Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 7, Petersburg, Pike County, 28 June 1895 — Page 5

EXPORTS INCREASE. •—*- LARGE GAINS UNDER THE NEW TARIFF LAW. V*nl|B Trade Benefited by the Abro*»- * ttoa of Reciprocity Trentie*—Growth of BoalnoM With Canada, Africa and Australia. Every report issued toy the bureau at joatistics refutes the statement that the new tariff law has been a detriment to our foreign trade. Both our imports and our exports have, been increasing far several months, and Borne of the largest gains in exports have been to countries with which we had reciprocity treaties. One of these countries is Brazil. We sell almost as much to her as to all other South American countries put together. In February—the month covered^ the latest government report —our shipments to Brazil amounted to 9998,000, as compared with $747,009 in February, 1894. Nor was February an exceptional month. This same government publication shows our exports for the fiscal year to March 1 to have been $10,890,000, against $8,128,000 in the corresponding period of the year 1893-4. This gain was alljpnade after the passage of our new tariff law. Our largest trade in Central America is with Guatemala/and Salvador. To each we shipped^mora in February and during the eight mouths covered by the report than in the corresponding periods of last year. There has been practically no change in onr export trade to the other Spanish spewing countries of Central America except Costa Rica, but the loss here in February is covered by the gains in other months since the Wilson law took effect. Our exports to British Honduras increased in February, as also during the *est of the period covered by the rep^t. Taking onr Central Aniericarixsjiport trade as a whole, we gained over 4 per cent in February and 20 in eight months. This country’s exports to Mexico were $186,000 larger in February last than in that month a year ago, and $945,000 larger in the eight mouths than during jthe corresponding period of 1893-4— gains of over 12 and nearly 11 per cent respectively. If we go north, we find an increase in onr February trade with Canada amounting in exports alone to $470,000. Onr exports to Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, British Columbia and all other British provinces in North America, except Newfoundland and Labrador, increased. This government report shows gains in our British American, Central American, South American and Mexican exports. Where* then, is the loss we have heard so much a boot from onr high tariff friends? It is not to bo found on the American continent What there is in the new world is confined almost entirely to the West Indies, principally to Spain’s two islands, Cuba and Porto Rica

. Nor has our export trade with Europe suffered in consequence of tho repeal of the McKinley tariff or the abrogation of Elaine’s reciprocity treaties. The February report of' the bureau of statistics shows substantial gains in our exports that mouth to Germany, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. It is true our trade with England and France fell off, but the decrease was in no way connected with the repeal of the McKinley bill. We had no reciprocity treaties with either of those countries, nor was it expected that we ever would have one of the kind provided for under that measure. Our exports to France and England, and particularly the latter, consist largely of, grain, and last spring our corn shipments to Europe were uuusually heavy. Gains are also reported in our exports to Australia, Africa and all the colonies and countries of Asia, except China and Japan. In comparing this spring’s exports with last spring’s we should keep in mind the fact that the latter were much heavier than our exports in the early part of 1893. .For three months last year we had what might be called a foreign trade boom. The mining and railway strikes and Coxey armies put an end to it, howover, and it was not until the Wilson bill became a law that our foreign trade again began to improve.—St Louis Republic. & -:—4They Profit by Corruption. It is asserted that the Republican victory in Chicago came about because of the fact that the Democratic administration was held responsible for boodle ordinances passed by the Republican council. As in national, so in municipal affairs, the Republicans appear to profit by their own corrupt legislation—St Louis Post-Dispatch.

Wo** of the Political Boas. Tom Platt and Boss Filley are probably the two moet unhappy men in the United States. Both of them have legislatures on their hands, and neither of them knows just how to get rid of the incumbrances.—Kansas City Times. Not Much Can Be Expected. Tbe^e will be SO newspaper men in the nest congress, but most of them are Republicans; hence there’s not mnefr ground for hope that the congress will be au improvement upon its predecessor. —New York Mercury. , He'll Run if He’s Asked. Michener ol: Indiana says General Harrison has no idea of running fbr the presidency again unless it becomes a patriotic dnty. Ton can drive a team of four through that saving clause.—Cincinnati Tribune. Both Factions After Bloo< The greatest obstacle to peaoe among the New York Republicans seems to be a mutual eagerness for indemnity on the <qpart of the two factions.—Minneapolis Tribune. , .They Are Useful—In the Convention. Mr. McKinley is endeavoring to solidify the south sufficiently for convennon purposes. —St. Louis Post-Dispatol).

