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Discontinuances.-The publishers must positively receive notice by letter or postal-card, whenever a subscriber wishes his paper discontinued. POLITICAL: CONTENTS. THE REVIEWS. 62 ......... 62 EDUCATION, LITERATURE, ART: The National Traits of the Germans as Seen in Their Religion. 70 The History and Definition of Higher Criticism... 71 The Religion of Whittier......... 71 MISCELLANEOUS: BOOKS. James Gilmour, of Mongolia..... 74 Jesus Christ; God; God and Man 74 The Battle of New York.......... 75 POLITICAL: Old Issues and New......... The President-Elect.... The Ohio Surprise.. 72 73 75 The Beasts of Ephesus..... THE PRESS. 76 80 80 Congressman Harter's Triumph.. 80 McKinley... 81 Statehood for Utah. 81 The Luther Celebration.......... 82 82 The Slave Trade Still Flourishing 82 INDEX TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE... 83 84 CURRENT EVENTS 84 RODUCTIONS in this country are of wide range and abundant, through favorable climatic conditions, exceeding fertility of soil, and the energy and intelligence of the people. The United States is the greatest producing nation in the world, especially of articles of food and of materials which enter into manufactures. Americans consume more per capita than any other people, yet we produce a surplus in nearly all the necessaries of life and many of the luxuries. In domestic commerce we stand first, but in international trade we are third, Great Britain being first and Germany second. Our natural advantages entitle us to leadership in foreign as well as in domestic trade. There is very little exported from this country that is not wholly produced here. If duplication were eliminated from British and German accounts, our position in international trade would be relatively higher and possibly highest; but our foreign trade is far less than it ought to be, or would be, if proper efforts were made to develop it. To find markets for our surplus products is of highest importance. Our industries have reached immense proportions, and are destined, with proper effort, to the greatest development in the future. Ever since the Phoenicians gained great wealth from commerce the magnitude of foreign trade has been deemed a measure of a nation's material prosperity; whether such traffic is beneficial or not depends upon its character. A nation importing more for consumption than it exports cannot prosper any more than the individual who consumes more than he produces. An individual who buys what he should produce grows poorer; so with a nation. In its young and colonizing days this nation had to do it, but that necessity no longer exists. In the early days there were statesmen who forecast the future, and urged policies which would avoid depletion through adverse balances of trade. The policy pursued from Washington to Polk was measurably successful in preventing diminution of our money resources. Efforts were put forth to build up manufacturing to supply home wants, and a merchant marine capable of doing our own transportation on the high seas. In 1846, a new policy was inaugurated which checked industrial growth, and the Civil War swept away our shipping. For thirty years after 1846, balances of trade were uniformly against us, and the country would have been greatly distressed for money, but for the phenomenal production of gold in California. Until 1861, there was a continual outflow of gold caused by depression of manufacturing industries, resulting from the Tariff Act of 1846; and from 1861 to 1865, it continued, from the necessity of purchasing raw materials in Europe. In 1862, a protective policy was restored; but ten years after the war were required to place us in condition to overcome adverse balances and turn the tide in our favor. Our industries have thrived. For the first time in thirty years, at the end or the fiscal year of 1877, a handsome balance appeared in our favor, and from June 30, 1876, to June 30, 1892, the net aggregate of balances in our favor was $1,762,000,000. Our gold resources have been increased $500,000,000. For fifteen years anterior to the enactment of the McKinley Law, we annually imported, on the average, merchandise to the value of $300,000,000 to $400,000,000, consisting chiefly of manufactures which we should have produced for ourselves. It is wise that we should develop those industries in which we are deficient, to supply home wants to the utmost practical extent. We should also enlarge the export of our manufactures and thus increase the balance in our favor. have relied too much on exporting products of agriculture. What a vast field of employment would be opened and what immense wealth would come to the country, if all our cotton were manufactured at home and then sold abroad. We The best trade is that between nations whose productions are different. There is not much of importance produced in Europe which we do not or cannot produce, and Europe does not need to buy of us anything but cotton. Reciprocity is calculated to develop the healthiest sort of trade, and all the legislation of the Fifty-first Congress is admirably adapted to the growth of industry and commerce without the imposition of unnecessary burdens upon the people. No nation can succeed in competitive traffic which must depend upon rivals for means of transportation. We must have our own ships, and the law encouraging the creation of |