The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-11-18
OUR EXPORT TRADE.

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OUR EXPORT TRADE.
Our export trade seems to be receiving
an unusual impetus, Of late. We re-
Gently alluded to the activity developed
| in the line of cotton goods for foreign
shipment. Still later we learn OF the
demand that has sprung up abroad for
our American hard ware. This branch
of our mechanical industry has reached
such superiority in completeness OF I'm
Iish and variety of adaptation in Its pro-
ducts, as to cause them to he sought for
| In the most remote markets Of the world,
in preference to any other products o.
like kind. American hardware almost
entirely rules the market In Australia,
as it does In Brazil and other countries
Of South America. Germany is likewise
sending large orders to this country for
hardware applicable to different kinds oil
manufactured articles. For instance,
the Hamburg steamer recently leaving
New York took out two thousa.. ID pack
ages of trunk materials, hinges, springs,
clasps, &C., as the American materials
were found to be better than anv the
German markets afforded.
There has likewise sprung up in Eu-
rope an unexpected demand for Ameri-
can leather; and very considerable ship
ments are now going forward to meet
European orders. The better class oil
American sole-leather is coming greatly
, ', into demand among foreign buyers.
There certainly can be no conceivable
, reason why these and various other
products manufactured in this country
should not be acceptable to European
markets in preference to'like articles oi
any other country, at rates satisfactory
TO our manufacturers. Whoever has
travelled in this country and in Europe
: could not fail to be impressed witt
the difference in lightness, In fitness, In
;, general shandiness," observable in the
:, common implements of industry in this
!. country and in that; and that difference
always in favor Of our own. The imple
:. ments of husbandry in Europe bear nc
I comparison to the agricultural imple
+ inentso OF this country. The harness O.
Il their horses are heavy and uncouth com
\ pared with ours. Their pleasure car
4 riages and burden wagons are equal,
Il uncouth. Possibly such articles ma.
4, not, on account Of their weight and bulk
i be found practicable commodities for ex
. port. They nevertheless bespeak tn
4 genius of our artisans in producing al
a ticles of the most common use in a styl
! and finish superior to any thing the OIL
"a world has ever produced.
. The common schools OF this corntr.
are to be credited with very much o
this success in rivaling the manufactur
~ ing skill of other countries. The well
40 Instructed, intelligent youth can not fai
i Ito become, as an artisan, superior t.
= him who has never studied nor learne,
:, anything put his trade. His trade h
= may have learned we'll. His eye may b
true and his hand skillful. But the In
Il proving, progressive mind 10 wanting
ad Routine work will be well done: bu
WV new designs, improved features, simpli
IL fed processes, the blending of taste wit
Il utility, remain to be invented by hill
.ol whose forming hand is guided by the ir
IL forming spirit that education has evoked
be That is what the common schools do 70
lie our American artisans. sg
,ool Should we be able, by reason of thes
ost advantages, to establish a general e1
port trade for our manufactured con
to modities, the. results to this country
~ growth in substantial wealth coul
h scarcely be oyerestimated. The, imme
ia diate effect would be to change the ba
in ance Of trade from Europe to this cour
IL try. Our exports would exceed our In
n. ports; and by SO much would the gol
.nt IofI Europe be compelled to flow into ou
,lv Echannels. This condition being once el
IN Itablished, the resumption Of specie pa,
he ments and the restoration OF coin bas
ur for business would come Of itself, wit
,is Eout waiting or asking for any resumptio
. Flaw. And this position once. obtaine
m for our country as arbiter of trade an
, % ruler OF the markets, and which IL
j. Igenius Of our people and the natur
fa Productions OF our lands. would ful
ar sustain, there is NO pitch Of grandel
"a among the nations OF the earth to whit
er we might not aspire. X
ry aApt alliteration's artfnl aid' isn't
he bad thing in it's place, but, really,
80 would seem that one of our great poe
goes too far when he writes: "The sui
iau Iner it summeth the sweetness of thing
an departed the dirge which the q doodle-b,
rls. sings; no liumming bird hummeth q
live long day, nor humble bee bumme