Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1905 — Illinois Baptists at Joliet. [ARTICLE]

Illinois Baptists at Joliet.

Joliet, HL, Oct. 18.—The Illinois Baptist anniversaries began with the meeting of tbe Pastoral union at the Eastern Avenue Baptist church. A praise service, led by Rev. B. L. Prescott, of Downer’s Grove, opened the convention. F. H. Marsh, of Jacksonville. was elected president. That Balance of Trade. According to the census reports, the value of the total product of dried apples in 1900 was $1,913,142, but according to the treasury statistics we exported tbe same year $2,247,850 worth of the same product. It is possible that the treasury, being rqn on the protection basis, is anxious to make as good a showing as possible of exports to help prove that protection Is such a beneficent policy that our producers are paid more by the foreigners than they value their product at. There has for some time been a suspicion that the total value of our exports was being padded to quite a degree, sos» apparently not more than half the money Involved appears to be paid us by our foreign customers. The treasury officials have tried to explain this discrepancy between the value of what yre are supposed to sell and the amount we know we are receiving, but have made a sorry mess or it.