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Show in 1921-22. The greatest gains during dur-ing recent years have been in motor vehicles, machinery, chemicals and other highly elaborated products." It is added that while our exports of foodstuffs are less than during war times and in the days immediately following the war before Europe got agricultural production under way again, it is a noteworthy fact that we are exporting more agricultural products than we did before the war and this in spite of the fact that Canada, Argintine and other agricul, tural countries have developed their exports during the past decade. The figures of the Department of Commerce indicate that Europe . did not go broke because of our foreign policies, as many of our internationalists international-ists claimed that she would. On the other hand this same report adds that Europe is recovering its manufactur ing bilitiy and that Great Britain and Germany are -fast forging to the front and threatening our trade in various countries. Now with this threat in the foreground fore-ground and with Europe competing in the markets of Asia and South Amerca, the free trader would tell us that the way to compete would be to reduce our tariff. But it is diffi, cult to see how lowering our tariff barriars to admit to our country a further flood ' of goods from Great Britain and Germany would help us in our competition against these countries coun-tries in South America. For it is to be remembered that most of the South American products, excepting those which come into direct competition with our own farmers, come in duty free. Giving European nations a bigger market in the United States would not help us in our pursuit of world trade but would only serve to give them through our own stupidity more resources with which to fight us. OUR EXPORTS INCREASE. In spite of the fact that free trad-( trad-( rs a few years ago were declaring that n protective tariff would dry up cur foreign trade and despite the as- ertiuns of the internationalists that if Uncle Sam did not cancel the European Eur-opean war debt the world could no ionger buy our goods, one of the ouV landing and most significant features i C our economic life during this year of 1929 has been the tremendous increase in-crease in our foreign trade. The report re-port recently made public by the Department De-partment of Commerce at Washington rnd covering the fiscal year cf 1929 vhich closed Juns 30 r.uys in part: ''In the foreign field we have not r.nly maintained but' have most grati, ;;'ingly improved our exports position : ast yen-, for the first time since 1920-21, shipments of American merchandise mer-chandise abroad exceeded five billion dollars. With a value of $5,284,000,-''00 $5,284,000,-''00 they were onett-half larger than the United Kingdom's exports of British Brit-ish goods and three-fourths greater than Germany's domestic exports. "During the last fiscal year our exports ex-ports of finished manufactures reach,' ed the huge sum of $2,509,000,000, ; being 22 per cent larger than in 1927-28 and 107 per cent larger than |