The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-17
WEATHER FORECAST. wnshington, Aus. 1e---For Alabama,
 Local rains and thunder storms Friday
 and Saturdays light winds.

peace with all the world, and our in- l huence for peace, wnether It be be- tween two great powers in the Orient or among the small republics on the
 American continent. is felt throughout | the world.
 The record ct the servant Is his best
 and only certificate for sSntinged 1.s, sm | as a servant of the people. stands to- | day in this campaign squarely on its
 Compnrex Administration
 We have no census figures, as to busi- l ness conditions in 1Ss6. but we have l them for 1890. 1900 and 1905, and to
 % ssss psesasn 5 eass hs oSa eSm plaining that unparalleled business
 distress and lack of confidence marked | the greater part of his administration: Samuel Gompers, as President of the American Federation of Labor, that more than 3.000,000 workingmen were
 without work in 1894 and 1895. and that
 work did not return to them until | 1897.
 l According to the census of 1890. there
 were $6,525, 5,000,759 capital invested in manufacturing industries in the United
 States. whereas. according to the of 1 ieial figures, there were in 1895, S1S,- 122,607 ,090 so invested. The average
 number of wage earners in 1890, as
 MT. Gompers said 3,o00,000 were with
 out work in 1894 aud 1ss5). In 1905 the number was 5,492.17s, not including | those in the hand trades.
 The total wages paid in 1890 amount
 ed to Sl,ss1, POS, ,6s6, and in 1905 to
 s2, 661. .409,S5S. The value of the output of our manufactures in 1890 was s,sI2.- including that from the hand trades. Taking the testimony of President
 Cleveland and Samuel Gompers as to the depIorable condition in 1894, 1895
 and is9s. 1t will readily be seen, that I the industrial development Of the coun- | try. both as affecting labor and capl- | tai has been at the rate Of 100 per
 There has been much discussion. and no little confusion over the effort to compare the relative increase in wages The e f1ls Iabop or Bureau of s the UT United states | in its last bulletin on this. question,
 made a very careful analysis for tho | fourteen years from 1890 to l904. In shown that the weekly earnings or all I employees had increased 55.4 per cent ]! from 1894 to 1904, and that the retail 1 in the same time only 12 per cent. This. I believe, is the only careful and scfen- tific investigation that has been made on the subject.
 Factory and Farm.
 The Republican party mas always fol- lowed the maxim, "The factory by the farm" that there may be the. closest l possible exchange between the two great bodies of producers one nssp or as 1as that the manufacturing was principally In the East; but the contii. uatipn of a settled policy of protecticn has gradu- ally extended the industrial develop ment to the West and South, bringing agriculture and manufacture closer to- gether. The new statistics Of manu- factures compiled by the United states clearly than any previous census the general benefit of the protective policy. The prosperity that has come 10 the country under the Dingley law has not been spasmodic nor sectional, except that 1t has produced greater extension of manufacturing Into the Central, census shows, first, that there has been larger per cent of h saae m the capital pet Into InanugAe ta eJnB plapc~ in the last i've years than than ,a,,as shers nss The actual increase in capital was 8, TOO, ,000,0 ,000, or Al per cent greater than the capital invested in lsOo. Ine actual increase in output was $3,a64,- GOO 0O0 or about 80 per cent over that of 1900 Capital has grown confident of it's investment and has turned back into tho plants ,ao iargshr ths snare dsnsnd % for labor and ultimately increase the out put. 4 l., .Ao crease in the number of wage earners was i6 per cent over the number in 1900, and the total wages paid go per cent greater; in other words. tne m. almost twice the ratio of the increase in employment. To my mind. there could be no more complete answer to the complaint that wages nave not advanced since 1900.
 Increase In Industries.
 Rut the most significant figures in the new census are those which snow where the greatest increase in indus trial plants, capital employment. in the Central. Western and Southern States which a few years ago were d designated simply as agricultural sec tions of the country or the three ital put into industrial plants in these five years more than one half Of 1t was in tho Central. Western and Southern S.auss SnsustriaI e~ capItaf only sssl, 600, GOO. The Middle Atlantic States $l, 3s4,000,- O00 and the Southern States $51b.0OO,- 000; the Central States $i.114,0O0,00O GOO. The Fer centages of increase were: New England, "A per cent; Md de Atlantic states. S7.6 per cent; Southern States; 72 per rn cent; Ta Centrat' naSt While the increase in the old manu- featuring centers of the East was nor mai and healthy. the increase in the Central, Western and Southern States - the industrial development The com parative increase in labor and wages also were much greater In the. West and South than in the old manufactur- ing centers of the East. The increase in wage earners in New England In the five years was little more than 10 per cont, and the total of wages paid. ig4 per cent Tn the Middle Atlantic States the increases were wage-ea CTS 16 per cent, total wages, 26.S per cent; Southern States waEe-earners, 22 per cent; total wages, 4b.4 per cent: l Central States, Wage-ear4ers, lb.1 per cent; wages, 32 per cent; Western | States wage-earners, 2s per cent; wages, 59 per cent
 More than this, the wonderful de- velopment of manufacturing industry | In the South and West has already | moved the industrial csnrer Of t"e country nearer to it's geographical center, and 1t Is safe to say that today | fully one half of the capital, wage | earn CTS, wages paid and output from | our manufactures In the Central. | Southern and Western States The in- | dustrial census of l90e shows this and | demonstrates that under the economic | policy of the Republican party. with | its steady and prosperous development | our manufacturing has steadily ad- | Vanced into the great agricultural sections placing the factory beside the ! farm to make the exchange between ! the two great bodies of pl oducers the | more direct and equitable, end make | them more dependent ulon each other.
 Not alone In manufacturing has there been this doubling up process in prosperity under Republican admins tration. The farmers have doubled | their crops and the mptey they have received in exchange. The farm value of those three staple Ierops of the West, corn, wheat and oats, In 1896 | amounted to $sS4 .00g and last year 1t aggregated $l,9l2'oofoO0 or more than double the value it the last year or Democratic adminiHration. The