New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-12

For this whole time the largest amount Of imports
of foreign merchandise Tor any three years was IN
1S71l72|73. And in these three years the export OF
specie yeTIts imports was 81 .53249O The great
est amount of imports OF foreign merchandise IN any
other three years in 1SJ7-'1o-09. And IN those
three years the export of specie over It's imports was
! SI47,5J1 ASP and both periods were followed by
! a name aud crash IN all branches OF business.
! Nations buy the products and commodities OF
other nations just according TO Their wants without
reference 10 what they sell, ana IL the purchases are
/ unequal the balance is PAID ~ specie.
In the last seven years we bought OF China anu
| Japan IN round Numbers $195,OO0OOO worth Ut
! commodities, and they bought of Us $50, 900 600.
/ During the same time we bought of Mexico @95.-
! 100000, aud she bought OF Us @3O,OOO,OOO We
| bought of Brazil and the South American STATES
1896, 600 900, and they bought OF US @'S.OOO,OUO.
we bought OF Cuba Porto RICO and the other span
ish posse sions 1915 600 600. aud they bought OF us
! Sl25, 900. We bought OF Great Britain 81 34O,-
600 900, and she bought OF MS -. ,OOO,OOO. 90
| might 10 through with the exports ana imports
| from and to different countries, showing thtl TUG
! amount bought bears no relation to the amount
/ sold We want Chiua's tea, and should buy II
/ whether she buys anything or not. 80 OF CuDas
! sugar and mOasses, ana BTlzlEs coffee.
The whole world must take our cotton aud petrO-
! leum whether we buy OF them or not. The amount
of our exports in other articles depends very much
/ upon the productiyeness OF tine seasons IN 0thef
| countries Our exports are made up almost wholly
of cotton wheat, corn, pork and its prouuct petro
! leum, tobacco cheese and talOw. these on an
| average make about $JOO0OO,OOO oil annual eX-
/ ports. The amount however except IN COTTON ahu
| petroleum. would be greatly affected BY good or
UUD
| world, or by peace or war among the naIiOhs' but
| whether we buy much or httle of foreign products
| wOuld make 40 peIcepuble difference as TO the
amount OF our sales.
Whatever productions therefore, a nation has
natural advantages facilities for producing, 1t Is
OF national interest anu concern that IT should sup
| ply its own market, ON the principle That YOU buy
| cheapest where you paw easiest. Whenever the
productions OF nations Industry are retained Wl6ll-
It's own limits. the people thereon are more pros
/ l4,.tt.f Itatg snnI Ina
/ means IN paving for the transportation on their
! own products abroad. and the transportation on
foreign products IN exchange, instead oil saving the
expense of double transportation by producing aC
Why should this country import iron, when ITS
| mouufalns are filed with ore aud its valleys
! derlaid with coal with unemployed labor every
where or why import cotton goods. when the world
comes to our cotton fields for the raw material and
oar rivers furnish eXhaustless water-pOWer as they
| leap from the mountains 10 the seal
PARTY CLAIMS AND CANDIDATES.
| IL ia of paramount Importance that the Republi-
/ can party should have majority III the House 0t
Representatives III the next Congress, not only 10
guard the Treasury against the Southern war Claims
that will be pressed for payment, but also to guard
| the labor aud industrial interests OF the country
against the free-trade tendencies of the controlling
| clements In tue Democratic party. And IN order TO
secure continued ascendancy IN the United States
Senate it IL of equal Importance that majority OF
Republicans should be returned TO the state Legis-
In State affairs there certainly can be no reason
for a change of political parties. Since the RepuD-
| lican party lntrusted with power IN the state
the debt has been reduced, including tho assets IN
| tho sinking fund, from $3S, 47o,96l W July l,
| 1860, 10 $13.3J2,3S0 80 November 80, 1877, while
| during tins time extra war expenses not pald by
| tho General Government amounted to over S3,OOO,-
| 900. and the aggregate for the support of orphan
schools 10 Po'o<%-Oo III eAtia aPllu ioI
the education of those whose fathers died that the
| Republic might 1--we,
As TO candidates, your patience will admit of but
| n word. General Hoyt, the Republican candidate
| for
| force of character. without the tortmtous AID OF
wealth or family influence, carved his way TO
| honorable distinction farmer Ooy unalded ana
| alone he worked his way through the schools and
into the legal profession at one OF the most dstln-
| guIshed bars III the Commonwealth iOr culture ana
judicial learning, and over which one tine ne was
presiding Judge. But when liberty aud the lnstltu-
tOns the country IN danger, he left all TOR
| tue tle-felds of the Republic.
OF his associates the ticket need only say
that each has been tested IN official positions, aud,
as you all know, discharged their duties wisely and
| well. But candidates are but representatives OF
their respective organizations, and each ID 70 DO
| passed on by the voter.
Political parties are to be judged as you Judge IN
| diyiduas, not more by their professions than by
their acts "Do gather grapes OF tborns, or tgs
of thistlesi BY their fruits We shall know them"
| What has the Democratic party donel For third
of o century II stood with baylng bl0odhounds, oDe-
| dent 10 the mandates of the taskmaster, ever
ready seize the painting fugitive guilty OF no OF
fence save his love OF liberty and hurl nun BACK
into hopeless bondage. BY its theories OF State SOW
ereignty 10 made barricade OF the Constitution OF
the United States, behind which treason could in
trench itself ia its deadly assaults upon the life OF
| the Republic.
At last It's Southern wing, IN defiance of the will
of the majority eonstitutionally expressed at the
ballot-bOx appealed 20 the cartrdge-box TO nulify
that decision and TO destroy the institutions OF our
fathers. In the effort they hung the land IN the
| sable habiments OF mourning and woe drenched
its soil with martyr blood and Hooded 1T with
widows and orphans tears.
The Northern wing OF tho party would have
brought this war to an gnOminiOus close on q dis
solved Union aud ruined Republic While the boom
Of cannon from the victorious and decisive battle-