Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1891 — "IF WE DON'T BUY WE CANNOT SELL" [ARTICLE]

"IF WE DON'T BUY WE CANNOT SELL"

Nothing seems more certain t han that. But as a matter of fact the English Board of Trade returns s-how thrrt~~Wc~sold merchandise to England valued at £95 millions and she sold to us..goQds.valued at T 4 millions; slightly over 31.8 per cent of the total commerce of the two countries consisted of sales l\v England. On the other England sold Russia millions worth of goods and took <£27, less than 24 per cent, of the total trade. But Russia has a more prohibitive Tariff than we,, and the higher lier Tariff the greater her sales to England and the less her purchases, w./_