Show THE WORLDS TRADE Tile Gorman statistician Spallart began compiling statistics ot the worlds trade In 1S67 They have been brought down to the present time by Prof Dr von Juraschelc and others The first thinG that these tables show is that the worlds commerce has Immensely Im-mensely increased In tho latter part of the nineteenth century In the thirty years from 1867 to 1807 this Increase In-crease was more than 73 per cent The tendency is steadily upward though the years vary very much In a few countries like the United States the experts are worth a great deal more than the imports but this is never true of the worlds commerce asa as-a whole because tho figures showing the total value the eport and Import Im-port trade of all countries must approximately ap-proximately balance for a dollars exports from one place l figure up as a dollar of Imports at another place Some figures are given hero which relate re-late only to the special and not to the general trade of the world A special trade is the export of home produce or manufactures and tho Import of arti des for home consumption According Accord-ing to these tables the value of tho worlds imports in 1880 was S665000r 000 and the exports 7390000000 but in 1S90 the value of the Imports was 9600000000 the exports Slp6000 000 and in 1897 the imports were 510 284000000 and the exports 8900000 000 Europe which commands from twotfiirds to threefourths of the entire en-tire foreign tradeha long bought more than It has oldI Is compelled to Import SQ much food for its dense population and so much raw material for the factories and solnrge3 part of all It produces and Imports Is consumed con-sumed at homo that its Inlports are Invariably In-variably largely In cxcess of Its exports ex-ports Thus In 1S97 Its Imports amounted amount-ed to 7169000000 and Its exports to 5 415000000 the difference between which is just about what the United States has drawn from the outside world during dur-ing the last three and onehalf years In 1882 the American imports were worth 1400000000 the exports l 520000000 In 1S97 the imports were worth 1600000000 and the exports 1 594000000 Asia and Australia are now selling more than they arc buying abroad Altogether the figures are about as bewildering as those which tell how for away arc the fixed stars |