The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-07-19
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WHERE WE SELL AND BUY.

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thousands Of hills are annually grown, and |
raised, and sold, and somewhere disposed Of.
This varied produce Of a myriad of Amer
lean farms is taken TO the nearest railroad |
stations and from thence sent to the great
Atlantic commercial cities and from them |
shipped across the ocean to foreign buyers
The question next naturally arises which |
Of foreign nations buys most Of US, which
of them all is our best customer n This in
teresting query is quite satisfactorily an-
swered 10 4 recent lengthy article in the
New York Times, from which we obtain
the following commercial statistics and
interesting general information respecting
our exports and imports. 1t is proposed,
therefore, as briefly as possible, to present
an account Of our trade with the principal
foreign countries not so much for the pur-
pose Of ascertaining whersihe AmsEican.
people buy, as Indicating the chief markets
in which they now sell their vast surplus
products, also to review the history and
observe the remarkable growth Of our do
nestle products.
The English, Of all foreign people, are
prominently our best customers. OF the
total exports, during the fiscal year end
ing September 80, 1873, no less an amount
than 1927 1888 ,240 Of domestic products,
and SO, 257 ,286 Of foreign products were
shipped from the United States to Eng
land alone, and there found market. BY
foreign products we understand such pro-
ducts as are first brought here from South
America, or other countries, aud then re.
shipped to England; by domestic products
are meant only such things as our own
people manufacture or produce. We sold
in Ireland SOL POI ,79l worth Of domestic
products, and 1924, PIT of foreign pro.
ducts while the Scotch people bought
from us s24 1864, 1876 worth, chiefly Of
breadstuffs and provisions; for Scotland is
not naturally fertile country but has
within its limits great deal Of sterile
land and has, moreover, quito cold and
humid climate unfavorable to the growth
Of more important cereals. OF all that we
produced and manufactured during the
past year and sold in the markets Of the
world, England with her colonial and
other possessions bought from us nearly
60 per cent On the other hand we pur.
chased from England and her dominions,
during the past fiscal year Of 1878, goods
amounting TO sl57 ,000, 600, coin value al
the places Of shipment; the total amount
Of our imports from all countries being
s437 ,051 ,532.
Since the year 1920 an annual repor
has been compiled and published by tn,
Treasury Department at Washington Civ
ing the imports, exports, and other trad,
Q statistics during each Of the 6fty-eigh
!. fiscal years which has since elapsed th,
details Of our trade, therefore, with th,
: principal foreign countries during tn,
: past half a century are well-known; bu
; for the intervening period Of thirty-on
s years from the Union Of the States il
: 1883 to 1920, it is difficult, and in regar
( to some years impossible TO obtain reliabl
! detail statements Of the amount Of wha
y the people Of the United State bought an
J, sold; and as to the still more remote col
. onial period Of our history there are n
q data at hand showing the extent or valu
: Of what the American colonists purchase,
g abroad; it is, however, well-known tina
!, the early settlers sent to England eonsid
d cradle quantities Of tobacco and rev cotton
The first known article sent by Che Amer
lean colonists to England was a cargo o
d sassafras, gathered in the extreme easter
D portion Of Massachusetts, near Cape Cod
in 1908; it is curious fact that sassafra
was exported to considerable extent dur
4 ing the early portion of our coultry's his
/, tory. Capt. John Smith during the sam,
E year, l60S, sent TO England from Virgins
7 'pitch, tar, glass, frankinoense, and soap
: ashes, with what wainscot and clapboart
: could be provided" The people Of YiF
GINA also sent a large amount Of Tobacco,
? 70 England and, in 1921, $4,000 pound
/, oftobacco were sent to Holland in order b,
eyade the duties levied on this article il
; England also to obtain a more EXTENDED
market for il among the Dutch. In l64.
tobacco was so great an article Of expor
from Virginia that the colonists Of tina
! locality were dependent upon ia sale il
London, England, for their clothing an,
other supplies, and quarter of ceutur,
, afterwards, in 1874, the demand for to
baeco in England was 50 great that Viz
, gina and Maryland shipped to that eouu
try about 10000 pounds. Previous {,
I 1871 considerable lumber was exporte,
annually in tobacco ships to England.
Connecticut sent considerable faxseee
70 ireland and Scotland from 1880 /,
1852. Meutioa ID made of rye being SEN
7 from Massachusetts to Portugal preyiou
. to l640. The exports Of breadstuffs from
, all the Colonies in 1910, Eve years befor,
the breaking out Of the Revolutionary war
! are estimated to have been as follows =
OF -four, meal, and bread, 45S, SOS barrels
valued at about s2,s62, lao; Of wheat
e5l ,240 bushels, aad Of Indian corn, 57S.
: $40 bushels. Itwas in 1770 that cottot
first made its appearance as an article q
export; and il is curious to ncte. m M.
light Of modern events, that even in l78l
an American ship because she carriet
eight bags Of cotton into Liverpool, Eng
land, was there seized on the ground tina
SO much cotton could not he the produo,
} Of the United States4-a country, whicl
during the past year has sold the Eualisl
not less than sll7 ,431 900 worth Of cotto,
alone. Indeed SO valuable commodit,
is cotton, and so greatly does il enter int.
our commerce that forty-two per cent. q
our exports during the last eight wears
} since 1870, has consisted Of it, and lis sal,
during the same period has brought ipt,
, our country an average Of s13s, $50 600
each year. We have already remarks
no data can be found to show with tha
accuracy the value Of merchandise In
ported FROM England and its dependencie
during the fiscal year Of 1890, and 60
many Of the preceding years; but the al
nual statistics from 1920 up to 1878 clearl,
indicate large aud rapidly isereasin,,
trade between the Two great Anelo.saxoil
! nations; trade which shows that on
people, during the last IS years, have puE
chased from England apd Der possessions
10 round numbers, Is, ~ ,000, 200 wortl
Of goods and manufactured articles. Al
have sold TO the Engliah Ii return Sc.
805,000,000 worth Of various products 3
our industry leaving IN our favor III
Q handsome balance Of 81 .678 .0OO. 900 wh;el