Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-08-23
MAILING THE LIES.
THE MARKETS or THE WORLD AND
THE DEMOCRATIC THEORY.

American Markets Are Worth $4,000, ooo.-
900 More Than All Others--Eree Traders
Want TO Give Ours Away--we Would
Lose For Foreigners to Gain.
The renewal of the free trade party's
destructive free raw material warory
against American industries naturally
calls to mind their old theory Of the
markets of the world, and how great
gain it will be if we can only secure
them. Let us look into it,
The total manufactures of the United
States in 1890, according to the last
census returns, amounted in value to
50, 054. 4S5, 337, of which we exported
to the value of s151, 1o2, $40, leaving
IS, 903, $50, 96l worth of American man
ufactured goods consumed at home. as
follows:
AMERICAN MANUFACTURES
Total United States manufactures,
1880 Se0o4, fSS.S5l
Total exported, 1890. ISL, ,,aT6
Total home consumption. 1890 81, aOs, 80, sel
In the same way we must deal with
our farm products, the total value of
which during 1880, consumed in 1890,
was So, 400, 107, 454. We exported to the
extent of $3.50, 14l, 400, leaving Amer
lean farm products worth 1897. $685.
1894 consumed by Americans. Thus:
AMERICAN FARM PRODUCTS.
Total farm products, 1850. s. 400 l01, i54
Total exported, 1882 .............,.. ta214l,490
Total home consumption, 1850, ,asT 965, 965
We see that the American people con-
sumed American manufactured goods
and farm products in 1890 to the extent
Of $40, 1871, 29S, 925, To this we must add
the value Of foreign goods entered for
consumption through our customs de-
partment. which amounted to $773,-
GA, S12 in 1890. thereby getting the fol-
lowing aggregate value of the entire
AMERICAN CONSUMPTION IN 1897
American manufactures. ......... SS,@3SS2,96l
American farm products. ....... l,9sI ,9G5,e64
Foreign goods. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. T73674,sl2
Total American consumption. Sill ,604, eI3,13l
Against this aggregate consumption
of goods in the United States, worth
$11, GOA, 973, 1877 i'll the year 1890. or
S1TS. SO for every man, woman and
child of population of So, 600, 600 per-
sons, what are the great markets of the
world that we may expect to secure?
The markets of the world comprise
only such goods Us are imported by the
different countries of the world, be-
cause we cannot claim to supply them
with what they already manufacture or
grow in their own countries unless they
propose free trade, as the Democratic
party would have us do. They are not
so foolish, however. Other countries
prefer to retain what they already pos
sess rather than throw away tho sub
stance for the shadow. We find, from
The American Almanac Of 1883, that
the total imports Of all other countries
in the world at the latest dnte for which
complete returns are available were as
follows:
TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS.
Europe, Asia, Africa, North and
South America, Australasia and
the islands OF the sea......... 81, 5G0, coo 600
This is less by over "a, 600, 600, 900
than the total consumption of goods in
the United States. Thus: k
Total United States consumption,
1871 .Sll,60 ,9I3,I3I
Total imports, all other countries,
1888. ,.........,... 1,059UO0,OOO
United States market excess. S4,0359i3.737
The policy Of the free trade party is
to throw our American market-worth
$11, GOA, 973, 1877 in 1890--open to the
competition of the farmers and manu-
faeturers of all other nations while we
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which put together are worth $4,035,-
978, 1877 less than our own home market.
Is it not best to retain the good home
market that we already possess, also |
striving to cease buying the $773, 674,- |
812 worth of foreign goods that we con-
sumo, and to produce these goods for |
ourselves, if we can, rather than to
throw away what we are sure of and take |
chances in securing portion Of the |
smaller markets of the rest Of the world |
In open competition with the cheap la
Dor Of Europe of Asia, of Africa, of |
Canada, Of Central and South America,
and Of the savage labor of the islands of |
the sea?
Such is the policy Of protection. But
tu6 Tree bIdue POllNy AZ w give our mar
kets to the cheap labor countries and to
compete with the cheap labor in their
smaller markets. We already consume
over 81, 00o 600, 600 worth Of goods
more than they can buy from us. Let US
keep our own trade first Always vote
for protection.
CHARLES r. BUcKLAND.
Average Rate Of Duty.
Free traders lose no opportunity to |
misrepresent the Mckinley act and to |