The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1897-07-15


in reference to our new tariff are ia
pan, China Austria Hungary. Ger
many, France. Italy, Turkey, Greece.
Spain, Netherlands, Switzerland, Ar
gentine, Mexico and Canada, and pos
sibly Brazil. Less than half this num-
state department, but there has been
sundry grumblings and mutterings
among the others, either in their leg
islative bodies, in the individual utter
ances of their representatives here and
elsewhere, or in the public press.
The practical business question with
regard to these people and govern
ments is whether they can afford to
take any retaliatory steps against a
tariff which makes no discrimination
discriminate against any one Of them
individually If they were to attempt
retaliation by adverse legislation
which should exclude American prod
uc:s from their markets or discrimi-
late against Our productions in any
way It would be expected, and very
properly, that the United States would
return the compliment by excluding or
discriminating against the products o.
the country which had taken such ac-
tion. The practical business results Of
an occurrence Of this kind would be
that nearly every one of the countries
in question would suffer a greater loss
IT. the sale of her products than would
the United States. OF the fifteen OOun-
tries included in the above list thirteen
than they buy from us. and the total
sales of the fifteen countries in ques-
ton to the United States are hundreds
CT millions of dollars greater than are
our sales to them. The result would
be that if they should undertake to ex
clude our goods from their ports SINH
lar action on our part would cut off
a much larger market for their pro-
dncers than would their action affect
the markets of our own producers. An
attempt at retaliation by the countries
in question. with possibly two excep-
tons would therefore be much more
disadvantageOus to them than to the
United States. Hence the improbable
ity that the nations which are offer
irg these protests have the slightest
expectation that their action will be
anything more than a mere bluff or be
followed by any attempt at retaliation
by them in case their protests are I'M
needed.
A few examples of the commercial
relations existing between some Of the
nations in question and the United
States will be sufficient to show that
there is no probability that they are
going to endanger their own business
and the markets for their own pro-
ducers by any steps which might pos
Sibly close the ports of the United
States against their productions. II
the statements which follow a ten
years period has been covered in
showing the commercial relations be-
tween the United States and the coun-
tries in question, in order 10 give a
fair average showing of the sales of
those countries to people of the United |
States and the return sales of our |
products to those countries. It will be !
observed in the statements which fol- |!
low that in practically every case the |
now suggesting retaliation
which woald affect commercial rela-
tons have sold us very much more |
Of their productions than We have sold |
to them. and therefore any action on
their part disturbing or closing these
relations would cut off larger mar
ket for themselves than they would de-
stroy for us.
Japan has sold to us in the past de-
cade 1912. 100, 200 worth of goods and
bought from us S45,OO7.117 worth of
our productions.
China's sales to us in the past ten
years are $1S9,246,S49 and her pur-
'hasess from us $54,219,710.
Austria-Hungary's sales to us in the
'ast ten years are So, 3O1. 481 and her
from us $1O.993. 224.
The total sales to us of the fifteen
which are reported as COM
claiming, formally or otherwise, of our
arid. have been in the past ten years
1913. 943. 523, while the purchases from
IS in the same length of time have
cen only $S,O59, 22O.7S Thus they Il.
ave sold us in the past decade ST. {
S4,722.S41 worth of goods in excess
[ what they have bought from us. or I
n average Of $17S, 472,2S4 per annum. 6
The following table shows our pur- t
hases from and sales to each of the d
in question during the past c
ecade: r
Imports into q. Exports from t
S. QS86-'96) q. S. (1S86-'96) b
from protest to protest. {
ing countries. ing countries. {
reece Us 10,1S4.G0O 5 1.51e.5S4