Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-08-16
ADDRESSESIH|S OWN CONGRESS
S|ONA[ DISTRICT WHICH HAD
Nominated Him by ACCldmdtion for Sev-
enteen Successive TimeS--He Shows
BY Figures Marvellous Growth
of the Country
UNDER REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION AND IT'S POLICIES

not return to them until 1897.
According TO the census of 1890,
there were s6,525,0O0,759 capital in
vested in manufacturing industries
in the United States, whereas, accord
ing to official figures, there were in
1905 $13, ,090 so invested. The
average number of wage earners in
1890, as given by the census, was A.
251,535 (and Mr.. Gompers said g.
100000 were without work in 1894
and 1880. In 1905 the number was
5,492,17S, not including those in the
hand trades.
The total wages paid in 1890
amounted to $l,S91 ,209696, and in
1905 to $2,661 ,4O9.S5S.
The value of the output of our
manufactures in 1890 was $9,372,31S,-
S43 and in 1905, $14.S73,S1S,425, not
including that from the hand trades.
Taking the testimony of President
Cleveland and Samuel Gompers as to
khe deplorable condition in 1894, 1895
and 1896, it will be readily seen that
the industrial development of the
country, both as affecting labor and
capital, has been at the rate of 100
per cent in the ten years.
Wages and Living.
There has been much discussion
and no little confusion over the eff
forl to compare the relative increase
in wages and cost of living in the last
few years. The Labor Buraeu of the
United States in its last bulletin on
this question made a careful analysis
for the fourteen years from 1890 to
th,t ,,~s-,
/ sis il was shown that the weekly
/ earnings of all employees had in
I creased 53.4 per cent from 1904 TO
/ 1904, and that the retail prices of
food products had increased in the
same time only II per cent. This, |
/ believe, is the only careful and scien-
tific investigation that has been made
of the subject.
The republican party has always
followed the maxim. Plant the fac
tory by the farm tha. there may be
the closest possible exchange be-
tween the two great bodies of pro-
ducers. One of the old complaints
here in the west was that the man
ufacturing was principally in the
east; but the continuation OF a set
tied policy of protection has gradu-
ally extended the industrial develop
ment TO the west and the south,
bringing agriculture and manufacture
closer together. The new statistics
of manufactures compiled by the
United States Census Office last year
shows more clearly than any pre-
viOus census the general benefit of
the protective policy. The prosper
ity that has come 10 the country un-
der the Dingley law has not been
spasmodic nor sectional except that
it has produced greater extension of
manufacturing into the central, west
ern and southern states. This new
census shows first that there has
been a larger per cent of increase in
the capital put into manufacturing
plants in the last FIVE years than
there has been in the product of
these industries The actual increase
in capital was 700,000,000, or Al
per cent greater than the capital in
vested in 1900. The actual increase
in output was $3364, 100000 or about
30 per cent over that of 1900 Capital
has grown confident of its investment
and has turned back into the plant a
larger share of its earnings 10 in
crease the demand for labor and ul-
timately increase the output.
Wages and Wage Farmers.
This census also shows that in the
five years from 1900 10 1905 the in
crease in the number of wage earners
employed was 16 per cent over the
number IN 1900, and the total wages
pai' 80 per 1 greater: in other
v Jrds the increase in the total wages
NO a1 1Fena h.. 10 81
the increase in employment. To my
mind there could be no more complete
answer to the complaint that wages
have not advanced since 1900.
But the most significant figures in
this new census are those which show
where the greatest increase in indus
trial plants, capital, employment,
wages and output took place. II was
in the central western and southern
states, which a few years ago were
designated simply as agricultural sec
tions of the country. OF the three
billion and a half dollars of new cap
ital put into industrial plants in these
FIVE years more than one-half of il
was In the central, western and
southern states. New England in
creased her industrial capital only
S2640O0000, the middle Atlantic
states. S1,384OOO,OOO; the southern
states. S575.OOO 900; the central
states, S1,l14OO0 900, and the far
western states, S271 100000 The
percentages of increase were: New
England. "a per cent; middle Atlantic
states. 375 per cent; southern. 70 per
cent: central, AZ per cent, and west
ern 70 per cent While the increase
in the old manufacturing centers Of
the east was normal, and healthy, tho
increase in the central, western and
southern states was i'm the nature of
a great boom in industrial develop
ment
Greatest Wage Increase West.
The comparative increases in labor
and wages We're also much greater in
the west and south than In the old