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Show ENGLAND'S WATS AND OURS. Great Britain grows richer and richer every yoar through trade. She haa 45,000,000 people, living on land which are dnaignated aa follows: Three million seres of woods and plantations; 13,-CK 13,-CK 0.000 acres of mountain snd heath grazing land ; 29,000,000 acres of pasture and 16.000,000 of arable lend. . So incapable ia all thia to feed the people . that every year she ha to import food products to the amount of 1, 000,000,000. Now ours ia a great republis eoveriag -many imet the are of -the' United Kingdom; but auppoae we had to import feed the people, a like amount, how long before the country would be bankrupt? Great Britain ha built np her trade through many centuries, but mostly in the Isat century. She has followed only simple rules. The first wss that to aell goods the good mut be prepared for the trade. . The aecond was that the goods must be sent to the people who might wish to purchaxe; third, that as most of the materia! out of which the goods were manufactured manufac-tured had to be purchased abroad, the moat of the profit rntmt eome through exchanging the finished for the raw product.. Then ahe proceeded to erect the machinery, upon which to manufacture the goods, then the ahipa to carry her goods abroad and her trade began. Then she added the founding -f branch houses in foreign ports atid when the magnet mag-net in telegraph was invented by telegraph lines and deep aca cables she connected the branch houses with the home country and her lines of swift nhips were set in motion, and now for mors than sixty years those ships have with the regularity 'f the atara visited those porta. When all waa ready and she knew that no country on earth eould bug-CfKitfulJy bug-CfKitfulJy compete with her, she auuounced that the only enlightened policy of trade wss to msks H absolutely free and ah proceeded to bankrupt every nation that accepted that theory, for under it she not only eould get the raw products of the wortd for her manufactured product, but all the world's money in sddition. Our country hss watched this for more thsn three ecore years,. but has refused to copy from it, with the result that while we have aome fine manufactories, our ships have vanished from the aca and what we buy and aril abroad haa to be delivered in foreign express wagona, and all our trade doea not e(iial that of the little I'nited Kingdom which in area only equals one of our average states. ' - . |