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MONETARY COMMISSION.
fiport of th United States Monetary
Commission, Appointed by Act of Con
gTOftfl August 15. 1876.
NO. VII.
The following la a statement of the ag
gregate exports and Imports of the three
leading commercial nations, Great Brit
ain, France and the United States, dur
ing five successive decades, the 'whole
covering the half century ending with
and including 1874:
Periods of ten years ending Aggregate of im-
with and including poru ana exports,
1834 t 8,333,656,168
1844 11,601,879)82
1864 17,495,140,919
1864 32.751.773.610
1874 61,915,727,730
In the ten years ending with 1854, al-
through the new supplies of gold ailected
only the latter part of that period, the in
crease was more than 50 per cent.
A comparison of the ten years ending
with 1874 with the ten years ending with
1854 shows that commerce nearly trebled
in those twenty years.
These comparisons show how new
uses absorbed the new supplies of gold,
so as to prevent an increase of prices.
Another mode of stating it may be that
the new supplies of gold rendered possi
ble the enlarged operations of commerce.
And, doubtless, both modes of statement
are necessary to cover all the aspects of
the fact.
In the following tables the advance of
each of the three leading commercial na
tions is separately stated:
GKEAT BRITAIN.
Decade ending- AAZ
1834 8 4,646,225,000
1844 6,343,900,000
1854 9 893,215.000
1864 18,019,165,000
1874 23.500,555,000
FRANCS.
rxvndA friAinn- Aggregate of im-
vecaae ending- porta and expirrts.
1834 1,913,000.000
1844 2,741,400,000
1864 4,088,OCO,000
1864 8,327,200,000
1874 12,728,400,000
UNITED STATES.
Decade ending- $&ZfeVrU.
1834. I 1,774.431,168
1844. 2,416,579,982
1854 3,543,925.919
1864 6,405,408,519
1874 10,686,772.639
In Italy the public revenue increased
from $250,000,000, in 1861, to $550,000,000,
In 1873; and the aggregate of Imports
and exports from $330,000,000, in 18GD,to
$454,000,000, in 1872.
Without multiplying Illustrations, it
may be said that commerce has every
where wonderfully increased under the
stimulus of the great supplies of gold
from California and Australia. The Lon
don Economut of May 11, 18C5, said:
We find here In Great Britain our external
trade doubled In the last twelve years, and this
external trade Is, we believe, bat a faint repre
sentation of the Increase of transactions through
out the whole of our domestic Industry. But not
only has this multiplying process 1een carried
on In those Islands; It has prevailed almost as
largely in France, and has spread all over Ger
many. It has filled Italy, aroused Spain from
Its long lethargy, and penetrated even to the re
mote provi ces of Russia. No corner of Europe
has remained Insensible to the new stir of indus
try and enterprise. All these facts are indica
tions of the enormous addition which has been
made during the last fifteen years to th,. extent
and depth of the channels of circulation required
to be filled with metallic money In some form or
another. The truth Is that with the present
and extended commerce of the world far more
mischief and inconvenience will arise from the
effect of what seems to be a continuous gradual
decline in the new supplies of gold from any ef
fects which have flowed or may flow from the
California and Australian discoveries.
Of railroads, which are at once a proof
and an .Instrumentality of commerce,
about seven-eights of all existing lines
have been constructed since the dis
covery of gold In California.
According to Poor's Railroad Manual
for 1876-77, there have been completed
In the world to the present time 182,600
miles of railroad. Of this vaat mileage
only 24,102 miles were completed In 1S50.
The increase cf the world's wealth
since 1849 admits of no accurate compu
tation. In this country, according to the
following estimates from the census re
ports, It more than quadrupled in twenty
years.
True value of prope
in United States.
1850 S 7,135,000,000
I860 16.159,000,000
1870 SO,06S,000,COO
In the British Australian colonies the
rate of Increase was greater. In Europe
It was less, although still great. In the
world as a whole It must certainly have
kept pace with the Increase ofthe stocks
of the precious metals.
In Great Britain and Ireland the value
of property assessed to income tax was
1872 435,000,000
1848 256,000,000
Increase. 179,000,000
It Is a striking feature of modern and
especially of recent times that the area of
civilization, with all its attendant condl
Hons, has been Immensely extended over
substantially unoccupied portions of the
earth. The foremost European races
have spread rapidly and resistlessly in
every direction. Wherever they have
planted their feet they have established
order, encouraged Industry, built up
commerce, created wealth, and infused
with the commercial idea the sluggish
populations by which they were sur
rounded. It is thus that Europe grows
quite as much abroad as at home, and it
will be Its glory In coming times to be
overshadowed by Its colonies, which are
diffusing its blood, genius, arts and lan
guages over every continent and over the
Isles of all the seas. While the former
seats of civilization expand in popula
tion and power, new and great civilized
nations appear upon the scene. The
figures which mark the extent of these
new creations enlarge so rapidly and so
soon become obsolete and useless that It
seems a waste of time to charge the
memory with them. The annual imports
of Australia are now stated at $250,000,
000, Implying an aggregate foreign com
merce of twice that amouni, which sur
passes that of Great Britain forty years
ago, that of France twenty-five years a o,
and that of the United States twenty
years ago. Canada, the Cape of Good
Hope, and other British dependencies
attest also the colonizing energy of Great
Britain, and, If less strikingly, it is only
because of the contrast with the pro
digious advancement of Australia. In
South America the colonization of other
European races, not accompanied as in
the British case by extensions of Euro
pean civilization, is proceeding upon a
great scale. During the year 1875 the
European emigration to Buenos Ayers
actually exceeded that to New York.
