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skilled excellence and knowledge of principles, 

 causes and effects which produces great law- 

 years, great engineers and great business men. 

 If it shall cease to be the fashion to put the 

 popular ignoramuses into office and become 

 the fashion to seek the scholar and the expert, 

 the days of demagoguery will have a sudden 

 ending. And that is just what we see the be- 

 ginning of in Gov. Huefhes's veto of a popu- 

 lar but unjust measure. 



THE LEATHER WE MAKE. 



According to Bulletin 72 of the Bureau of 

 the Census we are making more leather now 

 than we did in 1900, though our leather fac- 

 tories number 257 less. 



Here is the 1900 and 1905 comparison: 



1900. 1905. 



Establishments .... 1,306 1,049 



Capital invested $173,977.421 $242,584.254 



Wage earners 5:,', 109 57,239 



Yearly product $204,038,127 $252,620,986 



Hides to the number of 17,581,613, costing 

 $89,126,593, reported by 699 establishments, 

 represented 46.6 of the total cost of manufac- 

 ture. Sole leather formed more than one-half 

 of the total value of all leathers manufactured. 

 Of this, 77.5 per cent, was produced in the 

 States of Pennsylvania, Xew York, Ohio, 

 Maryland, Virginia, \Yest Virginia, Kentucky, 

 Tennessee and Georgia combined. One hun- 

 dred and forty-four establishments engaged 

 exclusively in the manufacture of sole leather 

 turned out 93." per cent, of the value of all 

 such leather manufactured in the United 

 States in 1905. 



Pennsylvania led in the production of sole 

 leather, goatskins and leather sold in the 

 rough, and Massachusetts in the manufacture 

 of upper leather and sheepskins. In harness 

 leather Wisconsin was far ahead of its closest 

 competitor, Pennsylvania. This kind of leath- 

 er was reported by 298 establishments, the 

 largest number manufacturing a single kind 

 of leather. 



The census of 1905 showed an important 

 concentration of the leather industry in the 

 Eastern States. There were five states, Penn- 

 sylvania, Masachusetts, Wisconsin, New York 

 and New Jersey, each of which reported a 

 yearly output worth $20,000,000 or more; their 

 combined total of $171,764,258 being 68 per 

 cent, of the total for the entire United States. 

 Pennsylvania led, producing $69,427,852, an in- 

 crease over 1900 of 24.8 per cent.; Massachu- 

 setts, second, increased 27.9 per cent.; then 

 New York, followed by New Jersey and Wis- 

 consin. Other states producing more than 

 $5,000,000 worth of leather yearly are Illinois, 

 Delaware, Michigan, California, Ohio, West 

 Virginia and Virginia. Five cities, Philadel- 

 phia, Milwaukee, Newark, N. J., Wilmington, 

 Del., and Chicago, each produce more than 

 $5,000,000 worth of leather yearly. Camden. 

 N. J., reported four times as great value of 

 product in 1905 as in 1900. 



In 1905 our leather exports were of the 

 value of $28,058,342, a gain of 133.4 per cent, 

 over 1891. Exports of sole leather increased 

 one-third in 1905 over 1904. Imports have 

 fluctuated considerably and in 1905 were less 

 than in 1891, the total value being $5,612,642. 

 That this is only one-fifth of the exports is 

 most significant. A comparison of the im- 

 ports and exports of leather and all its manu- 

 factures gives an excess in exports of $26,- 

 270,512. 



OUR RICH NEIGHBOR. 



Canadians acclaim their country the richest 

 in the world today: her foreign trade, per 

 capita of the population, is two and one-half 

 times as great as that of the United States, 

 and she has no war debt, no pension roll, no 

 costly navy, and but a small military outlay. 



Moreover, says a writer in the Review of Re- 

 views, she is not essentially a manufacturing 

 country, though she is steadily becoming so, 

 as the census of 1900 shows that the output of 

 her factories (employing five or more hands) 

 was valued that year at $481.000,000, or within 

 $30,000,000 of the combined output of the agri- 



cultural, dairying, mineral, forest and fishing 

 industries of the Dominion. Canada's mer- 

 cantile marine is the fourth largest in the 

 world, nearly equal to that of Japan, and great- 

 er than those of Russia and Japan. 



