Milford chronicle., 1915-09-24

the same period for 1914. when Europe
was at peace. The following table will
confirm him in the knowledge that the
war, and not the Democracy, or Secra-
tary Redfield, has fattened his bank ac-
count:
Exports. 1914 1915.
Corn, bushel. ....... 57Sl102 636
Value. e..........-. $l'3l70l5 S3l439.7si
Average price. "a re 81 .ic
Oats. bushel...... 229062 71G5s.736
Value. ........... S4tl.5t5 Sii030,345
Average price. 9i5c SL50
Flour, barres...... 6056.4l7 9396.726
Value. ST, Ss9i1l4 Sol. .z32 $50
Average price St6O 652
On the other hand if he wishes to as
certain the falling Off in the demand for
these articles when Europe was at peace,
and when the American market was
thrown wide open to grain growing coun-
tries by the free foOdstutfs provisions
of the Underwood tariff law, he should
compare the first seven months of the
year 1914, before the war began, with
the same period for 1913 under Repubh-
can laws.
For the first seven months of 1913 we
exported ~, $50, 900 bushels Of corn at
an average price of 81 cents. This low
price was due to the worldwide bumper
crop Of 1912. We exported oats to the
amount Of 4,S00, 600 bushels. average
price of 80 cents wheat as, 18O, 600 bush
els, average price 50 cents flour, 6, 500
600 barrels, average price $462. Our
total exports of breadstuffs for 1913
were valued at Sis, 100000 compared
with S91 600, 600 for 1914.
Considering the five other groups men
toned in the Department S report for
fhf- roanrafH- v.arsif,I
cOttonseed oil to the value of SD. zoo. 600
in 1913, IS, 400 600 in 1914; cattle. hogs
and sheep S9S7 000, 1913, and S629. 600,
in 1914; meat and dairy products, S95,
ZOO, ,0OO, 1913, S7l, 800, 600 in 1914. The
total export value of these products, to-
gether with breadstuifs, was S22S, 0S7,
900 in 1913, and Sl7l, 1923, 600, in 1914, or
a falling off in the value of these ex-
ports of S56, 25S. 600 in seven months
under the Democratic Administration.
There was an increase in the eXporta-
tiOn of mineral oil in 1914 over 1914 Of
nearly 100000
The value of cotton exported in 1914 /
was nearly S35, 600, GOO more than that
of 1913. This was due to two causes
First, the boom in the cotton industry /
abroad which began as soon as the |
market was placed at the
mercy of the foreign manufacturers and /
cheap labor of England and Europe. by
the Underwood law, and the consequent
foreign demand for our cotton,
and, second, the depression in the cotton
industry in this country, when foreign
commenced to be felt, and
The domestic demand for cotton fell Off.
OF course the only beneficiary of this
Democratic legislation on cotton manu- \
iactures was the South, which during i
IS entire history as a cotton growing
section has fought for free trade, with
/ view to increasing the sale of that pro-
luct, and without the slightest cohsid-
,ration for the manufacturers of the
North. Other products of the South,
and agricultural, were
given a protection in the Underwood
aw which was uniformly denied the
Northern and Western producers. ICII
vas a law for the South, framed by leg
slatOrs from the South, and signed by
President born and reared in the South
nd never politically accomplished else
where.