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respects to manufactured textiles alone, wille xpress the 
increase more readily than it can be done in words: 
Imports. Woolens. Cottons. Silks. Linen & Flax. Hemp. 
1882 ....... $9,992,424 $10,899,653 $9,248,907 $4,078,161 $1,640,618 
1886........ 21,080,008 17,876,087 22,980,212  9807,4938 8,065,807 
In many other articles the gain was proportionable. 
In the single one of sugar, the advance, during the 
same period, in the value of the import was from two 
to twelve millions of dollars. The aggregate value 
of imports in 1886 was $189,980,035; the ageregate 
duties $30,991,510; and the average per centum of 
duties on imports 16,3;3;. The sales of the public lands 
went on. The gradual reduction of the tariff of 1833 
did not, therefore, bring down the public revenues to 
the scale of expenditure, and a surplus of twenty- 
eight millions of dollars accumulated and was depos- 
ited with the states. 
An exigency, however, was approaching, which 
rendered it necessary to increase the duty on imports. 
The pecuniary revulsion of 1887 fell upon the 
country. In that year the imports of woolens sunk 
to $8,500,292, and in the succeeding year it rose to 
only $11,512,920. Other imports decreased in a 
somewhat corresponding ratio. The sale of public 
lands fell off. The government debts were increasing, 
and all saw that under the pressure of the times, the 
manufacturers could not possibly sustain themselves 
under the minimum of protection to be reached by 
the “compromise tariff.” This led to the tarifls of 
1841 and 1842, and to the changes they made in the 
duties on wool and woolens. 
The one year tariff of 1841 left the 20 per centum 
duties on woolens undisturbed, but struck out the 
