The Ravalli Republican. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1894-1899, 1897-01-20
An OBJECT LESSON.
Figures for Farmers to Read and Rcflcc,
Upon.

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portations Of hay, cattle, meat, dairy
products, tobacco and wool during
the fiscal years 1895 and 1896, com
pared of those Of 1893 and 1894, give
something Of an idea of the desir-
ability Of frccltradc or low,tarltI as
against adequate protection, viewed
from Il farmers standpoint.
The Wilson bill operated during
ten months Of the fiscal year 1886
ard all Of the fiscal year 1896. The
Mckinley law operated during
the fiscal years 1893 and 1894 and
two months of the fiscal year 1898.
The ''tiscal year, it will be under
stood, begins July l and ends June
80 Of each year
The Mckinley tariff law placed Il
duty of 81 per ton on hay, while the
Wilson law reduced the duty to 50
per ton. Now see the result. The
importations Of hay under the Nc
knlev law from Quebec, Ontario,
and other provinces amounted t"
S943, G69 in value in the fiscal year
1898, and to $3.50, ,2G6i in 1894 In the
fiscal year 1895, ten months Of which
we're under the Wilson law, with half
the rate of duty fixed by the Mckin-
ley law, the importations Of hay
amounted to ST ,409, ,2G3, being prac-
tically double those Of 1894 under
thc'McKinlcy law. In the fiscal year
1896, all Of which was under the
Wilson law, the importations of hay
amounted to So; GAG: :S34 in value, or
practically four times what they
were under the Mckinley law.
The average importations Of hay
from the provinces Of Canada above
named during the four years of the
Mckinley law amounted to, in round
numbers, 500, 900 per annum, while
during the years Of the Wilson law
they amounted to over $1,000, 600, in
round numbers. Here arc the hay
figures in tabular form:
1893 Mckinlcy lnw)....... 36Go
1894 McI[nlcy law. -..,.....,.,,. '5O,2GG
1885 Wison law 1,40%G
1886 WilsOn law ,,G4G,S3i
In the matter Of cattle Of the du-
table class the increase is striking
as to Canada and much more SO as to
Mexico. The rate Of duty on cattle
under the Mckinley law was SO per
above one year old, while under the
Wilson law the rate OF duty was
fixed at 20 per cent ad vaIorcn, max
ing it practicable for the importers
to get them in at a low duty. Tile
importations from the provinces
above named were in 1895 under the
J: Mckinley law, in value SG,6+l, in
1894, 81, ,3G7: in 1893, under the Viii.
son law, Sl3.Sl5, and in 1896, $l2,-
ISL. In tabular form dutiablc cat.
tic were imported as follows:
1893 Mckinley law GG4
1884 (McI<inlcy law )..,.......... 1 SO
1874, NNilson law) ~ ...... ISL
1896 (Wilson law) L. Is
: The importations Of meats and
dairy products increased also to re
markablc degree under the low rates
OF the Wilson law. The McKinlc,
law rate on bacon and hams was {
cents per pound: on meats, dressed o1
, undrcsSed 10 per cent; on prepared
or preserved meats, 25 per cont; or
!, fresh beef, mutton or pork, 2 cent
per pound; on live poultry, 3 cent:
per pound. The Wilson law rate:
were, on the most Of these articles
20 per cent ad yalorcm, enabling th'
importers, by fixing low nomina
, price, to get a low tariff rate. Or
, lard the rate was reduced from
, cents per pound to | cent per pound
5 on live poultry from 5 cents to thrc
cents per pound: on butter ant
, cheese the Mckinley rate was 6 cent
: per pound; under the Wilson law,
| cents per pound: on preserved an(
, condensed milk the rate under tn
Mckinley law was 3 cents per pound
, and that Of the Wilson law cent
! per pound: on sugar of milk the NC
: Kinlcy law rate was s cents pc
pound: that Of the Wilson law 5 cent
per pound. Under the McKinlc
law the importations Of meats ant
dairy products in 1893 from the Ca
o madam provinces above named Wcr
+, $2G, 4SS in value: in 1894, S5l ,62C
q The importations in the fiscal yea
y 1895, ten months Of which were IN
r der the Wilson law, were SS2, SIS
I and in 1886 under the Wilson lay
q SlO2, 500 Here it is in tabular form
: 1858 (McKinlcy law 2G,4
1884 (Mckjnlcy law ).......s.. ..-... 5l,G
1898 (Wison luw) .....,.......... $40
II 1896 (Wison law) Observation-Disclosures. ...... 1929
The Wilson law reduced the dut
J. on leaf tobacco suitable for ciya
+ wrappers from 81 per pound to ST.
r. per pound. and upon stcmmcd t(
|, bacco suitable for wrappers froI
j. S2.75 to s.. % per pound, while 0
a cigars and chcroots the specific rate
is were reduced from $3.50 per pound
:. ST per pound under the Wilson Law
Z The importation Of tobacco from til
g Canadian provinces named above
q in 1893 under the Mckinley law wei
&c $72,724 in value; in 1894, Sll1,94
@ in lS95, ten months Of which wei
# under the Wilson law, 1865, S3G, an
in sls9G, under the Wilson lay
j. $S79,5SS.
q Thus the average impOrtations (
5 tobacco in the four years Of the MI
$, Kinlcy law from the provinces undo
70 consideration amounted to abOl
If S75, 900 per annum, and in the tN
,c years Of the Wilson law amounted
W nearly 5000, 900 per annum, an ave
rt age increase Of. about 800 per cen
&c The figures in tabular form arc ;
,c follows.
j. 1893 tNckinlcy law r.
N,.L ~ law