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imports of Class 3 are, with the exception of two con- 

 densed items. The first of these is "Other animal mat- 

 ter." The products that chiefly make up this item are 

 bristles, crude; feathers and down, crude; hair; glue; 

 hide cuttings and other glue stock; grease; bones and 

 hoofs. "Other vegetable matter" is the second con- 

 densed item. Its parts are made up principally of hay, 

 hops, nursery stock and seed. 



How pitifully small the value of the importations of 

 Class 3 look when compared with home production. The 

 former seem little more than a drop in a full bucket. 

 "Animals alive, not including sheep, "imports $3,166,000; 

 value of the same in the United States, $3,022,975,000. 

 "Meat products," imports $1,215,000; value slaughtered 

 in the year the census was taken, 1899, nearly $190,000,- 

 000. " Breadstuff s," imported $1,804,000; grown in the 

 United States in one year $1,478,000,000. "Dairy prod- 

 ucts," imports $1,814,000; produced in the United States 

 $472,000,000. And so on throughout the list. What pos- 

 sible effect could the slight values imported have? 



Note how insignificant is the revenue derived by gov- 

 ernment from importations of Class 3 in 1900 : animals, 

 in round numbers, $883,000; breadstuffs, $377,000; pro- 

 visions, including meat and dairy products, $920,000; 

 vegetables, $1,042,000. Compare with these figures the 

 revenue derived from the importation of manufactured 

 goods : cotton in 1900, $22,000,000 ; iron and steel, $7,800,- 

 000; leather and manufactures of, $4,600,000; woolen 

 goods, $14,000,000. The revenue derived by government 

 from all manufactured goods imported ready for con- 

 sumption was between $90,000,000 and $100,000,000. 



With the facts before us showing to what an extremely 

 small extent protection is thrown over the articles pro- 



