Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1903 — Still Leading the World. [ARTICLE]

Still Leading the World.

The United States still maintain its lead as the largest exporting nation, its monthly average for the ten months ending April being $120,086,883. while the figures so r the United Kingdom for the same period are $118,785,447. H is in this way that a protective tariff “hampers” foreign trade. For this period our excess of exports over imports was $359,384,747. while the United Kingdom’s excess of imports was $1,000,951,205.