Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-04
A Ready-Made Foreign Market Fol
 American Goods.


 From the Century For December
 The recent political canvass was prolific of | wide differences of opinion; but we believe | there is one point upon which most men ot all parties are now substantially agreed, viz, ! the desirability of securing additional foreign markets for American goods. Many think that this can best be obtained by reduction of duties which now operate against the free
 dom of commerce; while others advocate the
 establishment by public subsidy of ocean lines, or the conversion into business agen- cies of our entire consular service. A com mission of investigation has been appointed to visit the countries of Central and South America with view to the extension of our trade in those quarters, and legislation of
 some sort may be expected to grow out of tbjs mission That, in large number of cases our manufactories are abundantly able to put out more goods than they can dispose of is disclosed by the failures from overpro- duction the reduction of wages, and the rninous competition for the home market, which are matters of daily record in the, newspapers. A considerable addition to the ] present area of sale for American So1ua r would in all probability not only zeheye Ihe nase,,t strireency in trade, but would put Eoeny of our manufactures upon favorable l basis for years to come. =
 | Whatever of trade we may hereafter ac- onire in new markets will be based upon 1 demonstrative demand for our products | damand which can only be created 1n the 1 Iahorious course of business. In other words, | the market will have to be f'worked up Tn | strict competition with the products of other l countries Agencies must be established, | samples must be shown, advertised, ana | tested. and patents and trademarks secured | These labors performed, there IS no lack or I -1,oo oh oil fhHS nXGen0
 o1,r material civilization will be fully protect
 ed in obtaining the legitimate profits for | their labor. The agent, the owner, ana the inventor will each find new rewards ana 1 new stimulus. . ,
 There is. however, one American buslness
 r-bicb bv the neglect of Congress, has been
 nafI,sad fhe security of it's legitimate profits i foraia,n countries Moreover, the demand | fo, its nroducts is already well established l and so extensive that this industry has fol | years given employment to large body ol SSmI1oeIers chiefly in England, who, by un da-seeiiino the market with stolen goods
 have crown rich by the labors of our pro 1 a,,ceys lessening the rewards not only o these but of those capitalists in our owl 7 country by whom the products have been se : before the world. The market is there, VT tnaIIv ready-rnade, and waiting only for Con , e'-ass to say the word to enable us to occup.
 E No tariff has to be repealed, no com
 -oerciaI agency of consuls has to be estaD
 1ished. Nothing remains but to secure tn S patent which is granted with alacrity t a Other forms of expressing American ideas
 and this Congress could accomplish in twen s T tv minutes The revenue which would hay
 accrued to America had this been done lit |. years apo is incalculable, but it is secondar
 {o the national stimulus which has been los : hv this fragrant and onerous omission Tn nToduct we have in mind is American hters
 ! ture tto-., T , j. On another page we print an "open Le' > ter'' from MT. George Parsons LathroE # secretary of the American copyright league settino forth the efforts that are now beln made by that body to obtain from Congres j. a recognition of property in literary product |. | eoual to that which we accord to even u d noorest brand of Havana cigars. We hay ,r already called attention in these columns 70 inc distinguished advocates, in politics aI a literature, of the principle embodied in Il ,f Dorsheimer copyright bill. which is BOW big
 mn on the calendar of the House of Represe
 tatiyes. The bill is not open to single pa
 tisan consideration; it has no proper relati' " to the tariff, and the only strife it ought
 give rise to is an eager emulation on the pa ,aj Of representatives to see who can do the mo - to procure the early passage of an always 1u 7s and now doubly expedient measure