The true northerner., 1900-10-26
Official Figures Show United
States Now Second in the
Worlds Foreign Trade.
Calamity Cries of Bryan and His
Followers Are Set at
Naught.
Markets of the World Being Captured
Gold Standard and Protection
Triumphant

Mr.. BRYAN is an advocate of free
trade and free silver, hut he and his
followers have always maintained that
a protective tariff would deprive us
of the markets of the world" while
the gold standard, if maintained,
would result in our absolute eXpul-
sion from them and our commercial
ruin.
What are the facts? We give below
q table made from the official figures
furnished by the treasury department
of the United States, showing the
foreign commerce of the six great
civilized and gold standard nations
of the world for the year 1899. The
figures for 1900, so marvellous is the
increase in our prosperity, il is con-
fidently predicted, will put us at the
head of the list or only eXcelled by
one country, Great Britain. We have
already, it is known, surpassed Great
Britain in the volume of export trade.
Country Total Commerce
Great Britain S3,b0J 5Sl VS.
United states ...................., S-44' 95,545
germany ........................ = 100 NO. ~,
GRANGE ......................... l,5St olo,VW
Netherlands OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. ~, 900
RUSSIA .................... 4oOO55,VOO
In 1899 our commerce exceeded that
of Germany by $57 ,347 ,2O3, making
us that year the second nation in the
world in foreign commerce, which is
doing pretty well toward Capturing
the markets of the world" and puts
the calamity cries of Mr.. Bryan and
his followers in this respect on the
list of discredited rawlings of men
grossly ignorant of the history of our
commerce.
But in the eyes OF Mr.. Bryan and
his followers the gold standard that
the conspiracy against the human
race" was 10 be the final nail in the
coffin of our business in the markets
of the world. In 1873, when the ter
rible "crime" was committed and
''silver was assassinated, we bought
of foreign countries S56.52S .651 more
than we sold them. In other words
we failed by that amount OIL captur-
ing any of the markets of the world
In 1872 before silver had been struck
down" we failed by $116.2S3 ,646 in cap
turing any of the markets of it e
world, for we bought just that much
more of foreign countries than we
sold them.
But in 1896 the people of this coun-
try voted to adopt both a protective
tariff and the gold standard. The
result in Capturing the markets of
the world is shown by the following
table taken also from the official re-
ports of the United States treasury
departments:
AMOUNT SOLD FOREIGN COUNTRIES
MORE THAN WE BOUGHT.
Year Ending.
1897 S273 023. 800
SoJS 5A. .62f. Sol
lo55 54 OS6,2y9
lsOO 571 3S4, ,051
This looks as thougA we were cap
turing the markets Of the world" un-
der a protective tariff and gold
standard faster than any other ma
tion in the world ever captured them,
and when the figures for the coming
fiscal year are in il will be the pros
perity record of the world The
truth of this is shown by the fact
that for the year ending June 30.
1900, the total commerce of the year
surpasses by the vast sum of $317,-
729,250 that Of any preceding year,
and we are still expanding Do we
want TO take any step that will es-
tablish free trade and free silver and
at one step paralyze this magnificent
progress we are making? Ponder the
above and answer with your ballot
in November.