Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-01-24
NO OCCASION FOR IT
FOLLY OF DISTURBING EXISTING
TARIFF LAWS.
Our Domestic and Foreign Trade So
Healthy and Prosperous That Any
Interference Would Seem to Be
Both Unnecessary and Unwise.


| "Our sales to Canada for the fiscal
| year June 80, 1902, were $12O, sos, 956,
against $110, ,OOS for 1901, an in
crease of $1O,324,94S. Our purchases
| of Canadian produce were ST., 196, sos,
against $67, 1885, 26, an increase of 3d.
| 200,779, the net result being a bal
| ance of trade in our favor of $49, $685.
| 457, an increase over last years bal
ance of trade favorable to US of ST.
124,16 AS we have reached this re-
| suit in spite of Canada's preferential
of one-third in favor of Great Britain,
| is there need for us to seriously con-
slider the question of reciprocity with
Canada? Walter ]. Ballard.
Schenectady, N. Y, Dec. Is, 1902
Not only do these facts of trade an
swer in the negative the query, Is
there any need for us to seriously
consider the question of reciprocity
with Canada? but the general facts
of trade and commerce exhibit so
healthy a condition as to negative the
question whether we ought to take
any risks with the great consuming
home market for the sake of possibly
increasing a few lines of exports to
foreign markets. A recent report of
the Treasury Bureau of Statistics
bears upon this point. 1t shows
marked increase of activity in manu-
factures, both in exports and imports.
During the seven months ending with
July, 1902, the expectation of man
ufactures was nearly $40, 0OO, 900 great
er than in the corresponding months
OF the preceding year, and the i'm
portation of manufacturers materials
was $3O,000,000 greater than in the
corresponding months of the proceed
ing year. The expectation of manu-
features during the seven months of
the present year has averaged $685.
10000 per annum, while the importa-
ton of manufacturers materials has
averaged $36,00O,000 per month, or at
the rate of s432, 100000 per annum
Nearly all of the principal manufac-
tured articles exported, except iron
and steel, show an increase in guam
tity, and in most cases in value,
though in a few important articles
the reduction in price per unit of
quantity has brought the value be-
low last years figures, while the
quantity shows an increase. This is
true OF mineral oils, for example, the
exports of which during the seven
months show an increase of over four
million gallons, while the figures of
value show decrease of about ST.
100000.
Among the articles which show a
marked increase in exports are cot
ton goods, the exports of which
amount to nearly 100000 in the
seven months ending with July, 1902
against little less than $4,000, 900
in the corresponding months of 1901
This increase is almost exclusively
in cotton cloths, of which the expor-
tat1ons in the seven months ending
with July, 1902, were S17,O9S4
against $11 ,124,O1S in the correspond
ing months of 1901, the number of
yards exported being 34,S65, 1862 in
the seven months of the present year,
against 207 ,377, 567 in the correspond
ing months of last year. Copper, in
which there was a varied decrease in
the expectations of last year owing to
high prices, now shows a marked in
crease, the figures being S29, O14,21O
for the seven months ending with
July, 1902, against $50, 731 1922 for the
same months of 1901. The chief de-
crease in exports occurs in iron and
steel, the total exports during the sew
en- months of this year being $57 $685. |
304, against SCI, 100, $50 in the CORE
y
reason for this decrease is at once
found in the greater domestic demand
and consequent advance in prices.
On the import side nearly all the |
principal classes of manufacturers |
materials show an increase. Chem
icals increased in imports from $780,
591,372 in seven months of 1901 to |
$50, S31, S77 in the same months of |
1902; imports of raw cotton increased |
from 32,976,4S pounds in seven |
months of 1901 to 61,4SS, 1858 pounds |
in seven months of 1902, the quantity |
having thus nearly doubled OF |
fibers the importations in the seven /
months ending with July, 1901, |
amounted to $15,3S0,7S6, and in the |
corresponding months of 1902 S22, 49,
293. OF hides and skins the figures |
of imports for the seven months of !
1901 were So, 141, 436, and for the |
corresponding months of 1902 $685. |
795,0S3. India rubber shows a slight |
decrease in importations, the total |
having fallen from 34,S99 446 pounds |
in seven months of 1901 to 80 sos 1874 |
pounds in the same months of 1902, |
though the figures of 1902 are con-
siderabiy in excess of those for the |
corresponding months of 1900 Silk |
shows a marked increase, the total |
value of manufactured silk import /
al having increased from $40 100 0oo |