Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1827-05-29
179ol 1928 nlmnution
Wheat. bushels 1124,456 17990 i 100 400
Indian Corn d.. 2I92l37 860,644 1232,493


Our population in 1890. $500, $780, and has
more than trebedyet not merely the value, but the
quantity, of our exports OF most of those articles
on which the grain growing States manly depend,
has since been greatly reduced,
The domestic exports of the United States IN
1896, (the first year when discrimination was
made BY the treasury department between foreign
and domestc,) were about S35.O00.C00, exclusive
of cotton and tobacco. In 1925, excluding thuse
articles, they were S23,982.475. It is now about
10, 100000. Thus, while it has nearly trebled, the
exports of all the articles produced by about ten
million of population have diminished one third;
although the export of manufactures has increased
above four fold.
1t is painful to take retrospect of the distress
which the exclusion of grand staple produced
in the state Of Pennsylvania in 1919 and 1890, and
from which it has not yet recovered. A committee
of both houses OF the legislature OF the state, APP
pointed to ascertain the extent Of the evil, drew the
tol lowing outline:
"Ruos sac fees Of landed property at sheriff 5 sales
whereby, in man cases. lands and houses have been sold
less than halt hid fourth, OF their former values
thereby rsrg If their homes, and the fruits Of la6orious
gears, nat5er Of industrious herS, some of hons
been araven seek, tie nac~v ted forests eff The
thai shelter Of which they hte 6een deprived IN M n nd
tipe slate,
When the dimnution of the quantity and value of
the productions of the graingrowing states is cons
dered it may be matter Of surprise to many unac
quainted with the subject, how our immense inpor-
| tations have been paid for. To this we answer,
that very large amount of our public and private
securities has been RENTED abroad for that pur-
pose, and thus the country has been mortgaged for
their payment. 1t must therefore be obvious, that
the interest of those securities, produced by the
laboring classes OF country, amounting probably
to above S2,0ooo0o annually, is appropriated to
pay for foreign labor, while our own farmers and
/ workmen want profitable employment.
When the tariff of 1924 enacted, after So
: Tenn debate it was hoped that its provisions would
afford protection to every branch OF national INDUS
try.
it was contemplated, would have given sufficient
protection to the wool growers and that the duties
and restrictions the importation OF foreign wool
lens would sufficiently protect the American fabric.
But the former will be of avail if the domestic
market for the article be destroyed, the result of
the prostration of the woollen manufacture, which
will certainly take place without an immediate and
radical change in policy.
4 The repeal by Great Britain, in 1925, OF nearly
all the duty upon foreign wool imported into that
country has had the effect to destroy the sautary OPP
Grafton of the law of 1894 so far as it relates to the
wooen manufacture, whereby the intended protec-
ton is frustrated The duty in Great Britain is only
one penny per lib. on wool at OF above one shilling
sterling, and one halfpenny on wool below that price
while ours is nearly onethird of the value, amount
ing the finer qualities, TO from ~ to 5u cents
per lib.
By this state of things the farmer is wholly de-
/ pryed of the advantages intended to be given him
by the increased duty foreign wool, and the Ame-
rcan manufacturer of that article is SO far depressed
by the great quantity of English woollens brought
into the country, that he cannot continue the bust
ness, unless the original intention OF the tariff be
effected by the enactment of additional duty, to
counervail the advantage given to the English manu-
facturer by the reduction of the duty on the impor~
taton of foreign wool.
Ii has heen estimated that in our woollen manu-