The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-08-17

extent of 1892, al 400, leaving Ameri-
can farm products worth 81, 927, 965, 964
consumed by Americans. Thus:
AMERICAN FARM PRODUCTS.
Total farm products, 1889 ......... 400 1o7,44
Total exported, 1889. 532ln'i9O
Total home consumption. 1890 81 go, 1855 ,a64
We see that the American people
consumed American manufactured
goods and farm products in 1890 to the
extent of $40, 1871, 298, 925. To this we
must add the value of the foreign goods
entered for consumption through our
customs department, which amounted
to $773, ,S12 in 1850, thereby getting
the following aggregate value OF the
entire
AMERICAN CONSUMPTION IN 1890.
American manufactures .......... $500. 332, 9G1
American farm products.......... 1927 ,966, 964
forelgn gooos............. -. 49, "S'''t'olz
Total American consumption 81 GOA ga, 1877
Against this aggreg gate consumption
of goods in the United States, worth
$l1, 604, 973, 1874 in the year 1850, or
S17S.52 for every man, woman, d
child of a population of $4,000, 900 per-
sons, what are the great markets OF
the world that we may expect to Sc
cure?
The markets of the world comprise
only such goods as 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 Demo
cratic party would have us do. They
are not so foolish, however. Other
countries prefer to retain what they
already possess rather than throw
away the substance for the shadow.
We find, from the American Almanac
of 1888, that the total imports of all
other countries in the world at the
latest date 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. 1863 600 600
This is less by over four D lions of
dollars than the total consumption Of
goods in the United States. Thus:
Total United states consumption,
Total imports, all other countries,
1888. 7,f69,oOo,Ooo
United States market excess sl,O35 ,973, 70;
The policy of the free trade party ia
t. throw our American ket-worth
S1l ,60I, 973, 1877 in lSy0-oLen to the
competition of the farmers and manu-.
facturers of all other nations, while
we strive to SO cure their markets, all
of which put together are worth ST.
035, 973, 737 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,
Sl2 worth of foreign goods that we
consume and to produce these goods
for ourselves, IL 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 labor of Europe. of Asia, Cf Afri-
ca, 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 the free-trade policy is to give our
markets TO the cheap labor countries
and to compete with the cheap labor
In their smaller markets. We already
consume over four billion dollars worth
of goods more than they can buy from
us. Let US keep our trade first. AL