Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-08-13
AMERICAN EXPORTS.
Our Manufacturers Are Demonstrating
Their Independence of Protection.

Our Manufacturers Are Demonstrating
Their Independence of Protection.
While Mckinley and his timorous sup
porters are running away from the cur
rency question, and trying to foist the
played out protection issue to the 'front.'
the American manufacturers are dem
onstrating to the world that we are not
in need of protection. The ability OF
the American manufacturer 10 success
fully compete with his foreign rivals is
shown in the record of the exports of
American manufactured products. The
fiscal year just closed is the banner year
for export trade. The month of May
showed manufacturing exports 10 the
amount of SO, ole, 500 and the IL months
ending with May show such exports to
the amount of $2O6, 591 ,691. This is an
increase of nearly 10000, 900 over the
same II months of 1895, and already car
ries the figures for the fiscal year S23,
100000 higher than any earlier year,
without allowing a dollar for the ex.
ports of June. If the month of June
merely holds its own the manufactur-
ing exports of 1896 will be 1921, 200, 900.
or $40, 00O, 900 higher than any preceding
year.
Twenty-Five per cent. of all the ex.
ports this year were manufactured
products. Our manufacturer not only
makes the goods, pays American wages,
and pays freight to foreign markets.
but he undersells his competitor, vino
has what our protection friends call
the advantage of pauper labor. And yet
Mckinley would have us believe that
our manufacturers, who can compete
with foreigners in foreign markets,
where disadvantages of freight charges
are against the American, cannot COM
pete with foreigners in our own market,
where the disadvantage of freight
charges is against the foreigner, unless
a prohibitory tariff duty is laid against
imports. Mckinley would save the nome
market for the American manufac-
turer, not because the American man
ufacturer isn't able to hold it for him
self, but because giving him exclusive
rights in the field he can squeeze the
last dollar out of the pockets of the Gus
toner. That's the way the Hannas, the
Dolins, the Searles. and the other mil.
lionaire magnates of protection were
made And they are all for Mckinley.
Now what is it we export? We ex
port most heavily of the products re-
qUiring most skill in manufacture
We export machinery, manufactured
iron and steel, cars. carriages, iocomo-
tives, electrical and scientific appara-
tus, and builders hardware. Great
Britain alone shows an increase from
50, 12O, 7s6 in her imports of machinery
from the United States in 1895, to So,
109.2G5 in 1896. The total exports OF
manufactures of iron and steel in
creased from 29,O76, 65s in 1895, 10 $751;
337 CTS in 1896; carriages, cars and other
vehicles from $2,221, 3Os to $2.654,7 31;
copper ingots and bars from $12, l97, 81.
to $16,373, 429; cotton goods from So,
1886 to s11, ,O4s; electrical and
scientific apparatus from s1,71s,o97 &c
2,31s,7ss; builders hardware from
S4,079, 1886 to S5,O46,29 and paper and
its manufa ctures from 81 ,992, 943 to ST.
400, 391.
Is there any honesty in asking the
American people to vote more pIOtec.
ton which is taxation on themselves
to aid the American manufacture who
shows that he does not need the aid, but
can undersell his foreign competitor in
any market in the world Utica Oh
server.