Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-07
FOREIGN COUNTRIES ARE TRYING
TO RUN A BLUE.
NO IDEA OF MAKING IT GOOD.
KNOW RETALIATION WOULD COST
THEM A GOOD MARKET.
Remarkable Increase I'm the Quantity
of Goods which England HaS
Sent to the United States
Since the Wilson Law
Was Passed.

Washington, June 6.-(SpeciaI) There is
much talk here and in the papers of the
country generally about retaliation" by
foreign nations. Fears are expressed that
Germany Austria and other countries will
Immediately enact retaliatory measures in
the event Of the adoption by this govern
ment of certain tariff schedules which will
prove injurious to those countries. Re
taliation by these countries might be a
good thing for them If it were practicable.
but there is such a thing as retaliation
against their retaliation. These countries
do not really think in the least Of retalia-
ton, for the simple reason that they are
now selling to us more Of their own prod
ucts than we are selling TO them. For in
stance, these persons who are talking
loudly about retaliation by the Argentine
Republic will find, upon investigation, that
Argentine sold US last year products 10
twice the value that she purchased from
US; that Japan sold us over three times as
much as she bought from our people, and
Austria nearly three times as much. The
authorities of these countries recognize
that by retaliation they would lose a mar
ket worth two or three times as much as
that Of which they would deprive the
United States. and they are too wise in
their generation TO cut of the nose of their
own producers and merchants.
Reports from England, through the
American Economist give us an inkling OF
the figure which the British market has cut
in the recent and continuing excessive i'm
portations into this country. The Ameri-
can imporations from Bradford for April
exceeded the importations from that place
for the whole twelve months in some years.
being in value $6,1S7.4l5. The importations
to this country from Bradford under the
last year of the Mckinley law were
s.. .440,595. while in the year following,
under the Wilson law, they were $2S.596.-
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An English correspondent writes upon
the large exports of goods to the States
during April and March, saying: such
pers to describe the situation as a cheerful
Significance and pleasing in chronicleing
the event for while they spell future
millions in the United States, they have
been the means OF clearing hundreds OF
musty piles of stuff in Bradford"
Some figures which will be of especial in
terest to the farmers have come TO the
surface in the tariff debate in the senate.
of animals imported in March, 1894. under
the Mckinley law, was N13SO2; in March,
1895. under the Wilson law. Hss. 4s2; end in
ley, which. in March, 1894. under the Nc
Klnley law were 97,5sS bushels, were, in
March, 1897, 136,445 bushels. The growth OF
marked. Neither the present law nor the
ones which preceded II. placed duty on
cotton. The importations in March, 1884.
were 3. $50. oil pounds; for March. 1896, 5,S26,
309 and March, 1897, 1852 $50 pounds. II Is
because OF this very rapid increase in the
importations OF Egyptian cotton that the
cotton growers OF the South have urged
upon congress the propriety OF placing
duty on raw cotton. The increase IN the
lmportatlons OF nay mas also Deeh stTOhsLy
marked since the enactment of the pres
ent law, which reduced the duties IN hay
one-half the March importations in 1886
having been 1854 tons. against s,527 tons
in March, 1894.