The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-01-07

PRESIDENT TAFTS
PREDICTION upheld
Payne Tariff Law Making
Good.
Uncle Sam Will Not Invest in
Artic Steam Boat at
Present.

Washington, ID. c.. Jan 4, 1910
When President Taft in his famed
Winona speech in September said
that the Payne tariff law was the
best tariff law ever enacted by a
Republican Congress and that this
would be demonstrated in the Iworkin
OF the act even some of his admirers
thought that he was extravagent in
his use OF Ia guage. Apparently thhe
President had expert statistical
advice before he made his Winona
utterance for Inc figures are now
at hand which seem to support all MT
TafI's enthusiastic comment on the
Payne law. In the debates Congress
last year Democratic orators predict.
cd that the adoption OF the Payne
schedules would be followed by 9
great loss TO this cbuntry of its
share of the worlds business. It was
predicted that the rates would prove
70 excessive that the1t would be q
material falling off in imports and
that the revenues and commerce OF
the nation would suffet
According TO a stateilent now made
public by the Bureau 81 Statistics the
imports for 1909 were larger than in
any previous year I'M this country's
history. They exceeded in value over
s50,0O0.OO0 the imports FOR 1907, which
heretofore has been regarded as the
batner year Of Amesf'an commerce.
Not only were the Imports greater
last year than ever before but the
statistics show that more foreign
articles entered Amer Jean ports free
OF duty in 1909 than h any previous
year. Articles impdted free wera
of the value of $7qD00,000 as age
of the value Of $7009D00 900 reached
the shores of the United States las.
year. Practically all d the impor tant
countries of the woil} shared in the
increased imports, an increase being
shown at every principal port in the
United States.
Our exports last yef- were approx
mately the value of 81, 75O. 100000 q
slaght decrease ove the preceding
year. Over half of tl,se exports un-
derwent a process of manufacture be-
fore leaving the Unted States and
thus both American dpital and labor
shared in the fruits d this commerce
The year 1909 will alp be remember
ed as the greatest iHour history fol
trade with our non@nriguous terri
tories such as Alafa, the Philip
pines, Hawaii and Hrto Rico. This
noncontiguous trade aggregated abou,
$l73,OOO.OOO of which k7s,OOO.OOo con-
sisted OF exports.
Important data onithe subject OF
snrests of lawbreake1 and the sizes
Of police forces Is co1iined in a bull
letin which has just been issued by
the DIretorc of the i,nsus Under
the head OF arrests, }assified by Of
fenses, il is shown TIT the number
of arrests in 1907 in te 1853 cities Of
this country having population Of
10000 or more, was 1Ss.361. or $751;
10 every 10000 inhabiants. Cities OF
practically the same 81 e show q wide
variation IN the nun}e Of arrests
The bulletin points IN, however
that the total number arrests Is nc
indicatton Of. che fa1e8ness OF q
citys population; 1t 4 rather, re-
Election of varying llal news and
conditions and Of the Icuvity Of the
police department.
Another bulletin is4ed this week
by the Census Bureau lscuss fire de-
partments in the va|ous cities Of
the country. The per pita costs of
maintenance OF fire kparhnents in
foreign cities Is much lower than In
American cities. The kw per capita
cost Of maintenance q bad Is the re-
suit Of stricter buildE regulations,
nure nearly proo4buildings and
greater precautions to fevent the oc-
curence OF fires. In pose cities OF
el,as country for whid complete 10