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Show EXPORT OF MANUFACTURES. A billion and twenty-seven millions of dollars' worth of goods of all sorts were exported from the United States in the eight months ended with August, according to figures given out by the bureau bu-reau of statistics of the department of commerce and labor at Washington. And for the first time in the history of the country manufactured products prod-ucts constituted more than half of this vast export ex-port trade. More than half a billion dollars' worth of manufactured goods were sent out of this country coun-try in the eight months. That is at the rate of two and a half millions of dollars a day, or just a little less than three times the valuation of the same exports twenty years ago. The figures of the bureau of statistics show nUo that the increased j valuation is not due to 0 higher price charged for 1 the articles than formerly, but the increase is due almost solely to increased trade with foreign nations. na-tions. Indeed, recent investigations show rather a tendency to lower prices than higher prices. The statistics also show that only 59 per cent ot the total exports went to European countries, while thirty years ago S3 per cent of the total went there. From this, the bureau draws the conclusion that the -nde of the United Statrs is broadcn.'ncr ard now finds its way tc every corner of the globe. The figures are intensely interesting to students of economics, who see in them confirmation of their belief that the manufactories of America can compete com-pete in the world's markets with the manufactories of the world. The American laborer, it seems, can compete with the pauper labor of Europe in the world's markets, even if lie cannot in his own country coun-try without the intervention of a tax placed upon the foreigner, as is solemnly asseverated, for the benefit 'of the American, bread winner. |