The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1898-09-10
INDUSTRIAL CENSUS.
Conditions In March, 1906, and
March, 1893, contrasted.
0ains OF 31.05 Per Cent. I'm Number
Of Hands Employed, S4.0o Per
Cent. In Wages Paid, and If.50
Per Cent. An Rate OF Wages
Per Capita.

tective Tariff league, and the accom-
panying comparisons and comments
by Congressman Robert w. Tayler, of
Ohio, which appears in the current is
sue of the American Economist, will
not fail to attract universal attention
or TO excite profound interest wher-
ever read and digested. The process
Of reading and digestion Is greatly
facilitated by the clear and luminous
manner In which Mr.. Tayler has pre-
sented his facts and conclusions. The
report should be read entire, and
doubtless will be by many millions OF
people, as IL will be at once issued by
the tariff league In defender document
form, bearing the serial number 90,
and made available for wide distribu-
tion In connection with the campaign
Of 1898.
No industrial census Of equal ac-
curacy and scope has ever been OBJ
tanned outside of governmental opera
tions. Returns are received from
2,229 industrial establishments in AZ
states and territories, embracing al
most every known line of industrial
activity. Two years ago the leagues
census contained the figures Of but
little more than half the number of es-
Establishments which have reported this
year. In 1896 the comparison en-
bodied the conditions prevailing In
that year under the Wilson law and
those prevailing in 1892 under the Nc
Kinley law. The showing then was
- III a.
preston. In the 1888 establishments
reporting there was q monthly loss In
wages of $l,60l ,204, or at the rate OF
| SO ,214, 44S year; a decrease of nearly
| 30 per cent in the employment of la
Dor, and decrease of 26h per cent. In
wages paid.
Now mark the contrast. In 1903 the
2,229 establishments reporting show
wonderful revival from the paralysis
which fell upon them as the result OF
hostile tariff legislation. These re-
ports give information as TO the num-
Der of hands employed and the gross
sum Of wages paid in March, 1895, and
In March, 1898, the object of the In
quiry being TO bring into juxtaposition
the conditions prevailing at an APP
proximately equal length Of time after
the enactment of the tariff laws of
August 2s, 1894, and July "a, 1s07-the
Wilson and Dingley laws, respectively.
II is found that in March, 1925, seven
months after the Wilson law became
effective, the 1920 establishments re-
porting in response to the tariff
leagues inquiries employed 204,5s0
hands, and paid these hands in wages
s7,07o,323.
In March, 1903, after eight months Of
steady revival under the Dingley law,
these same 2,220 establishments en-
ployed 269,320 hands, and paid them
In wages SIC, 19s,136.
Gain for 1SDs, under the DinHIey
law, In hands employed, 3t.d5 per
| cent.
! Gain for 1903, under the Dingley
| law, I'm wages paid, 4f.Oo per cent.
Gain for 1SOS, under the Dingiey
law, I'm average OF wages paid per
capita, 11.50 per cent.
Taking the month OF March as a
fairly representative month in the
matter of industrial activity, Con-
gresham Tayler finds that at the
same rate of gain throughout the year
the 2,229 establishments reporting will
employ 84,500 more men than were
employed In the year which embraced
the returns OF 1895 and will pay wages
exceeding by more than $4,000, 900 the
sum paid during the Wilson law pc
Rod named.
The figures of the Tariff leagues in
dustrial census tally so closely In per-
centage with figures obtained by par
ties who investigated separate indus
tries independently of the league as
TO justify Mr.. Tayler's conclusion that
| the comparisons and percentages
given above represent with exception
oil accuracy the industrial conditions
prevailing very generally throughout
the United States.
| The reports, geographically consid-
cred, present some interesting facts.
| In Colorado 60 concerns employed In
1895 4,75s hands. and in 1898 6,63e
hands; wages paid, $500, 47s and $685.
154, respectively.
In Connecticut 7s concerns reported
1880 and 1886 as the number OF
hands employed in the two periods,
and $50s.o56 and $605,36s as the wages
paid.
South Carolina gave reports from IS
concerns, which In 1895 employed ais
hands. and In 1898 employed $500, and
the wages paid increased from $e2,so4
in 1905 TO si74.6i0 three years later-a
gain Of more than 100 per cent IN
hands employed. OF more than 250 per
cent. In total amount of wages paid
and OF nearly 20 per cent. In average
rate OF wages.
From the state of Washington the
exhibit Is equally remarkable. This
state sent ios reports, showing the en-
rloyment In 1895 Of 1910 hands and
1880 In 1893, while the wages paid In
creased from siss,sso In 1895 10 $780,
EOS In 1898.
Equally interesting details pertain
| iy,g "a MI the gtateg and territories