BEST KIND OF FIECIPROCITY. United State* L'nport Trad*. A Buenos Ayres correspondent of the New York Herald gives interesting details of the new tariff of Argentina, l which became a law in the latter put of ! February. Farm wagons pay a duty of 10 per cent, a reduction of 60 per oent; i binding twine, 6 per cent, a reduction i of 00 per cent ; sewing machines, 5 per oent; plows and mowers, 6 per pent; binders, headers mid thrashing ma- ! chines, free; wood pulp, 2% per cent; 1 locomotives, free; vegetables in tin or glass, 16 cents per kilo; ooal and ooke, free. The whole tariff appears to have been formed cm a liberal revenue basis. It is seen from the above items that the new tariff of Argentina is exceed* j ingly favorable to the export trade of | the United States to that country. There has been no diplomatic bullying or | wheedling pretense ol! reciprocity to se- • cure this measure. The Argentine Be- j publio has passed this tariff bill solely with regard to its own financial and industrial interests. What McKinley reciprocity and threats cf commercial warfare such as was declared against Venezuela and Colombia by Harrison’s administration could not accomplish has been brought about in Argentina by the good example of the new tariff of this; country. The progressive Argentine Re-j publio conned the lesson of the American tariff and has decidedly improved upon it When the Argentinian congress said that free wool was good for the manufacturers and consumers of the United States, it concluded that a like policy would be good for Argentina, j Thus the silen t influence of the new tar-1 iff of this country bias done more in a few months to bring around this South American republio to a liberal policy of trade than Pan-American congresses and sham reciprocity have gained in five j years. The new tariffs of the United States and Argentina afford the best kind of reciprocity. Each government in con- j suiting its own best interests in trade by removing legislative obstacles promotes the interests of both. This liberal j policy, which neither begs nor bullies for “tips” in commerce, alone promises j to be enduring. Such manufacturers i and merchants of this country as still hanker after the clumsy McKinley tariff j reciprocity, with its retaliation attach- j ment, should learn something by this lesson from Argentina. It may be safely predicted that before long Colombia, Venezuela and other states of South America that could not be bullied or coaxed into reducing their tariff restraints upon the export trade of this country will voluntarily follow the liberal example set them by a sister repub-lic.-^-Philadelphia Record.

Folly of the Bounty System. The system of paving bounties to encourage sugar production has been carried to its legitimate conclusion in Germany. The result has been a great overproduction. As a consequence, the price of sugar has beeii so reduced that larger bounties are demanded. The Gorman government finds itself unable to deal satisfactorily with the problem. To withdraw the bounty on exports would bring ruin to producers, who have made investments on the faith of government support. To increase the bounty would be to magnify the evil of overproduction. The whole transaction affords a new proof off the folly and futility of government interference in matters that are best left to the determination of private interests.—Philadelphia Record. _ i1 A Sample of Prote ctionist Reasoning. The Norristown Herald discovers the interesting situation that American woolen goods sold in Bradford and elsewhere abroad means the reduction of wages of employees in the woolen mills of this country and some other dreadful things—that is, a greatly enlarged foreign market, the first of any account in 30 years, and a strong and growing demand for the product of American mills actually destroys trade, closes down operations and reduces wages paid the workers, according to The Herald's statement If it does, it will be the first time in the history of the world that such a thing has happened.—Philadelphia Times._ New Yo rk’s Reign of Terror. The cry of the committee of seventy with regard to Democratic officeholders is, “Good or bad, they must go. ” The spirit of this campaign of revenge is that of the Rom an proscriptions or the French terror. It is a case of heads off to encourage the others. The methods of Seylia, of Robespierre, of Marat, have been introduced into, municipal politics by persons who profess to adhere to no party, to be above party. | This is New York’s Thermidor.—New York Sun.

Tike Situation Hu Changed. Only a little ■while ago the virtuous Q. O. P. was horrified at the thought of Utah becoming a state, and a Democratic state, too, by the grace of Mormon voters. Now that Boss Cannon has made an alliance with the Republican leaders, and Utah is likely to become a Republican state, tine horror has disappeared. The G. O. P. would vote “Paradise Lost” into thei Union if it felt that it could count on its electoral votes.— New York Mercury. -:-,- An Able Politician. “Mr* Harrison, ” says the Philadelphia Telegraph (Rep.), “has never been out of it (the presidential race) since his defeat in 1892, and both Mr. Reed and Mr. McEinley will be unwise if they do not regard him as a shrewd, resolute, powerful antagonist There is no abler politician than he in the country. “ _ Below Their Fellow*. Reed and Dales!} remained seated when the house rose to thank; Speaker Crisp It wan plain to see then how much in some respects they were below their fellows.--Philadelphia Times.