Her great asset today is her wheat; out of 

 171,000,000 acres of wheat lands in the North- 

 west, only 7 per cent' are yet under cultivation, 

 and they produce 200,000,000 bushels of grain 

 per year, against a total United States wheat 

 crop of 735,000,000, while it is predicted that 

 within ten years Canada will quadruple her 

 present output, when her two new transcon- 

 tinental railways are completed and new areas 

 opened up for cultivation. 



A country which is becoming rich at this 

 rate is a liberal purchaser, and Canada's total 

 imports, which took their first big bound in 

 1898, from $106,000,000 to $126,000,000, had 

 reached $283,000,000 in 1906, an increase of 167 

 per cent in eight years. 



Of these $173,000,000 were dutiable and $110,. 

 000,000 free, a circumstance which accounts 

 both for the remarkable expansion in her man- 

 ufactures and also for the equanimity with 

 which she meets an adverse balance of trade 

 or excess of imports over exports of nearly 

 $40,000,000. since that represents raw material. 



The United States has been the greatest 

 beneficiary by Canada's enhanced prosperity 

 and American sales to Canada have increased 

 from $75,000,000 in 1898 to $168,000,000 in 1906. 



OUR PRODUCTS IN GLASS. 



At the census of 1905 the manufacture of glass 

 was reported by 399 establishments. Statistically 

 the showing was : 



Per cent, of increase 

 over 1900. 



Establishments 309 12.4 



Capital $89,389,151 47.2 



Wage earners 63,969 21.1 



Yearly wages 37,288,148 37.7 



Materials used yearly 26,145,522 56.3 



Yearly product 79,607,998 40.8 



Although the industry has advanced rapidly 

 since 1850, says the bulletin, the development has 

 been in the quantity of glass produced rather than 

 in the further adaptation of glass to commercial 

 uses, or until recently improvements in the manu- 

 facturing process. Since 1900, however, the glass 

 manufacturers of the United States have made 

 vast strides in the direction of cheaper production 

 and have introduced many mechanical devices for 

 the manufacture of glassware. 



The manufacture of glass was reported by 

 twenty-one states, Pennsylvania leading with 34.8 

 per cent, of the total value of products. Indiana 

 was second, with 18.5 per cent ; Ohio third, with 

 11.3 ; New Jersey fourth, with 8.1 ; and Illinois 

 fifth, with 7.1 per cent. The remaining sixteen 

 states combined therefore had glass products 

 valued at only 20.2 per cent of the total. 



The product in bottles and jars, all kinds, to- 

 talled $33,631,063, itemized as follows : 



Beer and mineral water bottles $7,927,287 



Prescription vials and druggists' wares 6,638,508 

 Liquor bottles and flasks 5,555,813 



Pressed and blown glass products aggregated 

 $29,956,158, made up of these items : 



Tableware $4.897,537 



Lamp chimneys 3.061.334 



Blown tumblers and bar goods 2.928,198 



Cut glassware 0~ 



Building glass totalled $21.697.861, including: 



Window glass $11,610,851] 



Polished plate glass 7.9; 



Skylight plate glass 678.391 



Obscured glass 376,030 



Cathedral glass 293.623 



Rough plate glass made for sale ::.".:,'" 



Other kinds of building glass 757,184 



The value of glass imported during 1905 was 

 $o.94S,839. of which the largest item was $1.216.- 

 841 for plate glass. The imports of glass for op- 

 tical purposes, on which there is no duty, in- 

 creased in value from $125.449 in 1900 to $177.457 

 in 1905, or 41.5 per cent. Very little has been 

 done by American glass manufacturers to secure 

 this trade, as the possible returns in the industry 

 are small when compared with the difficulties of 

 manufacture, without taking into consideration 



the competition of the long established foreign 

 factories. 



The value of glass exported from the United 

 States during 1905 was $2,252,799. Most of the 

 American glass exported consists of pressed and 

 blown ware, such as tableware, lamp chimneys, 

 tumblers, bowls, etc. The American manufac- 

 turers have of late established show and sales- 

 rooms abroad, and have thus called the attention- 

 o fforeign purchasers to the excellent quality 

 and workmanship of the American pressed and 

 blown glass. 



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