Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-11-09
THE NEW TARIFF.
The Mckinley bill having been in
onnra ton lnnoe enough TO show itS nf-

Inc mckinney Dill having D00n II
operation long enough to show its eff
feet on the commerce of the United
States, a representative of the Free
Press called at the custom house the
other day to obtain some facts and fig
ures which may be of interest to the
farmers and citizens of this section
From an examination of the statistical
records it was found that the total i'm
ports into the district of Vermont for
the year ending Sept. 80, 1890, were,
free goods, 81, 952, ,907, dutiable goods,
So, $50, ,835, making total of $5, ,813, 742,
on which duties to the amount of
S841, ,703.61 were collected. For the
year ending Sept. so, 1891, the import
alton Of free goods amounted to
81, ,554, ,O47, dutiable goods, 50, 987, ,683;
making a total of 81, ,541, ,76O, on which
$784, sos. 81 in duties were collected.
The decrease of s., ,271 1892 in the ag-
/ gregate of importations appears to
have been confined to agricultural
/ products which have been transferred
from the free to the dutiable list, or
increased.
On only one agricultural product
were importations increased to any
appreciable extent. That was pota
toes of which, owing tip the short crop
of 1890 the total importations increas-
ed from $14, ,O13 in 1890 to $188, 147 in
1901, leaving a net decrease in the val
ue of the imports of farm products
named of 81, ,23O,1
During the last year under the
old tariff the dutiable merchandise
| amounted to IS 41O per cent of the
total importations. During the first
year of the present tariff the percent
age was 65 $40. The average rate of
duty collected for the first period was
4.48 per cent on the value of dutiable
merchandise. During the second pc
riod the rates were II .27 or 1926 per
cent of the respective value of the du-
table importations. 1t is understood,
of course, that the impOrtations are
from Canada. Such importations into
the district of Vermont are confined
almost wholly to the products of the
farm, the forest and the mine, in the
shape in which they come from the
hands of the farmer and lumberman.
The proportions of each for one year
were found to be as follows: Farm
products, SIS per cent; forest prod
ucts, % per cent; mine products, 9
per cent; miscellaneous, 10 per cent.
During the period covered by these
Investigations, the expectation of
American merchandise to Canada in
creased nearly one third, the amount
for 1890 being 50, 469, ,O67, while for
1891 it was So, ,23O, 100. These exports
were found to consist almost wholly
of manufactured articles, the greatest
values being in agricultural imple-
ments, manufactures of brass, manu-
factures of cotton, india rubber manu-
factures, builders hardware, machin-
cry and other manufactures of iron
and steel.
From the figures above given it
plainly appears that the new tariff has
been directly beneficial to the farmers
Oh VERMONT anu Un0 OUn6f new Eng
land states, to the full extent of the
diminished Importation of the prod
ucts of Canadian farms, for no candid
person will seriously contend that be-
cause "A, 976, ,436 fewer eggs were inn
ported in 1890, that the consumption
of eggs in New England was reduced
to that extent, or to any extent what
ever. Neither will it be contended
that because over $50, 900 worth of Ca
madam turkeys and chickens remain
ed on their own side of the line that
our New England Thanksgiving was
any the less bounteously observed.
Our manufacturers have also profit
ed as shown by their increased sales,
SO that on the transactions for one
year, through the small district of
Vermont alone, the people of this sec
ton of the United States have gained
81, ,271, ,982 on their purchases, and
S761, ,723 on their sales Their business
has accordingly been benefited to the
amount of $2,O33, ,7O5 by reason of the
Mckinley tariff These benefits will,
in our opinion, go on increasing in the
coming years.-Free Press.