Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-11-27

bidding the other on freight rates till in
some instances wheat was actually
taken to Europe free. This was made
necessary by reason of the fact that
ship must have some weight in its hold
to steady it-ballast as it is called
OF course when our products are taken
to Europe at very low freight rates they
can be offered for sale there At very.
slight advance upon the New York
price. This gives our products the
power to compete advantageously with
the products Of other nations. sid thus
widens the market for all we sell
abroad. The cheaper our wheat can be
carried to Liverpool the more We can
sell there, and the more competing
wheat from Russia and India can We
drive out Of the English market
Now, ocean freights can be low only
when ships can get cargoes both ways.
II we put up Mckinley tariffs with the
avowed object Of shutting out foreign
goods how can we hold our foreign
markets for what we produce? Is 1t not
clear that If ship has to come empty
to.America for cargo of grain 1t VIII
have to charge double freight on that
cargo? 1t can not afford to cross the
ocean for nothing. When our grain,
then. is put down in Liverpool with .
double freight added to its pricedwill it
not be placed at . great disadvantage
in the competition with the grains OF
Russia and other lands that are nov
gradually getting ahead of us In the
English market?
Besides, why should we wish to harrfl
the industries OF England? The glee
with which protectionist ora tors point
out the evidences of the dissatisfaction
in England over the Mckinley bill is
evidence of the most stupid ig-
norance- They entirely overlook She
value of the English market to us.
especially to our farmers On an aEero
age we sell every year S216. 600. 600
worth of commodities in England ove2e
and above what We buy there About
one-fourth of our wheat crop is sod
abroad, most of this in England; and
two-thirds of our cotton finds foreigH
market; nearly all of this in England.
Evidently 1t is of the utmost impor-
lance to us to hold that market How
supremely foolish to run the Gisk of
losing a large part of a merket in which
So per cent of all our exports are sold.
and from which we buy only % per
cent of our imports
Mr.. Blaine chases after the will-os
the-wisp of reciprocity with South
America, to which, as he shows. we sell
very little, and at the same time the
| market in which more than hslf Of all
our foreign sales are made is recklesslT
endangered by our stupid tariff makers
That the market for our breadstuhs
will continue to grow narrower in En-
gland is now practically certain
The London Economist. the leading
financial and economic authority among
English journals, says in its very tenn
perate discussion of the Mckinley bill:
| Many of The staple commodities we rpw
| import from the United States we can buy
| the States is enhanced, as il must be under
| the new tariff, these other markets viii bas
| come the cheapest for us to buy in.
There are other evidences that En-
gland is looking elsewhere for its grain
supply. A recent dispatch from Londou
saws of the Mckinley bill:
For one thing. 1t has already made IL ces.
| tain that Europe will take no interest IN the
Chicago exhibition, and will practically be
Is the impulse Ii has given here to CONSOLE
date capital In an energetic effort 70 fmme-
diately push railways throughout the Indian
| and Russian wheat belts. and thus render
the European market Independent OF Amer
lean grain supplies
We have already lost heavily in COM
potion with those countries The Off,
cial figures of the Treasury Department
!. are conclusive proof of the fact The
relative quantity of wheat and hou]
bought by England from the three
1883 is as follows: