Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-29
Lessons for Americans in English I'm
ports

A careful attention to English opinion
and the facts and figures Of the English .
markets Is Of Importance to Americans
who wish to judge accurately a. 10 the
lines OF their business interests and those
Of their countrymen. '''rhe Mark Lane
Express il valuable publication "a
repository Of information regarding Eng
lsh trade and the practical effects Of the |
English commercial policy. In its review
OF the bread-stuif markets of London for
1887 it calls attention TO the fact that the
-four importation4 are destroying the
English milling business in Great Britain.
What it remarks in this regard Is highly /
suggestive to the citizens of this country |
1t says
1t will be seen that the total of wheat re-
ceived in London is rather smaller than last
year, but that the -ombined quantities of
wheat and flour are larger, owing to the very
great increase in the quantity of flour. 1t Is
a startling fact that the bulk of our-chiehy /
from the United States-which has cofae to |
London during the year 1887 is larger than
that received in the form of wheat by II guam
tity equal TO PSF, j07 quarters of wheat. Tn
der such circumstances as these it cannot be
wondered at that the trade has been dull d
dragging throughout, and the facts as they
stand are of serious import to the British
milling industry.
The tables given show that the London
receipts of foreign and domestic wheat
were 2,O3G,o5l quarters, while the re-
ceipts of -four were = ,322. Dos quarters, and
-, . If of.
pounds each and 1880 barrels of 1876
pounds were of foreign flour. OF the
wheat imported. $40, 0i5 quarters in all,
502, 339 quarters came from the nitcd
States, while the entire receipts of Eng
lish Scotch and Irish wheat were only
ll6,006 quarters. In another paragraph,
referring to small receipt. Of -four from
Manitoba. the same paper says:
This is one more nail in the coffin of the
British miller. but that does not matter
much; Uncle Sam is the only man who can
fasten il down. And he will if he can. If
the imports of American Hour continue to
increase in their present ratio, 1t will not be
many years before ne calls together the
friends of the deceased for last look be-
fore interment.
The imports at London differ consider
ably from the imports into the whole
kingdom. The British imports from the
United States in lSS7 amounted TO 30.3Ol,-
600 cwts. against 25,2so, 900 cwt>. from all
other countries, while the imports OF flour
were I,S73,o0O cwts. from the nlted
States, against 3,ls3,0oo cwts. from all
tlar Il,n Il,
ties from the United States is shown in
the following statement from the official
reports:
Wheat. 1857. lSS6.
United States cwts 30, 50t 900 1921 900
Other countries " 25,2s0, 900 - 1873, 600
Flour. 1885, 1856.
United States cwts l4,s73, 900 l,t73,0o0
Other countries ~ 3,lS3.0oo $4,000
While the wheat imports from Russia
and India tend to lessen those from the
United States, the general import of the
figures does not look a. though the Amer
lean wheat and flour producers are to he'
driven from the English markets. at pres
ent at least. When our manufacturing
industries shall become vast enough to
create towns, cities, and home markets
sufficient to consume all of our own wheat
and -four so much the better for American
agriculturalists and farm owners. OF late
the United States has largely increased its
shipments to Great Britain.
The Minneapolis journal publishes an
interesting interview with ten Nettleton.
an able and widely respected member of
the Anti-Saloon Republican National
Committee. \ more competent or trust
worthy witness could not be found as re-
CARDS the present views and tendencies of
the Republicans of the Northwest on the
temperance issues. 1t is encouraging to be
told by witness eminently capable and
entirely unimpeachable, that the Anti
Saloon movement sis accomplishing pre-
cisely, aud all, that was expected of tit
Is leavening the whole Republican party
with an aggressive Anti-Saloon sentiment
and convincing the politician class that ii
is good politics as well rs good morals and
good sense to accept this AS Il leading issue
of the time and side with the American
home rs against the American gin-mill.
The temperance people of New Jersey
are making a vigorous movement to re-
strict the liquor traffic. The local option
and high license bill has passed the New
Jersey Senate, all the Republican Senators
voting in the affirmative and all the Demo
Gratis against it. Ii the Democratic Gov
ernor vetoes it, possibly the Republicans
may be able to pass it over the veto. Thus
in New Jersey. as in all the States where
the Republicans are in majority, the Re
publicans are the chief reliance for tenn
perance legislation against nearly solid
Democratic opposition. Yet the third
party in nearly every State makes war on
the Republican party and in the name of
Prohibition secretly or openly allies itself
with the Democratic party. or takes Just
such course as has that result.
The Boston journal shows how thor
oughly it understands the real character
of its neighbor. the Herald. when it says
of its performances as a public ''ceusor
in the interest of prohibition constitute a
rollicking example ofpolitical low comedy,
in taking certain Republican Senators to
task because they did not vote for license
suffrage for women. The fact is that
temperance and woman suffrage are dis
tinct questions
The North Carolina Democrats greet
the President on his way South with a |
peremptory demand for the total abolition
Of internal revenue taxes.