The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-01-10
TT Is UNPARALLELED.
WAVE OF PROSPERITY STILL
ROLLING IN.
The DInsley rarlf BIu mas Brought
Good Times to Nearly Everybody-
The Tremendous Balance OF Trade
In Our Favor.

The third full year of the Dingley
tariff finds the total volume of our
foreign commerce far beyond the two
billion-dOllar mark, with exports OF
more than 81 100000 900, about
5000, 00O, 900 more than for 1899, and an
apparent trade balance of about $780,
000, 900 in our favor Here is ire
mendous increase over all previous
records of trade and commerce I'm
ports have increased, too, though not
in the same proportion, and we have
been more liberal buyers than ever be-
fore of foreign COMMODITIES True,
these commodities are largely non-du-
table and non-competitive articles re-
qufred for use in American manufac-
lures; and with the exception of a
few Injuries or fads we are buying
less of foreign goods that are as well
or better made at home. Commenting
on these remarkable conditions the
Chicago Inter Ocean says:
I'm the light of these facts and
figures and the events of the last eight
years, it would be interesting to learn
what the wise men of the Cleveland
period really think of their system of
political economy To paraphrase
celebrated free trade epigram, they are
confronted with conditions, not the
cries. Professor Sumner and his
school would have told US, say twelve
years ago, or even six years ago, that
the Protective policy of the Republican
party would, within decade, close
the markets of the world against our
products and manufactures, paralyze
our Industries and pauperize our work
ingmen. They not only would have
told us so, but they did tell so, and,
what is even more to the point, they
proved to the satisfaction Of millions
of our people that they were right
yet the prosperity which these aca-
II q
reversal of the protective policy did
not materialiZe; on the contrary, some
of the cruelest years of the republic fol-
| lowed the practical application of their
| theories by Mr.. Cleveland And now,
! in spite Of the <-stone WALL the Re
| publican party erected around the
| country; in spite of the 'tbarbarous
! methods in economic reasoning en-
| ployed by the Republican party; in
| spite of the perversion of the natural
| laws of trade by the Republican
| party; in spite of the refusal of the ma
| ton to be guided by the learned doc
| trinaires of the great universities
| our exports to foreign countries this
| year bid fair to reach the amazing to-
| tai of 81 500, 900, 900, or $500 900 900 il
| excess of our imports
Add to this enormous bulk of for
| eign trade, by many hundreds of mil
| lions greater than any the country
ever knew under free trade or low
tariff policies, the stupendous increass
that has taken place in purely do
nestle trade between 10000, 900 of tn.
best paid and most liberal buying PEG
| pie on the face of the earth-an in
| crease that must be measured by bill
| lions of dollarS-and you have an ag
gregate of prosperity so huge that t.
compute it takes ones breath away
1t makes the academicians look ex
tremely silly. It ought to make then
keep still. But it doesn't. There ar
lots of them left yet who will tell yo
that a protective tariff is a clog upol
domestic trade and foreign commerce
Queer people, these academicians.