Home Market Facts
October 25, 1888New York World
Of all the “rot” that insults intelligence in the Protection campaign of ignorance none is worse than that which represents a trifling reduction in tariff as “turning our home market over to England.”
The entire merchant marine of England, with that of all Europe thrown in, could not transport to this country in ten years one-tenth of the demands of our home market for one year.
One of our great lines of railroad alone carry more tonnage in a year than all of England’s ships could float.
England controls her enormous home market for manufactured goods better than we do ours, pays the highest wages in Europe, and sells abroad $1,343,335,000 worth of products, mostly manufactured, to our $752,180,000 worth, eight-tenths of which are agricultural or natural products, the same as half-civilized nations.
source: The Ohio Democrat
location: New Philadelphia, Ohio
