Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1890 — OUR EXPERTS. [ARTICLE]

OUR EXPERTS.

I la a/avorite argument of the fiV. -ira h-rs that amler a protec-' tivi: t-iriffuiie products of America:) manufactoriescan find sale only in home markets, and are ! barred out by reason of the price s demanded for them, froth the world, says the New York Mail . and Express. This argument is just as worthy of credence os the great majority "dr the stock aguments .in favor with the friends of the British system. That is to say, is worthy of no credence at all. Its utter baselessness is most ! conclusively shown by the volume of exports of manufactured goods from the United States during the eleven months -prior to* December, 1889. During this period our exports >. agricultural implements of all kinds amounted in valueto $4,018,458, and our exports of iron and steel and their various manufactures to $21,068,055. .... In the corresponding period of 1888 we exported $2,634,412 worth of agricultural implements and our total exports of iron, steel and articles manufactured front iron and steel were $17,850,858 in value. Thus this increase of our reports of goods of this sort amounted in one year to $4 ; 631,143. We exported to England alone in the first eleven mouths of 1880 $434,982 worth of agricultural implements, $845,145 Worth of. sewing machines and $1,485,389 worth of steam engines and other machinery. In the face of cold, haid tacts like these, what becomes of the I theory that the protective" tariff t keeps the American manufacturer j out of “the markets of the world?” J