Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-07-08
OURS A BIG NATION.
AMERICA MORE THAN A BILLION.
DOLLAR COUNTRY.
Uncle SANS Commerce the Past Year
Amounts to $4,000, 100000 Pros
perity the Dominant Word of the
American People.
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S~ URINa the fiscal
II year just closed the
"a ~ United States has
EM2 broken all records.
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49, 7sssss Of the American
I0IIfsifEEHHR people. This is a
tIllls - ~ billion-dolIar coun-
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--TAs-1<zsSs-x-l. thousand millions in
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1t is billon.dollar
country in its yearly ability to buy Of
other nations 1t Is pretty nearly a
billion-and-a-ha country in what it sells
abroad in a tweiyeInonth And it is well
on toward the fwo-a nd-a-half billion dol
lar country in its total foreign commerce
in a Sihgle year.
The fiscal year ended the last day Of
June. Figures prepared by the treasury
bureau Of statistics show an estimate of
the record when the books are made up
for the end of the year, as follows
Imports ...........S 81. 900. 000. 900
Exports .............. 1,42O,uOO,OuU
Total foreign commerce. 50, 44o, 600, 600
This is the largest total foreign COM
meree inFthe history of the United
States. The total exceeds that of any
other nation in the world, Great Britain
and Germany alone excepted Our ex-
Jrts IRE greater than Germany's and
great sr than tie purely domestic exports
GncludiNg the foreign goods resold) If
Great Britain. AT the close of this fiscal
year the imports of the United States
will for the first time exceed a billion
dollars. showing that in prosperity the
American people have
Money to Spend Abroad.
According to the official figures the
imports Of the eleven months ending
with May We're $tl43. J97 .1S4 and the ex-
ports S1,324, 493, 293 For the twelve
months ending with May the imports are
s1,016, 712,24S and the exports Slab,
1853. 166. As the largest imports in any
earlier fiscal year were 5000. 320, GAS. in
1902, it is quite apparent that the total
imports of the present fiscal year will
exceed those of any preceding year. and
that they viii also exceed $1,000, GOO, 900,
since they have not fallen below $751;
100000 in any month of the last year,
and are in the eleven months within
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1t was only in the year 1872 that the
total commerce first touched the one bill
ion dollar line, and in 1900 it first touch
ed the two billion dollar line. Running
back through the century it may be said
that the total imports and exports of
1900 amounted ID $162. 000,000s in 1880,
s144,000,000; in 1850. S31S,000,000; in
1860, S6S7 100000; in 1870, $s2S, co.,
900 In 1872 the total commerce was
1910, ~ sos; in 1880 it was $1,503.-
900, 600, and in 1890 81, 647, 100000 In
1900 it first crossed the two billion dol
lar line, being in that year 1924, 000.
do; in 1901. S2,311, 100000; in 1902. ST.
2S5, 100000, and in 1903 seems likely TO
exceed 81. 400, 100000.
OF the more than one billion dollars
worth of imports forselle full year, man.
ufacturers materials will form nearly
$500. 100000 value. In the ten months
whose figures are completed by the treas
lry bureau of statistics manufacturers
materials formed 471a per cent Of the
total imports, and in the latest month
available, April, they formed 49.T7 per
cent. The percentage which these mate
rails for use of the manufacturers form
Of the grand total is larger in that part
Of the fiscal year whose figures are com
plete than Of any preceding year. In
1902 manufacturers materials formed
a6 10 per cent Of the total imports; in
1900. 49, per cent; in 1898. ~ per cent;
in 1895, 37.1 per cent; in 1890, Bio per
cent: in 1885. 80. per cent; in 1870, 23.2
per cent; in 1860, 26.4 per cent, and in
1910. PIP per cent Of the total imports.
Our Internal Trade.
Wonderful as are these figures relat
ing to our foreign commerce, they ap-
pear small when placed in contrast with
our domestic commerce. The stupendous
volume Of the internal trade of this amaz-
ing country may be judged by the fact
that during the year ending June 80
1902. the railroads Of the United States
earned for carrying freight alone more
than $1,000. 900. 000--a sum greater than
the total value of our imports and near
ly equal to our total exports. 1t is a su-
rious coincidence that the number of tons
Of freight handled was almost exactly
equal to the number of dollars charged
for hauling it-i.200.315.TfT tons OF
freight and S1,207. DDS. S45 freight rave
nue. Let any one that likes try tS.esti-
mate the total value of that en- rmous
bulk of freight, and in his ealch atoms
let him take into account also the value
of goods going by steamers, by express.
through the mails and by electric and
freight lines. No other country in the
world can show the fifth part of the do
niestic trade which the United States en-
joys.
TeIegraphic Brevities.
In n brawl at Livingston. Ky. John
Settles shot and killed Joseph Mullins.
The supreme board of health at Lima.
Peru. has declared the port of Callao
free from bubonic plague.
The new British armored cruiser Der
wick attained a speed g 24.6 knots per
hour at her official trial
Pacific coast wooden mills are soon 10
be combined for the purpos es Of reduc-
ing expenses and competition
According to the census tal'en by local
assessors, Topeka. Kan. has a population
OF 3s959. a gain Of 100 for the year.
Iris being planneo TO erect twenty