The daily gazette., 1881-02-01
HOW OUR FARMERS ARE HELP
ING EUROPE.
WHAT TIE LONDON TIMES


"THE UNITED STATES IN 1SSO.-OuI
Impression of Friday last contained a
short but marvellous summary by our
Philadelphia correspondent Of the trade
between the United States and Europe,
The former raised farm produce valued
in 1879 at $l,9l0,000,000, and in 1881
at $4,000 ,O0O, 900. OF the total Quau-
tity more than one-third was exported
TO this side Of the Atlantic. Our cor
respondent reckons that il each year the
Oli World thus received $500, ,O00, 900
worth OF food aud nearly half that
worth of cotton. Europe pays honestly
| for what IL obtains. Silver and gold
How into the States in such profusiou in
payment for the exports they ship that,
1t is calculated, the agricultural classes
can ahord to hoard substantial part of
the purchase money. Two hundred
millions sterling are simply absorbed
out OF the currency, and are secreted.
leaving not trace behind them. But,
II The American people profit by It's
access to European markets, E9rope
profits yet more largely. In the last
resort the vigor of human enterpris. is
measured by the available abundance
OF iood and clothing. They are the
tortoise upon which industry is at last
shown to rest. The food and raw ma
terlal of RAIN mt which America sun
plies, Europe must but for 1t have gone
without, or acquired at cost OF labor
upon thankless soil which would have
eaten up the entire gain. American
cornields have braeed skill ard art in
The most distant corners of this hemis
phere. Their handiwork can be seen in
the doekyards OF Liverpool and Glasgow.
tho furnaces of Liege aud Essen. tile
mills Of Lancashire. Every sign he
tokenlning increased prosperity in the
United States may be welcomed here
even from the most selfish motives
The faster 1t grows the more sure is
Europe TO take 1.-THE of il. The rise 81
population u which the foreshadoWinp,
ol the American census returns testify
furnishes no less ground of self-con-
graduation In Europe than the news of
an enlarged breadth of tillsge in Min
nesota or Iowa. 1t must be very helm.
'eSs race which in the older portions Of
the globe does not benefit the rest az
mankind by lis mul lpllcation. Men
have not commonly as yet touched thai
ceases TO create. more than its necessary
maintenance. la the United States. al
all events, the period is still extremely
remote.
The 100000 or $4,000, 900 OF human
beings added to their people in The pat
ten years represents an enormous incte-
nent to the joint stock OF human riches
on this side of the ocean as well as on
the other. The American nation holds
such relation to The rest of the wcrld
hat it can scarcely promote its own in.
terests without being universal bene-
factor. Its railways have been extend.
ing the last twelve months thousands nj
miles in every direction. BY SO much
The more cheaply does Europe have il,
corn and bacon and beef and COTTON
brought to it. Vast stores of surnlns
bullion have been accumulated nv
Southern and Western farmers ard
workmen. They are the coming sineys
Of industry. They will serve in their
own good time to heap the granaries OF
Great Britain and the Continent with
yet more food from fresh reclamatiens
OF the wealthy American wilderness.
Europe may fairly and in its own
right sympathize with sach new stride
It's kinsfolk beyond the Atlantic make
towards the full realization of their in
heritanee. American citizens need not
fear or expect to provoke European enyy
aud jealously by the records they unfola
OF their marvellous advancement from a
string Of scattered plantations to prIn-
cipal place among the great Powers Of
tue earth. Never could nation point to
past progress SO continuous and 40
rapid withis its own natural boundnries.
Alexander carved out III brief lifetime
the most splendid of empires. Rome in
n.any ages built the most durable. The
mother country Of the United States in
hundred years founded an Asiatie
sovereignty of unsxamplsd brilhancy,
But all the chief empires of history, ex-
cepting that Of Washington, have owed
their grandeur to war aHd conquest. Gil.
i4sns of the United States can boast that
their country has grown.