Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-24
GOOD TIMES AHEAD
Gratifying Report Of President of
Manufacturers Association.
EXPORT TRADE is INCREASING
Conditions in the Home Market
Also Greatly improved.


CINCINNATI, Ohio, January 24-The
fourth annual convention of the National
| Association of Manufacturers convened
| here at the Odd Fellows Temple, at 1879
am, with large attendance. The con-
Ventfon will be in session until Friday, and
| it is thought that most of the LOO men,
bers will be In attendance. For an hour or
! mere before the convention assembled the
| members were engaged in registering and
| receiving their badges. the attendance be-
| ing larger on the first day than that of any
annual convention in the history of the as
| ISOLATION.
Inc session today was devoted mostly to
routine business after the addresses of well
come by Governor Bushnell and Mayor
Iafel and the Response by President Theo-
dore Z. Search of Philadelphia. In addition
10 the appointment of the committee on
Credentials, resolutions and nominations,
there Were special committees appointed to
"hlch were referred different parts of the
annual report of President Search and
otner officers. These committees are ex-
pected to report at the session tomorrow
on the different sections of the annual re-
port OF president Search. The committees
on resolutions and nominations will not re-
port until Thursday.
Program of the Meeting.
the three days, entertainments have been
provided for the evening, and a train has
been chartered for an excursion on Friday
from Cincinnati UP through the manufac-
turing districts of the LIiami valley as far
as Dayton
me entertainment tonight includes an
informal smoker and vaudeville a the Scot
tish Rlte Cathedral tomorrow night pub
Tic meeting with addresses, and Thursday
nlgnt a reception and h3OOuet a nd
Hotel.
President Search and others from the
east arrived at am. In his annual report
the president, after reviewing the general
condition of the country says that the
value Of manufactures exported from the
United States the past year amounted to
S2SS.s .4i9, or 23.S7 per cent of the total
exports.
Gratifying Conditions at Home.
Continuing, the report says:
The manufacturers of the United States
individually and by united action, have
worked persistently in the development of
their foreign trade and have pushed their
products into mah1y n arkets where here
tofore they havepb unknown By their
untiring energy, persistence and honest
dealings the menufacturers of the United
States have acquired position in the
worlds markets from Which they cannot be
dislodged. With the start that has been
",
and no opposition from our strongest COM
petitors can bar our progress.
turning from this foreign outlook, it Is
exceedingly gratifying to find that business
conditions have, undergone marked
change during the past year With the ex-
ception of a few industries affected by pc
culiar conditions, the manufacturing inter-
ests of the United States as rule are
enjoying both activity and fair degree of
prosperity at the present time. Labor of
every class is well employed and in many
instances reductions in wages during re-
cent years have been revoked and former
rates restored. Taking a broad view of the
country, there are evidences of activity ana
signs of prosperity on every hand, and the
conditions which now present themselves
form contrast as pleasing as it is striking
in comparison with the state of affairs two
or three years ago"
The Nicaraguan Canal
On the subject of The Nicaraguan canal
the report says: ct seems highly proper,
however, for US as business men to give
clear expression for our belief in the COM
mercial necessity Of a canal across Nicara-
qua and to our conviction that whether
constructed by a private corporation or
upon funds supplied by our government. the
canal should be first, last and always an
American enterprise and under the control
OF the United States. With our new pos
sessions In the far east We need now as
never before way of quick communica-
ton by water between our Atlantic and
Pacific coasts. In the orient are the Iarg-
est undeveloped markets for our products.
and our growing trade there demands bet
ter and cheaper means Of transportation
than our transcontinental railway lines af-
! ford. The millions which a Nicaraguan
canal would cost would be well spent If de-
voted to such an end by our federal gov
ernment.'