New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-04-02
CENSUS REPORTS DOCTORED'
HOW THE WOOLLEN MANUFACTURE
MONOGRAPH WAS MCTlLATED.

FAVORABLE TO THE PASSAGE
OF THE WILSON BILL
my TELEGRAPH 20 TIE TRIBUNE,
v.a.A,..,or ,,ru Under the spur Of a Senate
uo1,,,or the Census Bureau has AZ lasi per
,nltted certain statistics Of manufactures 10 " p
ushed When one considers all the lac's - Wv
case he is almost forced 10 the concius'o" '."'
was the purpose OF the Secretary OF ''e
~ keen hack all returns Of manufactures y p'a.
tIcable until It should be too late for Inc
and irnortant information therein contained 10 &c
OF service to Congress. which was ana Is -
IN the consideration OF revenue e9iS'@''o' ~,
was a strong demand for these s'a''S'i'S 49, -
Wilson bill was pending In the houSt y, ~,
ssn,a,ives but they could not be obtained why
because as members Of that boiY Were ''.
,,o ref,r,s wore no. complete and reaAN loT pun
l,ca.ion And yet. matter OF iact' '' " 49,.
shown by the last official report OF S"pe. So
Porter and by the last annual report Vi Wv -. -,
tarv OF the Interior. 32s pages or the ma 80
manufactures were in type on july ST. ','' -. -.
same date the final report on the manulac'u,e9 -
wool and other textiles had been colhPe'.r -
the proof was being corrected ana tie 49, .,
manufacturing industries Of 165 cities each
Ing a population of 10000 ard up"a'u' w.
completed
PUBLICATION or STATISTICS DELAYED
=, ,,o .,,+,s,,cs had been published down
10 March TO- 1894 when bulletin appeareu .. We
a summary Of the manufacturing Industries oi -"
cities which had been competed more '''n', -,
months before How long this bHie''" i'i' So
type before it was officially transmlt'ea -
,arv az the Interior is not known. but 'he .e''''
OF transnissaI was dated February ~ VI" 1910.
y bulletin containing manufacturing s'a'9"
totals by states and industries was ,Ietics OF
ten DAYS later a bulletin containing 'H id,sr,es aT-
neared The proof Of this important monP bsar
was being corrected nearly esnt ,dn9 six months
and the matter was stereolyped az iccS ~ fhere
ago Why was it kept back 50 lone; WI VIII ita con-
was so earnest hna Of Whch was 50 necessary in
the consideration Of revenue esslaY .,,rinis de-
a h: i9 Ws Il MSs partly due fact thai H0ks
Smith had appointed and insta4e1 as Democrat
%hose e chief II not sole qualification was tnat ne ne
had occupiebu ra, az the headquarters Of the Dem;
ocratic National Committee during the
campaign OF lSz
PREPARING AN EXPURGATED EDITION
Tho new editor. acting under instructions I'M
rnediately proceeded not only to edit current pu'
,,cations hut TO edit and revise matter wnich hau
heon mt in type corrected and officially apprONe'
ard s,ereotvped months before his appointment
These instructions were approved oy '1 iss in
letter addressed to Commissioner Carr a repors on
The XIth Census whether general or special mus u.s.
be confined to the analysis and eXpa"a'o" u INV
tables comprehended in each report
When Mr. Wright persuaded or per E, 1id
himself to recommend this course he prooaDy u,u
not foresee all the eor at once began TO
atiack the matter which had already been oflcaiiy
APPROVE apr snd ny %os M[ Of rS pages out Of
typed prior to July 81 1885, and he has used NE
D,os pcomneten experts in Washington estimates
that the cost Of the changes noiudG 'e ress work
ready expended for composition paper, p e I'd
and stereoyping Of matter which is to be @
VIII amount to $500 90 or Y c6ectng the data and
Compiling the matter that is TO be excluded WHICH
~ this expurgation affected matter which was
found be false, worthless or ln H. tbs ex
he nra iseworthy; II IL even resulted IN tle eA
punging of that which was simply irrelevan, OF
suPerous it mg neb pTr df hse conditions exists
On the contrary. much Information ana Ii s.Sd az
eurate. but also exceedingly important and valuable
have been and are being omitted. go ..,,ros for
example The Tribune correspondent has bean per-
itted to examine exam an tS p%6Sen manfaetGres
II consists of nearly eighty-eight printed Pas' 40
nbshed in the bulletin. this portion of the mono
graph consists Of about sixty-onc pages. twentty
free-trade editor. He began operations by p2 2
drawing his blue pencil through about twen n ,d
halfdozen tables of comparative statistics real.
ing to the wcolen INDUSTRY OF me cnn ts most
Instructive and valuable review by decades OF .n r.
exceedingly pertinent. inasmuch as the %Ith census
Completes the statistical record Of the first century
factory system as now understood and developed
The fact that this review was prepared py >. y -.
curacy and compeieness But presents 1, facts facts
which do with free-trdNe lalcles
n was the product OF most thorough and careful in
Ss senntry wSo Gould DO this work better than
Mr. North, If there be one who could do u as vel VEL
ht Hoke Smith has decreed thai the people OF TINS
country shall not enjoy the beneh; OF H. ana that
decree will be executed unless Congress snail inter
fere and prevent 1t, as IL certainly ought 10 90
STATISTICS FAVORABLE TO PROTECTION OMITTED
The next important omission discovered Is where
the free-trade editor has expunged several pages
under the head of Summary and Retrospect ana
omitted and modified in other pages. so az
to make comparisons Of the woollen induS'res OF
the United States with those OF other countries
less favorable to the former and also less complete
and accurate For example this paragraph. relating
TO the growth of the woollen manufactures or the
United States has been eliminated
Its advance during the last thirty years mas
fact may be demonstrated by comparison with
Great Britain whose statscs OF Wool IN
other European nation Before 1850 we imported
maze M IN onr o sSo'f m our ~ooe
facturers consumed but &Hs1@ pounds OF greasy
grown to 100000 pounds. In 1850 the British
manufacturer consuming 3DUDV0 POUNDS OF
wool annually three times as much as our own. IN
1890 the British manufacturer consumed ABOUT 4V-
100000 pounds or but per cent more than our
sumption of wool has increased nearly "lO per cont
While Tss snso 1r sa is t Certainty as important
pertinent as are certain other e nn bs for
gotten that It showed the free trade country az a
disadVantage. thing Whlcn, OF course, a cetHu
craft free-trade editor could not permit to be done
OTHER THINGS WHICH NEED EXPLANATION.
So much for tire expurgat ted monograph on wool
len manufactures There is excellent reason TO
believe and assert that other bulletins and reports
have been and being "doctored" In the same
manner and for the same purpose-to eliminate az
far as practicable facts and figures which are op-
posed to the theories and assertions Of the free
traders who are in power. For example. in
the bulletin issued few days ago. purporting 10
give the wealth OF the country the total true value
Is put at S5 0S7. 1871. The classes OF property
respecting which the census gives direct informe
ton show increase in value since 1880 of more
than 80 per cent, while the total true valuation OF
the classes OF property concerning which the census
gives only indirect information Is put nearly $4,000.
0o00OO below that reported by The census OF ISL