Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-01-04
THE BUSY FACTORIES
GRATIFYING EXHIBIT OF STATISTICS
AS TO IMPORTS.

increasing, Quantities of NEanufactur-
crs' Materials an Important Feature
of Our Foreign Trade, whereby Ad-
t;itionai Employment Is Assured.
The bureau of statistics records for
,IanuaIy of this year show that manu-
facturers' materials formed one-half Of
CTR total imports during that month
and about 46 per cent of the imports
fi:' the seven months ended January.
IGIt is very gratifying result il
y.ly of our continually increasing i'm
pJ Is, and the necessity of which eX-
ISIS for the American wage Garner to
ue kept busy.
Z he January proportion of manufac
.ug rs materials was largely in excess
81 hat of January, 1904 The figures
were $49,500,000 against S37,o00,000,
ali increase of $12 100000 in Il single
i.auth, or one-third more. What that
c. third means to the American wage
r.vgers their weekly pay envelopes can
J1st tell.
Ter the seven months ended January,
1864, manufacturers materials formed
- 6, 100000 of our $G26000,000 i'm
pori3 against SOD 100000 of $5G5, ,O00,-
uo1 IN the same months of 1902, an i'll
crt2 e of $32, GOO, or more than half
100000 increase in the total. This
re KIT is in every way comforting, as
tie i'usy American factory means the
bu 5 everything else.
2urif reyisionists should take note of
tic ,ct that of the $3.50, 100000 manu-
i31t@rers' materials imported i'll the
Sevl. months of this fiscal year no less
! lloportion than $19G,000,000 worth
cn,-,2d free of duty.
i,g manufacturers materials is meant
ta-3 rlasses-vi2, ARTICLES in crude
cu&@,tton ready for manufacturing
ans articles wholly or partially man
att@. .rcd, for use in manufacturing.
snu. Increases referred to are almost
e.tirely in the first class. That is still
better for the wage earners and all
cauc' med.
Il Is interesting to note the stages by
which materials for manufacturing
have increasingly entered into our I'M
ports generally. These stages by fiscal
years lre 1920, 1876 per cent; 1850, 2S2
par cent; 1850, 81 per cent; 1900, 40 per
cent. 1905 (seven months), 45.S per
cont, and i'll the single month of Janu-
arg, 1905, J0.1 per cent.
There is another and equally gratify-
!1g siae to the story-the increasing en-
trance of exported manufactures into
o.G General exports. Shipments of
manufactures in January, 1905,
amounted TO S40,513,OO0, or 33.37 per
cent OF t;>a total exports for the month.
I.gi4 eninently desirable proportion has
been reached by the following fiscal
year tages: 1890, Is per cent; 1870,
j. PEI cent; 1890, IT'S per cent; 1900,
81 s lar cent; 1905 (seven monthsy, 81
per cont.
Tor the seven months of this fisca;
yea. exports of manufactures We're
@@0-C. 1000, against S250,000.000 for
The preceding similar months. an in
cease Of So coo 600. In January, 1905,
alone the increase was $2,000,o00
Ile.c increases in manufactures ex-
ported prove the assertion that all con-
ceiue benefit by the increase in man
usdc, gers materials imported.
1t is also worth while noting the
Inns in which this imported material
increase has chiefly occurred. Raw silk
in jan lary 1905, was $5,637, ,000, an in
crease over January, 1904, of $780,,
0JG; wool, 25,000,0O0 against 100000
p2unds; india rubber, 26,447 900
against 20,S9O,000, an increase of $5,-
55T, ,0o0; hides, $34 1000 against $21,-
T0S,0Co, an increase of $G,T31 900 (yet
MaSs. chusetts is sectionally clamoring
against the tariff on hides and tin, in
pigs, lars, blocks, etc. mot in tin man
rfactuces), 3,G21 900 against 39,714,0o0
pounds.
the9e things being so, we need not
,rocry but rather rejoice that congress
adjourned without disturbing the
american factory and business gener-
ally sy hasty interference with the
Dinghy protective tarii,-Walter j.
Ballard