Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-09-25
AN OBJECT LESSON
The Notable Hnorease An scxparts ef Auaerl
can NsnufActures.

tariIf-tinkering in congress and from
the disorders OF our national CURRENCY,
.he returns of the -bureau OF statistics
show that our exports of domestio
manufactured products are now great
en- thaa in any period Ct American
history.
This is an object lesson for the whols
nation, but especially for It's millions
of wage-earners
The returns for February last give
ss the value of our manufactured ex-
ports siT, 26a l6s. and for the frst two
months Of this year a total of nearly
$40, 000,oi0 II this rate IL continued
till neSt December the year 1926 will
be memorable Al by far the most pros-
porous year ON record for the sale of
tho products of American labor i'm for
eign markets Those exports IN no
year under the Mckinley tariff quito
touched Sis4. 600 600. In the first year
OF the Wilson tariffs full operation
they exceeded $500 600. 600 And now
they promise In 1896 20 20 above Ssi5,-
600. O0Oi
1t cannot bc said that this Increased
sale of American manufactured prod
nets To- the.outs,de world Is spasmodic.
The growth In this important branch
of our export trade has been decided
and steady ever since the Wilson tariff
went fully into effect The official
figures show that while for the ei ht
months ended with February. 1895, tho
percentage OF exports of manufactured
articles 10 the whole body of our ex-
ports was 2i.2G. for tho eight months
ended with February last IL rose To the
gratifying and unrivaled figures OF
"a Al. The Increase now reported by
the government indicates n total cx-
port for the present year ~ per cent
larger than was ever attained under
the Mckinley law and reciprocity, and
from 80 To 40 per cent, lurgOr than un~
der previous hi1h republican tariffs.
IL is exceedingiy Important that ex.
traordinary efforts should now be-
made To- develop tho export trade I'm
our domestic factory products Recent
events have demonstrated that Ia not
a few classes of goods our manufactur-
crs are able To compete with tho for
eigner In the neutral markets. OF th0
world. Whatever Ia done 10 extend
this trade creates n new demand for
American labor nnd directly enhances
Its value and its earnings Nothing in
tho paat Inns done moro To deprive
waRo.earuors of rcmuncrntive aud
stendy employment than the strangu-
lation OF our export trade by high
tariff restrictions and prohibitory du-
ties laid upon imports. Even half o
century ago our Infant industries"
(as they were then oallod) were im-
mensely stimulated and developed by
tho lowering OF tariff rates and by free
raw materials accorded by the famous
Walker "freo trade tariff Of iat6."
Under that low tariff our home man~
ufncturers. rs all authorities agree,
were not "swamped;" but, as the HIS
torian Schouler says, ION tire contrary
they grew and prospered, for that bess
OF ali bounties was afforded them, raw
materials unburdoned by taxation, and
the widest possible market with the
universe" And IL gave long guietus
TO tariff agitation, while IL furnished
the treasury large surplus Of revenue
for many years. Even so high a pro-
tectionist authority as Mr., Blaine. in
his Twenty Years OF Congress" re-
ferring To tho tariff question In 1882.
says:
"rhe principles embodied in the
tariff OF 1916 seemed for the time To be
so entirely vindicated and approved
that resistance to IL ceased, not only
among the people, but among the pro-
tcctive economists, and even among
the manufacturers To n large extent
So general was this acquioscence that
in 1856 a protectivs tariff was not sug-
gestcd or even limited by any one of
the three political parties which pre-
sentcd president tinl candidates"
The marked and unparalleled in~
crense in our exports OF manufactures
tuaf.h Tho ,F
mept's statistics now show to be i'm
progress under tho Wilson law is an in.
vinciblc proof that our industries will
not be swampesi by that tariff, but will
eventually (other things being euuaD
do very much bettcr than they ever d id
under any republican tariff. The conn
try will very soon see--if IL does not al
ready see-tlSat republican tnriff-ti
ering Is not needed 10 advance the well
fare OF the manufacturers. but is really
a menace TO their Industries.
The Scared but starry flag of tariff
reform, surviving the storm of its
many long battles. will Goat proudly
in the coming campaign II will an
nounce that by the victory it achieved
in 1892 the intoierab BILE burdens of tax
alton for the benefit of protected" mo-
nopolies have been greatly reduced.
our ports have been opened wider
than ever before 20 admit foreign prod
ucts indispensable for the develop
ment OF our domestic industries and
the comfort of the people, ami free
wool and batter clothing secured to-
the shivering millions of America.
But no DEVICE that can be inscribed on
its shining folds will elicit more ap-
plause froEn the nation thar that
which signifies that it has eavved q
way beyond the seas by which the
products of American mechanics and
workingmen have already gained new
and profitable conquests In the most
distant markets OF the world,
The facts answer as with broad
side of artillery all the himsy objec-
tions OF partisan republicans 10 the
Wilson law, And IL the standard
bearers, whocarried the banner of tar
iff reform in its first conflicts now
rally and mite in an aggressive
Jacksonian campaign they will find
the ueOule with them In the 6yht.->