Show OUR F I 1 TRADE HOW IT HAS BEEN influenced ED BY THE NEW TARIFF LAW great increase in exports and nd noam poking lin import ports during isol 1891 new alar opened to our ra farmer and 9 uni given to our sufficient time has now elapsed to justify an accor accounting with the mckinley tariff for the purpose of determining what its influence has been on ou foreign trade tho the summary statement of imports and exports for november makes a detailed comparison of foreign commerce between the eleven months ending nov 30 and the corresponding period of 1890 the first striking thing that appears is the great increase in exports of domestic C products amounting to over in the eleven months of last year nearly of this increase was in products of agriculture this certainly does not look as though our farmers are shut 0 out ut of foreign markets by the new law an am increase of appears in our exports of domestic manufacture another class of goods which the was sure could not be exported after the mckinley bill became law but the comparison of imports is still more significant it is simply amazing ani azin d the quantities of goods that managed to get in since mckinless McKin leys chinese wall was erected against them in the first place our people brought in free of duty in food products in these eleven months under tho the mckinley tariff against in the eleven elo ven months under the old law this too notwithstanding that during three of 0 f the months considered sugar still bore a duty these figures indicate that our people are able to buy and are consuming more delicacies under the new law crude materials for manufacture were admitted free to the value of as a against 1 9 ainah in 1890 which indicates indic tes when taken in connection with the fact that imports of manufactures fac tures were reduced by duties from to that the people received increased employment making from imported materials the things formerly imported in a manufactured form forin the increase in articles manufactured and partially manufactured aut ut used as materials in domestic industry stry from in 1890 to I 1 in 1891 also indicates expansion n in domestic manufacturing turing such are A re the effects of the new tariff on the articles of the free list competing products the like of which can and are produced at home by our own labor show quite different results they went from in I 1 1890 to last year a fall of tho the striking items among the classes of dutiable imports are articles manufactured and ready rea for P tion which fell from tc to under the new duties ano allo articles of voluntary use and luxuries W which fell from to the former class of articles we want to make for ourselves the things among the latter which we cannot cann ot produce are fit objects for customs duties the total imports for the eleven months under the new tariff were greater by 4 8 than the average for the five pro pra C ceding eding similar periods the comparison does not in the slight est eat degree alegree bear out the free traders calamitous prophecies made before anc just after the law was passed neither have exports been retarded nor imports excluded every figure points to a healthy prosperous growing condition condi tiu 0 of our foreign trade it differs from ahe e expansion that would temporarily result from free trade in that it comes without sacrificing the home market and without detriment to our own producers |