The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-09-04
TARIFF FIGURES.
Comparison Between tho Wilson
and Mckinley Laws.
Treasury Department Figures show
That Expectations Did Not In
crease Under the DEM
Ocratic Tariff.
Especial Washington Correspondence

Especial Washington Correspondence
Figures from the treasury depart
ment show some interesting compari
sons between the expectations of Amer
lean manufactures during the period OF
the operations of the Mckinley law and
| the Wilson law.
The opportunity which is offered to
examine this question comes by way OF
the publication by the treasury depart
ment of its monthly summary for June
which covers the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1896, and this practically com
pletes the record of the Wilson law.
That the expectation of manufac-
tured articles did increase under the
Wilson law is undoubtedly true. But
that the importation of manufactured
articles increased very much more than
the expectation is equally true. The
deportation of manufactured goods in
the fiscal year 1897 was, in round num-
bers, S93,000,000 greater than in the
last year under the Mckinley law, 1894,
the figures for these two years being
respectively, 1894, $ls3,723,S 500 and in
1897, s276,357,s61. The importations of
manufactured goods during the same
period increased S146,0o0,000, or nearly
double the increase of the expectation
of manufactured goods. The total inn
ports of manufactured goods in 1894.
the last year of the Mckinley law. be-
ing, $l5s,320 1876, and in 1897, the last
year of the Wilson law, 1904 OF, 1O4.
ic fins tbot tho ;,,,,ort a.,
tons of manufactured goods practically
double under the Wilson law since 1894,
tn last year of the Mckinley law. and it
is not surprising that the bringing in
OF over S30O,000,0o0 worth of man
ufactured goods per annum drove
the manufacturers of the United States
to seek market abroad at whatever
price they could get, as the only means
of escaping the necessity of closing
their factories.
Another interesting point to be de-
termined in regard to this question of
expectation of manufactured articles
under the Wilson law is whether the
ploportionate increase is more marked
ly rapid under the Wilson law than it
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following table gives the expectations
in the fiscal years 1891, 1894 and 1897 of
manufactures of the United States;
1894, it will be remembered, was the
last year under the Mckinley law, and
by comparing the growth from 1894 TO
1897 under the Wilson law, three years,
with the growth from 1891 to 1894 under
the Mckinley law, also three years, ii is
easy to determine whether the pro-
portionate growth in export of manu-
features was any greater under the
Wilson law than under the Mckinley
law.
The expectations of manufactured
goods during the fiscal years in ques-
ton are given below. The list in
cludes the important groups or classes
of articles exported where the amount
in the end reaches as much as $1,000
900. 1t will be seen that in many cases
the percentage of gain in expectation
was much greater during the three
years of the operations of the Mckinley
law than in the three years of the Will
sen law.
Exports of articles manufactured in
the United States in the fiscal years
1891, 1894 and 1897, the period between
1891 and 1894 being under the operation
of the Mckinley law; that from 1894
to 1897 under the operation of the Will
son law: