A PROTECTIVE TARIFF AND EXPORTS. 



CHAPTER XXII. 



A PROTECTIVE TARIFF AND EXPORTS. 



GRANT, NEB., December 4, 1874. 

 To the Editor of the Inter- Ocean. 



If manufacturers in this country require such a high Protective tariff, how can 

 they afford to send their goods to the Eastern Continent, and there compete with 

 foreign manufacturers? Please answer in the Weekly Inter-Ocean. P. FORD. 



AS yet, a very small fraction of our finished products is ex- 

 ported to the Eastern Continent. We have made a beginning 

 in that way, and it is increasing ; but the great bulk of our exports 

 of manufactures goes to foreign countries on the Western Continent, 

 and to the adjacent islands. For example, we exported, during the 

 fiscal year 1874 various passenger and freight cars for railroads to 

 the number of 1,083. Of these, 6 went to Belgium, 10 to Ger- 

 many, 12 to England, and i to Scotland, or only 29 in all to 

 Europe. The rest were distributed, 81 to the Argentine Republic, 

 31 to Brazil, 18 to Central American States, 286 to Chili, 222 to 

 Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, 188 to Quebec and Ontario, 32 

 to Mexico, 68 to Peru, 67 to Cuba, 10 to the United States of Co- 

 lombia, and 51 to Uruguay, or 1,054, being more than 97 per 

 cent, of all, to ports in North and South America and Cuba. How- 

 ever, we send large quantities of clocks, sewing machines, agricul- 

 tural implements, and some other articles to the Eastern Conti- 

 nent. 



A comparatively small part of our exports takes the form of 

 fabrics. During the fiscal year 1874 we exported domestic pro- 

 ducts to the enormous value of $693,039,054. Of this vast sum 

 $3,310,388 represented living animals, $161, 198,864 breadstuffs, 

 $211,223,580 raw cotton, $41,103,516 petroleum of various grades, 

 $78,328,990 provisions, $2,758,933 spirits of turpentine, $8,135,- 

 320 tallow, and $32,968,528 tobacco and its manufactures, making 

 a total of $539,028,119, the whole being either raw materials or 



