Among other dire calamities which he says have befallen the Philippines Blount includes "tariff-wrought poverty," [184] and he roundly scores the Congress of the United States for its attitude toward the suffering Filipino. As a simple matter of fact, tariff legislation enacted by Congress has been the commercial salvation of the islands. The tariff law of 1909, known as the Payne Bill, was passed August 5, 1909, and went into effect sixty days thereafter. In order to make the effect of this act more apparent, the figures from July 1, 1909, in the following statistical tables are printed in bold-faced type. These tables speak for themselves, very loudly. Internal-Revenue Statistics -----------+--------------+----------++-------------+------------+-------------- | Total | || | Total | Increase (+) Fiscal Year| Collections | Increase || Fiscal Year |Collections | or | | || | | Decrease (-) -----------+--------------+----------++-------------+------------+-------------- | | Per Cent || | | Per Cent 1906 [185] | $4,434,364 | -- || 1910 |$7,160,810 | +22 1907 | 4,729,515 | 7 || 1911 | 7,922,787 | +11 1908 | 5,542,022 | 17 || 1912 | 8,389,929 | + 6 1909 | 5,871,267 | 6 || 1913 |9,035,922 | + 8 -----------+--------------+----------++-------------+------------+-------------- Trade with the United States ----------------------+------------------+----------------+---------------- | Imports from the | Exports to the | Fiscal Year | United States | United States | Total ----------------------+------------------+----------------+---------------- 1899 | $1,150,613 | $3,540,894 | $4,691,507 1900 | 1,656,469 | 3,635,160 | 5,291,629 1901 | 2,666,930 | 2,572,021 | 5,238,951 1902 | 4,035,243 | 7,871,743 | 11,906,986 1903 | 3,944,082 | 13,863,059 | 17,807,141 1904 | 4,843,207 | 11,102,860 | 15,946,067 1905 | 5,839,512 | 15,678,875 | 21,518,387 1906 | 4,333,917 | 11,580,569 | 15,914,486 1907 | 5,155,478 | 12,082,364 | 17,237,842 1908 | 5,079,670 | 10,332,116 | 15,411,786 1909 | 4,693,831 | 10,154,087 | 14,847,918 1910 | 10,775,301 | 18,703,083 | 29,478,384 1911 | 19,483,658 | 16,716,956 | 36,200,614 1912 | 20,970,536 | 21,619,686 | 42,390,222 1913 (at the rate of) | 26,264,218 | 23,573,865 | 49,838,083[186] ----------------------+------------------+----------------+----------------