Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-10-20

The facts already presented as the re-
lation of manufactures to agriculture,
to mining, and to transportation, serve
also to illustrate the Importance of the
relation sustained by manufactures to
internal commerce.
The total value of the products Of
manufactures, according to the census of
1880, was $5,S69,57 ,191, of which
only about 800, 100000, or two per
cent. was exported, ninety eight per
cent. having been consumed at home,
or, in other words, become the subject
of internal commerce.
The increased value Of manufac.
lures from 81, 1856, 681.676 in 1860 to
So, 369,579, 191 in 1880, of course gave
rise to an enormous increase in the In
ternal commerce of the country.
Manufactures now constitute the most
important element of the commerce of
large towns and cities. The prosperity
even of New York City, the great COM
mercial entrepOt of the country, at
which port Seventy-seven per cent. of
our foreign commerce is carried on, is,
in much higher degree, dependent
upon manufacturing industries than
upon foreign commerce. During the
year ending June 30, 1880, the value
of the total foreign commerce at that
city amounted to S52,497, 24S, the
value of exports amounting to $780,
56O,O9O and the imports to $3.50, $751;
1853. The total value of the manufac>
lures of the city, however, during the
census year, amounted to $472, 1926, 437,
and those of Brooklyn to III, 223, 142.
The total value of the two cities-com.
mercially one city-amounting, there
fore, to $3.50, 1859. But the manu-.
facture and sale of every dollars worth
of products of manufacture probably
contribute ten times as much toward
the employment Of labor and the sus-
tenance of people in these cities as did
every dollars worth Of foreign goods
imported. The manufacturing indus
tries of the two cities involved not only
wages paid for the manufacture of
goods, but also wages paid for trans
porting and receiving materials and
coal, and delivering finished products.
They also required the use of, and paid
rental upon, a large amount of property
in the manufacture and storage of
merchandise. Besides, the manufac-
turtles of the two cities gave rise to a
very large business in the purchase and
sale Of raw materials, and of finished
products. ,u,4 .tsu
On the other hand, large part of
the foreign exports Of New York City
consisted of direct shipments from in
terror points to foreign countries, and
another considerable portion paid little
more than transfer and warehouse
charges. A large portion Of the i'm.
ports of merchandise also passed direct
ly through the city without paying to
it any commercial tribute, excepting
incidental expenses of trans.shipment.
Other imports paid little more than the
expenses of trans>shipment and ware
housing.
Besides the tarde in the products of
the manufactures of New York and
Brooklyn, the city of New York also
controls the trade, in an enormous
amount, of the manufactured products
Of the New England States, New Jer-
sey, and the State of New York, out
side of the two cities mentioned. 1t is
believed that if any person were to take
the time to ascertain the value of trade
of wholesale houses in New York City
dealing exclusively in products of
American manufacture to an amount
equal in the aggregate to the value of
the entire foreign commerce carried on,
at, Or through that city, he would be
surprised to find how small portion
of the business operations of the city his
inquiry had covered,
1t has already been shown that the
products of agriculture in the United
States which are exported consist al
most entirely of products of the West.
ern and Northwestern, and of the
Southern States, and that the agricul