Table Showing the Value of Principal Articles and Classes of Merchandise Exported from the United States, for the Years 1890, 1892, 1894 and 1895,
Compiled from Report of the Bureau of Statistics Treasury Department.
ABRAHAM, WILLIAM, minority report of Brit- ish Labor Commission, 1894, 383. ADAMS, JOHN, on wisdom of protection, 574. ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY, in campaign of 1828, 687.
AD VALOREM DUTIES, disadvantage of, 410; encouragement to under- valuations and fraud, 687.
AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY, manufacture in Germany, 431; increased use of, in United States, 659; manufacture of, in United States 1860 and 1890, 704.
AGRICULTURE, a chief branch of production, I, 2; in palmy days of Rome, 15; protected under Queen Elizabeth, 65; prosperous con- dition of in England in the eighteenth cen- tury, 91; growth in England, 103; inferior- ity to manufacturing as an industry, 211; evil effect of repealing the Corn Laws pre- dicted by the peers, 278; decline in England under free trade, 278-88; flourishing under protection, 279; statistics of products grown in England and imported, 280-82; decrease in the number of persons engaged in agri- culture under free trade, 282; its ruin de- stroys the foundation of other industries, 288; destruction of the yeomanry class by free trade, 289; neglect a serious economic blunder, 289; capacity of England sufficient for the home demand, 290; made unprofit- able in Ireland, 373: statistics of products imported by Great Britain, 386; injured in Germany by free trade, 424; fostered by the protective policy, 426; statistics in Ger- many, 427,429; the chief concern of the Phy- siocrats, 499; improvement under protection in France, 510; statistics in France, 525; sta- tistics in Italy, 540; condition in the United States in 1835 to 1843, and in 1847, 597; in 1840, 1850 and 1860, 610; benefited by the McKinley act, 652; growth from 1850 to 1890, 657-71; increase of labor-saving implements in the United States, 659; need of protection, 662; nearness of market important,664; West- ern farm mortgages, 665-70; decline in prices of products, 711; increase in purchasing pow- er, 712; imports and exports of United States under Gorman-Wilson tariff, 748; little mar- ket for United States to gain in foreign coun- tries, 758; imports of England in 1894, 760. ALISON, ARCHIBALD, on the progress of Eng- land under protection, 124; on England's prosperity after Napoleonic wars, 131; statis- tics of debt and revenue of England, 150. ALTHUSEN, CHARLES, on reciprocity, 240; on decline of English chemical industry, 275. AMERICAN ECONOMIST, on wages under the Gorman-Wilson tariff, 749.
AMERICAN SYSTEM, rise and rapid growth, 577; vigorously advocated, 583.
AMES, FISHER, on protection in the Constitu- tion of the United States, 569. ANDREW, SAMUEL, evidence on foreign com- petition with English cotton industry, 237; on necessity of reducing wages, 237; on agree- ments of British Cotton Manufacturers, 238. ANGLO-SAXON invasion of England, institu- tions and form of government, 36. ANTI-CORN LAW LEAGUE, on the opportune time for free trade in England, 157; rise and activity, 159; petitions parliament, 161; ac- tivity in the election of 1841, 162; opposes Peel's revision of the Corn Laws, 163; decep- tive arguments to farmers, 171, 172, 173; meets obstacles in good harvests, 173; triumphs by the aid of bad harvests, 174; suspected of im- proper use of money, 175; magnitude of its funds, 176; real purpose of its agitation, 199. ANTWERP, Commercial centre of the West, 26. APPRENTICES, statute of, 60. ARABS, ancient commerce, 9.
ARTIFICIAL INDUSTRIES, free trade fallacy of, exposed, 802-04.
ARTIFICIAL SELECTION, law of, basis of the doctrine of protection, 790, 791; progress of mankind due to, 792.
ASIA, statistics of trade with, 551.
ATKINSON, EDWARD, on wages in the United States in 1892, 652; on farm mortgages in the United States, 668-70; on the rise of wages in the United States from 1860 to 1890, 717; on labor cost in cotton goods, 769. AUSTIN, MICHEL, minority report of British Labor Commission, 1894, 383.
AUSTRALASIA, statistics of trade with, 552. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, growth of foreign trade 1854-1890, 312; economic policy, 533; tariff of 1882, 533; manufactures and agricultural products, 534; statistics of exports, 535; statistics of wages in 1890, 719. BABYLONIANS, ancient commerce, 9. BACON, LORD, introduced protection in Eng- land, 330.
BAGEHOT, WALTER, on “economic man," 795. BALANCE OF TRADE, in favor of England 1697 to 1793, 94; 1793 to 1859, 119; adverse for England 1864 to 1893, 317; adverse for the United States after the War of 1812, 577; favorable under the tariff of 1824, 586; adverse before 1842, 594; adverse from 1857 to 1861, 607; adverse from 1848 to 1857, 613; in favor of the United States in 1892, 648; United States with foreign countries 1892, 1894, and 1895, 745; from 1791 to 1895, 828; importance of having favorable, 818.
BANK CLEARINGS in the United States in 1892 and 1895, 751.
BARLOW, FREDERICK PRATT, evidence on German competition with England in paper- making, 276-78.
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