The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-03-26

Here are the buyers of the whole
world. Now, which of them does our
free trader expect to capture by his
Flower cost of production?" Even the
abiding faith of an American Cobdenite
can not hope for greatly increased sales
Of the products of American mills in
the shadow of English factories, so
Great Britain and it's 2. O77 millions may
be eliminated Next subtract France,
Germany, Russia. AUSTRIA Italy. Spain
and Portugal, Bel GUM, Canada, Switzer-
land, Scandinavia and Australia, all of
which are protected countries, whose
policy is to preserve for their own man.
ufactures monopoly of the domestic
market The protectionist law makers
OF these countries will see to it that no
very extensive ''captures' of their
markets are made by the United States
or any other country. There remains
then as the only part of this great
worlds market of 1888 million dollars
only 1,69S millions for which we can
even hope.
Well, what are our prospects for OBJ
tanning this remnant? Holland the
most liberal buyer, exports nearly as
much iron and steel of all kinds as it
imports. AS for textiles, it usually ex-
ports quite as much as it imports of
them and sends to England three times
as much as it takes of British products.
India is beginning, with the help of it's
extremely low wage rate, to supply it's
own demand for manufactures and will
soon be dangerous competitor in these
markets of the world.'' Cottons are
the principal manufactured goods
needed in the Orient. and it is al
together probable that the demand
OF China, Java and Japan will soon
be abundantly supplied with Oriental
cottons at so low a rate that competi-
ton by either England or the United
States will be out of the question.
Turkey, Africa and the 'sother coun-
tries" have but few wants, and these
are for the most part such as we could
not supply.
Thus do the ''great markets of the
world'' disappear under careful exami-
nation and analysis. If the whole
$1,69s, 90 1000 which represents the pur-
chases of the worlds ''neutrar' market
were offered to us in exchange for our
domestic market we could not afford to
accept Our home trade is at least ten
times this amount annually. All it's
profits are kept at home, and the risk
OF distant ocean transportation is re-
duced to minimum. Its benefits and
blessings are incalculable, and it will
be dark and dismal day when this
splendid birthright is bartered away
for that miserable mess of pottage,
1.-THE wo rld's neutral markets, Amer.
lean Economist
The Canadian Manufacturer defnas
Canadian mugwumpery as follows:
"Mugwumpery may be described as
that mental condition disappointed poll ,
tlclans arrive at when, for reasons best
known to themselves, they find that the
political grindstone is imperative, as
lar as sharpening their little axes goes.
With some politicians when this condi-
ton is reached they either try some
other AK or some other grindstone; but
they keep up trying all the same" Add,
and they always become enthusiastic
over the achievements of other coun-
tries and generally sneer at the tri-
umphs of their own" and the description
OF the American mugwump is complete.
FEW months ago about every free
trade paper in the land was certain that
the senate would not dare to reject the
separate bills for abolishing the duty on
this that and the other item in the McKin-.
ley list of dutiable articles. 1t is signif-
cant as showing the growing popularity
OF the new law and the increasing con-
hdence in its effectiveness as the plat
form of the party of protection that
these same papers now confess that
neither the free wool bill nor any other
free trade measure can even pass the
senate, much less the presidant'a vatA-