Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1850-09-05
From the Morning Herald.
America England's Best Customer.

America EASfdnu'S nest CuSeOhcE'
The value of the produce and manufactures of
Great Britain and Ireland, for the year l046 was
little above EAT 900 900, and Of that amount
nearly $l94 900, 900 worth was consumed at home,
and El3 900, 900 worth in our colonies, making
together E2OS ,OOO. 600, Whereabouts while the
whole amount exported to all the foreign countries
of the world was not much more than f39, 100000;
that is to say in round numbers, eighty per cent
of our whole manufactures were bought in the
home market, FIVE per cen; in the colonial and ht-
teen in the foregn-the whole Of the foreign ma
tions Of the world thus purchasing less than one
sixth of the productions of Great Britain cal
culation Of the average consumption per head at
home, in the colonies, and in foreign countries, af-
fords some curious results. Taking the poPula-
,ion of the United Kingdom at 100000, and the
whole consumption at fl94,2l3 ISL, we get an
average consumption of E6,5s,4d per head. Cal
culating the population of all foreign countries TO
which we export our commodities at go? ,6elO0O
and their consumption at f39. 430,4Sl we get an
annual consumption per head of Il. 81, or less than
the 26th part of the British consumption per head.
If we take the population of the British colonial
possessions at 2lS 800 2OO and their consumption,
of $l2 8l9, ,345, and, add them to the home popu-
lation and consumption, we arrive at an aggregate
of las, ,OOO, 900 souls, and a British consumption
Of f297, ,523 1875, or an average Of FL Is lid. per
head Ii, in the calculation ofthe foreign average,
we deduct the population Of China, which amounts
to the formidable sum of f250, 900, we shall
raise the average Of foreign consumption from Is
3 led to 2s 3-6d If, on the other hand, we eI-
clude from our colonial table the East Indies with
their ll4,OOOOoO, and exports amounting to. E5,-
O77,2i7 as setof against China, we leave for
the United Kingdom and the colonies population
OF SO, ,8l4,20 consuming on an average Is los.
per head of all the productions of Great Britain,
in other words, more than 50 times the average Of
the foreigners at the higher calculation. Assum-
ing the population of the United States to be 49,
SOC, 900, and the amount Of their consumption of
British productions f9,564,e02 ian amount con-
siderably exceeding the average of IL years we
ge, an average consumption per head Of 9s. 90. or
more than four times the highest general average
of foreign consumption, and considerably greater
than the average of any other foreign country. If
we take the American consumption at a little more
than E7,O00000 year, which was the average Of
the 10 years concluding with lS4s, We shall still
have an average consumption per head higher than
that of any other foreign country.
The Americans are, therefore, our best foreign
customers, individually, if we may so speak but
they are also by far our best customers regarding
them as nation. While they took nine millions
and hall worth OF our productions in 1913, all
Northern and Western Europe, from Russia TO
France, took but twelve millions, the South of
of Europe, with the whole of the Mediterranean
from Portugal to Morocco, but eight millions and
a half and South America, with Mexico, con-
sderably under six millions. The average "a
mount of exports from the United Kingdom to
France during the five years ending with 1913.
was f2, ,348 453; to Germany for the same period,
f6,6Ol ,293 and to Italy FL, ,733,552 II is clear,
therefore, that no nation takes so much of our
commodities as the United States, even calcula-
ting their consumption on the average of l2 years
Taking the amount Of their consumption Of l64l,
viz: nine millions and half, we still find the
States consuming less than quarter of our ex-
ports, while We consumed more than two thirds of
the Whole of theirs in the same year. amounting
in value to more than EAT ,000, 900 sterling.
New PLATFoRM.--A candidate for office i'm
Michigan, thus announces his platform :-"I am,
sir In iavor of the next opposed to the chol-
era-in favor Of high salsres--opposed to incur
rent funds and poor brandy"