888 1,899
1871 80 | 1880 385 | 1889 726
1872 40 | 1881 5,338 | 1890 3,437
1873 280 | 1882 447 | 1891 300
1874 12,877 | 1883 270 | 1892 2,792
1875 12,280 | 1884 2,339 | 1893 2,471
1876 14 | 1885 5,462 | 1894 2,483
1877 3,435 | 1886 840 | 1895 4,152
1878 2,482 | 1887 3,966 |
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MACHINERY AND STEAM ENGINES.

It is becoming monotonous to follow Mr. Williams in detail through his
ingenious misrepresentations. I will therefore hastily pass over the
many pages which he devotes to "black-listing" sundry iron and steel
manufactures. His black list, which includes "steam engines," "other
machinery," and "tools and implements" of industry, is arrived at by
giving only the figures for 1890 onwards and ignoring the preceding
years. The unfairness of this procedure need not be again pointed out.
The figures for a decade, or for a longer period, show that trade moves
up and down, and that a depression in one year or group of years is
succeeded by an elevation a few years later. Throughout his book, in
instances too numerous to be especially mentioned, Mr. Williams has
persistently ignored this obvious fact. Again and again he has picked
out years favourable to his argument, while even a cursory glance at a
series of years must have shown him that the truth was the exact
opposite to his representation of the facts. Here are the figures for
the last fourteen years, showing the relative progress of Great Britain
and Germany in the export of all kinds of machinery, including the
domestic sewing machine and the locomotive engine.

EXPORTS OF MACHINERY OF ALL KINDS.

(Including Steam Engines and Sewing Machines.)

In Millions Sterling.

--------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----
|1882|1883|1884|1885|1886|1887|1888|1889|1890|1891|1892|1893|1894|1895
--------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----
From | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
United | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Kingdom |11.9|13.5|13.2|11.2|10.2|11.1|12.9|15.3|16.4|15.7|13.9|13.8|14.2|15.0
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