Show EXPORTS FALLING FACING OFF OW I While the Imports Into this coun country try lr have been b en increasing g at a a post pom positively alarming rate our our exports P are r constantly decreasing as regard food foodstuffs foodstuffs stuffs tufia According to statistics sta com corn compiled compiled piled by the department of ot commerce James J r Hill was not far wrong after atter all aU In the theten ten months ending with April we sold abroad as compared with the corresponding period of last year ear only two thirds the volume of wheat and nearly bushels less ices corn Of Ot meat and dairy products we exported only worth wortha 35 OS a against and of cattle caUle hogs and amid sheep cheep only as compared with The de do dedin dUne dIne on the exports of cotton was still stilli i more Ore striking having been pounds in Sn the last ten months as nit ai pounds pound In the tha theten that 1 ten t mont mens of the previous pT year j w baJI hOOl to be the theof thel l 7 of the world at this tiuis rate ra Up Q o 4 h time tvs te United Sta Stat Late t J a a an raJ e tt f t tt t g Owing Oving to the vast Valt area a am a ot farming land It is Js probable we s shall hali aU always be an agricultural country c to p a certain extent but whether we shall hali all continue to raise food enough for home consumption Is a 8 question for tho future The one thing certain is Js that the ninety or one hundred h millions o ot of people in inthe the United States Sta cannot exIst ex 1st and a Import both their food f d prod products prOducts products and ana raw materials for t r manufacturing turing purposes from abroad And ye yet there are those who want to reduce the tariff tart for this purpose |