The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-02-06
Foreign Trade Ixpans

three months that has far surpassed in
greatness any previous three months IN
the history OF the country. Attention
is called to TINS fact because calamity
crlers We're certain that the tariff bill OF
two years ago would paralyze our foreign
commerce.; and the Alliance lecturers
were proclaiming that the Republican
tariff measures would PROSTATE our IN
dustTies and send the country to the
dogs.
Listen to what the New York Tribune
says: The exports troGa tins country
in December We're the largest ever
known III any month. They surpassed
even the exports Cf November, prob
ably by more than 100000. Yet. the
exports of November has surpassed
those Of any other month in the history
of the country by s. 200 U0n, as the eX-
ports Of October had surpassed any pre-
vlous month by $500, 600. Prior to
that month high-water mark bad been
touched in December of 1890, W hen the
value of exports was SIS, f5l ,1o2; but
the known increase last month in the
five principal classes of products Vas
SlI ,3lo,S34, or 2i.6, per cent. and with
ont any increase IN other items the ag-
gTegate would be almost SlIG, ,0j0.p;u.
But IN other items there was a consld-
the value of other principal classes, eX-
cept breadstufls, diminished. Some Of
the minor exports, ii is true, were ex-
Ceptlonaily large Il year ago. those OF
copper ore and lngots, for example, OF
cotton manufactures, OF leather and OF
refined sugar, SO that moderate shrink
age III these Is possible, but in others IN
crease will appear. In any event, the
aggregate for the month is little likely
to fall below Stl5, 900 ,0bO, and until three
months ago the value of exports had
never reached S99 90O0,0 900 III any month.
The great part of the increase in.De-
cember was III value Of breadstuifs for
the cotton crop of last year was SO extra
ordinary that prices have been remark
ably low, and, though ISIS, ,00D, 900 pounds
went abroad in December, against no.
COt,o0O pounds IN the same month OF
1890. the value was little smaller. In
provisions, cattle and petroleum there
was some decrease, previous exports
having been heavy. But the value OF
breadstuffs exported III December was
$50, ,24l ,S9j, against SO, 1861 1876 for the
same month in 1890. lnsix months the
value Of breadstutfs sent abroad has ex-
ceeded Sl55, ,o00, 900, Of which Sl:ii3 ,0O0,-
600 was about the value of wheat, in
Guiding flour. Thus the exports for the
last quarter of 1891 will probably be
found 10 exceed S}2S 100000 in value,
and prior to 1860 that value had never
been exported i'll any year, nor prior 10
1870 III any full year except two. The
aggregate for the calendar year 1891
seems to have been more than S!l6l,-
Wn, 600, and the largest amount in any
previous year was about 500, ,0O0,OuO in
1881.
This wonderful expansion of foreign
trade Is at once convincing proof OF the
magnitude of many branches of inter
nal trade, and it is a practical demon
strat;On of the falsitv Of theories upon
which the Calamity-wailers rely. They
cannot say, for instance, that 100 little
money or toe much money has ruined
the country, in the presence of export
which, for some months past, appear to
have surpassed those OF Great Britain
or any other nation. The array OF
facts is peculiarly discomtiting to free
traders, because ii has been their pet
theory that there could not be large and
liberal exports of products from this
country il imports from other countries
were restricted by protective duties.
But the first whole year after the adol-
ton of new and strongly protective
tariff is made remarkable by exports
iar surprising those Of any previous
year in the history of the country"
Congressman Springer to President Jack
The Democrats in the East have
adopted the custom Of celebrating the
Sth day of January in honor of Andrew
Jackson. that being the day of the
month III 1919 when he licked the Brit
ish at New Orleans. At these ceiebra
tons they do we'll in ascribing much
l. L
such speakers as Springer or Mills or
Cleveland get through talking about
Jackson's Democracy, which doesn't
take long. they branch off on free trade
and tariff. and then they forget all about
cold Hickory" and his Democracy.
When it came Springer's turn to speak
at the Jackson celebration in New York
on the Sth of January, 1882, he took
occasion TO say: The country does not
need to be Informed, by a bill for the
general revision of the tariff, what the
Democratic party desires to do if the
law making power were in the hands of
our party.
cone half OF the tariff burden will be
lifted from fhe shoulders of the people |
by placing wool on the free list and
making the corresponding reductions
III the duties on wooden goods. \
necessary expenses Of the people. SO
essential to their health and comfort.
will not fail to attract universal atren
ton and receive, when thoroughly un-
derstood, universal support"
Now, if Mr.. Springer had been honest |
with Jackson, whose memory he pre- |
tended to honor. he would have told |
the banqueters what President Jackson. |
the Democrat of the old school. the old |
sturdy type, thought Of free trade. But, |
of course. the modern Democrat never
mentions President JaCkson's opinions
of free trade, and therefore they mis- |
represent the Democracy Of the hero of |
New Orleans. When Dr. l.. II. Cole |
man, of North Carolina. wrote to An |
drew Jackson in 1924 for MS views on |
TIE tariff question, he answered under |
the date of April 26, in this language: |
Heaven smiled upon and gave US llb- |
ertv and independence. The same |
Providence has blessed Us with means |
of national independence and national |
defense lie has filed our mountains |
and our plains with minerals-Wlth lead, |
and iron and copper-and has given Us |
climate and a soil for the growing OF
hemp and wool. These being the great
mate rials Of our national defense, they |
ought to have extended to them ade
quate and fair protection, that our man |
ufacturers and laborers may be placed |
in fair competition with those ofEurope, |
and that We may have within our coun-
try supply of these leading articles so
essential to war. In short, sir, we have |
been too long subject TO the policy OF
British merchants.
Mr.. Parton, in his life of Jackson, |
says that Henry Clay never delivered
speech, and Horace Greeley never |
wrote an editorial, more commenting |
the American system of protection,
than does the Coleman letter. And |
Jackson not only paid this tribute % |
protection in 1924, but he pronounced |
another one equally as strong n the |
campaign Of lS2S.