Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-08-25
The PAST YEAR AGoOOONE FOR TRADE.

Statistics OF our foreign trade during
the fiscal year endeu june Both, 1893,
collected by the baltimore Sun from a
publication Just ISSUED by the Treasury
Department, are full Of interest.
There was guin in exports in 1S9S
over 1897 from 81, 032, 007, COB to 81, 2l0, :
292, 097. nearly the whole gain being IN
agricultural products. There was an
increase OF 81 l, GOO. 600 in the expurts of
manufactured goods from S277, 2S5, 39l
to S2S8, 81, 449 but the whole gain was
In iron and steel. In fact there was
gain of $4,000, 900 in iron and steel
which was accompanied by decrease
OF exports Uf other manufactures. Ne
increased our exports Of steel rails,
locomotives, typswriters, pig iron,
agricultural machinery, stove and other
backing, railway cars, leather, shoes,
paper and parafline, but we suffered a
decline in refined mineral oils and cot
ton goods. Our exports of agricultural
products we're 1854, 627, 929. or zoe
per cont of the whole. Manufactures
constituted but %. 81 per cent of our
total exports; mining products. 1.6Y
per cent; forest products, 3. 13 per
cent; fisheries, .46 per cent, and mis-
cellaneous, 80 per cent. The volume
of exported breadstuffs was double that
of last year. wheat alone making an
increase of $50, 600, 900. 1t is evidently
to our natural resources-those Of our
farms, mines, forests and fisheries and
not our anufactures-that We owe the
present magnificent financial position
of the Unit8i States.
Tho customer upon whom We relied
N IN In nF fhash ttIl - arfe
was John Bull or the 1913, 699. $50 OF
products sold In Europe, the United
Kingdom took $40. $50. l52, Germany
taking but sl55, 039, 972, France 800,
452, 692, Holland S6i, 274, G22 and Bel.
GUM SAT, COG, 3li.
British North America bought from
us to the value of Ss4, GIL, EGO; British
West Indies, IS, 1882, TAO; British Gui
British Africa, Sl2. OPT, li2. The British
market is accordingly not only very
considerable one, but apparently an in
disEenaahle one. Were it impoverished
| by calamity, so as to be unable TO buy
largely, the demand for our agricul,
tural pr0ducts and consequently theii
pricea would suffer, II is to be feared,
a serious collapse. The South and
SchtIui n mbEiCHu tlIhThet WulCu WE
have cultivated assiuously with ship.
ping subsidies in one form or another
TO. yesrs past, bought from us 10 1896
these comparatively small amounts
Brazil, sl3, 3lT, 056; Cuba. 50. 56l, COG
Argentina, Sc. 1919, 070; Cnsta Rica
Sl.57S. 343; Peru, 81, 800, 800: Uru
quay, Sl,2l4, 2iS; Ecuador, 81. l51, 258
Mexico. S2l. 205, 2Si; Columbia. SO, 277,
507; Venezuela, s2,74G, 2Gl; Chill,
50, 35l. 1877; Porto Rico, 81. sos, GAG
| Guatemala, 81, POS. $50; Nicaragua
81, 0s6, $50 China bought from III Il
the value Of 50, 992. S94; Hawaii, IS. 9O6,
| 36l. Baltimore ranked second amonf
| our cities in the volume of it's exports
the order being: New York, s445,5l5,
| 1874; Baltimore. sllS, S45. $50; Boston
SIT, 53l, 903; New Orleans, 81 IL, ga, 051
Galveston, SOS, 42S, 62l; pbilsdelphia
San Francisco and other ports export
ing to smaller amounts.
The decline of our imports from s764,
730, 4l2 in 1897 to s6l6. 005, 1853 10 1896
Is regarded with satisfaction by oul
protsctionists MS proof Of the effective
ness Of the tariff wall raised lily tn,
Dingley act. They asGribe it euphe
mistically to ''the very much larger de
manda made upon American maui
facturera"-a pretty way of saying tina
the American consumer was kept b,
the DingIey duties from buying chsal
in the foreign market While selling
mora largely to the native at Dinglel
| prices our manufacturers find them
selves able to sell also to the foreigner
az natural prices. This lie exceedingl,
gratifying, since il may be hoped rha
in time the American taxpayer will h,
allowed the rates now conceded onl,
abroad. The decline of $3.50, 600, 600 ii
imports was due in part to ths larg,
auticipatory imports OF 1897. In i'm
ported wool the falling of was S36, 500,
600; manufactures of wool, $3i, 800, 900
sugar, s3S, 600, 600; burlaps. &C., $40,
700, 600: cotton manufactures, 81, 200,
000; woDd and manufactures thereof
So, 700, 600; culfee, SIG, sol, 600; tea
81, 200, 600, with smaller decreases Ii
iron and steel, queensware, fruits an
nuts, art works and tobacco. Som
47.30 per cent Of the imports were fire.
Of duty. Over ono third of the i'm
ports we're the raw materials of in
dustry. We bought from the Unite
Kingdom gqpils TO the value Of Sl09,
1913. 800: Cauadi, s32, OFT, 767; Cor
many, SGD, COG. POT; Brazil, SCI, TAO, 909
France, s52. 100, DOB; West Indies, s3s,
1o2, s54: China, $40, 1926. 3SS; Argentina
So, 9l5. S7a; Italy, 500, 200, 0on; Mexico
$40, 600, 1877; British East Indies, S2T,
23s. 459; Japan. s25, 22l, l02; uswaiia
IHiands, ST.. 1871, $40.
MARROW ESCAPE.
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