The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-01-10
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The American Economi list recently se-
oured.by special cable and published the
total vslue OF the exports OF woolen goods
from Bradford, England, up TO December
| 81. 1895, the first complete year OF our
experience in actual free trade in wool.
| The result OF The Economists S enterpris-
ing news gathering confirmed what every
protectionist anticipated and proclaimed.
| our free trade was OF more benefit TO En-
| glish than TO American manufacturers.
Bradford shipped us wooden goods worth
| e5, 70t, 2i2. This was an increase OF f3,-
i7s, 6i9 over and above the annual ship
ments during the full Mckinley tariff
period from 1891 10 1894. American free
| trade in wool benefited Bradford to the
extent OF an additional s17, 600 in a
single year.
The annual returns OF the British Board
| OF Trade for 1895 were made public in
London on Wednesday morning. The to-
tai exports OF wool, OF wooden tissues, of
worsted tissues, of wooden and worsted
yarns from all ports in the United King
dom, for the full year OF 1895. were cabled
TO The Economist and appear in table
with similar exports from the United
Kingdom for the four previous years.
Our experiment with free trade in wool
for one year has enabled the English
manufacturer OF yarns, woolens and
worsteds to sell more than four times as
much OF their goods as they did in 1894,
and $50 per cent. more than their average
annual sales during the entire Protection
period from 1891 to 1894 inclusive. So
much for the boon OF free raw material to
our woolen manufacturers.
Now as TO wool The United Kingdom
sent us, in 1895, over $50 per cent. more
English, foreign and colonial wool than
in 1894, the increase in values teing s1s,-
0oo, ,0oO Compared with the entire Nc
Kinley protection period, 1891 to 1894, in
elusive, this increased value OF wool sent
here last year was almost ~ 600, oeo--t that
amount more money taken away from
American farmers, while our manuiac-
turers lost trade worth fl9, ooo, 900 sddi-
tionsL
Never within thirty years have we i'm
ported into the United states from all
countries as much wool as was sent us
from the United Kingdom alone last year,
and We have yet to fsnrn the value OF our
wool imports.thst were shipped directly
to this country from Australia and South
America. Then we must take cognizance
OF the shrinkage in the price OF wool, as
compared with the Mckinley periods,
that our farmers did sell, before we can
arrive at any correct idea of the entire
losses inflicted upon the American sheep
farmers by one years policy o; Demo
cratic free trade, which, it was intended
should be a robbery OF the many farmers
for the benefit OF the few manufacturers.
The Democratic scheme was partly suc-
cessfuL It has robbed the farmers; but il
has failed to be OF any benefit to the man
ufactur.rs. 1t has robbed them, too.
The United Kingdom shipped to this
country last year more wooden tissues
than In 1891 and 1892 comb mbined, and more
| than in the three years OF 1892, 1898 aud
1894 com bined; more than twice the guam
iity shipped in 1891 or 1892; three times
as much AZ in 1899, and considerably more
than four times as mucA as in 1894.
As to the worsted tissues, the United
Kingdom sent us last year almost a.
much AZ in 1891 aud 1892 combined; more
than as much as in 1892 and 1888, and
almost four times rs much as in 1924. OF
yarns she sent AS so per cent. more than
in all four Mckinley tariff years.
We have TO go back TO 1873 before we
find that fhe I'nffad Esnudnr, ,,sao al.