Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-07-12

THREE GREAT INDUSTRIES HAVE,
DEVELOPED.
Production In the United States, Under
Protective Tariff, Has Far Exceeded
That of Other Countries-Activityi i'm
Our Factories.

protective Iarim, Has Far ExceGue6
That of other Countries-Activity i'm
Our Factories.
Three great industries-coal, iron and
tin plate-haye made especial progress
under the development of our manufac-
turing system, coal production being OF
itself measure of the development OF
manufacturing, since coal enters so
largely into that industry.
The coal production of the United
Kingdom during thirty years, during
all of which. time that country has been
under q low tariff only increased from
115,000,000 tons to 226OO0,000 tons, or
little less than 100 per cent, Ger
many, which adopted protective tar
if about the middle of the period UNI
der consideration, has increased her
coal output from 36,O0OOOO tons to 144,-
100000 tons-a growth Of 500 per cent.
France, also a protection country, IN
creased her output from 14,697 ,6S6 tons
in 1868 to 35,74S,644 tons in 1898, an
increase Of $50 per cent The United
States, which has been constantly I'M
der protective tariff law during that
period with the exception of three
years., increased her output from 3D.
64S,960 tons in 1868 to 25S, $50, $50 toms
IN lS99-an increase of over 700 PERT
cent. 1t must be remembered, In addi-'
ton to this, that the United States has
consumed in her factories, on her rail-
ways, and among her people practical
1yr oil I,
ports of coal averaging less than per
cent. Of our total production, While
Great Britain has been for years large
exporter of coal.
Our production in 1894, the year in
which the free trade tariff was enact
ed fell to 17O,O0O,O0O tons as against
1872 100000 in the preceding year, and
the value Of the product fell from $685.
100000 in 1893 to $186,O0O,00O in 1894.
loss in single year of 100000 in
this one article in which labor forms so
important a part Of it's value.
In 1891, under protection and the &C
tfvity Of the great industries Of the
country, the average number of days in
which the men in the coal mines of the
United States were employed was 232.
In 1893, the year in which a low-tarif
President and Congress came into
power, the number of days in which
the miners were employed dropped to
POI, and in 1894 dropped again to 17S;
while in 1897, the last year Of the Will
son tariff, the number was but 179, a
reduction of 20 per cent. in the time in
which fhnxy nnon1nvoH
pared with 1891 The figures for 1898
show a marked increase in the num-
Der of days employed and an increase
of $4,000 men as compared with 1893;
while it is apparent that the figures for
1899 will, when completed, show a
much larger increase, since the product
in 1S99was 100000 tons greater than
in 1898, and SS000,00O greater than in
1894, an increase Of nearly 20 per cent.
in production and Is per cent. in value
of the product.
Pig iron production in the United
States has increased from 1885, 191
tons in 1880 to 1880, FOB tons in 1899,
which year placed the United States at
the head Of the iron and steel produc-
ing nations of the world. The pig-iron
production of 1892 was 9,157,00O tons.
In 1893, the year of the Inauguration of
Democracy and free trade. it fell to-
1924, 900 tons; in 1894 to 6,G57, 900 tons,
and in 1896 was but S,623, 900 tons. The
year 1897, in which protection was
again adopted, showed an increase to
1862, $50 tons, and in 1899 an increase
to 1362O,703 tons. Thus the fall from
the last year Of President Harrison to
1894, the year in which the Democratic
tariff was enacted, was a~t99, 622 tons,
or q per cent, while the increase of
1899 over 1896, the last full year under
the Democratic tariff, was 4,997,57
tons, or 81 per cent,
The average annual price of steel
rails during the period Of protection,
from 1880 to 1893, fell from SGT 80 In
1880, to $2S II in 1893. In 1894, the
year in which the low tariff was adopt
ed, there was fall of 81 per ton, but
the price returned to $2S in 1896, drop
ping to S1S75 in 1897, the year in
which the protective tariff was again
adopted, $1762 in 1898, ana returned in
1899 to $2S.12, the figure at which it
stood in 1898 and 1886.
Under this long period of protection
and the development Of the manufac-
turing industries which accompanied it.
the imports of iron and steel fell from
S71. 266 500 to SIP, 100, 400, and the man
ufacturers, besides supplying the enor-
nous addition to the home market,
which this reduced importation i'm
plies, also increased their expectation
Of iron and steel manufactures from
S14, 716,524 In 1880 to $93,716,031 in
1899. In the year 1900 the total will
amount to $120,O00,0O0, or more than
eight times that Of 1880.
Lentz Knocked Out.
Representative Lentz received his
Waterloo blow right at home. The Ohio
Democrats declined to adopt his reso-
l,+;nno an tho Idaho mining riots and