The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-18
our EXPANDING MARKET.


Senator Frye Of Maine Eloquently
Describes Progress Of American
Trade.
From. a speech at Worcester last
Tuesday: God Is very good to US. He
scattered his gifts here with a Won
derfully prodigal hand. Ten thousand
miles Of seacoast, equipped with spa
tlous hhrbors; $4,000 miles Of navlga.
bic rivers; great lakes planted right
where commerce seemed to require
them; mountains OF iron; coal enough
to supply the world; gold, silver, copper
-indeed, every metal and mineral
which man needs. Boundless forests.
"A +Cllmate so friendly, so varied. that
! we can bFoduce every manner Of fruit
and grain man requires. We make
fairly good use OF them all. Since the
close otsthe Civil war the progress OF
this republic has been the marvel OF
the whole world. We have gone for
ward with leaps and bounds. We have
ottstribped every nation on earth In
manufactures, mining and agriculture.
why? Gladstone not a great many
years ago In leafiet publlEhed by him,
said: 'Our daughter over the sea may
some time overtale her mpther" Sup
pose the blebSed old man were alive
to-day. and should write the fact, Whist
would he say2 "0ur daughter over
the seas has overtaken her mother, has
,dtBtRnced her In the race and can only
Zee her now looking backward through
the dust raised by the wheels OF her
own magnificent progress" And morn
than thdt. We had the best market
that was known on earth; a market
which consumed nearly our entire pro-
duct. Now II IL rather refreshing for
US Republicans here Tonight to re-
member that while this magnificent
progrpss OF our prosperity, while this,
splendid home market may not be-
traceable to Republican legislation. II
has all been secured under Republican
legislation alone. The home market
worked badly In one respect.
Tiled our manufactures. our business.
on to a cohtentmeht' which was llnbls
to be disastrous: contentment with
Its own to the neglect OF foreign mar
kets. their necessities and their eondi-
tons. But we had bitter experience
"a terrible teacher but a faithful one
and from 1888 forward for the next
Ave or six years we learned that We
must have foreign market; we learn
ed that our product was one-quartar
greater than we could consume. We
knew that the product must be sold
abroad, or crab-Ilke this republic must
progress backward It's decadence had
started without a foreign market. How
could 1t be ifound2 II was not an easy
problem. Our competitors the world
over were strongly entrenched In every
commercial port. They had subsidized
steamship lines reaching everywhere;
they had long established business
agencies: they had banking facilities;
they had familiar knowledge and ac-
Qualntance with oil the conditions Of
foreign trade. and yet we started into
the solution OF the problem with cour-
age and hope.
If you remember. the manufacturers
OF the United States formed an Rsso-
citation embracing in Its membership
every STATE IN the Union That asso-
citation was formed for one purpose,
and that was to solve this problem OF
how TO obtain foreign markets for our
manufactured goods. They sent agents
Into every nation Of the world. Than, |
shortly otter that. the Philadelphia Mn-
scum was formed, whose only purpose
was to give information TO manufacture
ers and business men OF this country us
to how and where exports can be sent |
and in what manner. That is hold |
ing now in Philadelphia. It has done |
splendid work. Then an American |
ABlatlc Association was formed to In
vestlgate trade In the Orient Then |
IN American GhlneEe Association was
formed to investigate trans-continental |
Chinese trade. They sent their agents |
abroad The result was that last year
we Imported In round numbers $751; |
b00b0n worth of goods, We exported |
in round numbers Sl,s4OOOOOOO worth.
The balance OF trade In our favor was
over $500.0OO.OOO. payable In gold.