Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-29
SouruaI anN Gourier.
SINGLE COPIES TWO GENTS.
Tuesday. January 29. 1884.
FACTS FOR FREE-TRADERs.

It is favorite expression with fres-traders in this country that nation that will not
 buy cannot sell. The intention of this state- ment is to give the impression that by reason of the protective tariff which prevails in the
 United States foreign nations cannot sell to
 us and hence will not buy from rs. Unfor- tunately for the free traders who talk this way the facts, SO far as this nation is con- cerned, are very strongly against them. A
 writer in the Philadelphia North American makes some interesting and valuable remarks
 concerning this matter.
 During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1883,
 we imported merchandise to the value of
 $723, 1SO. 914, and exported to the value of
 $S04, 223, ,632. The writer above referred
 to points ont that foreign nations bought
 from us with very little reference to what we
 bought from them. They took our raw cot
 ton. and breadstuffs, and provisions, because
 quality and price made it to their interest to
 do so; and we took their silks, woolen, cot ton and linen goods, their tea and coffee their gums and spices, their wines, bronzes mirrors, paintings, statuary, etc., because it suited us to do so. Our people fancy French products, and they buy them, but without regard to what France purchases from us. It is to be presumed that our citizens will buy French wines, without giving the slight est attention to the fact that France forbids the use of American pork. Few, if any, stop to consider such matters. So we find that France sold us goods amounting to $97, ,989, 16 in value for the year ended June on 6S2, 223. We find It convenient and to our advantage to buy tobacco, cigars, sugar, honey, etc., from Cuba. Hence VIC bought ts the value of $65, ,544, 534, while we sold but to the value of $15, 1O3, 7O3. We must have coffee, etc., from Brazil and tea from China to $44, ASS, ,459, although we sold Brazil only to the extsntof $9,252, ,o94; and the trade with China for the same period shows $2O,- Al 1881 as the figures representing our pur- ohases and only $4, ,o8O, 322 our sales. On the other hand, Great Britain and Ireland bought from us to the value of $425, 424, 174, and sold to us goods worth $1s8, 622 .619. The purchases made by Great Britain were, as is well known, mainly raw cotton, 0A0ooSbuAS AbA RAOSAo4OAs- A4hsoAA- Rls for her manufacturers and food for her psople-not fancy goods. They were bought because it suited British in- tsrests to do so, and not because of love for us, nor because we bought goods of English make. Cheap and good food and crude ma tsrials we were able to supply, and they were bought simply on account of their being good and cheap and not from any sentiment what ever.
 This is not all. The North American writer says further: We sold to the United Kingdom in 1881 to | t, value of e1O3, ,2O7,- 829, while Germany Ard to the United King dom, say e23, $50, ,2s5; France sold. say ESQ., 984 ,1S7; Spain sold, say e1O, O,O27, ,5O5; Italy sold, say e3, 274 1881, and Holland to the ex- tent of e23 ,o22 1885. making total, accord ing to Whittaker's Almanac for 1884, of e99,- 959 ,s43. So the fact is that we sell to Great Britain more than do Germany, France, Spain, Italy and Holland combined. And we buy from Great Britain more than does any country in Europe, which, for nation that cannot expect to sell because it does not buy which is free-trade talk-is doing tolersbIy we'll