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Show NEED FEAR NO COUNTRY H $ Andrew Carnegie, as a -witness before, the Steel Trust commit- H jlco of "congress, made the statement that the steel industry can pros- H , npTir -witKbwt tariff.- The greatest of iron musters freely admitted that H 'the stdfil and iron business long since had grown beyond the need of H ' governmental favors and special privileges. H I There can be no doubt us to the correctness of Carnegie's uttcr-H uttcr-H H j We have before us the summary of the export trade of the Unit- Hj i ed Statesrdr last year. What ivpuld be your guess as to the total H i lvalue of the goods the people of the United States sent to other Hl countries by virtue of the fact that they are capable of undersell- H , ing all competitors? Perhaps, if you have not kept up on the fig- H ures of our export trade, you -would sny a lew hundred thousand H '-dollars, for the average American has been educated to believe the producers of this country are hopelessly handicapped in the rivalry B over the -world's trade, but your guess would be far wrong. H The United States ranks first among all nations in the tre- B r mendous favorablo balance of its foreign trade and it is overlak- m , ing all competitors in tlic grand, total of its sales and purchases. H We sold in 1911 over two billion dollars worth of goods to for- H ' eign countries. We exported in nearly every line of manufactures H ' in this coimtry. We undersold the largest manufactories of the Old B World where underpriced labor is supposed to be an insurmount- H 1 able block to our industrial advance. Wo invaded England, Ger- M many, France, Russia, Italy and all that part of the world ; we sold H our wares in India, China, Japan and Beloochistan; we drove bnr- H gains in "the Transvaal and sold sewing machines in Timbuctoo; we K I elbowed an opening into the 'trade of South America, having made H the Patagpjiians listen to the music of our gramophones and the H Uruguayans sing "Rock-a-Bye, Baby" in an American-inade ham- B -To bc-exact, we sold $2,092,373,141 of American goods to the H l foreigner, and, after balancing our accounts, had a surplus of $559,- H 441,280. T i Those figures are too large to be digested by any. one not a H i multi-millionaire or a mathematical prodigy, but their significance H can be readily comprehended when by comparison they prove thut fl the, United-States need fear no country, no people, in industrial H competition, as American genius and American resources are un- P .. equaled and are all-compelling and all-conquering. |