The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-12-04
Thanksgiving in Merrie England.

manufacture OF WOrSteu anu Olner
fabrics, including broadcloths and cot
ton goods. There are some of the larg
est and finest mills in the United
Kingdom. A statement of the exports
from the consular district of Bradford
is practically statement of England's
trade in the various manufactures of
which wool is the staple. Bradford's
board of trade returns contain figures
that are absorbingly interesting to the
people of the United States, but they
are not consoling. They show with
the clearness and concusiveness of
simple arithmetic what is the effect of
the democratic tariff upon great Eng
lsh manufacturing community, and
what is the complementary consequence
to American manufacturing commune
ties. They show why Thanksgiving in
Bradford was day Of great rejoicing,
and why the turkey of many an Ameri-
can operative lacked its old-time sea-
soning.
The aggregate of the exports of all
kinds from Bradford to the United
States in the month of October was
517,279 pounds sterling; for the cor
responding month in 1894, the aggre-
gate was 1888 1853 pounds, an increase
for the month of 342, 557 pounds. For
the ten months in this year ending
with October the increase in exports
over the same months in 1894 was
3 1922, 1921 pounds sterling The largest
item in the list of exports was worsted
coatngs, amounting to 1872 1863 pounds
in 1895, against 57,lS7 pounds in 1894.
"Stuff goods " co ne next, amounting
to 174,S67 pounds in 1895, against
81 ,055 pounds in 1894. Wooden goods
were 81, 1903 pounds in 1895, against
2.241 pounds in 1894.
Worsted costings represent a large
amount of labor, and the increase in
the exports to America of this class of
goods shows how hard this branch of
the domestic wooden industry has been
hit by the German tariff. Beginning
with 154,5l3 pounds sterling in JAN
uary, dropping to 1887 pounds in
June, and rising again to 1872, 1859 pounds
in October, the aggregate exports of
this class of goods from Bradford to the
United States in ten months was
l ,476,47S pounds, against 23S,60S pounds
for the same period in 1894, an increase
in ten months, in this article alone, of
1927 $40 pounds. OF wooden and
worsted yarns there was sent to America
in ten months from January to Oc-
tober, 1898, 10000 pounds (avoirdu-
pois); in 1894, 80,9 800 pounds; in 1896,
l 1862 200 pounds. OF wooden goods the
exports to this country, in the ten
months from January to October, 1898,
were 2,301 400 yards; in 1894, 1,298, 900
yards; in 1895, 11,907 100 yards. OF
worsted goods the shipments, during
the same period in 1898, were 25 100000
yards; in 1894, 12,77S 200 yards; in
1895, 6l,O50 100 yaHs. The enormous
increase in shipments, in these several
lines of merchandise, after the demo-
cratic tariff became operative, will ap-
pear without formal statement.
What do these figures signify? They
show the extent to which domestic
industry has been supplanted by for
eign industry; the extent to which the
home market, in one branch only of
industry, has been occupied by foreign
manufacturers; the extent to which
English mills, in this department of
manufactures, have been doing the
work of domestic mills; the extent to
which one class of goods has passed
into this market and usurped the trade
upon which the domestic manufacture
ers had the first claim. They show
why there was rejoicing in Bradford on
Thanksgiving Day. Business was thriv-
ing famously on American markets.
A comparison of the foreign trade in
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features is also full of instruction as 10
some of the disastrous resulls-to Amer.
icans-of democratic tariff reform. Fol-
the nine months ended with September,
1891, the exports of agricultural prod
ucts from the United States amounted
to 1856, 1857 ,024; for the same period in
1892, $499 1856, 175; in 1895, S355,977, :
O41. The exports of manufactured
articles for the corresponding nine
months in 1891 were 1926 Oil ,057; in
1892, Sill, 300 O24; in 1895, $145,793,
$50. A comparison of the figures Of
1895 with those of 1891 will show thai
in the former year there was net loss
of S8l, 000,0 900 in this counlry's export
trade; thai, compared with 1892, thi'
loss was $1OS 500 900, equivalent to {
loss of $135 900, 900 for the full year.
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