New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-24
NOW STATISTICS ARE MADE TO BEAR
FALSE FITNESS.
Prom TIE JYOTtL

From TIE World
Now, let us stetisticaly examine the two Pc
RODS and where the lie lieswhether with the late
Commissioner who made the statement or with the critic
who denies It. In s5960 used for home consumption
7sO99 bales Of cotton which, at average Of $50 pounds
per BALE Is in round numbers 590co pounds To this
We must add manufactured cotton goods imported from
foreign countries valued at s322O0ooO IL we compute
this amount al acreage Of en cents for each pound
OF manufactured cotton goods the ST. 900 will repre-
sent round numbers 24s00O00 pounds Of cotton and
the total consumption Of the 0 Of people In 1890
would have been:
Domestic manufactures. go 10000 pounds
fOIelgh imports. .9ll,vbJVD pounds
To,al.........................5 7O,6lOO 900 pounds
In 1890 The total consumption Of homo cotton was
1910 bales Or at average OF 40 pounds per BALE
100000 pounds. To this must add the imports OF
manufactured cotton for tho period, valued at
s3000OO II computed a. thirty cents per pound in 10
manufactured state. tho s33)oOOO will represent in
round numbers 100000 pounds. The consumption Of
cotton in the United states IN 1920 was therefore:
OfhNmc-'rade cotton. ........... lo0jo00o pounds
Oh foreign Ior,,............... 100000 pounds
Total $4,000 pounds
or in other words 9oO of people in the year 1862
70 consumed e00OO pounds less than 3O0o0oO) OF pco
pic dill in 1880 Now here are statistical facts which
any tyro commerce can easily understand and verify
They concusvely prove the late Special Commissioner
correct and THE TRIBUNE wrong.
Comments BIZ The Tribune.
Here you see how they do it. Estimate The
Cotton fabrics imported in 1880 as having
cost fifteen cents per pound and those imported
in 1SG9-7O as having cost thirty cents per
pound, and you give a good lift to Free
Trade.
But did Cotton fabrics cost twice as much
here in ls63-7O as in 1S5o-GOi We say they
did not, nor any thing like it. We appeal to
all who bought and all who sold them in both
periods in support of our position. No mer
chant of character will assert that he bought
and sold Cotton fabrics IN 1870 at double
the prices of lS59-6O
Then where is the proof that the total
consumption of home Cotton in 18G0-70 was
" S01,0O0 balesW 1t is sheer assumption. Even
though that were the difference between the
Cotton received at the ports and the aggre-
gate export, it would not prove what is
alleged, because there has been a great in
crease of our production of Cotton fabrics in
the South and West, absorbing many bales
which never reach the shipping ports, and Sd
do not figure in the returns.
But again, our immense export of Cotton
fabrics in 1890 and our dwindled export of
18G9-7O: Wells and TIE World dIlate on this.
magnify it, when it serves their turn: here,
they see fit to ignore it. All the Cotton fab
RIGS we produced in 1890 they assign to the
home market, forgetting the export to China,
Canada, Spanish America, sc.
1t will never do, gentlemen. If any thing
is manifest, the vast expansion since 1860 of
our Home Manufactures-COttOn Wooden, Silk,
&c, as well as Metallic-is a fact that whose
hath eyes can attest. Weiss emphatic testi-
mOny to this effect is superfluous; but it should
be conclusive with yOu.