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Show DOLLAR DIPLOMACY PROVING SUCCESS Washington. Sopt 16. "Dollar diplomacy" dip-lomacy" has found Its full vindication vindica-tion in the wonderful expansion of American foreign trade during tho last fiscal year, in the opinion of the suite department as embodied In a statement prepaed by the bureau of ! trade relations. How well the American Amer-ican public engaged in manufacturing and marketing those products which I can go abroad, Is declared to be dem-, dem-, onstrated by a comparative state- ' 1 ment of our foreign commerce. This j. discloses the fact that the exports of domestic merchandise for tho last I fiscal year amounted to $2,019,320,199. , J exceeding the previous year's showing by $3(rt.335.479. They oven surpassed by $195,G20.G95.the record for 1907, which was a banner year for American Ameri-can exports. A gratifying fact was I that instead of being principally of , 1 raw materials, as was formerly tho 1 case, the exports last year word com-1 com-1 posed of manufactured goods to the i extent of 59 per cent, valued at $1.-191.253,802. $1.-191.253,802. and the result was a hal- ' ance of trade in Uncle Sam's favor of $522,094,091. |