1886 1887

1888

1889.

1890.

1891

1892

1893t.

1894

1895+

1896+.

1897

1898

1899

1900

1901.

1902

1903.

1904

1905

1906.

1907

Clearing-house returns of the United States.
[From the Statistical Abstract of the United States.]

Deposits in banks of all kinds in the various States, 1892, 1896,

1903 and 1907.

[From Official Reports of the Comptroller of the Currency.]

521
Aggregate, United States only. $9,530,429,252,
Annual increase in individual deposits, 1892-1896, $70.000.000
Annual increase in individual deposits, 1896-1903, $657,000,000.

Value of the Principal Farm Crops of the United States in 1889 and 1907 Compared with 1895–Farm Value of Ten Principal Crops Increased More Than $1,000,000,000 Since 1895.

This table shows the value of the principal farm crops of the United States in 1895, 1899, and 1907.

The figures are from the Department of Agriculture, except those of flaxseed.

a Corn, wheat, oats, rye, barley, potatoes, and flaxseed, bushels; hay, ton; cotton and tobacco, pounds.

Production, farm value, and value per bushel of corn, wheat, and

1885. 1886

1887.

1888

1889

1890

1891

1892_

1893 1894

18951896 1897

1898

1899. 1900. 1901. 1902_ 1903_

1904_

1905. 19061907

Bushels.
Cents. Bushels. Cents.
1,936,176,000
32.8 357,112,000 77.1
1,665,441,000 36.6 457,218,000 68.7
1,456,161,000 44.4 456,329,000 68.1 659,618,000
1,987,790,000 34.1 415,868,000 92.6 701,735,000
2,112,892,000 28.3 490,560,000 69.8 751,515,000
1,489,970,000 50.6 399,262,000 83.8 523,621,000
2,060,154,000 40.6 611,780,000 83.9 738,391,000
1,628,464,000 39.4 515,949,000 62.4 661,035,000
1,619,496,131 36.5 396,131,725 53.8
1,212,770,052 45.7 460,267,416 49.1
2,151,138,580 25.3 467,102,947 50.9
2,283,875,165 21.5 427,684,346
1,902,967,933 26.3 530,149,168
1,924,184,660 28.7 675,148,705
2,078,143,933 30.3 547,303,846
2,105,102,516 35.7 522,229,505
1,522,519,891 60.5 748,460,218
2,523,618,312 40.3 670,063,008
2,244,176,925 42.5 637,821,835 69.5
2,467,480,931 44.1 552,399,517 92.4
2,707,993,540 41.2 692,979,489 74.8
2,927,416,091 39.9 735,260,970 66.7
2,592,320,000 51.6 634,087,000 87.4

Bushels. 629,409,000

Cents.

28.5

624,131,000

29.8

30.4

27.8

22.9

42.4

If we assume control over a people merely in the spirit of conquest and merely to extend our control and merely from the lust of power, then we may be properly denounced as imperialists; but if we assume control over a people for the benefit of that people and with the purpose of developing them to a self-governing capacity, and with the intention of giving them the right to become independent when they shall show themselves fit, then the charge that we are imperialists is utterly without foundation.-Hon. Wm. H. Taft, at Cleveland, Ohio.

Live stock and dressed meats, Chicago to New York Average freight rates, in cents, per 100 pounds.

Relative conditions of prosperity in the manufacturing and nonmanufacturing sections of the United States, respectively.*

*Manufacturing section includes area north of the Potomac and Ohio and east of the Mississippi, viz., the New England and Middle States, and Maryland, District of Columbia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

Progress of manufactures in the United States-Comparative Summary, 1850 to 1905, with per cent of increase for each decade.

[From the United States Census Report on Manufactures.]

*Includes, for comparative purposes, 85 governmental establishments in the District of Columbia having products valued at $9,887,355, the statistics of such establishments for 1890 not being separable. Totals for 1900 and 1905 are exclusive of statistics for governmental establishments and for Hawaii.

**Includes proprietors and firm members, with their salaries; number only reported in 1900, but not included in this table.

(3) Not reported separately.

(4) Decrease.

(5) Not reported.

Progress of manufacturing in the United States, 1850 to 1905.

* Exclusive of statistics for governmental establishments and for Hawaii. Figures for 1905 include neighborhood industries and hand trades, estimated by Census Office at two billions of dollars.

Production of principal groups of manufactures in the year 1905.

The manufacturing industries gave employment in 1905 to 6,157,751 wage earners, earning $3,016,711,706; 566,175 officials and clerks earning $609,200,251 in 533,769 establishments.

Production and average prices of middling cotton, and prices of the staple manufactures of cotton, in the New York market each year, from 1880 to 1907., [From the Statistical Abstract.]

a Years ending August 31. Compiled by Mr. A. B. Shepperson, of New York. b Including 1881 and since, the price of standard drillings are net; raw cntton prices are also net for the entire period.