Evening journal., 1915-09-23

II share in supplying the European begerents with
breadsufs he will study the export figures just pub
lshed by the Department OF Commerce. comparing the
months of the calendar year 1915 with
period for 1914. when Europe was at peace The fol-
lowing table will confirm him in the knowledge that
the war and not the Democracy or Secretary Redheld
has fattened his bank
Exports 1914 1915
Corn. bush ....... 57s11Oi 3s655636
Value .......... s 4.317.oi6.OO St4S97s4OO
Average price -. TAI si4
Oats, bush. ....... 1229O62 71,65S736
Value ......... 471.575oO Ao9os45oo
Average price asa SIS
Wheat bush ..... 55sl409s t2S,2O21h
Value ..,.......$52 527227s90O $1s49s6,03to0
Average price 945 $50
Flour bbls. . 6o5sn7 9s96726
Value ........... .$27SS917A00 612S29sOO0
Average price $50 $50
On the other hand If he wishes TO ascertain the fall
ing off in the demand for these articles when
Europe was at peace, and when the American market
thrown wide open to grsn-growing countries by
the free foodstuns provisions Of the Underwoodta
law he should compare the first months of the year
1914, before the began. with the period for
1913 under Republican laws.
For the first seven months Of 1913 we exported A.
25OOOO bushels corn an average price 81 cents
This low price due TO the world bumper crop
Of 1912 We exported oats TO the amount of 100000
bushels, average price of 80 cents; wheat 461SOOOO
bushels price 9S cents; flour $500 900 barrels
average price S462 Our total exports of breadstuhs
for 1913 valued at $11S,7OO00O compared with
s91.OO0.OOO for 1914
Considering the FIVE other groups mentioned in the
departments report for this months period; We
exported cottonseed oil 10 the value OF $l27000OO in
1913 s. 100000 in 1915 cattle hogs and sheep $751;
600, in 1913 and s629OOO in 1914; meat and dairy
products, s957OooOO 1913, $7iSOOOOO in 1914. The
total export value Of these products together with
breadsufs 1928 OS7 900 in 1919 and S171 S29 OOO
in 914, falling off in the value Of these exports Of
S5625SOOO in months under the Democratic ad-
minstration. There increase in the expectation
of mineral oil in 1914 1913 Of nearly s4OOOOOO.
The value of cotton exported in 1914 nearly $685.
900 600 more than that of 1913. This was due to two
First. the boom in the cotton industry abroad
which began as soon as the American market was
placed at the mercy Of the foreign manufacturers and
cheap of England and Europe, by The Underwood
law and the consequent increased foreign demand for
our cotton and second depression the cotton in
dustry in this country when foreign competition COM
menced to be felt and the domestic for cotton
fell Off
OF course the only beneficiary Of this Democratic leg
isation on cotton manufactures the South. which
during its entire history a cotton growing section
has fought for free trade with view to increasing the
sale of that product without the slightest consider
alton for the manufacturers OF the North Other pro-
ducts Of the South manufactured and agricultural,
we're given protection in the Underwood law which
was uniformly denied the Northern and Western pro-
ducers Il was a law for the South framed by legis-
lators from the South and signed by President born
and reared in the South and never politically accli-
matized elsewhere