Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-24
OUR MARKETS.

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 In his speech at Indianapolis on the 18th Ex- President Harrison said:
 : The Democrats have been talking good deal about getting the markets of the world Let us stop and think just for a little while about this theory. Where are these markets? Are they in Africa? Well, Africa does not offer per capita anything like as attractive market as America. Here we clothe ourselves all over, and they don't there. Laughter Are these markets in Asia? Well, there are some markets there, and there are some markets in Africa that valuable, and in which we already have share; but, 1 ask you to re- member this fact if we are to compete for those markets, that the great European nations have got possession of all that coun- try. This has been done without consulting the inhabitants. Not only that, but these countries are pursuing in every other part of the world colonizing policy. They are talk ing up every island they can find. England has Australia continental in size and re- sources; she has India; she has had for years African possessions, and they are now greatly extended. This thing gives her and those other nations great advantages in the com merce of the world over the United States. We have never had a colonizing policy, and probably never will have one. Indeed, we have been so narrow in our views upon this question that could not even take in the
 
 The answer to this argument is that the United States does not depend upon colo nies to buy her products she ships to all countries and to all nations, both civilized and semi civilized. Alabama iron is now sold in Montreal in competition with British and Canadian iron. The Canadian tariff on iron holds good against British iron as we'll as American iron. The fact that Canada is under the dominion of Great Britain gives her no advantage in supplying her wants. If Great Britain should say to one of her colonies, "You must buy your supplies from us, evon though you can buy cheaper from another country,' that colony would revolt aid throw off the British yoke. England once tried to make the American colonies pay tribute to her and they rebelled, and she learned a lesson she will never forget. Trade must be allowed to regulate itself. "manufacturer, writing to the Chi cago Herald, agrees with us on this point, as follows:
 The writer is personally connected with and interested in a large manufa curing nstitu- tion and has been for the past seventeen years, and of necessity we have to compete for business all over the United States and in Canada. It is fact that at no time in the past fifteen years where we have attended public letting in the Dominion of Canada and submitted sealed proposals for work of our product on, but we have come in competition with England for precisely the same class of manufactured article. Now it is-a-wciiii- known fact that England rays precisely the same duty coming isto Canada that the man. Qfacturers-of the United States do. England, however, has the advantage in their favor as compared with the American manufacturer that they can bring their machinery as ballast into canada, and yet tn no instance to my recollection, where we have come in compe- tition with England, but we have underbid them from 20 to 30per cent, and this in the face of the fact, if we are to believe the Republ can orators, that the mechanics and laborers en- ployed in the manufacturing industries of England To not receive one-half the compen- sation that our mechanics and laborers re- ceive here. But doubt very much if the Re- publican orators, and particularly those of the Mckinley type, can longer succeed in de- luding the mechanics and laborers of the United states in an effort to withdraw their allegiance from their real and true friends, the Democratic party.
 Again, ex-President Harrison tries to create the impression that the United States must find 6 market in the semi-civ- ilized countries of the world. This is no. so. A large portion of our exports is to the most enlighted nations of the world. In the same issue of the St. Louis Globe Democrat in which Mir. Harrison's speech is reported we find the following table which indicates those nations that buy from us and the proportionate amount:
 The following is a statement of foreign ship ments of flour and grain from St. Louis from January to September 30, compiled for the Merchants' Exchange by Secretary Morgan: