Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-09-18

all classes for the calendar years named
was as follows, the first four years
being under the Mckinley tariff, and
the last under the Wilson tariff:
Year. Value.
1891 S3I ,0l u gt5
io9s oa'olo4tS
1893 oO'-oooVo
loet lo'ooosio
1850 oOi~ofofi
The large importations have had the
effect of paralyzing the manufacture
of wooden goods in the factories, both
east and west in this country. The
following from the Keene, n. H., Sen
tincl, is a fair statement of the condi-
tons that exist in all the wooden goods
districts of the country. 1t is part of
an editorial under the caption Of ISL
lent Looms.
mo important business has been so
German tariff law as the manufacture
of woolens. All over the country the
experience seems to be the same-in-
ability TO cope with English competi-
ton and the consequent closing of the
mills in whole or in part, or, II the
mills keep up their produc ion, the
profits are miserably small. Our mills
in Cheshire county have suffered with
the rest. Mill owners have lost profits,
laborers have lost work and torekeep-
ers have lost trade. Hi sdale and
Ashuelot have been strucl- the hardest
blow. They were lively places year
ago. Now their principal industrial
establishments are closed and the
towns are quiet beyond precedent.
Everybody in the two villages feels the
hard times and almost erybody
curses the Wilson law. The loss in
labor and wages owing TO the depres-
sion in the wooden business is astonish-
ingly large. In good times, say in the
fall of 1892, the wooden mills of the
hands and paying out in wages about
$40, 900 month. At present the same
mills are employing not quite 400
hands and are paying in wages be-
tween Sill, 900 and 900 month.
In other words. the number of labor
ers employed and the aggregate
amount of wages have been reduced
two thirds"
Meantime, the tariff measure, which
has paralyzed the American wooden in
dustry, has had revivifying effect on
the bradford manufacturing district in
England Here Is what the London
correspondent Of the New York Trib-
une has to say on the subject:
THE American tariff was changed
4 Al. I 80
the United States in mems coatings,
which had amounted to Sc, 500, 900 in
1889, dropped to $1,000, 600 in 1891, and
after temporary revival during the
next two years fell again to 81, 800, 900
in 1894. In like manner the exports of
stuff goods, which had averaged So, o0O,-
900 in 1890, sank to the low level Of
81, 9OO,OO in 1894. The old and the
new industries of Bradford suffered
alike from the Mckinley tariff, which
largely increased the duties on stuff
goods and coatings. 1t was period of
profound gloom for the entire district
The reaction came when the duties on
goods for the American market were
reduced about one-half in the Wilson
tariff. A veli-informed specialist,
whose figures I take from an exhaust.
i've review of the Bradford trade pub
lished in the London Times, states
that the exports of coatings TO the
United States rose from Sl,275,62G for
the year ended Sept 30, 1894, to 1873.
O52 in 1895 at a cores 81" ding date
This increase of nearly 600 per cent re.
veals the full effect of the Wilson tariff
during the first year when it was in oper-
alton. The export of stnff goods during
the same period rae up from 81, 200 900
to s., 375 600 On the basis Of the con.
sular statistics for the year ended Dec
30. 1895, the results of the repeal of the
Mckinley Tariff may be enlarged con-
siderably. The export of worstcd
coatings to the United States was
Ss.56l, PCS; that OF stuff goods, SOFAS
527. The entire Bradford trade with
the United States during 1895 ran up
from IS, 215, PA to S27, 745 ,096"
An exultant English correspondent,
referring TO some of the figures, says:
Under the Republican tariff Brad
ford exported worsteds worth s., 200,-
900 to the United States. Under
the Wilson tariff last year Bradford
exported So, 375, 900 Of worsteds to the
United States. Bradford has So, Us, 900
in pocket that she would not have had IL
Prof. Wilson were not statesman.
Hurrah for Bradford IIurrah for
Professor Wilsonl And damn the
United States!"
Do the farmers and manufacturers
of Michigan want four years more OF
the Wilson tariff?
The revolutions which may take
Mace i'm tho comnarafive value of pold