Show WORK IT HAS CAUSED A DECREASE OF EXPORTS OF FARNI FARM PRODUCTS some I 1 laurem it il nl re it startling mart log CO AljOn f rm thu of tile Is ii it a firmed tid ond AL ShI hi till it was wag mr prediction that hat thy mcaninley bill N not open oien a market for a bingle barrel of poi boik k or bushel of wheat it lias has been s shown iown t t oven even with the reciprocity ilia maikut wai ket for is falling off and the same flory etory is ia true of most of our beeland beef and hog bog products end of our butter and ami cheese not only is reciprocity not helping the th farmer to a larger market but the nat ural increase inc of exports of his product 3 the increase that was going on before be fore the mckinley bill was conceived lin hai been stopped and a decrease has taken its place the following table shows the growth in in exports of the principal arti articles chos of f provisions in the twenty years from 18 0 to 1800 1890 ir 0 islai as ling hoe products beer products G croli iso dairy products 62 bm ia after this came the mckinley y act with its potent reciprocity blessings and an J with the following insults le ie ahoo IM 11 products 1401 la W acif isia dairy products 9 yhu vm ih there was a falling off in hog and dairy products while the increase in tile the value of beef products was about abou tG G liD OOOO loss im than was demanded by tile the normal rate of increase prevailing for the rhe twenty years between 1870 and asiu this general decline of the business 0 oi exporting provisions continues tin th official returns for september are nok before us and they are anything but bill satisfactory ati factory to the f farmer armer who has been basin basing his bis hopes on the reciprocity provisions s of the mckinley law the following table shows the quantities of certain dairy beef and ho hog products exported in september awl aul september iboa 1892 11 1 cattle no aa W ilo li aloas llo calKo NO 85 c allol jl beef crebb lbs ibs 1801 Gc A beer beef etc abs ibal Ib sl aa IVA ai flacon ibn kitak lard A 1 ibi 24 n I 1 ast jt I 1 butter nit ter lbs lb 3 cloete ibs tito tho decline has been so long continued that it lias has reduced tho ilia total exports eions of some of these articles for the eleven months ending sept SO 30 as the following table will show 1892 1891 canned beef lbs 7 9 salt t beef bee f 1 I its ibs lbs the statistics for dairy products fire are made up for five months only but they they show that in that period ending sept au J the exports of butter were Nvere less by pound coundi than tor for tile corre bp period of 1891 now as to the lie prices the exports of cattle increased in number but the average price per head licad in 1893 1892 was about sixty ei eight 1 lit dollars and in 1891 about ciglio glit dollars while notwithstanding tile the higher price of cans the price of canned beef remained about the ho same suited salted meat ineat bruu brought 5 cents in 1893 1892 and a little more than 51 5 cents in 1891 hogs flogs brought 7 7 2 in 1892 and VJ cell in ibal breth meat brought st S i cents in 1892 1 and 3 cents in 1891 aliis is alie sli owing made bythe by the official statistics of the operation of jug handled reciprocity on the business of oi exporting ions it is i noteworthy nutem orthy tact fact that I 1 ahe he tribune lias has finally conn conic to lie agu conclusion that it was tot nut thu tho mckinley MK iley law that was for the large exhortations exportations of adsluf ff tit in 1891 but the largo lare crop at home hoino and the short crops abr abroad uarl ILi 11 i caches th alir further conclusion also that the larr larn crop is account ible for the full fall in price prices f the ilia law cannot such simple and fundamental laws nt III nature what good ib to it I 1 10 0 the farmei far mci e was the act not intended to beat alv ahr laws of nature and is not the fanner taxed on oil his clothes and other hect saries of life i in a older that tile the prices price of or hii hi i chops may advance ad vinco the tribune is resorting to the law of nature not by way of ic turning 0 to a sound mind but to reconcile tho fat fanner mer to tho the loss of liis his export trade put gut what can call ile be its explanation of this decline lit in provisions ions thero was no ito unusual crop of bacon beef butter and elleew in ill 1691 on a the contrary it ha lias been shown that with the hie exception of beef ilia hie exports of these articles fell ort off flout 1591 to 1891 while A hile as to beet breef tho the increase of exports N as ai not up to the normal the truth iii 19 that the I 1 ity oan lias has not helped bellied the farmer fanner to a foreign market for any of ins li s products and the pretense that it docs davs licup tell him is nothing more nor less than gro gros groia s igno ignorance railLe or or arrant lying new mew york world |