The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-07-29
A REPUBLICAN ARGUMENT
Foreign Trade Breaks Record. Sta
tistics Just Issued Exhibit
Increase

The foreign commerce Of the United
States in the fiscal year 1904 is the larg-
est in its history; the exports of manu-
factures are larger than in any proceed
ing year, the exports of domestic pro-
ducts exceed those OF any other coun-
try.
This is the substance in a single sem
tence OF the record of the years COM
merce just announced by the depart
ment of commerce and labor through
its bureau of statistics. 1t shows, taking
up the figures in detail, that the total
exports during the year ending June 80
1904, are 81, 460, 1925, ,539 against 81, ,420,-
14l, ,679 in the fiscal year 1908, an in
crease of $40, ,6s7, $50; that the imports
for the year are 1890, 745,oS4 against 81,
OPS, 719, ,237 in 1903 decrease of S34, ,974-
1853; and that the excess of exports over
imports is s470, ,os4, 455 against 1894, ,422-
442 in 1903, an increase of $75,662,013
Comparing the figures of 1904 with
those OF earlier years, it may be said
that the total exports are larger than in
any preceding year except 1901, that the
imports are greater than in any preced-
ing year except 1908; and that the total
commerce-the imports and exports
combined-in 1904 is greater than that
OF any preceding year. The total COM
merce of the year amounts to 81, 45l, 574,
623 against 2,442, ,s6O,9l6 in 1908 and
SO, $40, ,937, ,l56 in 1901, the years in
which the imports and exports respec-
lively made higher records than those
of 1904. Thus, while neither imports
nor exports for 1904 reach the high
record of single earlier year the total
of imports and exports combined in 1904
exceeds the total commerce of any ear
lier year.
In manufactures the exports of the
year will make their highest record.
While the figures Of manufactures ex-
ported for the full fiscal year 1904 have
not yet been completed by the bureau OF
statistics, the fact that the IL months
figures already completed exceed by
S17 ,0O0, 900 those of the corresponding
period of record year, 1900, makes it
apparent that total exports of manufac-
lures in 1904 will be greater than those
of any preceding year.
1t is also apparent that the exports OF
domestic products from the United
States in the fiscal year just ended will
exceed those of any other country. The
United Kingdom is, next to the United
States, the worlds largest exporter OF
domestic products, and until within re-
cent years surpassed the United States
in its total. During recent years, how
ever, the United States has rapidly
gained upon and finally overtaken the
United Kingdom in the race for su-
premacy as an exporter of domestic
products.
The first year in which the exports of
domestic products from the United
States exceeded those from the United
Kingdom was 1898, the excess in our
favor that year being sos, 100000 In
1899 the pendulum swung the other
way, the exports from the United King
dom exceeding those from the United
States by about s35, 5,000,000
In 1900 those from the United States
exceeded those from the United King
dom by about s35,O0o,0 900. In the year
ending June so, 1902, those of the Unit
ed States exceeded those of the Unit
ed Kingdom by about Ss,000,000. In
the fiscal year 1908 the United Kingdom
was again to the front, her total OF do
mestic exports exceeding that of the
United States by s22, 900, 900. In the
fiscal year 1904 the United States will
apparently be again in the lead, since
figures of eleven months already in
hand show for that period an excess of
s3S, 600, 900 in favor of the United States.
The following table shows the total
imports and exports from the United
States and excess of exports or imports
in each fiscal year from 1890 to 1904;
Excess OF ex
ports over
Years Imports Exports. imports
1890 IS 7ss,slO, 400 s s57,s2s,ss4 os,5ls,275
1891 s449lo,1e6 ss4,4S0,sl0 1854 GA
1892 s27. .4O2, ,fs2 1,osO.27SI4s eO2,s75,es6
1898 500 4Oo,es2 si7,se5,194 as. .735.727
1894 654994,e22 s92,l40,579 2ST. ,e5s
1895 7sf, ,e69,965 s07.5ss,i65 1856, 200
lss6. 77s,72s,674 ss3,oOo,9ss 1o2, ,ssa. .a64