New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-16
THE NEW TARiFF-SOME RESULTS.

Day after day come accounts OF new Indus-
tries established or new manufacturing works
opencd in this or ad accent States. These ac-
counts give the number of hands employed
showing that thousands Of American workers
have thus found employment; the rate OF
wages paid showing that they receive about
double the wages paid in any other country
for similar work. and in many cases more than
double; and the former and present cost OF
products showing in almost every instance that
consumers get articles more cheaply because
of the growth of American industries. Inc
astonishing variety of these new works, the
great range of wants which they supply, de-
serve the attention Of Americans who doubt
whether the new tariff has done any good.
Not merely in the creation of new industries,
but even moro in the expansion OF industries
long established this tariff produces remark
able results. OF this expansion evidence is
given in official reports Of foreign trade. Those
industries which depend wholly or mainly upon
foreign materials find in the record OF imported
goods an accurate measure OF their progress
not merely in the increased quantities OF ma
terials here required, but in the diminished I'M
portations of products from other countries.
The silk manufacture for some years much
depressed by changes in fashion, has reached
within the last year production greater by
% per cent than it had ever attained III any
previous year The imports OF raw SILK were
7,52I342 pounds. against less than 6O00'o0o
pounds in 1890, when the quantity was greater
than in any other year, and only 2,o82,246
mounds in 1880. This manufacture has thus
increased about threefold since the census OF
1880, when it employed $1,000 hands and
Welded products worth Sal 900. 900.
The manufacture of india-rubber required
during the last year imports of 30,976,2O5
mounds. against 33,712,O80 pounds in 1891
and about tho same in $780, an increase OF
ls per cent in the two years In one previous
wear, 1888, the imports rose to $4,000, o0O
pounds, but in no other were they within 20
per cent as large rs in 1892. Yet in 1890 this
manufacture had substantially doubled in ten
wears. for imports of indla-ubber and gutta-
percha were but 16,6S2,5lG pounds in 1881,
and in twelve years rose to 40,2S4, 444 pounds,
a gain of III per cent.
The various manufactures in which pig tin
Is used as a material required in 1872 no less
than 43.9Os, $50 pounds, against 39,7S7,022
mounds in 1891 and 3l.993, O99 pounds in
1890. The increase had been but small for
ten years, as the imports in 1880 were 3D.
69i.5i4 pounds, so that the gain was barely
10 Der cent But in the two last years under
the new tariff the imports of this material have
increased more than 20 per cent The imports
of bleaching powder. used in several manu-
features, have increased more than 10 per cent
in two years, and have gained 50 per cent in
twelve years. The imports OF kaoline and other
claws have increased in two years II 800 tons,
or 80 per cent, and are now 81. 1856 tons, but
in 1880 they were but 1923 tons.
Supplies of wool are in part obtained from
American farms, but the domestic production
has increased top slowly for the manufacture
Hence tho imports last year were l4S,61o,672
pounds against i20,303,6is pounds in 1891
and 1O54312s5 pounds in 1890, gain OF
more than 40 per cent in two years. After
period Of serious depression under the old
tariff, the manufacture still consumed in 1890
about 81 600, 900 pounds domestic and for
cign wool, against 33f 100000 pounds In
1850 BIT during the last year tho nsrimp-
ton must have been, domestic and foreign,
about 439. 900. 600 pounds an increase OF II
nor cent in two years against previous in
crease Of ~ per cont in ten years under the
old tariff. The value Of woollcn goods imported
has diminished sci OOO. 900 in two years and
the value Of silk goods S7,500,000.
Is there an American who would rather have
the new mills and works in this country de-
stroycd, and the American hands deprived of
employment. and the goods imported as they
formerly were? II so, he ought to vote for
Mr.. Cleveland