The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-05


whether he IS simply shouting the cry
i Of others who own him: but assuredis
if anything could elect Bryan. it would
be McIzinley's vicious TRADES about the
tariff
He quotes statistics to show decline in
prices and a falling off IN production Of
iron and steel. Out of this. he manu-.
factures a reproach against the tariff Of
1891. He fails 10 tell the people the i'm
portant truth that the declines in price
are mainly upon commodities in which
there is no foreign competition. cotton
and grain. pre-eminently. He fails tc
show them that the decline in iron manu-
features is not due to competitive i'm
ports, but to general business s~tagnation,
and that our exports of iron and steel
goods have enormously increased. HI
fails to alIude to the fact tina the one
commodity whieh has undergone a mark
ed increase Of price is coal. This has
gone up on the consumers, who are most
" poor people. under the aegis Of pro
lection and through the instrumentality
Of a trust.
Major Mckinley showed that he either
was culpably ignorant of the latest figures
issued by the United states Bureau of
Statistics, or else he mendaciously ignored
them. IN the report issued about July
1, Of this year. it APPEARED that the total
increase in exports of manufactures was
from slss.5g5.7Es in the fiscal year 1895 to
s22S, $3.50 in the year ending with June
last. The export Of copper ingots in
creased from ls,s2l.4 $50 in 1886 to sls,64e, 4o7
in 1896. n mineral Illuminating oil in
creased from sS4, 7O6.s4 to s4s, $50. 500. These
two articles, showing an increase of about
Sls.5oo,0oo account for only about two
ffths of the gain made during the past
year and for a stin smaller proportion Of
the gain made over previous years.
American exports Of manufactures were
only si5s.o2s,11 in the fiscal year 1898, the
last year of the undisturbed operation Of
he Mckinley law, and the present year
showed an Increase of SIO.OOo.Ooo, or more
than 90 per CEN. The increase over 1895
is distributed over a great variety of ar
ticles. indicating that a stimulus has been
applied to the export Of finished American
products. especially those involving novel;
ty and requiring skill for their produc-
ton.
Other articles showing a less striking
but healthy increase from 1885 to 1896,
have been books, maps, etc. which ain-
creased from 2,sls.2l7 in 1895 to 81, 1888. T22
in 1896; brass and its manufactures, from
s7s4,64o TO SSH, 1856; carriages and street
cars, from $l,5l4.sss to sI.sS4.S58; railway
cars. from sl,5i4.sse to sl,8S4,ssS; railway
sausages. from s~l.5s1.Ss1 to sI.77l,6SO; pat
emit medicines, from sl.97s.lA to 81. 40 SO;
manufactures of copper from $547.24s to
Si.07s.697; cotton cloths, uneoIored, from
s1,oa4.s7S to $3.50, 1888; glassware, from
$94e,3Sl to s1,o62 29t; manufactures of rub
Der, from $1.5O5,l4s to S,s5s,556: electric
and scientific apparatus, from 1872. III to
81 522,217: builders hardware from 50. 49,
66e TO ss.sll,7 1885, machinery. from sn. 49s. o9s
to slAS5s,22i sewing machines. from ST.
26o.1 3 to So. 1s0, 249 boots n Shoes. from
s1,ol0.22S to sl,4se.ese; paper and manufac-
lures, from $2,ls5, 1903 to s2,71s.s75; manu-
features of tobacco, from 1888, 1s5 to 81
$50. s61. and house furniture from SS.O47,2l2
to ss,2sl,2Os.
These figures show what the rural OPP
GRAFTON of the Democratic tariff Law is.
In order to make his contemplate point
for protection. the Canton Joss ignored
all the facts in the case and sacrificed a
splendid opportunity to make a point upon
the real issue before the people, the
blight of Organism and its inevitable dis
aster. If, instead of ~attributing the hard
times to the tariff, he had shown how
the tariff was opening the way to vast
prosperity, but tina the hideous cloud of
reputation and anarchism was more than
of-setting its benefits. then he would
have been talking ike a statesman and
truly advancing the cause OF the people.
In another place, he speaks Of HI tariff
as causing diminished consumption of
cereals, thus impoverishing the farmers.
Here is exactly what he says
No one has suffered more under these
conditions than the farmers of the United
States. They nave lost much by a di-
minished home market. and have suffered
in the foreign market by the repeal of
the reciprocity provisions of the Tariff
law Of 1890.
It takes the brain of a c~ase-hardened
protectionist to conceive the idea that the
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