The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-08-17
MAILING THE LIES.
THE MARKETS OF THE WORLD AND
THE DEMOCRATIC THEORY.


American Markets Are Worth $4,000, O0O,-
900 More Than All Others-Free Traders
Want 20 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
census returns, amounted in value to
SO, 054, 435, 337, Of which we exported
to the value of $751;, 102, 376, leaving
SO, 903, 1872, 961 worth of American man
ufactured goods consumed at home, as
follows:
AMERICAN MANUFACTURES.
Total United States manufactures,
1880. SVOoi, f35,33l
Total exported, 1890. .....,....... 151, l02,37e
Total home CONSUMPTION, 1850. So 0O3 BIZ, o6l
In the same way we must deal with
our farm products, the total value of
which during 1889, consumed in 1890,
was 50, AGO, 107, 454. We exported to the
extent Of $500, 141, 400, leaving Amer
lean farm products worth $1.927, 965,
o64 consumed by Americans. Thus:
AMERICAN FARM PRODUCTS.
Total farm products. 1885,. 81, AGO 107, 454
Total exported 1889. ............... 532 141 400
Total home consumption, 1890. 81, 927 965, 084
We see that the American people con-
sumed American manufactured goods
and farm products in 1890 to the extent
of $40, S31, 29S, 025 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
AMERICAN CONSUMPTION IN 1890.
American manufactures.......... SS,9O3,332,961
American farm products........ 1897, 965,964
Foreign goods. 773,67481a
Total American consumption 81 ,604 ,073, 737
Against this aggregate consumption
of goods in the United States, worth
81, 604, 973, 1877 in the year 1890, or
$178 SO 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
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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 1888, 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 sea. 81, 569 OOO,UOO
This is less by over 81, 600, 900, 600
than the total consumption of goods in
the United States. Thus:
Total United States consumption,
lS9O. ,6O4,v13,I3I
Total imports, all other countries,
1888. .............. I,000,OOO,OOO
United States market excess. 81, 035, 973,7 37
The policy of the free trade party is
to throw our American market-worth
81, 604, 973, 1877 in 1890-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 81, 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 $773, 674,-
812 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?
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, 900, 600 worth of goods
more than they can buy from us. Let us
keep our own trade first. Always vote
for protection.
CHARLES r. BUCKLANp.
Average Rate of Duty.
Free traders lose no opportunity to