Show PARTY POLITICS contrat revealed by a study of official report official report reports abo shun that protective tariff tariffs have havet bea been la in operation in a the united state states dannog practically one halt half of the on hundred and fifteen years since the adoption of the constitution official statistics how show that during fitly fifty nin runs year years at 0 low tariff there were but ten jear jeers in alcich the tb exports of the country were wore as is great as the imports and that during the th entire fifty nine years of low tariffs the total excess of 0 import imports oter over exports was A study of the commerce of the krotec tire years shows that export exports exceeded imports ju in twenty seven of the fifty two protect protective lye years and arid that the net excess of 0 exports over tui imports porta during that time was aas fa 2 to state it in d form low tariffs in efty i i is year years of operation show a net aes edess of f crix arts rt over exports of ZI MOW while protective tariffs in fifty two years of operation show a net excess of exports over imports of 2 roo W the protective tariffs of fifty two years har have paid the commercial debts of the fifty nine ear ears of low tar iffs effs amouR amounting ting to WO and in addition placed to the credit of or our export trade another striking example of the groath t f our export trade under pro tariff la in found in the he fact that the excess of export exports over imports la the first three years of Pre silent me 1 inley a term was nearly four tunes times its much as the entire excess of 0 exports oter over imports from 1 90 to the begin nii s C of the mckinley administration k rom 1 1790 90 to march J 1 1897 the excess of exports ports over import imports was Ws 0 S from march 1 lt 1107 to manh march I 1 1900 the excess of export exports over import imports was 1 PT A comparison of tl ese figures shows the relative effects of republican protection aad and democratic demoi ratta fret free trade or low tariffs on oa the revenues of the government and the th prosperity of at the country |