Pittsburg, for the following years, 1897, the last fiscal year under the Wilson bill, and 1898, the first calendar year under the Dingley law, and also the prices for the years 1899 and 1900. The two latter years show the great advance and recession in prices of foundry iron, steel beams, and wire nails, also pig iron.

Table showing the production of pig iron in United States, gross tons, from 1890 down to and including 1901; also the total capacity per week for the ycars 1900 and 1901.

Lake ore shipments, returns from Lake Superior docks, shows the

following:

The above figures show production of pig iron by steel companies during the years 1906, 1907, and 1908, showing just the reduction in this year's business, which has been reduced to the lowest possible minimum in dull times.

I call special attention to prices of Lake Superior ore during depression of 1904; also 1908:

Average ore prices during 1904 depression.

Average ore prices during 1908 depression.

Showing an advance per ton of...

$2.80

4.00

1.80

Comment is unnecessary. If the steel companies are permitted to continue under the present tariff, soon they will own or control absolutely the whole output and furnace.

The tariff on iron ore certainly should be removed; after corporations have exhausted their mines and made fortunes out of them they will want the tariff increased.

With a balance of $6,100,000,000 to our credit in exports, nearly all gained since 1895, shown in my former statement, it is time the people were considered.

It is now no longer of any more importance to sell $1,000,000 worth of goods in a foreign market than it is to increase our home sales that amount.

Our high tariff should be reduced so our home people will consume the greatest amount possible.

Imports and exports of iron and steel from the year 1893 down to and including

The above imports and exports of iron and steel, beginning in 1893, were nearly equal; from that year our exports increased, down to 1900.

The above figures tell their own story. Our exports of all kinds of iron and steel show what we are making successfully with American labor during a year when prices have been the highest in years. We pay the ocean freights, which must be $2 per ton and upward, and are underselling Europe in their own market; also underselling Germany, which is proof that no tariff is needed and serves only to compel Americans to pay higher prices than our manufacturers sell for in Europe.

Our tariff laws are asserted to be in the interests of labor and consumers. These figures show that they are solely in the interests of the trusts and their combinations in the iron and steel productions.

The exports of 1907 show exports nearly equal to one-third of the steel trust's total output, and can not be said it is simply to dump surplus.

The exports of 1907, the year with the highest priced production we ever had, we increased our exports of iron and steel over $25,000,000. There can be no stronger proof that no tariff is needed in the United States, as we can manufacture much more cheaply this year than last.

It has been constantly asserted and generally believed that the tariff is to protect the American workingman against the lower-paid workman of other countries. The facts herewith presented are posi