Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-09-10
THE new TARIFF.

THE NC kINLEY BILL-oLD INDUS
TRIES EXPANDING AND NEW ONES
sPBINGINs UP.
Day after day come accounts of new
industries established or new manufac
turing works opened in this or adjacent
States. These accounts give the number
of hands employed, showing that thou
sands of American workers have thus
found employment; the rate of wages
paid, showing that they receive about
double tie 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 mere cheaply because of the
growth OF American industries. The
astonishing variety Of these new works,
the great range of wants which
they supply, deserve the attention of
Americans who doubt whether the new
tariff has done any good
Not merely in the creation Of rev in
dustries, tut even more IN the expansion
of industries long established, this tariff
produces remarkable results. OF this ex-
panslon evidence is given IN official re-
ports 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 only in the increased
quantities of materials here required, but
in the diminished importations of prod
ucts from other countries.
The silk manufacture, for some years
much depressed by changes in fashion,
has reached within the last year pro-
duction greater by TWENTY-FIVE per cent.
than it bad ever attained in any previous
year. The imports OF raw silk were
ISL 42 pounds, against less than g.
600, coo pounds in 1890, when the guam
tity was greater than in any other year,
and only 1852, 246 pounds in 1880.
This manufacture has thus increased
about thIeefold since toe census of 1880,
when it employed 31.C00 hands and
yielded products worth 81, 900, 900.
The manufacture oil india rubber re-
quired during the last year imports of
SO, 976, 205 pounds, against 33,712,069
pounds IN 1891 and about the same in
1899, an increase of eighteen per cent.
in two Years. In one previous year,
1888, the imports rose to $4,000, 900
pounds, but in no other were they
within twenty per cent. as large as in
1892. Yet IN 1899 this manufacture had
substantially doubled in ten years, for
imports cf india rubber and gutta-
percha we're but Is, 6S2 SIC pounds in
1880. and IL twelve years rose to 49,
2S4 444 pounds, gam OF 14l per cent.
The various manufactures III which
pig tin is used as II material required in
1892 70 less than 3,90S, 652 pounds,
against 80, 7S7,G22 pounds in 1891 aud
"a, s35, e99 pounds in 1890. The in
crease had been but small for ten wears,
as the imports in 1890 were 1854, 544
pounds, SO that the gain was barely ten
per cent. But, in the two last years I'M
der the new tariff the imports of this
material have increased more than
twenty five per cent. The imports of
bleaching powder, used in several manu-
features, have increased mere than ten
Ter cent. in two wears, and have gained
forty five per cent. in twelve years. The
imports of kaolne and other CLAWS have
increased in two years II, $40 TONS, or
thirty five per cent, and are now 81, 1S6
tons, but in 1880 they were but 10, 723
tons,
Supplies of wool are in part obtained
from American farms, but the domestic
production has increased too slowly for
the manufacture. Hence. the imports
last year wte 14S, 970,672 pounds,
against 129. 1903, CAS- pounds in 1891 and
1e5, 431, 2S5 pounds in 1890, a gain of
more than forty FER cent. in two years.
After ltrod of serious depression
under the old taIiff, the manufacture
still consumed in 1890 about 81, 000,-
coo pounds domestic aud foreign wool,
against 331, Geo, eco POUNDS In 1880.
But during the last year the consumption
must have been, domestic and foreign,
about 439, 600, goo pounds, an increase
of seventeen per cent. 10 TWO years,
against previous increase of twelve per
cent in ten years under the old tariff.
TIE value of wooden goods imported
las diminished $31, 000,000 in two
years, and the value of silk goods
s., 500, 600
Is there an American who wou'd
rather have the rev mills and works in
this country destroyed. aud the Ameri-
can hands deprived of employment, and
the goods imported as they formerly
Nere2 If so, he OF 5ht to vote for Mr..
Cleveland. New York Tribune.