The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-05-15

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turns of the Bureau Of Statistics bring
to light, that the exports of our manu-
featured goods in 1895 have beaten all
previous records.-New York Herald.
The suggestion of the New York
Press that the Herald's deliberate dis
tortion of the results shown by our
trade statistics arises because that
democratic paper is not furnished with
brains to comprehend the compilations,
may be the correct one. Assuming that
| this is so, and that the policy of the
paper is directed by its proprietor, it Is
some satisfaction to know that the
| Cheerful idiot" Is a resident Of Paris
and not the United States. His latest
bit of flim-fam was the following:
Exports of domestic manufactures for
eleven months ending November:
1894 1895.
Iron and steel ...... s27, SOS, 911 $31 ,22S,6S2
and dyes ......... 7,oss.22O 7,s7e4s2
Leather and manu-
features .......... 13,599,173 17,012,27
Machinery ,........ 12.015,245 13,0S627S
Gltss and glassware S33,593 915,437
''These statistics also show beyond
cavil or question that no such era OF
trade-prosperity was ever enjoyed by
American manufacturing industries
generally as that created by the Wilson
law. Ten thousand republican calam-
ity howlers cannot gainsay this fact"
OF course this Pecksniff had no use
for our imports of similar goods. He
had no desire to be honest, even If he
knew how. But here are the imports
of the same classes Of goods:
\ Imports of foreign manufactures for
eleven months ending November:
1894 1885,
Iron and steel 49,. SIS, 500, 1881 $23, 502, 1927
Chemicals. drugs
and dyes ........ 1887, sos 41.451,4
Leather and manu-
features .......... 9,594,190 14S03,0S6
Machinery ......... 1,021 ,0S4 1,972,102
Glass and glass
ware ............. 5.o75,264 6,995,S74
The extent of the EZRA of trade pros
perity that is now being enjoyed
by American manufacturing indus
tries" can be ascertained by plac-
ing, side by side, the increase in our ex-
ports and the increase in our imports
of these different classes of goods. We
omit machinery" because it is already
included in the Iron and STEEL manu-
features, and the totals would inaccu-
rately represent our foreign trade sta
tistics if machinery" were given again
as a separate class of goods. Here is
the trade balance that the Cheerful |
idiot" of un-American journalism failed !
to present in his accounting:
Increase for eleven months ending |
November, 1895:
Loss to
American |
American Foreign manu-
exports. imports. factrs. |
Iron and
steel ....s3,e24,7n $4,sos,s46 $1.1s4,O75
Chemicals,
drugs
and dyes 93S, 212 4,093,979 3,155,767 |
Leather
and man
Glass and |
glass
ware 1884 1,920,610 1,S3S,766 |
Total ..sso57, 1888 s1s,os2,331 s7974,s9S
The cheerful idiot" shows that our |
exports Of these four classes Of Ameri- |
can goods were $S,O57,9s3 larger in
eleven months of 1895 than in 1894. |
The other side OF the national ledger |
shows that our imports Of similar for
eign goods increased by $16, 032 J3S1 The |
balance Of trade against US was 1914 |
39S in the eleven months. This Is 'the |
cheering fact" The increase in what |
we bought is practically just double the
increase Of what we sold. For every |
dollars worth Of trade captured in the |
markets of the world we have lost two |
dollars worth of trade in the iron and |
steel. chemical, leather and glass trades |
at home. The cheerful idiot" says |
that:
Democratic newspapers should make
the country ring with the announce
ments Of these statistics"
We don't believe they will. THE
cheering fact" will be too much for
them.