Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-06-06
EXPORTS GROWING.
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A suggestive sign of improving trade
is to be found in the treasury returns
of the exports of domestic merchan-
disc. This is particularly SO in manu-
featured goods. of which our exports
are still, relatively, Insignificant
There were evidences last year of con-
siderable gains under this head, par
ticuIarly in chemicals, cotton cloth
and fertilizers The gain in quantity
Of the exports of cotton manufacture
was, of course. much greater than the
gain in value. For the twelve months
ending with last December the cotton
cloth exported reached total of 1885,
preceding year, while the increase in
value was only from $40, 900, 600 to SILL
600, 900. In other words. the gain in
quantity was 22K per cent, while the
gain in value was 121S per cent. The
great industries of iron and steel and
their manufactures, agricultural i'm
plements and chemicals contributed
less to the exports Of the calendar
year 1894 than they did to those of
1893.
But under all these heads, an in
crease has begun to manifest itself this
year. The exports of agricultural inn
plements which in March, 1894, were
valued at 1891. 900, figure in the returns
for March. 1895, at 81, ITO, 600. Chemic-
ais, too, have come up from $4,000 to
S772, 900, and iron and steel and their
manufactures from s.. 265. 600 to s., 975,
OOO Of manufactured cottons. the
quantity exported in March, 1894, was
Ia, 49,, 900 yards, while for last March
it was 16, 72s, 900 yards, or a gain of 24h
per cent. This is all the more remarka-
BILE when account is taken of the tenn
porary check to the trade with China,
which took last year Is per cent. of our
whole exports of cotton cloth There
continues to be evidence of steady
gain in the quantity of our cotton
goods exported to the United Kingdom,
albeit the monthly contribution does
not exceed ,OOO,O 900 Yards
Our export trade in these manufac-
lures is merely beginning, promising
as the beginning may be. In cotton
manufactures we export less than 4
per cent of the annual total sent out
by Great Britain; in iron and steel and
their manufactures we have not got
beyond Is per cent. of the British
aggregate, and in woolens we do
not export enough to be worth men
tioning. In fact, the total annual
value of all our exports of manufac-
tured goods is greatly exceeded by that
of any one group of the manufactured
products of Great Britain, which are
sent out of the country. But the fact
that the American manufacturer is be-
ginning to show his ability to compete
for share of the worlds markets is
very instructive one, in view of the dis
NAL prophecies that were made of the
lower import duties on his business
prospects. He has by no means lost
control of the home market, and he is
getting an increasing share of the for
eign one. That is quite in harmony
with the teaching Of all antecedent ex-
perience as to the effect on commerce
of freeing It from protectionlst tram
mels. But it marks only the first ad-
vance of a movement that before many
years are over will have attained such
a momentum that the trammels which
remain will be recognized for what
they are, and their removal demanded
by the very men who, erewhile,
thought them a necessity of their ex-
istence.-Boston Herald.