The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-05-11
Export Trade on Record

that PrOteCtlOn must De discard
ed in order that all restrictions upon
our export trade may be removed
is convincingly shown in the COM
mercial statistics for the month of
March and for the first nine months
of the fiscal year ending June 80,
1900. March expectations are
larger than those of any correspond
ing month in our history, and
double the average for the month
of March during the decade ending
with 1896. The total exports of
the month, as shown by the figures
just reported by the Treasury Blu
reau of Statistics, are SI343I3,34S,
against sIo4, $50 in March of
last year, s75,574IS5 in March,
1896, and 500, 516,57I in March
1898. Thus the expectations of
March, 1900, are more than double
those of March, 1898, when the
country had entered upon the Cleve-
land Wilson Free Trade period, and
IS per cent. greater than those of
March of last year, and, as already
stated, are larger than those of any
preceding March in our history.
Indeed the reports show but one
month December, 1899 in the his
tory of our export trade of the
United States in which the total ex-
portation was as large as that of
March, 1900, the month of Decem-
Der usually being the heaviest ex-
port month of the year.
Not only are the March, 1900,
exports. under the operation of the
Dingley Tariff, the heaviest in the
history of our foreign commerce,
but the total for the Dingley Tariff
nine months ending with March is
also greater than that of any cores
ponding nine months in the history
of our exports. The total exporta-
tons in the nine months ending
with March, 1900, are SI,o53,S32,-
676, against S941oI9,4o5 in the
corresponding months of last year,
So25,oo5,32o in the corresponding
months of 1897 and S5I5,4oo,635
in the corresponding months of 1886
having thus doubled in IS years and
increased over So per cent. since
1896, when the Free-Trade Tariff
was in full swing.
The steady increase in exporta-
tions is the more remarkable in
view of the fact that exports of agri-
cultural products are only about the
same as those of the corresponding
months of last year, the notable in
crease of more than SIoo, 900, 900
in the nine months in question be-
ing largely in manufactures. In the
eight months ending with February
(the details for March not yet being
completely the exports of agricul-
tural products were practically the
same as those of the corresponding
eight months of the proceeding
year, while those of manufactures
showed an increase of S61, 900, 900.
This it should be remembered, was
under a Tariff system which Free
Traders said would ruin our export
trade and deprive domestic manu-
facturers of markets for their sur
plus products.
these astonishing figures of the
March expectations make it appar-
ent that the total exports of the fis-
cal year 1900 will exceed those of
any proceeding year in our history,
since for the nine months of the fis-
cal year for which the figures are
now at hand the total exports are
sIo5, 600 900 greater than those of
the corresponding months of any
preceding year. 1t seems proba-
bic that the total exports of the year
will reach 81, 800, 900, 900 and that
manufactures will supply fully $500
900, 600 of this vast sum. Thus we
see how the Dingley Tariff cham
pers" the export of manufactured
products
Imports also show a marked in