The sun., 1899-10-15
OUR EXPANDING MARKET.
Senator Frye of Maine Eloauentiy Describe,
the Progress of American Trade.

the Progress of American Trade.
From a ,pcech at Worc,ster last Tussdip
God was YER, good to u.s. lie scattered his
gifts here with wonderfully prodgal hand
Ten thousand miles OF scacoast equipped with
spacious harbors; 23,OOO miles OF navigable
rivers; great lakes planted right here whore
commerce seemed to require them: mountain.
OF iron; coal enough to supply tho world; gold,
silver. copper-indsed every metal and min
eral which man needs Boundless forests
climate 30 friendly 40 varied, that we
can produce every manner OF fruit aud grain
a man requires. We made fairly good use
OF them all. Since the close OF the Civil War
the progress OF this republic has been the mar
vel OF tho whcle world. We have gone forward
with leaps and bounds. We have outstripped
every nation on earth In ma ufactures m ming
and agriculture. Why2 Gladstone not great
many years ago In q lealst. published by him,
said: Our daughter over the sea NAV some-
time overtake her mothor." Suppose tho
blessed old man were alive to-day and should
write the fact. what would he say? "Our
daughter beyond the seas has ovsrtaken
the mother. has distanced her In the race
and can only see her now looking back
ward through the dust raised by the wheels Of
her own magn nlfoent progress" And. more than
that. We had the best m market that was known
on earth a market which consumed nearly
our entire product. Now it Is rather refresh-
ing for us Republicans here tonight to re-
member that while this magnificent progress
OF our prosperity. while this splendid home
market may not he trsceable to Republican
legislation 1t has all been secured under Rec
publican legislation alone. The home market
worked badly in one respect.
1t led our manufacturers. our business on to
| q contentment which was liable to be disas-
trous q contsntment with Its own to the neg-
lect OF foreign markets. their necessities and
their conditions. But we had a bitter e1psri-
ence-a terrible teacher. but a faithful one
and from 1893 forward for the next five
or six years We learned that we must
have a foreign market: we learned that
i our product was one-quartsr greater than
we could consume. We knew that the
product must he sold abroad. or. crab-like
this republic must progress back ward. Its
decadence had started without a foreign mar
ket. How could 1t be found2 1t was not an
| easy problem. Our competitors the world
| over were strongly entrenched in every COM
| mercial port. They had subsidized steamship
| lines reaching everywhere: they had long es-
| tabliahed business agencies; they had bank
ing facilities; they had familiar knowledge
| and ac1uaintance with all the conditions OF
foreign trade. and yet we started into tho solu-
| tion OF the problem with courage and hope.
II you RENE IN ber the manufacturers OF tho
| United States formed an association embrace
ing in it's membership every State In the
| Union. That association was formsd for one
purpose and that was to solve this prob
| lem OF how to obtain foreign markets
for our manufactured goods. They sent
agents into every nation OF the world.
| Then. shortly after that the Phiadelphia
Museum was formed. whose only pur-
pose was to give information to man nufacturers
| and business men OF his country as to how
| and whore exports can be sent and In what
manner. That Is hol ling now In Philadelph a.
It has done splendid work. Then an American
trnds in H. oriept. Then an Hmsrican. Cbness
| association was formed to investigate our
| trans-continenta tal Chinese trade. They sent
| their agents abroad. The result was that last
year We imported In round numbers S787.-
| 100000 worth Of goods. We exported In round
OF trade In our favor was over $5oo.o00 900.
payable In gold