The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-23

 chants to sell our surplus food pros duets to countries that consume more than they produce when there is .no other place from which they can pc C btained Now. as in the days. Of Jo7 seph, hungry people win go In thel5 own conveyances whenever there &3 corn In Egypt or bread and meaF the. United states. and the amoun% Y, win carry away will be limitee Sniy by the supply. Of our exportf %nore than a billion can be left UT garded on our wharves and the worso VIII VIII come atfer 1t before 1t spoils, for the world needs t and can optain II ho-
 "ThIs condition will not long con- sinue. Our growing population VIII consume a steadily increasing propor- ton of food stuffs. while our factories will steadily increase their demand Tor our raw materials. and therefrom q steadily enfarging output of nnlshed manufactures will be produced. IL re- are soon to be confronted with a great surplus of manufactured goods, for which no market now exists.
 Tit takes time to develop . market for manufactured goods. few mil lion extra bushels Of wheat B couple million tons of meat beyond the usual, an extra millfon or two bales or cot- +on, will still sell themselves, for the world will come after them; but 70 dis- pose of surplus manufactures will re- quire international merchants.
 Must Develop Market.
 England, Germany and France con- thelr % oatpSt apRg9fos'a of man9SactSred @ s goods and they each search the world with ships flying their own flags to find mar kets for 20 per cent. of surplus. We manufacture as much as these three countries combined, consume approxi- mately 95 per cent of it all. and in- vite the world to come after our sur plus per cent, In the near future this surplus will be larger, and the world may then fail to come after it..
 Our population increases more rap- idly than that of any other country In the world. A million immigrants an- matchless payroll. our factories multi ply more rapidly than our farms. and at an early date we will have a sur- plus of manufactures expressed in bil- lions instead of hundred of millions. At present nearly 70 per cent of all our exports go to Europe, and 47 per cent. enter ports protected by single flag. Does anyone suppose that our trade In these countries will increase as rapidly as the productive capacity of our peo- pie?
 Europe will never be in a position to compete with us in the production of raw cotton or in food products or in lumber, or to any great extent in heavy machinery. We now sell all -hese things in Europe. But should We undertake to enter Europe with textiles. and small articles of household furnishings, utensils, and other staple articles, we will signaIly fail. l reit- crate the warning, we must develop new markets m which to sell our man ufactures, for we can not unload them in the markets we now have
 The last half of the nineteenth cen- tury was occupied in developing our natural resources and in creating our matchless home market. Within tho last decade our monetary system has hANn fha qfrh4aRf OF oFF ative legislation and special legislative attention has been givn to our domes- tic commerce. Unequaled prosperity made possible the accumulation of great wealth and invited aggression on the part of corporate capital This, alsos has been made the subject or spe- cial and affirmative legislation, and the enforcement of existing laws has attracted. in an unprecedented manner. the attention of the government. The next step in my judgment, must be the development of new marelsts. Our present customeTs will not accept eur as they soon will be, by five, and per haps ten.
 Go To south America.
 Where shall these new markets be found? The answer Is easy, for there are but few places possible. South America and South Africa import $65O,- 100000 per annurn, to which the Uni- ted States contributes a paltry twelve per cent. Oriental countries import a thousand millions, to which the Uni ted States contributes only ten per cent. Our manufacturing competitors know where these countries lie. They have learned their languages. have studied their desires as well as their needs, and for years have prosecuted a well planned and we'll executed cam paign for their commercial invasion, and with the aid of large merchant ma rine they have been very successful
 We QpaFCA1X lynnVV WhAFo fhAGa tries are located on the map. We do not understand their languages, their habits, their needs, or their desires, and we send them, all combined. less than &150,000.000 of our more than $13,000, 100000 of manufactures. and their pit tance we send In foreign bottoms and beneath alien flags.
 Let no man misunderstood me. ] admire the foresight, the enterprise, and the skill of our foreign competi- tors, and bid them all godspeed. No prosperity can come to any country that does not gladden. my heart. I am contending only that we shall emulate their enterprise and enter these same markets with American ships laden with goods specially desgined to meet the desires of the people as distin- they ought to have. Every day we de- lay hastens the day when our surplus will set pack upon us like belated tide to the inundation and swamping of our
 
 We are told that if we will import more we will have no difficulty In ex- porting any and all possible surplus. Last year we imported &1450 per capita equaled in amount, helped in no per ceptible degree to. increase our ex- ports. We, bought of Brazil. for in- stance, half~sh had to sell, while Bra her imports. I do not blame Brazil Brazil, like other countries without ships or International merchants, buys that which is brought to her doors never sees our flag Cur consular re- ports are filled with information to the effect that no South American country has more than heard of the United States as a commercial country.
 We buy of tropical and subtropical products $1,000,000 per day more than wo sell in tropical and subtropica countries We sell to Europe $1.50O,00( a day more than we buy from Europe These facts afford e complete answer to the claim that if we will but imporl more of what we now purchase we will have no difficulty in selling our sur, plus however large it may become. w, sell nearly half our present surplus tc the United Kingdom, but in buying we select from what is offered that which pleases us best, regardless of it's origin
 Argentina has just subsidized a line of steamers with which to market heI surplus rather than to send it under foreign flags in competition with hei neighbors. Where does she send these ships? To Europe, of course. for ol Europe only has she heard in a con, mercial way.
 If this country ever develops inter. national merchants it will accomplish 1t by granting them encouragement not alone by dredging harbors anC deepening channels, bat by insurlnl l them a merchant marine in which {, | carry, under the most favorable terms the products of our farms eur mines 1 our forests, and our factories. AnC 1 without international merchants sus