Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-12-19

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% gASHfNGTON, -. G., Dec. 10,
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b The prospect Is that the
United States viii push its
x foreign trade during the
bPHB coming year as never be-
Va fore. The home market Is
w WI almost glutted, and If our
IA IA factories are to keep busy
,hov must make goods for the world
op,slde. have described the markets
80 europe. where our trade amounts to
obout 81. coo, 100000 year, and have
aiso written Of our invasion of South
America. In this letter viii point out
air. nossibilllies on the other side Of the
globe
OUR AUSTRALIAN CUSTOMERS.
IN the first place, take Australia
American trade there Is advancing by
leans ana bounds but the market is
oppreclated by only about TWO score of
American firms. who do most of the
business.
The field Is open to all. The Austria
Nans are the nearest like Americans
Of any people on earth. They have the
same wants, and more than that, they
have the money to satisfy them. They
have more than $l50O0O,O00 In their saw
ings banks alone, or on the average
one such account for every family In
Npw Zealand every family annually
takes about $25 worth OF American
goods. and in the province of New
soutb Wales the greatest of the Aus
raliau states, the sales of our goods
amount on the average TO Sc por FAM
nv. Think Of state where every man,
woman and child is annually consum-
Ing $40 worth of our products. and you
get some idea of the favor i'm which
our manufactures are held there. ! say
manufactures, for that Is what Aus
tralasia buys. Ii produces the same
raw material that we do in the shape
of wheat and wool and the precious
metals and IL has no great factories
and mills TO eat up our cotton, iron or
coal
THE WORLDS BEST SPENDERS,
Indeed, the Australaslans spend
about as much money as any people on
the face of the globe. The minimum
wage in many parts of the country Is
$40 a day and IN others 1t ia 81 a day
and over, The wages of mechanics are
high, and altogether the people are as
well paid as any on earth,
In addition to this, the continent is
run on the eight-hour basis, The peo.
pie have plenty Of leisure and many
holidays during which they spend
money, and as n result they have a
foreign trade of enormous proportions
IN comparison to the population. This
trade amounts to about $S00,00O,0OO
year. and that for a people who number
just about 100000, The single state of
New South Wales is now importing
foreign goods TO the amount of $l3400
WO Victoria Is buying almost 10000
400, New Zealand S50,000O0O and the
little island of Tasmania $4,000, 900,
Western Australia annually consumes
ioreign goods to the amount of 500 COO
IN, South Australia s40,OO0,00O and
Queensland, the wild west OF northern
Australia, is paying for foreign goods
A00O0O0 per year All these countries
are selling more than they are buying,
They Are laying up money as well as
spending It, and are getting richer and
richer every year.
THE NEW YORK OF AUSTRALIA.
! wish l could take you to the New
YORK OF Australia and show you the
enormous ships lying in the harbor.
There are lOOOO-ton vessels from Lon
don Hamburg, Marseiles and the other
great European ports and smaller YES
sels rom india. China, Japan and the
Islands OF the south seas. There are
90OV-ton boats from San Francisco and
vessels OF equal size from South Africa.
sydney has already 100000 people and
grows like the bean stalk up which
mule Jack climbed to fight the giants.
sydney stands about third among the
great British cities in trade. II is only
exceeded by London and Liverpool, and