The Colored citizen., 1894-10-22
MAILING THE LIES,
THE MARKETS OF THE WORLD AND
THE DEMOCRATIC THEORY.


THE DEMOCRATIC THEORY.
American Markets Are Worth "A ooo ooo
900 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
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
80, 1854, 435, 397, of which we exported
to the value Of $l5l, l02, $40, leaving
W, BOB, 332, 96l worth of American man.
ufactured goods consumed at home, as
follows:
AMERICAN MANUFACTURES.
Total United States manufactures,
'o'V''..''.. ..''....'......".Ss Ss,0o4,fS15H
Total exported, 1880. O............... Is, ,lG2 37e
Total home consumption, 1890 :. 81, ,9O3. .aae 9dl
In the same way we must deal with
our farm products, the total value of
which during 1889, consumed in 1890,
was 80, AGO, 107, 454. We exported to the
extent of $532, 141, 400, leaving Amer.
lean farm products worth 81. 927, $685.
964 consumed by Americans. Thus:
AMERIoANFARM PRODUCTS
Total farm products. 1859. s., 400, ,l01 IA
Total exported, 1880. 63e, al 490
Total home consumption, 1890. ,s21 sG5 9e4
We see that the American people con-
sumed American manufactured goods
and farm products in 1890 to the extent
Of $40, SSi, 29S, 925. To this we must add
the value Of foreign goods entered for
consumption through our customs de-
partment, which amounted to $773,-
874, Sl2 in 1890, thereby getting the fol-
lowing aggregate value of the entire
AMERICAN CONSUMPTION IN 1890.
American manufactures.......... 9B.32,96l
American farm products......... 1,927, ,965,96i
Foreign goods. ds...................... 77s,874si2
Total American consumption. sl1 ,6O4 ,g73,75
Against this aggregate consumption
Of goods in the United States, worth
Gil, ,604, 973, 1877 in the year 1890, or
$17S. 52 for every man, woman and
child of 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 as do. They are not
80 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, A"stralasia and
the islands Of the sea. ,58e,0OO,0O
This is less by over 81, 600, 600, 900
than the total consumption of goods In
the United States. Thus:
Total United States consumption,
lsp. p.."....................... ...Sll.ooAsi3io'
Total imports, all other countries, ~
leSS. ''.,.......... t'oosoVVooo
,,.,,., ,.,c,...,,.,.x...s a. oas ON 7a7
The policy of the free trade party Is
to throw our American market-worth
$1l, ,604, 973, 1877 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 $4,035,
973, 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 $77S, 674,-:
SI2 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 Ia
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? ss ass -... .
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 "a, 900. 900, 900 worth of goods
more than they can buy from us. Let us
keep our own trade first Always vote
for protection.
CHARLES r. BUCKIAND.
Revenue Sufficient Under Republican Rule.
Not single year from the enactment
nj the tariff of 1890 up to the close OF