to the Pennsylvania
husbandmen a total of sSl, 80, 4O7.
These products were raised by 800, 900
farmers on 100000 farms, whose assess
ed values is 5000, 100000.
You of the South who are particu-
larly interested in the production of
sugar may be surprised to learn that
one of the numerous refneries i'm Phil
adelphia uses more raw sugar every
year than the States of Louisiana and
Texas produce, indeed more than the
annual production in the United
States. The one to which / refer has a
capacity of 1000 barrels of refined su-
gar per day.
The average annual production OF
pig iron for the past four years has
been 1914, ,939 tons. During the same
period the average annual production
of crude steel has been 2,SSl, ,957 tons,
and the average production of rolled
iron and steel has amounted annually
to 3, III, ,0O2 tons.
Pennsylvania occupies the first rank
in the manufacture of combined tex
tiles Since 1900, the capital employed