Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-09-01
TARIFF FIGURES.
Comparison Between the Wilson
and Mckinley Laws
Treasury Department. Figure. show
That Expectation. Did Not In
crease tnd~r the DEM
ocrntic Tariff

Especial Washington Correspondence
Figures from the treasury depart
ment show some interesting compar,-
sUus between the expectations of Amer
iceG 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 10y WAY OF
the publication by the treasury depart
mcnt of its monthly summary for June.
Which covers the fiscal ycar ending
june 30. 1896, and this practically com
p'etes the record of the Wilson law.
That the expectation OF manufac-
tu-ed articles did increase under the
Wilson law is undoubtedly true. But
that the Importation of manufactured
articles increased very much more than
the cNportation is equally true The
expectation Of manufactured goods i'm
the fiscal year 1897 was. i'm round mum
hers, S93,O00,OOO greater than in the
last year under the Mckinley law, 1894.
the figures for these two years being
respectively, 1894, SIS3.723,SOO and in
1897, S25G.S55.S6l. The importations Of
manufactured goods during the same
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. Si5s.329,l36. and i'm 1897. the last
year of the Wilson law. 1904 .657loI
1t is thus apparent that the importn-
tionS Of manufactured goods practically
double under the Wilson law since 1891.
TIA last year of the Mckinley law. and il
Is not surprising that the bringing i'm
OF over S3O0,OOO.OOO worth of man
uiactured goods per anuum drove
the manufacturers OF the United States
To seek market abroud at whatever
price they could get, as the only means
OF escaping the necessity of closing
their factories
Another interesting point to he de
termincd in regard TO this question OF
e,,portatiou of manufactured articles
under the Wilson law is whether the
p' oportionatc increase is more marked
~ rapid under the Wilson law than n
had been under the Mckinley law. Tn,
following table gives the expectations
m the fiscal years 1891, ls04 and 1897 of
manufacture of the United States:
1924, IL Will be remembered, was thu
last year under the Mckinley law. and
10y comparing the growth from 1894 to
1897 under the Wilson law. three wears.
with the growth from sol to so4 under
the Mckinley law, also three years. il is
easy to determine whether the pro
portionate growth i'm 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 qucs-
ton are given below. The list in
c!udes the important groups or classes
OF articles exported where the amount
IN the end reaches rs much as 81 900
600. 1t will he seen that i'm many eases
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 VIII
sen law
Exports Of articles manufactured i'm
the United States I'm 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 VIII
son law: