The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-03

i had shown 2 greater increase in the i've years from 1900 to 1905 than in the previous ten years. Then, too. the per capita value of printing and publish ing products had increased in greater proportion than those of any other in- dustory. In fact. only three other in- dustries had shown an absolute in- crease In products greater than that of the printing and publishing busi- ness. These facts become important hsa a sgnsss an ss R any alsssssSn as of trusts upon industrial praRress Since the reports were compiled, the printing and publishing interest has been menaced end besst at every point by opprassiye combinations The cost of every article that it uses, including labor. has been suhtected to and artificial stimulation. and it is was then made by that unprotected in dustry with the coddled fayorites of the tariK or with ths trusteed indus tries, can now be maintained
 The leading manufacturing indus tries of the United States In 190k ranked as follows:
 1First-siaaghteriRg and meat pack ing.
 second--lron and steel
 Third-Foundries and machine shops
 
 Fffth--Clo lothing.
 Sixth--Lumhar and timber
 Eeventh--Printing and publishing.
 Eighth--gottpn manufactures.
 Ninth--Woolen manufactures.
 Tenth-Bopts and shoes,
 The printing and publishing interests $500, ,000,Qe0 of which sIx cities contrib uted $250, ,000,0 900. and New York city alone contributed almost oRe-auarter of the great total. There were two great divisiona ef this vest business book and iob printing sonssltSsins GSs Ss ether class, the latter eontFibutirg over threesafths of the output.
 It is for the newspaper especially that I pfapese to speak. The nawspa- pers and periodicals had 2 reported capital invested Of s2as,0ee,eQo. of which nearly sloe,eee,eeo represented machinery. tools and implements. They paid salaries and wages amounting to S106. 00o,o0n per annum to 1ee,0oo work" CTS. They paid 95s,00e,o0g per apnuni for their principal article Of use-Whtte paper. They represented the fntellec- tpal growth of the eountryi they exs pressed its desires.
 Yet so scrupulous were they In the subordination of their own and imne- diata interests to those ef the varying constituencies which they represented that they submitted without material protest to exactions and expressions which no other interest would have tolerated. While all others were cons solidating and plaRniHg to enrich them- selves at the general expense, the pubs lishins interests were maintaining . competition that reduced their sub scription prices to the lowest limit The newspapers of the country that, reach- ed the minlmum in price had increased their average size from b,T pages In 1900 ta s,S pages in 1905, They im- proved their product and extended their scope santil the circulation of the daily newspaper averaged one copy per day to avery four of the entire population of the country, But all the Renenta arising from the introduction of type setting machines, the perfection of the printing preaa and the cheapeAtng of the cost of white paper by the use of mech anically ground wood and the im- pFovement of fast-Funning papermak- Ing machinery. were given to the pub lie.
 Within the five years from leoe 10 1905, capital to the extent of $4!,OOO'- 900 had been added to the investment for/ newspapers and periodicals; but the product per thousand dollars in- vested had declined from $1.409 in 19Oe