The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-10-16


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TIo9l1 tw#urnt HI'h LuuI a1d
nome with SEQ Eueh uH that lho lat.
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hiY two.thirds; yet our exports 20
Venezuela underwent very little
change, aud IN the current year thoy
will probably boonc.third greater than
they were In 1888. Although we
ceased buying coffee Of Norozuela, our
exports 10 that country did not fall 90
low ns they were IN 1920 until
1895, after the reciprocity era was
over. The presumption is that tho
Neuezuelens bought Of us what they
could buy hero 10 greater advantage
than they could in Europe, and they
did not sacrifice such advantages sine
ply because We ceased 10 buy their
coffee.
"The exports Of tho United States
10 the Argentine Republic were in.
crcasing until the failure o. the Bar
iugs. From that date commerce be.
tween the two countries shrunk rapid.
~ until 1892; since the latter year our
exports have been increasing rapidly
and in 1895 they we're much in excess
Of 1891 and 1892, and they promise
exceedingly we'll Tor this current
year.
''lhe foregoing statements and
comparisons indicate that the expan.
sion Of the foreign trade Of the United
States win be brought about by the
ordinary trade methods rather than
by a system Of special concessions.
"Cuba cannot be forced TO buy
food in Spain instead OF in the United
States. Brazil, very naturally and
logically, viii trade with the Argen.
tine Republic for wheat and -four, re-
gardless Of reciprocal agreements.
South America generally will buy pro.
visions and lumber of the United
States, whether there are reciprocal
agreements or not. Central America
will do likewise, and get the larger
part of its manufactured goods in Eu-
rope until the price of the same goods
is lower in the Uuited States than it
is in Europe. With the reduced cost
of production in all lines Of manufac.
tured goods the difference in prices,
which has been against Americans, is
now rapidly diminishing and disap-
pearing.
"Human necessities and human de-
mands will bring the trade Of the
countries with whom we entered into
reciprocal agreements to us. or take
that trade to other Nations. The laws
of commerce are as memorable and in
evitable in their operations as the
laws of nature. No legislation nor
diplomacy can subject human wants
to arbitrary control. American ex.
ports are paid for by imports or by
transfers of commerce held by the i'm
porting country. All legitimate COM
merce is irrestrainable.
'Every exchange of commodities,
legitimately made, is of small advan-
tage to the parties making it. Legis-
lation cannot declare artificial rcstora.
ton or circulation of blood with SC
much force as to reanimate a dead or.
ganism. And legislation and diplo-
macy are equally powerless in their
attempts to create artificial restoration
or circulation of blood with so much
force as to reanimate a dead organism.
And legislation and diplomacy are
equally powerless in their attempts tt
create artificial reciprocity, or to es.
tabhsh trade between countries which
naturally do not trade with each other
because there is no apparent profit II
the undertaking.
"We have been told that during The
past year our country has been prac-
ticAlly inundated with manufactured
goods of foreign production, in thii
way taking work from American wage
earners, when, as a matter Of fact
there has been on an average notable
increase in the importation Of crude
commodities that have to be fashioned
by the labor of American wage earn
ers, an increase accomplished by tn
fight which these wage earners mad
for us in the year 1892.
"The percentage OF manufacture
goods imported into this country il
1898, 1894 and 1895 was over % pc
cent. of the entire importations o
these years, and yet that time covered
period during which the tariff pre-
pared under the protectionist tariff
commission was in force. The fact is
that in the last year our importation
of manufactured goods we're. on tn
whole, exceedingly small, when on
takes into account that we had Il
make up for the scarcities of 1894
during which year there was smalle
relative importation of manufacture