Show exports under free trade our readers will all remember bow the democrats went up and down the country crying for expansive markets give us free trade they said and letting country ret into tho markets of the world then conr com will increase as En glands has andar free trade people generally accepted it as a truth that the english commerce had increased but the american economist is now at hand showing what free trade has done for english producers here are their exports of british produce during the last twelve years EXPORTS JF capita value year a 1882 6 17 2 1893 5 13 6 decrease 1 3 8 the statistics of the united kingdom show that the exports of british produce were worth less in 1893 than in 1882 T he decrease during the twelve years was at the rate of a year the value of the export of british produce in 21 per capita of the population in 1893 it had fallen off to i gi per capita the loag of export trade during tha dozen yeas of free trade being at the rate of ad per capita of population per annum Free traders in this country should makit a note of these facts it might be well for projectionists protectionists to place this in their hats so as to remind the free tracers when they get to work on their campaign lies again that during a period of a dozen years of free trade in the united kingdom tha exports of british produce decreased at the rate of a acar or 6 per capital of tle population this is one of the things that the english free traders recommend americans to adopt |