Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-26
1T rs UNPARALLELED.
WAVE OF PROSPERITY STILL
ROLLING IN.
The Dingley Tariff Bill Has Brought
Good Times to Nearly EverybOdy-
The Tremendous Balance of Trade
in Our Favor.

The third full year of the Dingley
tariff finds the total volume OF our
foreign commerce far beyond the two
billion-dollar mark, with exports OF
more than 81 500, 900 900, or about
5000, ,000, 900 more than for 1899, and an
apparent trade balance of about so5o'-
100000 in our favor. Here Is ire
mendous increase over all previous
records of trade and commerce I'M
ports have increased, too, though not
in the same proportion, and we nave
been more liberal buyers than ever De
fore of foreign commodities true
these commodities are largely non-du-
table and non-competitive articles re-
quired for use in American manu1ac-
lures; and with the exception or a
few luxuries or fads we are ouylne
3 of foreign goods that are as weh
or better made at home. Commenting
on these remarkable conditions the
Chicago Inter Ocean says:
In the light of these facts ana
figures and the events of the last elgnt
years, it would be interesting to learn
what the wise men OF the cleveland
period really think of their system OF
political economy. To paraphrase
celebrated free trade epigram, they are
confronted with conditions, not the-
cries. Professor Sumner and MS
school would have told us, say twelve
years ago, or even six years ago, tnal
the Protective policy of the Republican
party would within a decade. close
the markets of the world against our
products and manufactures, paralyze
our industries and pauperize our work
ingmen. They not only would have
+ n tnl
what is even more to the point, they
proved to the satisfaction of millions
of our people that they were right.
"Yet the prosperity which these aca-
denies promised would come under a
reversal of the protective policy did
not materiaIize; on the contrary, some
of the cruelest years of the republic fol-
lowed the practical application of their
theories by Mr. Cleveland And now.
in spite of the stone WALL the Re
publican party erected around the
country; in spite of the "barbarous
methods in economic reasoning en-
ployed by the Republican party; in
spite of "the perversion of the natural
laws of trade" by the Republican
party; in spite of the refusal of the ma
ton to be guided by the learned doc
trinaires of the great universities,
our exports to foreign countries this
year bid fair to reach the amazing to-
tai of $1,000, 900 900, or s600,0oo,0O0 in
excess of our imports"
Add to this enormous bulk OF for
eign trade, by many hundreds of mil
lions greater than any the country
ever knew under free trade or low
tariff policies, the stupendous increase
that has taken place in purely do
mestic trade between 76,000.000 of the
best paid and most liberal buying peo-
PIE on the face of the earth-an in
crease that must be measured by bill
lions of dollars-and you have an as-
gregate of prosperity so huge that to
compute it takes ones breath away.
1t makes the academicians look ex-
tremely silly. 1t ought to make them
keep still. But it doesn't. There are
lots OF them left yet who will tell you
that a protective tariff is a clog upon
domestic trade and foreign commerce.
Queer people. these academicians!