San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-25
FACTS IN FIGURES.

wages of labor, the profits Of labor,
the loss of home markets, decreased
| production and all the rest that
have followed from the abolition Of
the Mckinley schedules. The fig
ures are instructive and should be
convincing. They cover a great
variety Of subjects and are uniform
in their testimony. How any fair,
unprejudiced mind can face down
the facts and adhere to the free
trade heresy while confronted with
such figures it is hard to under
stand. There is no question as to
the correctness of the facts and up
on this data there is but one con-
cIusion, and that is that the inter
ests of the American laborer, the
American farmer, the American
manufacturer and consequently the
American people, are bound up in
this bundle Of protection. Among
pages that might be cited the fol-
lowing extracts from the Economist
will be found pertinent:
Through the New York Custom
House we received 100000 square
yards more of foreign carpets dur
ing the first half years operation
of the German Tariff than in the
corresponding months a year ear
lier. These larger imports I'M
doubtedly are one of the benefit
to the American carpet manufac-
turers that the New York Times is
always telling us about.
During the six months of the
new Tariff the imports OF tin plate
at New York were 20,25O,000 pounds
larger than in the corresponding
six months year earlier.
Ofwrapper tobacco we imported
at New York $4,000 pounds more,
and of other leaf tobacco 100000
pounds more during the first half
years operation Of the German
Tariff than we did year earlier.
The rice growers of the South
will be interested to learn that,
during the first six months opera
ton Of the new Tariff, our imports
of foreign rice at New York reach
ed,29, SSS,OOO pounds, being %, 1S4,0O0
pounds more than during the cor
responding six months year
earlier.
The glass manufacturers of the
United States, as we'll as the wage
carriers whom they employ, will
learn with interest that we i'm
ported at New York, during the
first half years operation Of the
new tariff, l 100000 pounds more Of
G. c. and G. unpublished glass than
in the corresponding months a
year earlier, almost 100000 square
feet more Of c. and c. polished,
silvered glass, and over 100000
square feet more of unsilvered
plate glass.
Our imports of cottons for the
month have risen in value from
$3.50, 259 in January, 1894, to ST.
so, 1902 in January, 1895.
Receipts, first seven months Will
son law, SlGl,145,66S; Mckinley,
2l9,5S3,1O7. Receipts, last seven
months Of Mckinley law, $l97, 5S4,-
324. Deficiency first seven months
of Wilson law, $43, 507, 332; surplus
first seven months Of Mckinley
law, $2l,6O9,397.
Against such an array of facts
there is no argument aCceptthat OF
so "muCh the worse for the facts"
There is no other conclusion pos
siblo to the honest mind under a
volume of testimony like the above,
save this, that the interests Of
every class demand the restora-
ton Of that high tariff for the de-
struCtion OF which the last Con-
grcss was elected. Is it not a strange
comment and illustration of the
changeableness of public sentiment
that the Fifty-third Congress,
elected for the very purpose of re-
pealing the protective tariff legis-
lation Of its predecessor, having
done that for which it was elected,
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