The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-10-29
MAILING THE LIES,
THE MARKETS OF THE WORLD AND
THE DEMOCRATIC THEORY.


American Markets Are worth $4,000. ooo,.
900 More Than All 0thers-Fres 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 warcry
against American industries naturally
calls to mind their old theory of the
markets Of the world, and how great
gain 1t will be II we can only secure
them. Let us look into 1t.
The total manufactures Of the United
States in 1890, according to the last
census returns, amounted in value to
80, ob4. 486, 1877 Of which we exported
to the value Of $751;, 102, S78, leaving
%, 909, 882, 88l worth of American man
ufactured goods consumed at home, az
follows:
AMERICAN MANUFACTURED
Total United States manufactures,
n ''.,..'.....:.......,......, ", o. t8b,85
Total exported, 1880. ................ ISL Oe876
Total home consumption 1890. %, pOs SOC ,pel
In the same way we must deal with
our farm products, the total value Of
which during 1889, consumed in 1890,
was 81, AGO, LOT. 454. We exported to the
extent Of $500, 14l, 400, leaving Amer
lean farm products worth 81. 827, $685..
964 consumed by Americans. Thus:
AMERICAN FARM PRODUCTS.
Total farm products. 400 JOY, 454
Total exported, 1889 ..............., Sacl4l, 400
Total home consumption. 1890 -. 81, oa7 ,oO5, se4
We see that the American people con-
sumed American manufactured goods
and farm products in 1890 to the extent
Of $40, 8S1, 29s, 925. To this we must add
the value Of foreign goods entered for
consumption through our customs de-
partment, which amounted to $T73,-
674, s12 in 1890, thereby getting the fol-
lowing aggregate value Of the entire
AMERICAN CONSUMPTION IN $780,
American manufactured. 5000 SO, col
American farm products........ 1,9e7, .p64
Foreign goods. .................,... 773674,el2
Total American consumption. e. 81 ,eO4 e78,731
Against this aggregate consumption
of goods in the United States, worth
s11, GOA, e73, 1877 In the year 1890, or
s17s.59 for every man, woman and
child of population of So, 900, 900 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 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 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 the 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 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 500, 100000
This is less by over 81, 900, 900, 900
than the total consumption of goods in
the United States. Thus:
Total United States consumption,
losu I'll go, 913i3I
Total imports, all other countries,
1855. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1853, 0uOOO0
United States market excess. .., S4035, g73537
The policy Of the free trade party is
to throw our American market-worth
$11, 604, ora, T97 in 1S90-open to the
competition Of the farmers and manu-
facturers of all other nations, while we
strive to secure their markets, all Of
which put together are worth S4,035,-
073, 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, IL we can, rather than to
throw away what we are sure of and take
chances in securing q 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 seaf
Such is the policy of protection. But
the free trade policy is to give our mar
kets to the cheap labor countries and to
compete with the cheap labor in their
smaller markets We already consume
over $4,000, 600, 900 worth of goods
more than they can buy from us. Let MS
keep our own trade first. Always vote
for protection.
CHARLES r. AUCKLAND.