The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-08

state IL particularly near and dear 10
Rhode Islanders, Your mountains ana
hills your peaceful dales and widespread
ing fields, your well,kept farms and your
supremacy in agricultural pursuits appeal
strongly to Rhode Islanders. Long since
have we ceased as a state to devote much
time TO agricultural pursuits we nave
been wooing Dame Industry and agricul'
ture has had 10 take back seat.
The textile industry is by far the most
important branch of manufacture in Rhode
Island. The capital invested in this indus,
try is greater than that invested IN all
other manufacturing industries combined.
Far more than half the wage earnefs en-
gagged in manufacturing pursuits are EN-
l'ployed in this industry and greater maxi
mum of wages are paid in this industry
than in all the other industries combined.
This industry includes the manufacture OF
cotton goods, worsteds and woolens,
bleaching, dyeing aud finishing textile fab
RIGS, the manufacture Of silks and silk
goods and hosiery and knit goods. Not
withstanding the small area covered by
Rhode Island, in 1909 she stood third in
bleaching, dyeing and finishing, with New
Jersey first and Massachusetts, second
In the production Of cotton goods Rhode
Island ranks fourth, in wooden and worsted
u,
and hosiery and knit goods eleventh. The
city of Providence stood 18th in the value
Of its manufactures in 1904. A part OF
this industrial supremacy is undoubtedly
due to favorable natural conditions as well
as good railroad facilities. Narragansett
bay, which is navigable for vessels of con.
siderable draught, eats well up into the IN.
terror. This furnishes cheap transportation
particularly for the necessary fuel. The
state is traveIsed by the main line from
Boston to New York, the Blackstone val
lev is fed by the line from Providence TO
Worcester while the other parts of the
state, particularly those that are best
adapted to manufacturing development are
fed by a number OF branches There are a
number of rivers that extend through diff
ferent parts Of the state furnishing an ex-
cellent water supply for manufacturing
purposes.
Rhode Island does not. however, confine
her manufacturing activities TO the textile
industries. According to the census OF
1905, she led the United States in the
value Of her jewelry products and was well
to the front in the manufacture OF rubber
goods. She is noted for the variety and
extent OF her manufactures. In foundry
and machine shop products, sllyersmithing
and silverware, malt liquors, electrical ma
chinery, apparatus and supplies, printing
and publishing, rubber and elastic goods,
bread and bakery products, gold and silver
reducing and refining, but not from the ore,
screws, haicloth, and files, she holds a
conspicuous place.
| do not mention these things in any
boastful way or in spirit of self.gratliica-
ton. ] do il merely to show the expert
ence we have had in the matters of which
| am speaking tonight and in part the ad
vantages of closer and more intimate as
ISOLATION between these two states II is
needless to speak to you OF your varied in
dustries your splendid combination Of agri-
cultural and industrial pursuits, your diver
sified manufacturing, including many
things, such as pipe and reed organs, toys
and woodenware, chairs furniture, overalls,
paper, and lumber, that either we do not
manufacture at all or we manufacture very
little Of. Your Connecticut river gives you
the same natural advantages OF good
water supply that we get from our Black
stone and Pawtuxet rivers. Your magnitl.
cent power plant should be taken advant.
age OF TO the utmost And the charm OF
yon pastoral and farming life, your rivers
and lakes, your forests and mountains and
hills cannot be gainsaid
Activity OF any kind is sign of life. The
primary activities of man are naturally and
almost Of necessity the tilling of the soil
and the raising of poultry and livestock.
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