Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1893 — SUMMARY OF NEW MILLS FOR 1892. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEW MILLS FOR 1892.

C0tt0n.......... ...73 W001en............ ... 49 Knitting........ - fM 93 Silk ..21 j IQAu. • ■—— ————— • ■-» . ,6: Linen ...ff Lace curtains .. ...... .. ..J Jute.....a - --. . ,r., .^9 Chenile goods 4 Shoddy .... .6 Cotton batting’ .7 Dye work, bleaching...... -1-iSlif • Total g 272 INCREASE. OF NUMBER. QE EMPLOYES. Approximate --SaSp. jiumber. Cotton 15,000 Woolen ...... 3,500 Knit..: 7,500, Silk.. 3,000, Miscellaneous 2,50 Q, ••V. Total g ....31,500, The gentlemen who in convention assembled said, “We deny, that there has been any increase of prosperity since that tariff went, into operation,’’ either were very ignorant or very mendacious. The Democratic platform denounced “that tariff” as the culmination of class legislation. But the facts show that the Southern group of States were benefited by it to the extent of thirty-nine new cotton mills, the New Bogland States to the extent of twentyfive. the Middle States to the extent of seven, and .Illinois, and Indiana, to the extent of one each. The Southern gentlemen in the Democratic however, did not represent the enterprise and industry of their States; they represented the inertia and oli-. garehism of them. The Textile World, an authority oi such eminence as to have gained

the indorsement of the Chief, of the Bureau of Statistics for the , National Treasury, to have ..been quoted by President Harrison in a message to Congress, and by members of both parties in Con--gressional debate, speaks oi: The year ending 1892, which we believe justly claims first rank of textile progress in the United States. During that year the Democrats in National convention said: We deny that there has been any increase of prosperity. , ___ ___ Some one has blundered or some one has lied. Aud the compilers of trade statistics have done neither. But the falseheodELJwill perish, the facts will remain.— Inter Ocean,