The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-14
WHAT GREAT BRITAIN WANTS.

All Great Britain wants from is our raw
material to keep her workmen and factories
going. She is not a large buyer Of our man
ufactured goCds-neither is she of any cOun-
try.-LangdCn IN. d. Republican.
1t is charitable to assume that the
editor who wrote that was merely par
roting the talk of his party associates
who consult their prejudices for their
facts, and has made no investigation of
the case to know whether he is saying
what is true or untrue. We further
assume that he wishes to state facts,
even if they conflict with his own
tons Of those to whom he is accus-
toned to look for words Of wisdom. If
We are incorrect in our assumptions,
We regret it for his sake.
The board of trade returns for 1895,
the only data just now at hand, give
the entire imports Of England for
twelve months. They amount to f416,-
6S7,63O. Of this ESQ 100000 are articles
for food and drink, 10000, geo are raw
materials for textile manufactures and
f43,000,000 for sundry manufactures,
while fS4, 900 are Of manufactured
articles. Of the imports $3S4,132, $40
came from the United States, while We
took but $159 OS3,243 in return. OF the
finished products of North Dakota's
industries the United Kingdom took Of
cattle, $26, 391 ,099 worth; Of sheep, ST.
169.661 worth; Of oats and oatmeal, $685.
O99 worth; Of wheat, $2S248,920 worth !;
of -four, $28,647,3 12 worth; Of hops, ST.
736,477 worth; of leather, $685., $40
worth; Of oil cake, 81, 9O9, 9S2 worth. She
further took Of these finished products
of the farm 1888 ,975 worth Of canned
SIS, 51S2S5 of fresh and $1,581 1886 Of salt
beef, $27, 335,9O4 of bacon, $S,478,341 Of
hams, s102S,O6O of pork, S13,O73,OS6 Of
lard and $3,955,875 of cheese. We sent
her $S,868,223 worth Of tobacco unman-
ufactured and about $4,000, 900 worth Of
lumber
Mineral oil will hardly be classed as
raw material, and England took $12,-
to the amount of $673, 466; S739 ,556 worth
of books and other printed matter; ST.
877, LOG in fruits and nuts, mostly apples;
$716, 440 worth of pig iron and s2,12O 776
worth Of machinery exclusive Of $780,
247 worth Of sewing machines. We
have since sent steel rails there, and
steel billets to Wales to be made into
tinplate, and our woolens have found
an opening there. In many other lines
Of manufacture, the details OF which
are not given in our shipping reports,
we find England good customer But
there is another phase of this exchang-
ing Of products that our North Dakota.
editor evidently has not got around as
yet to see. If he is able to realize that
these 1nterchanges are not made for
cash, that our products sent out are
paid for by the products brought back.
he is in a position to see that all the
costs and charges Of the things brought
back must be paid for with the things
sent out. If he can see this be will
then see that as the major portion of
what we sent to market there comes
from the farms, that portion has to paw
it's proportion Of the return cost. Rv
far the larger part Of the cost ia the
tax laid at our ports Of entry, amount
Ing to some 40 or so per cent Of the en-
tire value Of the things exchanged for
Seeing this, he will at length realize
that he is advocating a policy that
bears with tremendous weight upon
the very men upon whom he mostly de-
ponds for his livelihood, the farmers Of
his vicinity.