Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-07-13
COAL, IRON AND TIN.
THREE GREAT INDUSTRIES HAVE
DEVELOPED.

DEVELOPED.
Production I'm the United States, Unde1
a Protective Tariff, Has Far Exceeded
That of Other Countries-Activity In
Our Factories.
Three great industries-coal, iron and
tin p%late-have made especial progress
under the development of u manufac.
turing system, coal production being OF
itself u 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 a low tariff, only increased from
115,OOO,O00 tons to 226,O0O,000 tons, OF
a little less than 100 per cent, Ger
many. which adopted a protective tar
iff about the middle Of the period un.
der consideration, has increased her
coal output from 36,O00,O00 tons to 144,-
100000 tons-a growth of 300 per cent.
France, also a protection country, in-
creased her output from 14,697,6S6 tons
in 1868 to 30, 74S,644 tons in 1898, an
increase Of $50 per cent. The United
States, which has been constantly UNI
der Il protective tariff law during that
period with the exception of three
years., increased her output from 3D.
G4S,9G0 tons in 1868 to 25S,539,G50 tons
IN 1S99-an increase of over 100 per
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
ly all of this enormous increase, our ex-
ports of coal averaging less than 3 per
cent. of our total production, while
Great Britain has been for years a large
exporter of coal.
Our production in 1894, the year in
which the free trade tariff was enact
ed, fell to 1%70,00O,O0O tons as against
lS2,OO0,OOO in the preceding year, and
the value of the product fell from $685.
100000 in 1893 to $1S6,OOO,OOO in 1894,
a loss in ii single year of $22,OOO,O 900 in
this one article in which labor forms SO
Important a part of it's value.
In 1891, under protection and the ac-
tivity of the great industries of the
country, the average number of days in
which the men in the coal mines Of the
United States We're employed was 232.
In 1893, the year in which a low-tariff
President and Congress came into
power, the number. of days in which
fhA minors yvnr,n ofnn1NN.,l 1vonyOI tn
POI, and in 1894 dropped again to 17S;
while in 1897, the last year of the Will
son tariff, the number was but 40, g
reduction of 20 per cent. in the time in
which they We're employed as COM
pared with 1891. The figures for 1893
show IL marked increase in the num-
Der of days employed and an increase
OF $4,000 men as compared with 1893;
while 1t is apparent that the figures for
s will, when completed. show a
much larger increase. since the product
in 1899 was 39,000.O0 tons greater than
in 1898, and s ,0OO.O00 greater than in
1871, an increase of nearly 20 per cent.
in production and 20 per cent. in value
of the product.
Il lIOi ~ OutiCtlOl III lilG UulCGu
States has increased from 3,S335,191
tons in 1880 to 1890. 703 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 600 tons.
In 1893, the year OF the Inauguration of
Democracy and free trade, it fell to
7,124,000 tons; in 1894 to G,G57. 900 tons,
and in 1S96 was but S.623,O0O tons. The
year 1897, in which protection was
again adopted, showed an increase to
tons, and in 1899 an increase
to 1920, 1O3 tons. Thus the fall from
the last year Of President Harrison to
1894. the year in which the Democratic
tariff was enacted. was 2,490,G 22 tons.
or % per cent. while the increase of
1899 over 49,, the last full year under
the Democratic tariff, was 4,997,578
tons, or 81 per cent.
The average annual price of steel
rails during the period of protection.
from 1880 to 1899, fell from $3.50 in
1850. to $2S.12 in 1893. In 1894. the
year in which the low tariff was adopt
cd, there vas n fall of 81 per ton. but
the price returned to $2S in 1896, drop.
ping to $3.50 in 1897, the year in
which the protective tariff was again
adopted, $17.G2 in 1898, and returned in
1919 to $2S.12, the figure ut which it
stood in 1893 and 1896.
Under this long period of protection
and the development OF the manufac-
turing industries which accompanied 1t.
the imports of iron and steel fell from
$71, 2G6, 600 to $12. 100000, and the man.
ufacturcrs, besides supplying the emo
nous addition to the home market.
which this reduced importation i'm
plies, also increased their expectation
of iron and steel manufactures from
$14. 1864 in 1880 to 500, 716,O31 in
1899. In the year 1900 the total will
amount to $12O,OOO.OOO. or more than
eight times that of 1880.
Result of Protection.
Democrats used to say that Europe
would not buy American goods il we
I'm rrnd Out EurOnnon roodc NV