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not distinguish between the ship and the
cargo. Foreign commerce represents the ex-
ports and imports Of a country regardless of
the nationality of the vessel that may carry
the commodities of exchange. Our CARRYING
trade has from obvious causes suffered many
dlscouragements since 1860, but our foreign
has in the same period steadily
n prodigiously increased-increased in
deed at a rate and to an amount which abso-
lutely dwarf all previous developments of
our trade beyond the sea. From 1860 to the
present time the foreign of the
United States, divided with approximate
equality between exports and imports),
reached the astounding aggregate OF twenty
four thousand millions of dollars 4O0O-
6G6 ,660l the balance OF this VAST COM
merce inclined in our favor, but it would
have been much largerif our trade with the
countries of America, elsewhere referred to,
had been more wisely adjusted
lG Is dlthcult even to appreciate the magni-
tude of our export trade since 1860 and we
can gam a correct conception of it only by
comparison with preceding results In the
same FIELD The total exports from the
United States from the declaration of indie
pendenoe in I776 down to the day of Lin
coins election In 1860, added to all that had
previously been exported from the American
colonies from their original settlement.
amounted TO less than nine thousand millions
OF dollars $4,000, 900, 000l On the other
tAu Jul CADUItH lTOlu l0OV 10 the Close OF
the last fiscal year exceeded twelve thousand
millions OF dollars ($l2, 600, 600, 00O)-the
Whole or 1t being the product or American
labor Evidently a protective tariff has not
injured our export trade when, under it's in
huence, we exported in twenty-four years
! I'D per cent more than the total asae..ns that
had been exported in the entire previous
history or American commerce.. All the de-
tails, when analysed, correspond with .his
gigantic result The commercial cities
OF the Union never had such growth
as they have enjoyed since 1860.
Our chief emporium, the city of New
York. with it's dependencies, has within that
period doubled her population and increased
her wealth five fold During the same period
the imports and exports which have entered
and left her harbor are more imam double in
ulk and value the whole amount Imported
and exported by her between the settlement
of the first Dutch colony on the island OF
Manhattan and the outbreak Of the civil war
in 1860.
AGRICULTURE AND THE TARIFF.
The agricultural interest is by far the
largest in the nation, and is entitled In every
adjustment OF revenue laws to the first con-
sideration. Any policy hostile to the fullest
development of agriculture in the United
States must be abandoned. Realizing this
fact the opponents of the present system of
revenue have Iabored very earnestly to per-
suade the farmers of the United States that
they are robbed by a protective tariff, and
the effort is thus made TO consolidate their
vast influence in favor OF free. trade. But
happily the farmers of America are inteIli-
gent and cann0t be misled bysophtstry when
conclusive facts are before them. They see
plainly that during the past twenty-four
years, wealth has not been acquired In one
section or by one interest at the expense of
another section or another interest They
see that the agricultural states have made
even more rapid progress than the manufact-
uring states.
The farmers see that in 1860 Massachu-
sets and Illinois had about the same wealth
between eight and min hundred million
dollars each-and thatin 1880 Massachusetts,
had advanced to s., 900, 000, 900, while Ili-
nois had advanced to $50, 200, DOC, 000 They
see that New Jersey and Iowa were just
equal in population In 1860, and that in
twenty wears the wealth of New Jersey was
Increased by the sum of $3.50, 600, 600, while
the wealth of Iowa was increased by the sum
of 81, 800, 600, 900. They see that the nine
leading agricultural states of the West have
grown so rapidly in prosperity that the ag-
gregate addition to their wealth since 1S60is
almost as great as the wealth of the entire
country in that year. They see that the
South, which is almost exclusively agri-
CULTURAL, has shared in the general prosperity,
and that having recovered from the loss and
devastation OF war, has gained so rapidly
that It's total wealth is at least the double OF
that which it possessed in 1850, exclusive OF
slaves.
In these extraordinary developments the
farmers see the helpful impulse at a home
market, and they see that the financial and
revenue system, enacted since the Repub-
lican party came into power, has established
and constantly expanded the home market
They see that even in the case OF wheat.
which is our chief cereal export, they have
sold, In the average OF the years since the
close of the war, three bushels at home to
one they have sold abroad; and taat In the
case Of corn, the only other cereal which we
export to any extent, one hundred bushels
have been used at home to three and a half
bushels exported In some years the dis
parity has been so great that for every peck
of corn exported one hundred bushels have
heen consumed in the home market The
farmers see that In the increasing competition
from the grain fields of Russia and from the
distant plains of India, the growth of the
home market becomes daily Of greater con-
cern TO them and that its impairment would
depreciate the value OF every acre OF tillable
land in the Union
OUR INTERNAL COMMERCE..
Such Facts as these touching the growth
and consumption of cereals at home give us
some slight conception Of the vastness OF the
internal of the United States
They suggest also that, in addition to the adj
yantages which the American people enjoy
from protection against foreign competition,
trade over = larger area and Wash 2 greater
nopulation than any other nation. The inter-
nal commerce of our thirtyreight states and
nine territories is carried ON without let or
h~indrance, without tax, detention or govern
mental interference of any idnd whatever.
1t spreads freely over an area or three n q
II half million square -miles-almost equal Ia
extent to the whole continent of Europe.
Its profits are enjoyed to-day by 56, 900, 600
of American freemen, and from this enjoy
ment no monopoly is created According 20
Alexander Hamilton, when he discussed the
same subject in 100. 1.-THE internal c0mpe-