Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1900 — How We Have Grown. [ARTICLE]

How We Have Grown.

OUR FOREIGN TRADE. Fiscal year. Amount. 1900 $2,220,190,828 1890 1,062,331,612 Increase under McKinley administration.... $557,859,216 WAGE-EARNERS EMPLOYED. Fiscal year. Number. 1900 7,500.000 1896 5,300,000 Increase under McKinley administration 2,200,000 WAGES PAID. Fiscal year. . Amount. 1900 ... $3,125,750,000 1896 2,605,750.183 Increase under McKinley administration.... $519,999,817 Five years ago when $7,200,000 in gold left New York in one day for Europe it nearly started a panic, and extraordinary efforts had to be made to offset it. Now, New York bankers offer England $25,000,000 as a gold loan, and are prepared to lend money to Russia and Sweden, and the announcement causea only a smile of complacency.