Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-06-15
EXPORTS GROWING,
Trade Improving Under Democratic TAR
IN Laws.

IN Laws.
A suggestive sign OF improving trade
is to be found in the treasury returns
of the exports Of domestic merchah'
disc. This is particularly SO in manu-
featured goods, of which u exports
are still, relatively, insignificant
There were evidences last year 81 con
siderable gains under this head par
ticularly in chemicals, cotton cI,th
and fertilizers. The gain in q~uan'l'y
| of the exports of cotton manufacture
was, OF course. much greater than the
gain In value, For the twelve months
ending with last December tho cotton
cloth exported reached a total OF NO.
600, 900 yards, agaist 159, 200, 600 for the
preceding year, while the increase III
value was only from $40, 300 900 to Sill
900, 900. In other words, the gam IN
quantity was 22b per cent, while the
gain in value was l2ls per cent. Inc
great industries OF iron and steel II
| 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 TINS
year. The exports of agricultural I'M
plements which In March, 1894, were
valued at s591, 900, figure in the returns
for March, 1895, at 81, ll0,0oo. Chemlc-
ais, too, have come up from $4,000 TO
S772, 900, and iron and steel and their
manufactures from s., 1851 900 to S2,9'o'-
900, OF manufactured eottons, the
quantity exported in March, 1894, was
13,437, 900 yards, while for last March
it was 49, 2s, 900 yards, or a gain OF 247a
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 25 per cent OF our
whole exports Of cotton cloth. There
continues to be evidence of a steady
gain in the quantity of II cotton
goods exported to the United Kingdom,
albeit the monthly contribution does
not exceed 1000, 000 wards.
Our export trade in these manufac-
lures Is merely beginning, promising
as the beginning may be. In cotton
manufactures we export less than I
per cent. OF the annual total sent out
by Great Britain; in iron and steel and
their manufactures we have not got
beyond 16 per cent. of the British
aggregate, and In woolens we do
not export enough to be worth mem
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 a share of the worlds markets is a
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
p~erience as to the effect OF commerce
of freeing it from protectionlst tram
mels. But it marks only the first adj
vance of Il movement that before many
wears 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 chem a necessity Of their ex'
decentralization Herald.