Charlevoix county herald., 1907-05-25
HAMPERED
PROOF THAT INDUSTRIAL INDUS
TRIES DO NOT NEED REVISION.
Witness an Output of $4,000, 200, 900
From Our Mills and Factories in
1906 and More Than 100000, 900
Worth Of American Manufactures
Sold Abroad.

A coterie of Massachusetts Repub
lican congressman have been endeav
oring to get a Republican caucus t
declare in favor of tariff revision by
an extra session of congress in the
spring or summer of 1907. But they
have failed to interest any consider
| able number of their party friends in
their chamber in this idea. Instead
or securing majority of the Republi
cans or the house to sign their petit
ton for a caucus they have not got
a twentieth of them. They pretend tC
be still hopeful but it is easy to see
that they cannot get a support fol
their project which will give it any
standing in Republican congress
Some of these immediate revisionists
intimate that if they had begun their
PROSECUTING work six months earlier
they would have obtained an express
sion of the house caucus at the open
Ing or the present session, which
would have sent revision bill to the
president before the term ends. This
is wild notion. In the three months
to which the short session is restricted
there is not enough time for such
important legislation outside of the
IA regular money bills of the govern
ment, and the other routine matters
which are transacted in every session.
There would have been not the slight
est chance in this session for the en-
actment of any new legislation which
would provoke anything like the pro-
tracted discussion that a tariff revi-
sion bill would be sure to call out.
Nor is there the faintest chance that
any tariff revising will be done in the
congress which was elected in 1906,
and which will come into official exist
ence on March 4. There will be no
extra session of that congress. All the
Republican leaders, from President
Roosevelt downward, are against any
Dental election of 1908. Nothing but
a pressing demand in which a large
majority of the people are interested
ever justifies the calling of congress
in an extra session.
There is no popular demand for tar
The country is more prosperous than
it ever has been in the past All the
great interests are buster than ever
before. The output of iron and steel
these days is passing all former fig
ures. Our foreign trade for the cal
I00c An0
900 mark. We lead England in the
extent of our exports, and England
led the world until we got ahead of
her. Our imports and our exports
are breaking all our records. Our
domestic commerce is harder to COM
pute. 1t eludes our statisticians. U.s.
ually, however, it is estimated to be
about ten times as great as our for
eign commerce. For the calendar year
1906 the home trade of the United
States must have been in the neigh
borhood of $4,000, 100000.
One of the Massachusetts Republi-
can congressman who is asking the
extra session to revise the tariff, says:
Our manufacturers are hampered by
the present duties on many products,
and demand tariff changes. None of
the figures which are available will
bear out this view. The value of the
products of the mills and factories of
he country was SIS 100000, 900 for the |
year 1906, as compared with |
S13, 900, 100000 in 1900, and $9,000,000,- |
700 in 1890 In the 20 years since |
1886, while the population of the coun-
ry has been growing about "A per
cent, the value of the output of the
factories and mills has been
Increasing more than 100 per cent.
And we are selling more of our fab
les abroad than we did a few years
Igo. In the calendar year 1906 the
exports of our factories amounted to
'ver 500 100000 This is much more
han three times the expectation of
goods ten years ago. In
he decade in which the country's pop
Ilation has grown about % per cent
IS sales of manufactured goods abroad
ave expanded over 200 per cent
the exports of manufac-
ures are growing faster than are
hose of any other class of articles.
While the manufactures exports
mounted to 26 per cent of the coun-
rvs aggregate exports of all sorts of
GODS in 1896, they amounted to over
per cent of the aggregate ship
lents in 1906. These facts show that
ur factories are not cramped in any
angerous way by the present tariff
chedules. They also show why there
, no popular demand for tariff revi-
ion by the incoming congress, either
l extra or regular session.-St. Louis
Very Much Past