INCOME TAX LOGICAL OUTCOME OF REPUBLICAN EXTRAVAGANCE * AND MISRULE. Patrnpalom hwm of fifiilHwii Chw Whteh M to Um iMiitakto. - • ) Many of those who are repining be* oause an income tax has been imposed by the national government are prone to object to it because of the lack of any necessity for such an impost They attribute it to the Democratic party, and they blame that party for a gratuitous levying of taxation which might have! been spared those who are to pay it It is true that the Democratic party is responsible far the law, but it it not at all so plain either that it is unnecessary or that this party is responsible for the state of faots that led np to it That state of facts may be concisely said to be increased expenditures of the ^government and diminished sources of revenue. Consciously or unconsciously, those who have controlled public affairs for the last 25 years have been so conducting them as to make an inoome tax a logical if not an inevitable outcome of their action. To charge the responsibility for the levying of the inoome tax upon those who have been the immediate agents in bringing it into law is to take but a superficial view of the situation. We must go further back to account for its appearance It must be traced in the policy of the government for a long period. There are those now lining who can remember when the expenditures of the American government amounted to but $12,000,000 per annum. This was the annual outlay during John Quincy Adams’ adminis|ration, and one of the charges made against his administration was that it was extravagant In less than 20 years this sum had trebled in amount It steadily rose thereafter till the days of the war of the rebellion. The expenditures of that period and the war debt that resulted gave it enormous additional proportions. The country had increased greatly at the same time in area, and more in wealth. We had im

posed a heavy taxation, which enahiea us to pay off much of our debt and brought a surplus into the treasury. A surplus did what a surplus always does —it induced habits of extravagance. There was a period under it when it seemed as if our legislators sought to devise means for spending money. This habit had its inevitable- effect. It sent the national expenditures constantly higher, until they reached the enormous amount of $500,000,000 a year. We had begun with $13,000,000. We ended with $500,000,000. Onr national legislators, if they had stopped to reflect, would have realised that no nation in the world had ever spent anything like the sum of $500,000,000 per year without resorting to an income tax to meet the outlay. But it may be said, and with some truth, that our nation is not like most other nations of the world in the extent of its resources for taxation. Admitting this, j and the fact still remained that it was necessary prudently to employ the resources for taxation aside from incomes, | if income taxation was to be avoided. This is exactly what we failed to da We had a tremendous mint to draw upon in our oustoms duties, and if we had used this in a business spirit for purposes of revenue it might have been that we could have postponed if no| have avoided the levying, of an income tax. But we entered upon the policy of fixing our rate of duties primarily with a view to what was called protection rather than for revenue Long ago this was begun by a repeal of the duties on tea and coffee, which cut off many millions from our national income. The friends of protection, on the one hand, thought that the repeal would give more room for protective duties on other articles, and others who were not in agreement with them feared the charge that they were taxing the poor man’s breakfast table. So these duties were abolished. This was followed later by the taking of duties from sugar. In this way $100,000,000, if not more, was removed from onr revenue. It is not difficult to find the genesis of the income tax right there. Take the two together, the unthinking and unscrupulous increase of government expenditures and the failure to adopt ordinarily prudent methods for the raising of revenue, and we account fully for the income tax. It was inevitable if that policy was to be pursued. It must come sooner or later. The Republicans when they went to the extent of running up the expenditures of the government to $500,000,000 a year, and at the same time took $60,000,000 from the revenue by the repeal of the sugar duties, besides paying out $10,000,000 of bounty to sugar producers, hastened the time of its appearance. They were more responsible for it than were the Democrats, who were the immediate agents to place it on the statute book. The former created the necessity for revenue to meet deficiencies, and this coming just at the time when the Populist feeling of the country was aroused against the possession of great wealth in comparatively few hands was a provocative to the passage of the measure which only blindness could fail to see was sure to result as it has resulted.—* Boston Herald.

Fre« Wool Speoka For Itptt The market statements show that the supply of desirable domestic wools is steadily diminishing, while the excess of importation is disappearing. The mills, in turn, are engaged in working out fair sised contracts and in making new engagements for next season’s goods. One report declares that “ini' provement in conditions is the result of natural developments." Free raw ma* terial in wools is beginning to have the beneficial effect that any industry must experience with excessive tariff taxes removed.—Philadelphia Times

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