Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1892 — The Control of Our Own Market [ARTICLE]

The Control of Our Own Market

At the close of a two column article headed, “Increasing Sales Abroad of Iron and Steel,” Bradstreet’s says, after mentioning that our exports of these products in 1890 were valued at $29,100,660, while our imports amounted to $16,584,701: “The difference in cost between our machinery and that manufactured abroad has been steadily diminishing as greater facilities for production in this country over foreign countries have been developed. ' At the same cost and~r®effng~~a' superior machine the United States can shut out all other countries from foreign markets, as we now completely control our Own in these special lines.” Free-traders urge our farmers to Jidip them break up this control of, ottr own market and stop diminishing cost of machinery in this country as compared with foreign countries. This would help England in two ways. It would remove competition in finished products, which she wants to sell, and by necessitating onr sending some thirty million bushels of wheat to her market, in addition to what we now export it would knock the price of wheat, which she wants to buy, concave. On amdysis any project advocated by a Free-trader will be found advantageous to some interest centered or owned in Great Britain.