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have the elements within itself for self support ; and 

 if it be wanting in any of the mechanical appliances 

 of the age necessary to develop its resources, those 

 appliances will be obtained and utilized. 



4. There is no large and permanent market for our 

 manufactures with any advanced people ; all such 

 must and will manufacture for themselves, and are 

 even now seeking foreign markets for their own pro- 

 ducts. Whenever our manufactures and products, or 

 those of any other people, come into serious competi- 

 tion with their own at home, they are sure to be ex- 

 cluded or heavily taxed. The law of self preservation 

 compels it. 



5. Our present chief effort is to find markets with 

 those populations that are not yet fully developed in 

 their use of the latest mechanical methods of produc- 

 tion. All such are either too poor or too exclusive to 

 become profitable consumers of the products of our 

 civilization. It is only by developing advanced indus- 

 tries in the midst of those peoples that their condition 

 can be changed or improved ; and that will be done to 

 the exclusion of any considerable foreign consumption. 



More than four years ago the following item ap- 

 peared in the columns of the New York Tribune of 

 February 24, 1879. Is it possible that there is any 

 one so blind that between the lines of this item he 

 can not read the future of trade in more things than 

 cotton fabrics ? 



COTTON MILLS FOR CHINA. 



LONDON, Saturday, Feb. 22, 1879. 



The Post's Berlin correspondent says: "The Chinese Gov- 

 ernment have purchased machinery and engaged experienced 



