Show When the books were balanced at the end of the last fiscal year June 30th It was shown that the balance of trade in favor of the United States for the year was 5H7C4 or nearly 15000 000 more than In 18iU Exports increased in-creased 5107000000 and imports 152 I 000000 The significance of all that is that that balance of trade represents more than the United States drew from the outside world during the first 110 years of its existence as a nation That tide is still in flow it Is still rising higher and higher against our shores Tho United States hns become In great measure the granary of the world the textile market of the world and Us export of manufactured pro I ducts has Increased until the whole world seems to be looking to us not only for food and textiles but for a I large proportion of the manufactured articles which the world Is obliged louse lo-use It would be a wonderful thing If the historian I gathering these flciirpq and noting the Immense progress which J is going oo were to be obliged to say that at the height of It by a sudden aberration of mind or through spite or through envy the people deliberately recorded their decree at the ballot box to have all this stop and to have a general panic sweep the land from sea to sea To suppose such a result would be to impeach the intelligence of the people of the United States |