The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-02-09
HIGHER PRICES HAVE No.
|IERRORS FOR PEOPLE Of.
|LAhO OF UNCLE SAMUEL.

fLhnU VI UNLLE SAMUtL
duB of foreign countries have ap.
pareutly no terrors for the people OF
the United States. Does coffee dou-
Die in price; the people OF the United
states calmly increase tho quantity
imported and trchled the sums paid
Tor it Does sugar advance 50 TO
100 per cent in price; they increase
tire quantity imported and consume
10 larger total than ever before, the
quantities brought into the country
advancing from 100000, 900 pounds
In 1918 to 10000, 900, 600 pounds in
1918, and the wholesale price paid
therefor from 1915 100000 10 $780,.
100000. DO hides and skins show
an increase of SO to Is per cent;
the quantity imported doubles and
the sums paid for the grand total
trebles. The quality still further in
creases and the total imports jump
from $50,0O0,000 in 1913 10 $780,
900 in 1919.
These are some OF the facts re.
vealed by an analysis, by one Of the
large city banks OF New York, Of the
latest import figures-figures which
snow an increase in stated values Of
our imports from sl,77S, 900 900 in
l9l5 10 S3.904 100000 in 1919, an in.
crease OF about 40 per cent on a
short year period.
Prices abroad, says The banks
statement. Of many articles have
do2bled since the close OF the war,
So this fact has not deferred the
people Of the United States in their
importation OF these higher price ar
ticleS, but apparently has rather stim-
uiated consumption than otherwise.
Coffee, as everybody knows, has more
than doubled in the import price in
the single year 1919, advancing from
less than II cents per pound in No
vember 1918 10 q cents per pound
I'm September 1919 yet the quantity
kof coffee brought into the United
States in the year just ended is great.
yer than In any earlier year in the
history Of the trade, and the import
value in 1919 exceeds $3.50 900 900 as
against 500 900 900 in 1918. The price
of cocoa jumped from 10 cents per
pound in November 1918 to 20 per
gents per pound in August 1919, yet
the quantity imported in 1919 exceeds
that OF the preceding year, and the
utIV NNnfI ~ 81
per cent greater than in 1918. Sugar,
as everybody knows, has reached a
price hitherto unheard of, at least in
the memory of the present genera
tion, and hard to get ut that, yet all
The sugar authorities now agree with
The statement that the quantity con-
sumed in the United States i'm 1919
IS "the biggest ever" while official
figures of the government show that
he sums paid for that entering the
ports Of the United States in 1919
Including that from our own islands)
Is approximately $40 100000 against
approximately $3.50 OO0O,O 900 in 1918 and
El57 ,qG0 600 in the year preceding the
war
InN manufacturing materials the ad
Vance in prices has been as great as
hat Of foodstuffs., but this has not
teterred the purchases from abroad
Raw silk, for example, shows an adj
vance in import price from $3.50 per
pound in December, 1913, to an aver.
Age of 1910 per pound in November
sl9, and yet the quantity imported
n 1919 is one.third more than in
he preceding year, and the value OF
The importation about $3.50 900 900 in
e19 against Sl94,000,000 in 1918. Calf
bkins, for which the leather consum
ing population seemed to have sud
aenly developed special taste, have
advanced in price from IS cents per
pound in November 1913 TO G. cents
per pound in November 1919, and not
rithstanding this Quadrupling in
price, the quantity imported has jump
"a from less than 100000 pounds
b. 1913 TO 65,000,00O pounds in 1919
md the value of the imports from So
t0o,0 900 in 1918 TO approximately sSj,
p0O 900 in 1919. Goatskins more thar
Doubled in import price. advancing
ron an average OF A. cents per
bound in December 1915 TO SO cents
ser pound in November, 1919. yet the
Quantity imported jumped from So,
200 900 pounds in 1918. TO 125 900 00(
bounds in 1919, and the value Of thC
4 Expectations from $4,000 900 in 1915
10 $50 600 600 in 1919.