Show t bUR OUR MANUli MANUFACTURERS MANUFACTURERS' TUR lS' lS TRADE r 4 4 t When our oar exports is i's ts ai arc e under consideration i the e public thought is th that t the products of the soil pil are are about about all that is considered But this t ar the thc very greatest trade tride year ear in our history to Bradstreets more tn tHan n half the foreign for ign gu t rt trade aide e has been conducted by or on on bo- bo Kalf alf of our maut over 50 per cent of th e c ports exports I lave have YC been products of the factories oj ot the United States and 52 per per c cent nt of the 11 has been for use in the f factories c J The he of or factory products exported in iu J-he J the thet t ten fen n months ended nd d with October wa was million ion dollars worth of manufactures read ready fo for cons consumption con con- s n and million dollars' dollars worth of man man- j fact res for further use in t manufacturing their t tal forming per cent of the entire exportation cx- cx p. p of domestic products this being the first t time I 1 in which manufactures formed as much as a 50 p per r cent of the thc exports of the period in n n. n The Thc value vili of crude rudO materials imported y use c in manufacturing was i 52 million dollars iI G in i fact further for for further W Wt iise t manu manufacturing manu I ra million on dollars the thc combination cf f the two classes of materials for use in the he factories forming 52 per cent of the total The Th value of of- manufacturers manufacturers' materials imported during during dur dur- ing lug the year will apparently exceed million dollars mak making ng the aggregate value of merchandise disc dise imported import d and exported by or on behalf of our manufacturers over two billion dollars against l less sS sS' tb than n one o-nc billion dollars a decade ago The Thc dozen leading articles on the import side for the use of or manufacturers are arc wool silk cotton cotton cotton cot cot- ton fibers tin hides rubber copper tobacco o lumber oils and chemicals of various sorts The Thc twelve principal arti articles les on th the tho export side products of the factories of the country are manufactures of iron and aud steel manufactures of leather manufactures of of copper manufactures of wood manufactures of cotton refined mineral mineral min mm- eral cral oils oils naval stores manufactures manufactures' of f pap paper agricultural implements cars and carriages electrical instruments and appliances appliances' an and auto mobiles When one remembers that all that has come or gone in foreign ships the first thought is What if we had bad imitated Gre Great t Britain or Germany Ger Ger- many r and had regular lines of steamers calling at the worlds world's 8 important ports with trained merchants in those ports merchants who vho could speak the various languages and who would have known the habits of the people and the character of goods they needed what would the tine volume of trade have been 1 If two billions of trade comes to us without solicitation what might be if we fC were to seek seck it H |