The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13
DECREASE OF EXPORTS.
Already There Has Been a
Falling Off of Nearly
$75,OOO,OOO.
LOST TO THE PRODUCERS.
Enormous Increase of Imports of
Manufactured Articles and
Farm Products.

| NEW YORK, N. Y, July PA Wash
ington special to the Press says:
Though it is difficult to get accurate sta
tistics in detail from the present admins
tration in regard to the workings of our
foreign commerce under the old and the
new tariff laws, it is impossible for those
who are now manipulating the treasury
figures to suppress entirely the official
evidences of the work of the last Demo-
cratic Congress. The monthly report of
the Bureau of Statistics, which has just
been issued for May, is on this account q
pamphlet OF exceeding interest. From
this report it is possible to get an idea of
the workings of the new tariff law for the
nine months of its existence. The report
affords comparison not only between
May, 1895, and May, 1894, but between the
eleven months ending May 81 and the
similar period ending May 81 year ago.
During all the earlier period the Repub-
llcan tariff law was in operation, although
hampered by the fear of Democratic legis-
latlon. During all but two months of the
latter period the Wilson-Gorman law has
been in effect. 1t is possible, therefore, to
draw comparisons which will be instruc-
tive, even though they may not be as
complete as would be the case if the
Mckinley law had been in operation
! during the time it nominally was in effect.
1t appears from the report that so far
from opening up the markets of the world
to American products, which the Demo-
cratic agitators declared would be the
earliest effect of their proposed revolution,
tariff reform, as interpreted by the Fifty
| third CnnOrocc hos
dim1nution OF exports
During the eleven months ending Nav
81, 1894, the exports of domestic merchan-
disc amounted to 1913, ,547 1866, while for the
eleven months recently closed the figures
were S739, ,651, ,865. This is falling off of
nearly S75,OOO,00O, sum sufficiently i'm
presslve to show how utterly fatuous was
the clamor of the professional tariff re-
formers for an entrance into the markets
of the world"
| Coincident with the diminution of ex-
ports there has been an increase in the
value of imports. From a total of s603..
201, ,910 in the Mckinley period there
was surprising leap to a total of S67O.-
3O2,S11, and the figures for May, 1895. show
an increase of SIC, 900, 100 over the figures of
May, 1894, indicating that the tendency is
still in the direction toward which the
passage Of the Democratic tariff bill first
gave the impetus.
The value of imports upon which no
duty was paid was larger under the Nc.
Kinley act than under the present law. the
figures for 1894 being $349, 391 ,344 and for
1895 being $332, ,4S6, III. This is owing tn
the fact that heavy imports of sugar free
of duty were made by the sugar trust to
get the benefit of the new tax. The yalue
of imports in dutiable merchandise in.
creased from 1858, S19, 500 to $685., ,s16, ,694.
1t is interesting to note that one of the
most important items of increased imports
was breadstuffs. The total import of
breadstuffs in the eleven months ending
May 81, 1894, amounted to S2,OO9644. In
the eleven months ending May 81. 1895.
the figures are $2.777,27S, an increase of
over 100000. At the same time the ex
ports OF breadstuff5 have shown an extra
ordinary decrease in value. In the eleven
months under the Mckinley law the
amount was S15S, 1894. 7S3. In the eleven
months, during nine of which the Demo-
cratic law was in effect, the exports of
breadstuffs amounted to $1O5, ,373, ,357. de-
crease of over $50,0O0O00.
There are few other items in which
American producers will be interested to
know that foreign. competition has already
taken advantage of increased opportuni-
ties. The value of animals imported in
creased from 81, 331 ,345 to 50, SIS, ,609; of dye
woods, from 81, Ais, 1914 to 81, ,651, ,O75; of all
chemicals, drugs and dyes, from $34, ,29s, 1874
to SAC, ,45S, ,17S; of cotton, from So, 655, ,097 to
81, ,529, 1866; of manufactures of cotton, from
sol 244 404 fo S31 412 R61
There is a striking increase, though, in
the number OF eggs imported. The num-
Der in the earlier period was /, ,757, ,718, in
the latter period 2, 1885, ,043. Glass and glass
ware show an increase from 4,793, ,633 to
Sc, ,0S9,6S3. Not a dollar of grease and tallow
was imported in 1894
In the first eleven months of the fiscal
year just closed the imports amounted to
81 ,080, 1865. The imports of manufacturers
of iron increased from 1904, ,097 to $21,-
213,679. The most striking increase, how
ever, is in the imports of unmanufactured
wool, which leaped from 5,3O6,9 ,922 to $22,-
S79, $50, while the imports of wool manu-
factured increased from SIS, ,432, ,675 to $32,-
750, ,217.
In spite Of the great decrease in the
value of total exports there were a few
items which showed an increase, but in
every instance this increase was so small
as to be almost insignificant.
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