The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-08-30

II 1ldl 1880
1 Austria 194.64
| France 49,. 60
Ierihdny ZOl.oO
| United States 1,014.66
| Examine and you will find that an
| American soldier costs five times
as much as a soldier in each of the four
| other European powers.
The southern ports did well for the
last year. They furnished more than
80 per ent of the whole. New Or
leans led the south with S152, ZIG, 599.
Galveston next with $101, S57 900. The
increase at certain ports were: Boston
| $31,512,7 13. or rs per cent; New York
| $40, 75S, 507. or 2 per cent; Portland 81
Ala, 909, or "a per cent; New Orleans
| $36, 81, S35, Or 81 per cent; Galveston
| SIG, 1879, 776, or Is per cent; and Savan-
nah $S,4S6, 1856, or % per cent.
| The steel corporation is a giant of the
| first magnitude. 1t is planning to get
| control Of the great shipping interest
| of I'll country. The Hanna subsidy
| scheme is in the interest of the greedy,
| ambitious fellows who seek to control
and devour. The Cleveland Leader
| states that the american Ship Build
| ing Company will be a constituent part
Of a great corporation, the object of
which will be TO control all of the ship
I building plants of the United States.
The hackers of the enterprise are
the interests behind the United States
Steel Corporation and the Pennsylva-
II TIo roi1rna6 a G cnnn q G tho nrCro ni0o
ton is completed, which will be before
the opening of 1902, a commercial bat
tie for the conquest of the world will
begin" There Is seemingly no limit to
the grasping desires and the brazen
aggressiveness of bloated corporations.
In the year 1906, an American horse
trotted a mile in 2.59 and it created
profound establishment. In 1884, an
other horse made it in 2.31k. We re-
call that in 1S41, Flora Temple succeed
ed in making a mile in 2.19A. She was
the queen of the turf and was great
ly admired. We saw her in the stable
five or six miles from New York city
about 1853. In 1867. Dexter made it in
2.17A. In 1879, St. Julian reduced it to
2.12A. Then came Maud S. in 1885,
with 2.0SA; Alix in 1894. 2.03A; The
Abbott, 1900, 2.203A, and lastly and re-
Gently Cresceus with 2.02A. We see it
mentioned that it is not the improve
ment perhaps in horses, but the lighter
| sulkies, etc., that cause the reduction.
The Italians and Scandinavians are
| coming in great numbers to our coun-
| try. The immigration of foreigners last
year was 4S7 1918, which is more than
! it has been since 1893. During the asst
I four years it ranged as follows:
1898 229 ZS9
| 1899 10
lSVo -f1o'o.E
1901 ..-.....-.-
, Here we see nearly a million and a
| half foreigners arriving in four years.
! These immigrants were mainly from
| Austria-Hungary, Russia and Italy.
Fol- year ending 30th June 1901, there
| were 113, 800 from Austria, 135, 996 from
| Italy and S5,257 from Russia. In twelve
| years the United Kingdom (England,
| etc., led with 914, 246; Italy second S43,-
| 500: Austria third. 1861 66; Russia fourth
| TIC, Oo1; Germany $751; 500. What sort Of
a country will this be, what kind of
| population will it contain, what sort of
| government will there be twenty years
| hence? The change in the character OF
the population is remarkable indeed
In 1901, the United Kingdom, Germany,
| Sweden, Norway and Denmark COM
| bined did not send IS many immigrants
/ as Italy alone. The states of Hungary
and Russia also outnumber the coun-
tries named.