The Sunday globe., 1901-05-12
Encourage Manufacturing.

last in the Masonic Temple in the in
terests of the city Of Washington must
meet with the hearty endorsement Of
every citizen who has the interests of
the city at heart, whether he be mer-
chant, taxpayer, or workingman.
Manufactures for this city is a crying
need, and in no city on this broad con-
tinent is there a superior location for
factories of all kinds. Every capital in
Europe has its share Of the manufac-
turing industries of their respective
countries; even gay Paris has not dis
dained to encourage them in her beau
tiful suburbs. Washington has kept
out manufacturing by the hostility
manifested towards any and every pro-
posed enterprise by few would.be aris-
tocrats, who did not want the "naws-
ty' toiler to come between them and
their nobility"
Factories are the life blood of city,
and without them no city can prosper
and progress, except along the lines Of
ancient Rome, a city composed of pat
ricians and a semi-staVing rabble
which had to be fed regularly from the
public crib.
1t is such city of villas and novels,
city of patrcians and plebeians, the
opponents Of manufacturing industries
for the capital city of the nation desire,
but in this stirring, enlightened, and
commercial, as well as manufacturing
era IN the world progress, a city of
this character is as incongruous as a
circus in a cemetery!
Neither the beauty nor the health Of
Washington will be disfgured nor
suffer by the introduction Of manu-.
featuring industries in its subj bs, un
der proper municipal restrictions en-
forced in the other capitals of the
world. but to properly enforce these re-
stricuons the necessity of municipal
form of government for this city will
be keenly felt, and its absence may re-
tard OF defeat the meritorious object of
the progressive gentlemen at the head
Of this movement.
However, both movements can ST.
multaneously, as it were, move along,
side by side, and all good citizens should
put their shoulders to the wheel to fur
ther their accomplishment
The speeches at the Masonic Temple
admirably covered the ground as to the
advantages to be derived from the es-
tablishment of factories and the desira-
BILE class Of citizens they would invite
to settle in our midst and develop
Washington into rival Of Berlin or
Paris, with their more than a million of
population each.
The influx of skilled citizens would
settle the nightmare Of negro suprema-
cy, which appears to unnecessarily
trouble the souls Of so many politi-
clans and exclusive fine haired deni-
zens Of more or less prejudice and nerv-
business, and the establi ,hment Of home
rule for the District would then enlist
their support, we hope. At all events,
Washington would boom, and every
resident, aristocrat and plebeian alike,
would feel the effects and have a new,
healthy, and life giving current inject
ed into all the arteries and channels of
their lives, their homes, and their busi-
ness.
The statistics read at the meeting,
which were received from Berlin, the
capital of Germany and the center of
Kaiser Williams great empire, are in
structive, and we quote this paragraph
from Consul-General Mason's report:
There were in operation in Berlin
during the year 1899, l, 1851 separate es-
tablishments, in which were employed
A, ,039 operatives, to whom were paid
as wages As 1858, 575 marks, $ll SIC, ,507.
The total number of manufacturing
firms and companies in the whole dis
trict of Berlin, which includes the pro.
vince of Brandenburg, Pomerania, and
West Prussia, was 3, ll6, with 03, 3,130
operatives, who received during the
past year SO, ,731, ,744 marks as wages.
Berlin has 1,S79,520 inhabitants, or
almost seven times the population of
Washington, and to the factories in
Berlin is the growth of that city due.
Some, but not all, of its varied interests
are given as follows:
Flour and other mill products, beer,
buiscuit, bread, chicOry, alcohol, es-
sences, perfumery, liquors, cigars and
tobacco, stoves, locomotives and station
ary engines, ma"hine tools, street and
railway cars, electrical machinery, tele-
phones and fixtures, telegraph instru-
ments, bicycl S, safes, printing presses.
type and linotype machines, lamps,
heating apparatus, gold, silver and
bronze art goods, and jewelry, meters,
and other apparatus for gas and acety.
lene, wagons, carriages, automobiles
and parts thereof, bricks and tiles,
cloaks and clothing in wool, cotton,
silk and linen, umbrellas and parasols,
shoes. jute goods, passementerie, pianos
and other musical instruments, paper
and paper mache goods, books, and gas
for illuminating and heating purposes.
Almost one hundred thousand opera
tives and a pay roll Of eighty-nine mill
ions Of marks per annum as wages |!
With the establishment of manufacto-
ries i'm Washington we can overtake
Berlin before the present century gets
old enough to wear a beard We can
tan the East for the inventive Yankee