Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1879 — England's Dependence on America. [ARTICLE]

England's Dependence on America.

In almost every street there are one or two purely American stores. The latest addition to them is a candy store in the Strand, and I hope some American dentists will follow to repair the ravages which the candies are pretty sure to make upon the teeth. A large place on Oxford street has been taken for the sale of American beef, although it is my belief thatevery butcher sells it. charging for it the price of English beef. Ask any salesman iu Convent Garden market how the supply of apples is likely to be this year and he will answer: “It all depends on America.” Pretty nearly two-thirds of the grain we eat comes from your shores. Cut us off from the rest of the world for a mouth or two or even less and half the population would have to starve. Our supplies of the necessaries of life have to come from foreign countries. There is no nation in the world and there never has been one which had to depend so largely for its food upon other nations. Is that a state of affairs for the English people to rejoice in? The wise men and philosophers say that it is and resard it as an unerring sign of prosperity. Time which tests most things, will test this theory also. —r London Letter.