Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-06-04
RUSHING In GOODS.
IMPORTERS TAKING ADVANTAGE
OF Low TARIFF LAW.
Foreign Good. Being Rushed In Under
the Wilson Law in Vast Quantities-
Treasury Department Figures-One
Cause of Gold Going Abroad.
Importations Increase.

LUZ 44OnSu1y 0CpdIlu6ut u11S IC-
Gently issued a document containing
tables Of figures showing some very
interesting facts. Among other things
it shows that the March importations
Of wool in 1897 were 5S,0s5,S $3.50 pounds,
against 17,7S1,547 pounds in March,
1896, and against 3,48S, 415 pounds in
the last March under the Mckinley
law. This is the contrast between Re-
publican protection and Democratic
free trade.
The Importation of rags, nails, etc,
in March, 1897, amounted to 5,4G6, ,461
pounds, against 1904 in the last year Of
the Mckinley law. This is the contrast
between Republican and Democratic
legislation, rags, noils, shoddy, ETC., I've
ing on the free list under the present
tariff law. The number of cattle i'm
ported in March, 1897, under the Will
son law was 56,S6O. In March, 1894,
under the Mckinley law, the number
imported was 311. Contrast Demo-
cratic and Republican tariff laws. The
number Of pounds of hides imported
in March, 1897, in view of the prospect
W. - A0Iy 0VAAS pAACCu On 1HIW uluCsS
was two and a half times as much as
In March of the last year Of the Nc
Ainley law, amounting to nearly three
million dollars in value. The hay i'm
ported in March, 1895, 1896 and 1897
under the Wilson law was over seventy
thousand tons, averaging about three
times Us much as was imported in the
last March Of the Mckinley law.
1t shows that the world is being
raked over to find wool which can be
brought into this country free Of duty
before the Wilson law puts a tariff on
that article Of farm production. The
'mportations Of wool during March,
1897, came from Austria Hungary, Bel
GUM, Denmark, France, Germany, It
ally, Portugal, Roumania, Baltic, Rus
sia, Spain, England, Scotland, Ireland,
Nova Scotia, the Black Sea ports,
Dutch West Indies. Argentine, Brazil,
Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Chi
ma, British East Indies, Asiatic Russia,
Turkey in Asia, British Australia, Brit
ish Africa, Egypt.
Thus we see that the importers Of
foreign woods are ransacking the world
for wool which they expect to get into
the country before the new Dingley law
gets onto the statute books. The i'm
portations of clothing wool in March,
1894, the last March under the McKin-
ley law, amounted to only 924,512
pounds. Those in March, 1896, under
the Wilson law, amounted to II, ,77O, ,4O5,
and those in March, 1897, 3S5s5, ,455.
The total wool importations in March,
1897, We're 5s,OS5, ,3S9 pounds, against
17,TS1, ,547 pounds in March of the pre-
ceding year, and against only 3,4SS, ,415
pounds in the last March under the
Mckinley law.
a further indication of the activity
of importers in getting foreign goods
into the country before the new tariff
bill goes into effect, is shown by the
fact that the goods remaining in bond
ed warehouses on the first of April
We're valued at only $21 ,12O, ,G35, against
$40, ,490,325 on the corresponding date
last year.
The reciprocity feature of the new
tariff law is likely to be even more sat
isfactory than that of the Mckinley
Law. The addition Of tea and hides to
the dutiable list increases the opportu-
nifty for obtaining favorable reciprocity
treaties, and it is understood that the
Senate will put into the bill such pro-
visions as to make 1t practicable to Sc
cure very advantageous reciprocal ar
rangements with many countries, all Of
which will be especially in the interests
Of the agriculturists Of the country.
The duty on raw hides which is pro-
posed by the tariff bill in the Senate
would probably add about cents to
the cost Of the foreign hide used in
making the leather which goes into
pair of shoes, but as only one-fifth of
the hides used in the country are Inn
ported, the average increase in the
price Of shoes would only be one-ffth
of that, or one cent per pair. Assum-
ing that the average man buys three
pairs Of shoes in year, his increased
''tax burden" would be three cents
year, while the advantage to the far
mers will be millions of dollars.
Democrats Delay.
The Democrats and Populists in the
Senate still evince a disposition to de-
lay the tariff bill as much as practica-
BILE. They scolded last week because
the comparative statement which was
to accompany the bill was couple Of
days late, and made this fact an excuse
for announcing that they would not be
responsible If the bill was delayed in
passing the Senate. They know that
every days delay Of the bill enables
their friends, the importers, to add to
the enormous supply Of foreign goods
now coming under the Wilson law.
The growth Of the protective senti-
ment in the South, which was clearly
shown by the fact that over thirty
Southern votes were cast for the Ding
ley bill in the House, will be again en-
phasized when the voter for the bill
in the Senate are counted. At least
five Southern votes will be in favor of
the bill in the Senate, one of them by
Democrat who announced before his