Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1895 — FACTS THAT DO TALK. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FACTS THAT DO TALK.

COMPARISONS THAT CANNOT BE CONTRADICTED. Records of the Government at Washington Show Significant Results — The Best Policy for This Country Proven by Onr Statistics. , Under Republican Rnle. During the four years of the Garfield and Arthur administration- our total foreign trade was $512,362,773 more than during the four years of Cleveland’s first term, an average of $128,090,693 annually.- . ——- During the Harrison administration our total foreign trade was $1,258,657.086 more than during Cleveland’s first term, an annual average of $314,664,272. Dur&g the last two years of the Harrison administration our total foreign trade was $325,876,306 more than it was during the first two years of the Cleveland present administration. Our total foreign trade was $310,545,416 less in 1594 under Mr. Cleveland and the Gorman tariff than in 1892 under Mr. Harrison and the McKinley tariff. Oifr exports during the four years of the Garfield and Arthur administatiou averaged $96,052,223 more annually than they did during the four years of Cleveland’s first administration. The average of onr exports during the four years of the Harrison administration was $170,481,324 more annually than they were during the four years of the Cleveland administration, puv exports during the first year of the Gar-; field and Arthur administration wore $296,422,539 more than they were during the last of the Cleveland administration. Our exports during the last year of the Harrison administration, under the McKinley tariff, were $334,323,641 more than they were during the last year of Cleveland’s first administration, and they were $138,137,576 more than they were in 1894 under President Cleveland and the Gorman tariff bill. These facts are very significant both In reference to the payment of the public debt and to our foreign trade. They demonstrate clearly the difference beween a policy which protects the industries of the country and ohe that tears down protection. Yet the loss In our foreign trade by means of which we made such-payments on the public debt is a trifling item in comparison with the immense loss that has been entailed upon the industries of the country. Notice the panic of 1893 and the great depression in business that prevailed everywhere. Notice again the Pullman railroad strike of 1894, which paralyzed business from one end of the country to the other. The losses attending these changes in administration and changes in the policy in regard to our tariff and our money are incalculable. It is estimated by good judges that this country has lost more than ten billion dollars by the defeat of Mr. Harrison with the policy of the McKinley bill and the election of Mr. Grover Cleveland with the attempt to carry out the policy of tariff reform and the effort to make changes in the standard of our money. These facts ought to be an ever present object-les-son to the voters of this country.

*- That “Tariff for Revenue.” In the six fiscal years 1889-1891 inclusive, the public expenditures of this country averaged $374,424,4(53. The most important question of the day is how the revenue required to meet such annual expenditures shall be raised henceforth. Protectionists hold that it should be procured largely by a wise, well-framed tariff, avowedly intended to encourage and protect home industry, with the purpose of developing our great resources, maintaining good wages, securing steady, prosperous home markets for farm products and promoting generally the welfare of the American people. Free-traders, “revenue reformers,” “low-tariff” advocates and the like, who hold no opinions in common except hatred of protection, would raise th& public revenue mainly by a combination of the income tax, or other clajjs taxjttJoo. with a low tariff, framed tv it'll ho guiding patriotic principle, and in servile imitation of the British customs duties. The Wilson tariff bill as sent from the House to the Senate is an instance of the piecemeal which Democrats wouid make of protection if they were not restrained by the protective element in their own and in the Republican party. The lines are thus clearly drawn. The tariff question will not down. It is too closely connected with the vital interests of the American people to be shelved. The principle of protection must ever be reasserted in thunder tones and receive practical application.

The Southern Advance. The indications are strong that Southern men are more willing than heretofore to consider carefully the principles on which protection to home industry is based. They have ceased to associate this national policy with hostility to the South. The Baltimore and Ohio and the Southern railroad companies are doing their utmost to attract new industrles to places in their respective regions. Able Southern publications continue to demonstrate the Importance of diversified Industries. All that the South needs to be on the right track is to see that such Industries are the direct outgrowth of protection and depend on It for prosperous development It is only as the entire country advance* in Industrial independence that the South can expect the establishment of more factories within her own limits to develop her wonderful resources. Morton’s Great Work. The American cattle grower who is • Democrat can now hare an object lesson of Democratic practice more for-

cible than any mere theory could bring to him. By reason of the scarcity of cattle American growers were about to receive fair prices for their stock, but Secretary Morton took it into Jite head to Interfere, and In order to knockdown the price, under pretense of fighting the dressed beef trust, he ordered that im- ■ ports of Mexican cattle be permitted. Forty thousand of these are now coming in. The beef trust promptly takes them and keeps up the price of dressed beef precisely as before, but uses the Mexican cattle importations to depress the price of cattle on the hobs. Thev Mexican cattleman is delighted, the dressed beef toast is helped, the administration is happy—but what about the American cattle grower?—Tribune, Salt Lake, Utah. - ‘ — England's Wheat Imports. I The total Imports of wheat into the United Kingdom during the years 1893 and 1894 were as follows in hundredweights: ENGLISH IMPORTS OF WHEAT. v 1893. 189-1. From Cwts. Cwts. Russia ..........10,061,988 16,775,881 Germany 362,086 715,043 France . ..... ... . 1,452 4,715 Turkey 103,552 324,523 Roumania ' 89,272 108,089 Egypt. 10,580 184 United States 32,262,848 24,658,245 Chili 2,580,147 1,704,413 Argentine 7,845,587 13,272,152 British East Indies 6,196,096 5,349,050 Australasia 2,589,588 3,877,418 British N. America 3,157,355 2,828,515 Other countries 201,431 456,121 Totals 65,461,988 70,134,355 It will be seen that England Imported 4,573,000 hundredweights more wheat last year than in 1893, but she bought 7,G00,000 hundredweights less from the United States, her purchases in 1894 being larger than in 1893 from every country in the world, except Egypt, the United States, Chili, India and Canada. Of interest in the same connection is the statement of the wheat crop of the world during the same two years, which we give as follows in bushels: Bushels. Bushels. - - 1893. 1894. N. America. 446,387,000 515,488,000 S. America.. 81,453,000 104,000,000 Europe 1,469,526,000 1,538,216,000 Asia 355,016,000 341,959,000 Africa 31,891,000 47,098,000 Australasia . 42,458,000 43,360,000 Totals... .2,426,731,000 2,590,121,000 ——— The Lion’s Bhare. During last March our imports of all foreign goods amounted In value to $69,291,533. Of this amount of foreign goods the Europeans sent us their share, amounting to $33,271,329, showing that almost oue-half of our total imports came from Europe. During the nine months ending March 31, 1895, our total imports from foreign countries aggregated $535,525,149, of which Europe sent us to the extent of $286,789,316, or more than half the total. Europe sold us more goods than North America, South America, Asia, Oceanica, Africa and all other countries combined. Evidently our latest tariff was a tariff for Europe. «- If we look a little closer Into these foreign exports we find that the United Kingdom sent us English goods worth $117,000,000, leaving less than 170,000,000 wmrth of goods to be supplied by the other twenty European countries. It is very evident that the British lion got his share. Wear American Gloves. The manufacturers of American kid, or other gloves made of leather, must be having a lively time of it in meeting the foreign competition. In March our imports of gloves were valued at $764,599, as against imports worth only $322,872 in March, 1894. During the nine months ending March 31, 1893, the increased value paid for foreign gloves was $1,100,000. ! First Get the Food. Edward Atkinson, the active “revenue reformer” has been explaining in public how food materials might be cooked economically. This is all right, but many American workmen have been puzzling how to find the food. It was not so when, under ample protection, wages were good and work was abundant. Then food was plentiful. —lgT _ i Labor’s Outing 1892.