New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-08-18
EXPANDING COMMERCE,
AN ELOQUENT RECORD OF GROWTH AND
PROSPERITY UNDER THE REPUB-
IICAN TARIFF SYSTEM.

From a speech delivered by Senator Gallinser on
May 10. 1850.
M President: have presented what must be
SetTeegn1 c64doRs eI59s nder taris framed on
free trade lines and tariffs framed in harmony with
prisng than the exhibit which relates to our Ma
uonal trace ana commerce. The showing In this
regard has attracted the attemon ana eXctea IN, tie
astonishment OF the civilized world Notnng ike
Starting with 1892. the first full year of hitherto
Mckinney tariIr, our exports OF domestic merchan-
mark For that year the exports were q ol5 'Ss u!
and the imports were Ss2I 4z i62 In 1898 the brst
year Of Cleveland ana tarin reform, our eXpeddls
Eel on sl7oeo9.t0e and our imports increased $R-
had got in its deadly Work, exports fell to S7sS,-
So $50, and our visible trade balance fell from
ISIS not until 1897. after the restoration Of the
protective policy, DID we again touch tne eIiion
mark in export trade. That year the total or
exports N.1s2 OO76OS against imports of ssSi'-
7S04l2 leaving favorable trade balance of $751;
The fiscal year of 1898. the first of the Ding.
ley tari1. tremendous advance IN our SAFES SAFES
OF American products to 1oreign consumers: OF
imports had fallen from SS6s g2 in 1888 to ss6-
O4954 in 1898 Here was trade 9aia ans eco "h[n
1899 (seal year, the exports aggregated qo
and the inports az q 100 M S for two
But the brightest and best part Of this wonderful III
story OF expanding trade ana commerce remains 10
be told Under the s wise P9cg Fl the oesc 70
ket we began 10 accomplish the impossible-that
IS Mal 0 We segan to invade the markets Of the
world with our manufactured products How s1cI
statistics OF our sales OF American manufactured
ifS isa1 and ending with 1899 For the first four
years OF that decade we bought from torelgBeIs
more than double the manufactures we SOLD 10
the P9Tta Of this character SPoy wsrs s,5 IN
o0loo Neither the totals nor the pTopGTntG1 n5
of the lower duties soon to come under oo f aS
trade Administration, imports fell on 10 SZsoUVoV5
manufacturer was working of at cut prices ms
Surplus stocks which s AWef bone6f of forsgers
sss8 10000 and sold to them s22S ooooo Of mann n
ana sold more Cs277O0OooO. The pingey tariff then hen
began 10 show its value to nduStry; ie
dropped to S230OOO0OO. because the domestic pro,
foreigners decreased proportion of the goods con-
stunned By Americans. . -. ..,,to.
anres in that year $500 100000, and for the
5rst time N our nls'0Ig o5s than we bought The
difference in our favor was about $50 .09 600 For
5eeord was SURPASSED While we increased to
$3.50 100000 the amount of foreign goo9s pougt i pc
cause our people were now better abe to nouige
their taste for luxuries OF foreign production we
Goods to the outside world
We had sold $50 0oooo more than we had 59psh IT
ne f4Tes aggregate x2es s8T 972 being an
AVERAGE Of sag So 600 per month more than million
dollars per day. against a monthly average OF
our exportg Of manufactures for the current fiscal
scar viii reach the splendid total OF S4O2so4toJ. %
In 1880 our exports OF qaoa no c O
age had risen TO 2s7, almost double the proper
zion of ten years ago This is the record after Two
wears and half of restored protection OF American
labor and industry Of country which free traders
rse5 to tell us was destined by Providence 10 sell
10 the outside world foodstuffs and raw materials
.evcIisivelv. Singular thwarting Of what they
called manifest Destiny
Here we are at the end of the century, the lead
qng industrial ration Of the world second by only
= few million a.llars in the race for commercial
supremacy and year by year piling up huge trace
balances which have already made us creator
nation instead Of debtor nation ana which must
soon make US the leading creditor nation IN chris
Tendom That these tremendous changes In wealth.
credit commerce and industry are in great meas
s1re the ontgroIvth Of our National policy OF pro-
lection now stands admitted by fair minded
ThoughtfIil men the world over. Almost the only
1oaopie on earth who dispute this fact are the free
traders OF our own country. But the American
free trader is neither thoughtful nor fair minced
He could not be thoughtful and fair minded ano
remain a free trader.