The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-07-19

the same period steadily and prodig-
iously increased, indeed at rate and
to an amount which absolutely dwarfs
oil previous development of
our trade beyond the sea. From 1850 to
the present time the foreign commerce
of the United States, divided with APP
proXimate equality between exports |
and imports, reached the astounding ag-
gregate of S24, 900, 100000. The:balance in |
this vast commerce inclined in our favor, |
but it would have been much larger il |
our trade with the countries OF America, |
elsewhere referred to had been !
more wisely adjusted. 1t is difficult |
evento approximate the magnitude ofthe
export trade since 1860, and We can gain
a correct conception only by comparison
with the preceding results in the same
| States from the declaration OF inde-
pendence (l776) down to the day of Lin
coln's election in 1850, added to all that
| had previously been exported
from the American. colonies
from their original settlement,
amounted TO less SS,UO0,O00,000; on the
other hand, our exports from 1860 to the
close of the last fiscal year, exceeded
| Sl2, 900 ,OO0, 900, the whole of it being the
product of American labor. Evidently
the protective tariff has not injured the
4
we exported in twenty-four years forty
per cent. more than the total that had
been exported in the entire previous
history of American commerce. All
the details are correspondent with this
gigantic result. The commercial cities
OF the Union never had such growth as
they enjoyed since 1860 Our chief empor-
ium (New York City, with its depend
encies, has within that period doubled
her population and increased her wealth
iive-fold. During the same period
the imports and exports which
have entered and left her harhor are
more than double in bulk and value the
Z whole amount imported and exported
by her between the settlement of the
Z first Dutch colony on the Island of Man
i haitian and the outbreak of the civil wal
in 1860.
AGRIcULRuRE AND THE TARIFF.
, The agricultural interest is the largest
: in the Nation, and is entitled i'm every
, adjustment of the revenue laws to the
=. first consideration. Any policy hostile
TO the fullest development of agriculture
!, in the United States must be abandoned
, Realizing this, the opponents of the pres
. ent system of revenue have labOreC
4 earnestly to persuade the farmers of th
y United States that they are robbed by
q protective tariff, and the effort is mad
=, to consolidate their vast influence il
: favor of free trade, but the farmers @
:, America are intelligent and canuot b
. misled by sophistry when conclusiv
g q facts are before them. They see plainl
~ ~ that during the past twenty-four year
~ wealth has not been acquired in on
y, y, section or by one interest at th
o expense Of another section, or anotho
- interest. They see the agriculture
Gyl L..
NN ~ gross than the manufacturing State
Nv The farmers see that in 1910 Massachl
W. setts and Illinois had about the sam
)" wealth, between SS00, ,000,0 600 and 500, 900
on 600 each, and that in 1880 Massachuset
:; had advanced 10 $500, 600
~ while Illinois advanced to 1920
ns OOOO0O. They see New JersC
he and Iowa were just equal in populatio
~ nV in 1850, and in twenty years the .weall
y, OF New Jersey WAS increased by Il
40 sum OF $3.50, 900, while the wealth
is 900. They see that tho nj
~ leading agricultural States
,as ,as the Wes have grown
,ao y. rapidly In prosperity that the aggrega
w. addition TO wealth since 1850 Is almS
~. y, great us the wealth OF the entire count
, o, ,a In that year. They see the South, whi
a., % is almost exclusively agricultur
IN shared in the general prosperity a
-, that having recovered from tne loss "
ota 80, devastation Of the war has gained
o' ,aS rapidly that its total wealth is at lei
,,aI double of that which 1t possessed In II
the exclusive Of slaves.
lat, OUR FOREIGN PoLIcY-FAvoR OUR l
ers MEsT1c DEvELOPMENT.
all We are at peace with the world,
,w- peace upon sound basis, with no I
eat settled questions Of sufficient mag
een tude to embarrass us. Tho United Sta
be has no cause and no desire TO engage
re- conflict with any power, and we m
the rest assured in the confidence that
rri- power desires to attack the Uni
i 10 States. With the nations of the VIZ
was ern hemisphere we should c
ncs tivate closer relations,
the for our common prosper
lrst and advancement should invite tn
Il of the future all international trout
usi. in North Y South America be adjus
and by impartial arbitration, not by ar
the This project was part of the fixed pol
erty of President Garfield, and shoI
cen- in my judgment, be renew
nor The effect even of suggest
900 il for the Spanish American ST.
'ith- has been most happy and has increa
ions the confidence Of those people in
the friendly disposition. II fell to my 10
an. Secretary of State in June 1881, TO n
seen apprehension in the Republic of Me'
the by giving assurance in an official
in patch that there is not the faintest de
,stly In the United States for territorial ex
'plta sion south of the Rio Grande. We 4
liOOO. tho conquests of peace. We desirt
hose extend our commerce and in an espe
nent degree with our friends and neighl
! arc on this continent. We have not
,orld proved our relations with Spanish-AT
ntry lea as wisely and as persistently as
Off n might have done. For more than
od of Grafton the sympathy of those count
in 10 has beon allowed 70 drift a
snr- from us, We should now make over,
. mn. fort to gain their friendship. Our d
lyeul with them is already large, During
,sent last year our exchanges in the Wes
pre- hemisphere amounted to $35O,0E
story nearly one-fourth of our entire for
onna commerce. To those who may be
nitod posed to underrate the value OF our /
lirnn with the countries OF North and s.
ween America, 1t may be well to state
n one population is nearly 50,OO0,0O0. and
ne i'm in proportion to the aggregate NUM-
has we import nearly double as much
moral thom as we do from Europe, but tn
and suit OF tne Wnole Anierlcan trad0
,nries a high degree unsatisfactory. The
nj on ports during the past year exec
" any my s225 100000 While the exports were
reater than $l25,OOO,OOo, showing bal bal
n ex- against us of more than 500, 900
i the the money does not go to Spi
'oalth america we senu large sum
ID by europe IN com or lts equls
tional 70 pay european nahulhcs
nents LOT goous Whlcn thvSs SEM
pro SPHlllsh Anne,tva w pie
d not paymssters ior TINS enormous nn
10 amount which Is q serious draft on
lrplus financial depression. Cannot this