The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-03-04
NOT VERY CHEERING,
FREE TRADE TARIFF PROVES p,sAs-
TRous.

tO00Os
New York Herald Raves About Little In
crease In Exports. bat 0verlooks I'm
ports-Labor Loses More Work Than It
0ains-soms Recent Flimnam.
The labor and capital employed in
all American manufacturing industries
should ponder very deeply just now the
cheering fact, which the latest returns
OF the bureau Of statistics bring to light,
that the exports Of our manufactured
goods in 1895 have beaten all previous
records. New York Herald.
The suggestion of the New York Press
that The Herald's deliberate distortion
of the results shown by our trade statis-
tics arises because that Democratic pa
|. per is not furnished with brains to COM
prehend the compilations may be the
correct one Assuming that this is SO.
and that the policy of the paper is di-
rected by its proprietor, it is some sat
isfaction to know that the cheerful
idiot" is resident Of Paris and not Of
fam was the following:
EXPORTS or DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES FOR
ELEVEN MONTHS, ENDING NOVEMBER.
1894. 1895.
Iron and steel. .s27. $685. OIL s3l, 90, $50
Chemicals, drugs and dyes 7,03S,220 1876, 432
Leather and manufac-
lures. ................... 13.599,l73 H.012,279
Machinery ............ 12,0l52i5 1906. 27s
Glass and glassware. S33503 9l5, 437
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 1895
Iron and steel SIS, COS, 981 1923, 502, e27
Chemicals drugs and dyes 81. 857,5 sos 4l,45l. 4S7
Leather and manufac-
lures. e,094 I'M l4,oOJ,Uoo
Machinery. ................ l,U2l,OS4 l,H2, luz
Glass and glassware 5,O75.264 6,995.s74
The extent of the EZRA of trade pros
perity'' that is now being enjoyed by
American manufacturing industries"
can be ascertained by placing side by
side the increase in our exports and the
increase in our imports of these different
classes of goods. We omit machinery"
because il is already included in the
''iron and steel' manufactures, and the
totals would inaccurately represent our
foreign trade statistics 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 ac-
counting:
INCREASE FOR ELEVEN MONTHS ENDING SovEM-
BIER, 1865.
Loss to
American
American Foreign manufac-
exports imports. turers.
Iron and steel So 62477l "a, sos, S46 81, 184 O75
Chemicals, drugs
and dyes. -. ass.2l2 4,Oea,979 8,155,7S7
Leather and man
ufactures. -. 3,4l3,1Oe 5.2Os,ss 1895. 700
Glass and glass
ware. ............ 1884 l.ecO.6lO 1883. 76e
Totals ..... s. O57. 983 SIG. O32. 831 1914 3os
The cheerful idiot shows that our
exports Of these four classes of Ameri-
can goods were S,057, 1888 larger in IL
months of 1895 than in 1894. The 9TH
er side of the national ledger shows that
ourJkporssf similar foreign goods in
c-eaS& by SIC ,032, 331 The balance of
trade against us was 1914 1898 in the
IL months. This is the cheering fact "
The increase in what we bought is prac-
tically just double the increase of what
we sold. For every dollars worth of
trade captured in the markets of the
world we have lost So worth of trade in
the iron and steel, chemical, leather
and glass trades at home.
The cheerful idiot" says that Dem
ocratic newspapers should make the
country ring with the announcements of
these statistics. -
We don't believe they will. 1.-The
cheering fact" will be too much for
them.