Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-09-01
MAILING THE LIES.
THE MARKETS OF THE WORLD AND
THE DEMOCRATIC THEORY.

American Markets Arc Worth 81. COG, oc0.-
600 More Than All 0thcrs-Free Trnders
Want to Give Ours Away We Would
Lose For Foreigners to Gain.
The renewal of tho free trade party's
destructive free raw material warcry
against American Industries naturally
calls to mind their old theory of the
markets Of the werld, and how great
Esiin 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
.snsus returns, amounted IN value to
8, 054. 435, 337, of which we exported
to tho value of 1851, 102, 376, leaving
So, o03, S32, 9G1 worth Of American man
ufactured goods consumed at home. as
follows:
AMERICAN MANUFACTURES.
Total United States manufacturer.
lav.-.-- S9,o14, 81
Total exported. 1850. ................ 15l,in,3Tj
Total home consumption. 1850. SIS, 9u3, saSs e5l
In the same way we must deal with
our farm products, the total value of
which during 1889, consumed in 1890,
was So. AGO, 107, 454. Weexported to the
extent of s532. 141, 400, leaving Amer
lean farm products worth 1922. $685.
964 consumed by Americans. Thus:
AMERICAN FARM PRODUCTS.
Total farm products lssa- s. 400, 101 .44
Total exported, 1853 ................ $50
Total hcmc consumption, 1890 49,. 81 as7. 965 ee4
We sec that the American people con-
sumed American manufactured goods
and farm products iii 1880 to the extent
of $40, 831, 29S, 925. 70 this we must add
the value of foreign goods entered for
consumption through our customs de-
partment, which amounted to $773,-
674, 812 in 1890, thereby getting the fol-
lowing aggregate value of tho entire
AMERICAN CONSUMPTION IN 1899.
American manufactures. Ss,9o8 So s6l
American farm products. 1927 ,055, 964
Foreign 2oods--.... t1a,6s4,6iS
Total American consump tion 1854. 973, 131
Against this aggregate consumption
of goods i'll the United States, worth
81, 604, 973, 1877 in the year 1890, or
sl7S. 90 for every man, woman and
child Of a population Of 65, GOO, 600 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 tho sub
stance for the shadow. We find, from
The American Almanac Ct 1883, that
the total imports of all other countries
i'll 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 81, $50 Coz, 600
This is less by over 81, 600, 600, 600
than the total consumption of goods in
the United States. Thus:
Total United States consumption,
1850. ,GJ 5s3,s3
To'al imports, all other countries,
ISIS. .............. I,569000,G00
United States market excess. S4Gl5 973, 1871
The policy of the free trade party is
TO throw our American market-worth
81 604, 973, 737 in I890-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,
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 S773, 674,-
S12 worth of foreign goods that we con-
Kume, 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
rmaller 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 sea?
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 81, 600, coo, coo worth of goods
more than they can buy from us. Let us
keep our own trade first. Always vote
for protection.
CHARLES r. AUCKLAND.