Show FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC TRADE wo we hear a cicat deal nowadays about our foreign trade it is the pet lobby hobby of the internationalist anti and when congress do just what hat h he wants lie he thea threatens tens us with a loss of our foreign trade first we were nver 1 1 told that if wo we join the league e of nations nation our foreign trade would suffer then we were that if we cancel the debts which emoge owe u us our foreign trade would be wiped out ali and of course it has always been a favorite argument 3 clit of tile the free fiade antei international nationalist that if we maintain a protective tariff we cant have any foreign trade well we done any of these things which the internationalists have told us to do and yet we ive still have a healthy foreign trade even our importers seem to be doing business at the old stand and judging from the number of articles of foreign made goods in tile the retail stole stoies nowadays they I 1 have I 1 ave been doing an increasing business of course every good Ameil american can is in in favor of our having a foreign trade we want vant to increase it when we can so that our manufacturers and ing ing people will benefit from international trade so far as possible but the internationalists in seeking to put over their propaganda on us frequently exaggerate the relative importance of our foreign trade they seem to regail it a as the something superior because it is found away from home Ever everyone vone is familiar with tile the lure which comes from distance to the budding youth the gills ails in the next to town are always jut a little coalier than the ones at home often ve N e think the government or the business conditions in the next community eem deem just a little better than our own distance always lends enchantment this seems to hold good with our internationalists ter nationalists and our foreign fiade but as a matter of fact our foreign business important as it is docs 1 I acs not compaine in importance avith our trade at home in fact according to dr julius alcin ICI cill director of our bu bureau of foreign and domestic commerce at washington which gathers all the statistics about our business the american foreign trade that is the goods we ive sell to foreign countries represent less than ten percent of the transportable goods which we produce in the united states in other words we sell in our home markets more than nine times as much goods as we sell in foreign markets yet the free traders tell us we ought to let down the tariff barriers on this splendid american market and throw it open to foreigners in older to try to improve a hazardous market away from home only a tenth as good and by no means capable of being developed into anything remotely approaching our domestic trade in size size to put it mildly such a proceeding would be anything but businesslike to a great many of us it would seem like utter folly but by all menas let us develop our foreign trade but in a vain effort to do it let us not sacrifice the best market in the world worl done one several tim times es better than anything an thing we could possibly get at a distance |