Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-05-04
IMPORTS.
Ito THIS COUNTRY or
|oN WITH CANADA.

ration of Canada Viewed az /
OF Trade--what Continenta,
Would Mean as Far as the Publ.
In Canada Are Concerned.
total value OF the imports into Cana
nd Newfoundland for the fiscal year
ing June 80, 1892, was in round mum.
rs sls5, 100000, or s27 per capita, while
Yhe total value of the imports into the
United States was ss27, 0O0, 900, or only 1890
,. per capita. We are more wealthy than our
good Canadian cousins and therefore pur-
chase more luxuries, expensive goods and
works of art per capita than they do which
are not produced upon this continent. The
same is true of some of the necessaries OF
hfe-viz, of sugar, of which we are con-
Stunning at present % pounds more per capita
per annum than the Canadians do.
1t may be safely estimated that with con-
tinental union consummated--or, in other
words the political union of the United
States and British America-the people who
live north of the existing boundary line be-
tween the two great countries will not inn
port more foreign goods per capita than we
do In this country at the present time-that
Under the present tariff of Canada and
Newfoundland we supplied $4,000, 900
worth OF the total imports Of the two coun-
tries in 1892. With absolute free trade be-
tween British North America and the Unit
ed states and with practically the present
tariff OF this country as against all other
nations extended to Canada and Newfound-
land we should be better able than we are
now to furnish all we supply.
We now sell to Canada so per capita
OF her total imports. If with continental
union her total per capita imports are re-
duced to Sl2.60, the same as in the United
States, it will leave only g. 10 per capita to
be supplied by other nations, or total of
o,o00,OoO, which, deducted from $135, OOO,-
600, her total imports for 1899, leaves sl24.-
100000 to be furnished by this country. or
this we now supply $54, 900 600 worth, which.
deducted from 1924 500, 900, leaves $40, 5OO.-
600 of new trade to come to us through con
tinental union at our very doors upon our
| own continent with an intelligent high
minded, honorable people of our own race.
Tree from the risks connected with most
foreign trade--a trade that will be ours for
all time to come-that cannot be taken
from us by any other power in a market
all parts Of which can be reached by rail-
way by every merchant and manufacturer
in the United States within 10 DAYS and
collections made as cheaply and as prompt
ly as within our present territory--a trade
which can be indefinitely, rapidly and per-
manently increased under the laws legis-
lation and flag of the republic of the United
States.
Dare any one estimate the effect upon i'm
migration from Great Britain and ireland
and northern Europe of the opening up to
settlement of half a continent, rich beyond
description in natural resources, In a most
healthful and invigorating climate, con.
tanning 2OO,OOO,000 acres of public land open
Tor settlement upon which wheat of the best
quality can be profitably grown, and like
amount suitable for grass and grazing, I'M
der the American flag, which has already
drawn 12,0O0,0 900 of immigrants from En-
rope and would be, with continental union
consummated, unquestionably the most
powerful, wealthy, prosperous and peaceful
nation in the world-a nation in which the
per capita value of production and the
earnings of labor are the greatest and are
rapidly increasing, while the cost of the nee
essaries and comforts of life is the cheapest
and is steadily decreasing-a nation lavish
in the distribution Of the good things of
this life, but most economical in, the ex-
penditure of human labor in productions
Where else can we at one stroke add $40.
100000 to our export trade under such
favorable conditions, with a certainty of
rapid and permanent extension, and at the
same time add enormously to the power.
prestige, influence, resources, honor. glory
and safety of the republic and the peace of
the worldg
In 1892 the value of imports of iron and
steel and manufactures thereof into British
North America was $15, 900, 600, or SO per
capita. The imports of manufactured cot
ton goods for the same year was IS, 100000.
or 81 per capita, and of manufactured
woolens 100000 900, or 81 per capita Total
fer the three lines of manufactured goods,
$40, 0oO,0 600, or 50 per capita.
The total value of the imports into the
United States for the same year of the same
three lines of manufactured articles was
$94, O0o, 900, or $1.43 per capita. With con-
tinental union consummated we should
transfer trade in these three lines of man
fractures alone equal to the difference be-
tween 20 per capita and 81 .43 for s, 600. 900 of
people, or S22, $50 900 less than the value of
our present exports to Canada of these
goods Steel rails are now admitted free of
duty into British North America and are
supplied chiefly by England. With CONT
mental union we should transfer that trade
to our own steel rail mills, and as 5000
miles or railway have been constructed in
Canada since 1880, and renewals are re-
quired for 1900 miles now in operation.
the Canadian market is well worthy of con.
sideration by our steel rail manufacturers.
To the manufacturers of mill, factory
and mining machinery and machinery for
the construction of public works continental
union would open an immense market, as
well as to those engaged in the production
OF agricultural machinery and implements.
Every increase in our consuming power
enables us to make more advantageous
treaties with other nations for
the admission Of our surplus products into
their markets. The contamination of con-
tinental union assures an enormous deyel-
opment of the internal commerce of the
continent under the American flag. Every
manufacturer, carrier by rail or
water, artisan, railway builder, ship owner
and capitalist should give it active moral.
political and financial appropriateness
Glen in New York Sun,
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The Woman of the Future.
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