The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-07-05
home consumption, 4o2 1-1o millions

.ioiiN SoAouhP Ptlol' fo1 A-lo HIiiilohS
bushels
8. OF 3245, ,6oI,733 bushels wheat raised
said time, only 6oI, I,S44,565, or 1854 per.
cent, were exported, leaving 2,643757I6S,
or SI.4o per cent, for home consumption.
The home wheat consumption for five
years, 1911, I,IS4,I73,S64 bushels, was
nearly twice the exports of said thirteen
years e5-'77, OF 100000 bushels more
than the wheat exports of fifty years, 1926
rs, I,o62 AZ 5,747 bushels,
4, Of II9,95+4o7.95 bushels, the aggre-
gate ofsaid crops raised said time, only o44,-
SSS,83o, or 4.73 per cent, were exported,
leaving Io,oo9,5I9,II4, or o5.27 per cent,
tor home consumption. 1t would need
2o5 years said exports to make said home
consumption.
s. The above show the vast superiority
of home over foreign trade. and Americas
loss in not further fostering manufactures
the bulwarks of England and France
6. In 1873, of exports, only 90 $40 mil
lions of dollars, or S.24 per cent, of Amer
ica's, while 600 $40 millions of dollars, or
Jag per cent, of England's, and 3734.Io
millions of dollars, or $40 per cent of
Frances, were manufactures. ..f
7. In 1873, of imports, while I72 $40
Americas, only 40 $40 millions of dol
lars, or o.33 per cent, of England's, and
So 4-Io millions of dollars, or 1902 per
cent, of Frances, were manufactures.
8. Clearly exporting minimum and
importing maximum of manufactures,
burning the candle at both ends, ield ad-
versity; while reversing these, developing
our matchless resources, will give-labor
and prosperity.
9. Manufactures enrich capital and la
bor BY using home before foreign man
ufactures, the home will vastly excel the
foreign trade
TO- AS the economy of millions of dol
lars and employment of millions of people
lie in said facts, they merit the experience
and wisdom of Congress, by commission
or otherwise, in securing so needed and
vast results"
While admitting the value of foreign
trade in consuming any surplus of manu-
facturers, 1 prefer seeing the home trade
so developed as to leave comparatively
little razv material for export.
The closer consumer and producer are
located, returns are quicker and safer, and
trade more easily controlled--real obsta-
cles to foreign trade.
prize our advance in cotton, silk and
woollen, etc., manufactures, which some
are feeling, but remembering ''the very
much land yet to be possessed" claim that
this rebukes our neglect of the culture
and manufacture of flax, hemp, iute, and
ramie, all raised here, on which, and man
ufactures, we yearly spend about $35 ,ooo.-
100000, these imports in fifty years being
$9I5, 5,oooooo!!
We have dor.e much, but have left much
undone!
The full development of said products
will employ every idle man in the United
States, making us exporters instead of inn
porters of them, and creditor instead of
debtor. by extinguishing the foreign debt.
With all our advantages, we should lead
the worlds progress. Increased indus
trial teachings with Government bounties,
labor bureaus, ETC., will "fix'' this-be
boon to our youth, many of whom, like
their fathers, have no future!
In urging home over foreign trade, |
fully agree with you, as with others of the
ablest of our country and the world.
claim that Labor with the Peoples
Greenback is our only want; that when
we wisely use our raw products by en-
Lploying home before foreign labor, victory
will be ours, witnessing an industrial
growth exceeding the past, vast as it was,
and marking an important era in Ameri-
can history!
The New York Herald, March 10, 1872,
editorially contrasting the rapid and vast
growth of Englands trade, its exports ris-
| ing from az million dollars in I84o to eo7
million dollars in 1870, with Americas S
slow growth, said: ''What are the causes
of this extraordinary commercial develop
ment? Here is an interesting question
for political economists and statesmen.
America is far richer than England in
material resources, and has larger popu-
lation Why does our trade develop so
slowly, comparatively, while that of Eng
land augments so rapidly and vastly? Let
us endeavor to understand the problem
and inaugurate better commercial policy
than we have been pursuing"
The fact that in 1873 the manufacture
exports of cottons, linens, silks. and wool
lens, $5I6,3o5,5o5, were more than half
England's gross exports, $o64, OF ,67o
marks maunf factmves as means of develop
ing our vast resources, inaugurating bet
ter commercial policy than we have been
pursuing.