(To be continued.)
Mrs. Lease has annihilated the silly
He that her claim that she was the daugh
ter of a soldier, was a fiction told for
campaign effect. She claims that her
father was a private In a New York
regiment, was taken prisoner at the
battle of the Wilderness, and taken to
Andersonvllle, where he starved to death,
his body while yet breathing, having
been thrown on the dead cart and drawn
to burial She had also a brother who
was shot to death at Fredericksburg as a
member of the famous "Bucktails" of
Pennsylvania. She offers to pay all ex
penses of an Investigation which shall
declare facts different from the above.
The policy of making war upon a woman
Is ever of questionable wisdom, but the
attempt to silence a woman by lies, so
marvelously endowed as Is Mrs. Lease
with the ability to defend herself, is not
more cowardly than Idiotic Lawrence
Record (Hep.)
THE NATIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH
WASHINGTON, D. C.
In Bulletin Supplement No. 6, page 33, places
Dr. Price's Crcain Baking Powder
HIGHEST OF ALL
IN
LEAVENING STRENGTH.
Prof. R. C. Kedzie, of the Michigan State Agricultural College, who
personally superintended the examination, says: "With the exception of
Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder, which is a cleanly, pure, whole
some compound, conforming with natures own formulas of human diet,
we found every sample more or less tainted."
Host Perfect Made.
No Ammonia.
No Alum.
AN OPEN LETTER TO D. R. ANTHONY.
I have been a reader of the Leaven
worth Times for over a year, and after
that experience have arrived at some
conclusions. My first conclusion la that
you are about as consistent as a Demo
cratic convention declaring for free coin
age and Cleveland. In proof of the cor
rectness of this conclusion, I would
suggest that you publish your platform,
the one you published in the Times dur
ing the last year, alongside the Minne
apolis platform. They are not near so
much alike as the silver resolutions of
the two grand old parties.
Second You have howled long and
loud, late and early, for a relegation of
the old crowd to the rear. But the old
crowd gets there all the same. You don't
seem to be much of a factor or success In
the relegation business.
Third You have waged unrelent
ing war on George T. Anthony, and
charged him with being a common thief;
perhaps I should say uncommon thief,
as robbing the school fund would cer
tainly come under the head of sacrilege.
But, granting that all you charge against
George T. is true, in all candor, honesty
and sincerity I wouid ask you what
worse is he than old "Pizzaro" Sherman
and his confederates in iniquity, who,
through their manipulations and frauds,
have robbed an honest, brave, patriotic
nation of toilers of millions of dollars?
Some one said, in fifty years from now
old "Pizzaro" would be held In greater
derision and contempt than Benedict Ar
nold. It will not be half that long. The
fact Is, hundreds of thousands now so
regard him, and as soon as all understand
his Intrigues they will all be of the same
mind.
Fourth By feigning sympathy with
the Alliance, you succeeded in raking In
some of the Alliance people's 70-cent
dollars, for which they vote you an old
fraud, and propose to pre--nt you with a
tin whistle and leather medit.
Fifth and last conclusion That you
are a conspicuous example of the tall
struggling to wag the dog.
A. Davidson,
Prairie View Kan.
oslty is known the world over, and the
liberality of her sons and daughters is
as proverbial as their love for freedom.
To-day the world stands aghast at the
murderous attempt of a Scotch baron en
trenched and fortified by Republican
I legislation , to perpetuate a system of
: social cannibalism, and force, by the aid
of Pinkerton cut-throats, the American
laborers to accept starvation wages. In
their efforts to provide bread for wife
and babies, In their efforts to abolish a
cruelly pitiable system of wage-slavery,
thousands - are thrown out of employ
ment and hunger stares them In tha face,
because they have th herolam to up
hold the hands of their fellow laborers
in their efforts to make life worth the
living. We have been told by those who
deal In misrepresentations that the farm
ers were not in sympathy with the wants
and demands of laborers in town and
city. Let us hurl this falsehood back,
and show to the world that the farmers
of Kansas are Imbued with the spirit of
177C, and in sympathy with the toilers
and oppressed humanity everywhere by
send in k from this state such a train load
of wheat and corn to our Homestead
bi others as will make hungry mothers
and their little ones laugh with glee. Let
us show to the world that despite the
official statement of Ilob't. II. Porter, the
Fourth of .July oration of Senator In
galls, the misrepresentations of calamity
makers who have Injured the fair name
our state, that Kansas leads the world in
fertility of soli, unparalleled grain crops
and generous hearted men and women.
Class laws have compelled the farmers
to take what they can get for their mag
nificent crops; have robbed the labor
ers of this state as well as the other states
ofthe legitimate rewards of their tolL
Yet despite every effort that has been put
forth to rob and impoverish our beauti
ful state, we will extend a helping hand
of open plenty to our brother laborers in
protected Pennsylvania who are to-day
engaged in the grandest struggle for
liberty ever recorded in the annals ofthe
race. Yours for the rights of labor,
Mary E. Lease.
AN APPEAL FOR OUR HOMESTEAD
BROTHERS.
Alliance Brothers: Kansas has
never turned a deaf ear to the cry of dis
tress. Her generous hands sent of her
teeming products to the flood sufferers
of Ohio, and poured golden grain upon
the lap of starving Russia. Hergener.
Notice.
Notice is hereby given that my appli
cation and petition for a permit to sell
intoxicating liquors under the laws of
Kansas is on tile in the oflice of the pro
bate judge of Shawnee county, Kas., and
will be heard on August 12, 1892, at 9
o'clock a. m. Harvey A. Warner.
July 13, 1892.