The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-10-05
MAILING THE LIES.
he MARKETS OF THE WORLD AND
THE DEMOCRATIC THEORY.

lie MARKETS OF THE WORLD AND
THE DEMOCRATIC THEORY.
American Markets Are Worth "a, ,OOO.-
600 More Than All Others-Free 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 a
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
ensus returns, amounted in value to
So, 054. 435, 337, of which we exported
to the value of $151, 1O2, $40, leaving
SIS, 903, 1872, 961 worth of American man
ufactured goods consumed at home, as
follows:
AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS.
Total United States manufactures,
fS,33
Total exported, 1896. ........ ISL, l0e,578
Total home consumption, 1890. ..... Ss,93,3S2, 96l
In the same way we must deal with
our farm products, the total value of
which during 1889, consumed in 1890.
was 50, 46O, 107, 454. We exported to the
extent of $3.50, IA, 400, leaving Amer
lean farm products worth 81. 927, $685.
964 consumed by Americans. Thus:
AMERICAN FARM RoDUCTs
Total farm products, 1889. ......... 81, ACC, 107, 454
Total exported, 1889. ............ 81, al 400
Total home consumption. 1890. ..... 81 1877 85, ss4
We see that the American people con-
sumed American manufactured goods
and farm products in 1890 to the extent
of $40, 831, 299, 925. To this we must add
the value of foreign goods entered for
consumption through our customs de-
partment, which amounted to $773,-
GA, 812 in 1890, thereby getting the fol-
lowing aggregate value of the entire
ri CONSUMPTION IN 1890.
American manufactures. ....... S8,gG332,&l
American farm products..-..... LIZ, 965.94
Foreign goods. 773,874,8l2
Total American consumption. 49,. Sill GOA, 973, 757
Against this aggregate consumption
of goods in the United States, worth
81, 604, 973, 1877 in the year 1890, or
SITS. so for every man, woman and
child of a population of 65, 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 u 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 1888, that
the total imports of all other countries
in the world at the latest date for which
complete returns are available were az
follows:
TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS.
Europe, Asia, Africa, North and
South America, Australasia and
the islands of the a............S 81 $50, 100000
This is less by over 81, 900, 900, 900
than the total consumption of goods III
the United States. Thus:
Total United States consumption,
1871. G4,y73,137
Total imports, all other countries,
ooo..............- ..........."" 7,J69,UO,WO
United States market excess. S4,O35. 973,737
The policy of the free trade party is
to throw our American market-worth
e I RnI OT2 H21 IN 1000 -Anon 70 fhn
competition of the farmers and manu-
facturers of all other nations, while wa
strive to secure their markets, all of
which put together are worth 81, 035,-
973, 1877 less than our own home market.
Is it not best to retain the good homo
that we already possess, also
striving to cease buying the $773, 674,-
612 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
III securing a 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 tke savage labor of the islands of
the seaA
Such IS hepolicy Of protection. But
the free trade policy is to give our mar
kets to theShcap labor countries and to
compete with the cheap labor in their
markets. We alreatty consume
over. 81, 900, 600, 900 worth of goods
more than thy can buy from US Let US
keep our W trade first. Always vote
FOR protection.
CHARLES z. auckland.
Average Rate of Duty.
Free traders lose no opportunity to
the Mckinley act and to