Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-01-30
WILSON BILLS SECOND yrAs



Imports q ForeiEn G.>ses Larger -
When First Enscted.
The second year Of the German ,.,,.
began. as far as comparison by statis,,..
can be shown. in September last. tn.
point should be remembered becansa -
note that some free trade papers ba,s
compared our September and Octoh,s
foreign trade returns for this year ui,L
the figures for the corresponding months
. year ago Their object is to show tina,
we are not importing much more fo,.
eign stuff than last year, trusting th.,
their readers will forget that the Co,
man law was also in force DURING tba
same months of 1894. To institnts
fair comparison we must 90 fartber
back-to 1Ss3-and we give our I'M.
ports for that and the two subseousn,
years in the September and Octoba,
months:
IMPORTS or FOREIGN GOODS.
September. October. Tots,
1898. so 300, $50 So, 76e, 2s4 sos 0-q "a.
1894. 50647,698 0O0ls,96s lio ss- az
iS95........ 65,234eS9 75056Sl2 l4O.sol al
The year 1893 is the one that fraa
trade papers adopted as their standard
They used to say it was not fair Il
make comparisons with 1894. They
wanted 1898. Let them have il. n
September, 1894. our imports of foreign
goods were $4,344, 900 larger than IA
1898. This year. in September, thew
were nearly $4,000, 900 greater than
last year and almost 81 9, 900, 600 greater
than in 1888
In October the increase in imports
was still greater. In 1894 we bought
over IS, $50, 600 worth more foreign
stuff than in 1898, and this year SIS.
000,0 900 more than in 1894, and sea-
900, 600 more than in 1898. The grad.
ual increase in the figures of the above
table, in each column, indicates how we
are buying more and more foreign stuffs
the longer the German tariff is in force
For the two months Of 1894 we bought
over $12, 10000 more than in 1898;
for The two months Of this year we
bousht FROM abroad nearly $50, 900, 900
worth more than year ago and $42, 300,-
600 worth more than under the McKin.
ley tariff III 1893 Now let us study our
exports:
EXPORTS or AMERICAN GOODS
September October Total
1s93..... .s70,0l4,4 Alb sS5,ol5,6T $685. $50, go
1894. 57,S2o,T37 81, AS, 422 1855, 159
1895. ...... 57,o62, 4s2 S5,092,3s3 ~, l54, SOS
Here, for the month Of September, we
find gradual decrease in our exports,
the shipments being almost $13, 600, 600
less this year than in 1898. For the Oc-
tober month there was but little varia-
ton, the loss this year being $S23, 900
as compared with 1898. For two months
the decrease in 1894 was $l5, 600, 600
as compared with 1898, and this year
the decrease was almost $13, 500 900.
Deducting the imports Of the two months
in each year from the exports, we get
the balance Of trade in onr favor:
ExCEss OF EXPORTS, SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER.
1855. ,eoi 20
l894.,.................... 2S,65,i'a
1870. ..........,s............. l,fbS54
Where the balance of trade for the
two months of 1898 was $57, 266 in
our favor, it was only 500, 635, 475 in
our favor in 1894, loss that year Of
$2S, 220, 900 in two months. This year
the balance Of trade in our favor was
only $1,763, 564, nearly $2S, 900, 900
less than in 1894 and $50, 900, 900 less
for the two months than under the Nc
Kinley tariff. The second year of the
German tariff is, therefore, infinitely
worse for American prosperity than its
first year.