| Show balance of trade any farmer that if he buys more than he sell be is be bind pad will bo bankrupt if such a buR inoes goes on the eacie plo holds exactly true in regard to our government if conr exports or things we aall exceed conr imports we are growing richer if conr imports or the things we abny exceed conr imports then we aro growing poorer aa H antion you can lay that down as a correct principle of political economy and on tha basis it will feces anly follow that the parta which increase conr exports in excess of conr imports is the american party it is B happy circumstance in favor of the republican party and the official figures prove it that the balance of trade has only been in conr favor during republican and whig administrations conr national leases in the excess of imports over exported ex porte have invariably been under democratic for ten yeara from 1875 to 1885 the republicans never had less than annually in favor of chis country and it reached the high sum of in which conr exports exceeded conr imports in the year 1881 alen grover cllveland first got in power abo close of his second year 1887 found the balance of trade to be against us to the president harleon reversed that condition and the third year of his administration gave na excess of exports over imports but we have no need of confining ourselves to recent illustrations for a glance at the official tables will show similar results daring all democratic administration the federalists held control of the government for twelve years and lost in that period of an excess or imports over exports then the ahiga had control for eight years and they reduced the loesel of that period to only next the democrats had control for fifty six years in which time thy show the enormous of in excess of imports over exports then got control for twenty eight years and after the terrible civil war they reversed the rule and have to their credit at the end of twenty eight years OSO in excess of exports over imports figures are so paralyzing paralysing para lysing to the democrats that they have sought to show that it is to the advantage of a country 10 have its imports exceed its exports they say that a country ia then growing wealthier professor alanl used to algne through the I 1 herald that the country retained its own wealth and received an accession from abroad when our exports exceed our imports but we ask our farmer friends to remember the simple rule that when a country buys more than it sells it is growing poor this country always runs behind in its foreign trade danny democratic administrations and gaina the republican publican Ra adain admin it ia the tariff policy of the two parties that makes the diff brenca |
