Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1895 — EXPOSE THE LIARS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

EXPOSE THE LIARS.

A TRICK OF THE DEMOCRATIC TRADE LAID BARE. - Export Values of Our Manufactured Goods Decrease tinder the New Tariff—A New-Yorker's Prophecy that Was Unfortunately Only Too True. Toward the close "of last year state-ments-were published by free-trade papers showing how great an improvement there was in our exports of manufaetured goods, the inference being that we were reaching the markets of the world under the reform tariff. This was a half truth infinitely more dangerous than a naked lie. Total values were not given in support of the statement, only percentages of values, and as there had been such an enormous shrinkage In the export value of our agricultural products, naturally enough there was a gain in the percentage of our exports of manufactured goods. This free-trade argument can best be exposed by taking our exports of Amerioan manufactures during January and February of this and last year, showing their actual values, as also the percentages of those values to our total exports in each month. Thus: Values. Per cent, of total January. February Jan’y. Feb. 1894. .$14,313,285 $12,283,168 10.97 19.31 1895.. 14,100,978 12,221,895 17.55 22.13 Loss. $212,307 $61,273 *0.58 *2.82 *Galu. It is clearly seen that there has been a slight decline in the value of our exports of manufactures during each of the two months of the present year, but the percentages are larger because our exports of agricultural and forestry products were of so much less value this year, thus making the proportion or percentage of our manufactured exports appear larger while the values were really less. This was a very smooth trick, and it has been worked for all it is worth. But the foregoing are the bald facts, and instead of our exports of manufactures “creeping steadily up,” as we were told, they have been “creeping steadily” down, even though the wall of protection has been blasted out of sight The detailed statement of our exports of domestic merchandise during February enables one to see in what lines our people are reaching out into the markets of the world. During February our manufacturers of agricultural implements sold $82,000 worth less of their goods to foreign countries than in February, 1894. Our sales of bricks fell off by $0,265; of candles we sold $7,000 less; of carriages, street cars and their parts, $24,700 less; of copper and its manufactures $480,000 less; of cotton cloths $272,000 less; of fish $91,700 less; of flax manufactures $26,000 less; of furs and skins $137,000 less; of hides $130,000 less; of hay $43,400 less; of hardware $15,400 less; of nails and spikes SIO,OOO less; of oil cake and meal $250,000 less; of animal oils $13,000 less; of oleomargarine $280,000 less; of butter $189,500 less; of cheese $54,000 less; of seeds $273,000 less; of soap $52,000 less; of distilled spirits $308,000 less; of starch $12,000 less; of refined sugar $27,000 less; of tobacco leaf SIIB,OOO less; of manufactured tobacco $75,000 less; of vegetables $43,000 less; of timber $74,000 less; and of lumber $235,000 less. These show some of the smaller values of American products and manufactures in one month’s sales to other countries when the markets of the world were wide open to us. This is how we are “letting ourselves out” Facts for Democrats. Look here, you Democratic editors and stump speakers. A few short years ago you said tin plate could not be made in this country. You ridiculed every plant that was established. You said they were erected for campaign purposes. You said it was all being done for political effect. You lied about the matter and deceived your readers aud bearers. You said tin plate was not then made and never would be made in this country. Now what do you think of it? There are now 150 tin plate mills in operation or under construction in the United States. And there are fifty-eight more projected. And now for some figures taken from Democratic records. The aggregate output of the mills now and soon to be in operation is 30,000 boxes each per annum. This means an aggregate output of 4,680,000 boxes in all. When the projected mills are completed the total annual output will reach 6,420,000 boxes, or enough to supply the home market. That, Mr. Democrat, is a result of Republican protection. It is a result achieved in spite of Democratic falsehoods and sneering predictions of failpre. It is a result of legislating In the interest of America and Americans. If there were such a thing as shame in the Democratic party, it would hang its head at the growth of this infant industry.—Toledo Blade. A Djoitflc Yield. It has yielded a 16 per cent, increase in the importation of foreign goods, made by foreign labor, and displacing a like amount of Atnerican labor. It hits yielded a nearly 10 per cent decrease in the exports of American products aud merchandise, thus cut r ting off just so much more work and wages for Americans. It has yielded a great flood of foreign grown wools, and destroyed the sheep raising industry on farms and ranches. Incidentally it has helped to yield a shorter supply of sheep for slaughter and assisted the Chicago meat ring to put up the price of mutton. It has yielded more foreign Imports by a hundred million dollars’ worth and yet it has yielded a decrease of 10 per cent, in the amount of importations

free of. duty. McKinley's act even had a more liberal free list. It has yielded more taxation and revenue on imported foods, necessaries of life—such as sugar, tea, coffee, fruits, rice, fish, and provisions generally—than the old 1890 tariff by about two dollars to one.—New York - —•.— --The Cost of Democracy, Various estimates have been made of the cost to the country of the Fiftythird Congress and, of the present free trade administration. It is difficult to arrive at a true estimate of the loss that tlie people have suffered through their folly in November, 1892. This period of our. history has been concisely described by Messrs. Clapp & Co., the New York bankers, in their weekly circulars. On November 11, 1592, they said: “The recent election shows the people want to speculate.” ■ Four months later, on March 17,1893, shortly after the inauguration of President Cleveland, they said: “The shadow of general liquidation

falls over the doorstep of nationa prosperity.” Three months later, on June 30, Clapp’s circular said: “The credit panic appears to have crossed the continent, and scarcely four, months have passed and a billion of representative money has disappeared.” .. In their 1893 souvenir, they show that the seventy-five railway receiverships rendered necessary that year involved an indebtedness amounting to $1,212,217,033 and the total liabilities of banks suspended was $210,998,808. The business shrinkage in textile trades was almost $40,000,000, and in other industries over $90,000,000. Adding the record of the trade failures they found that the disaster brought upon the country by the free trade party during 1893 was “equal to about 25 per cent, of the annual production average for the country during the past decade.” Our artist has explained the extent of the disaster for the two full years from March, 1893, to March, 1895. According to the record of the bank clearings the shrinkage in business was five billion ?ix hundred and sixty-five million dollars, during the first six mouths only that this new tariff htis been in force, below the amount of business done during tb« first six months when the McKinley tariff was In operation. A Wild Engine.

England Wants a Change. Cheap food is excellent if you have the money to buy it; but a threepenny loaf is of very little value to a man with only three halfpence in bis pocket, and of less value still to the man who has nothing. Free trade has given us cheap goods, and it has taken away employment from English workers to an alarming extent. If we were all consumers, living on an income derived from an investment in consols, free trade could not be too highly praised.— To-Day, English paper. Progress by Protection. Interest in the cotton States in the International Exposition to open In Atlanta, Ga., on Sept. 18 next is spreading. The indications are that the exposition will be particularly Instructive to Southern people, because it must show to how high a degree of skill and advancement American manufacturing interests have progressed through the Instrumentality of a protective tariff. The more this fact is Impressed upon the. South the better will it be for the entire country. That Rooster in Trouble.

THE WEIGHT OF IT.