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Wholesale prices of boots and shoes.

[From Dun's Review.]

years immediately following its application.

quarter of each year
wholesale prices of boots and shoes of
from the be-

prices to the consumer.
ginning of 1897 to 1904.
various grades, in each
increase in wages and general activity of business, and could not
have been caused by the tariff since no advance occurred in the
no advance during the first four years of the operation of that
slight advance in the past three years, this has been due to the
Democrats that this would advance the price of boots and shoes.
per cent on hides of cattle, and it was, of course, predicted by the
act, thus showing that the tariff did not cause any increase in
It will be seen, however, from a study of this table, that there was
This table shows the
While it is a fact that there has been a
The Dingley act placed a duty of 15

Prices of Boots and Shoes Under the Wilson and Dingley TariffsThe Duty on Hides Did Not Affect Prices.

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Progress of manufactures in the United States-Comparative summary, 1850 to 1900, with per cent of increase for each decade.

[From the United States Census of 1900, Report on Manufactures, part 1, page xlvii.]

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(5) $3,396,823,549

$631,225,035

$1,028,035,611

62.9

$5,162,044,076

$7,348,144,755

85.8 141.2

36.5

74.5

52.0 42.3 38.9

$555,123,822 $1,031,605,092 $2,488,427,242

Value of products including custom work and repairing $1,019,106,616 $1,885,861,676 $4,232,325,442 $5,369,579,191

$9,372,437,283 $13,014,287,498 85.1 124.4 26.9

*Includes for comparative purposes, 85 governmental establishmets in the District of Columbia having products valued at $9,887,355, the statistics of such establishments for 1890 not being separable. **Includes proprietors and firm members, with their salaries; number only reported in 1900, but not included in this table. (3) Not reported separately.

(4) Decrease.

(5) Not reported.

Wage-earners, average number.

Total wages.....

Men, 10 years and over....

Wages

Women, 16 years and over.

Wages

Children, under 16 years.

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Total value of imports and exports into and from the United States from October 1, 1789, to June 30, 1905. [Compiled from publications of the Bureau of Statistics.]

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THE BRITISH TARIFF.

[Hon. J. T. McCleary, of Minnesota, in Congressional Record.]

Since 1846 Great Britain has collected her duties on imports under the policy advocated by the Democratic party. Let us see how the policy is operated there and what the results are.

For the information of those who may not have convenient access to the Statesman's Year Book, I submit the following table showing the sources of revenue of the government of Great Britain for national purposes for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1903, the latest for which data can be had. (In the Year Book the amounts are expressed in pounds sterling. A pound sterling is worth a few cents less than $5. For convenience of computation I have called it exactly $5 in translating the English money into American money for the purposes of this table.)

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The above does not include the revenue received from the postoffice and the telegraph, from the crown lands, from interest on Suez Canal shares owned by the British government, from fee stamps, from the mint, from the Bank of England, and from various other sources, amounting in all to $108,103,490, none of which can properly be regarded as taxes.

Thus the grand total of national revenue in the British Isles for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1903, from all sources except money borrowed, was $757,067,945.

It is to be remembered that these are the revenues of the national government for meeting national expenses, such as intrest on the public debt, the support of the army and the navy,

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