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foreign couutries, free traders will find little en- 

 couragement from tlie official figures. For ex- 

 ample, in 1901 Denmark exported to Germany- 

 goods to tlie value of 68,170,000 kroner, whilst 

 ten years later the value was still only 08,181,000 

 kroner. The figures for France were at tlie tv.^o 

 periods 2,373,000 and 040,000 kroner respectively ; 

 for Spain, 480,000 kroner and 6,000 kroner; each 

 of wliich countries is a tariff country. In the case 

 of the United Kingdom, Danish exports to us have 

 gone up from 132,139,000 kroner in 1891 to 

 260,781,000 kroner in 1901 ; and there has been 

 a large increase in her exports to Russia, which 

 also adopts free trade for several imported articles 

 of food. 



It is apparent, therefore, from the figures 

 just stated, that the prosperity of Den- 

 mark is due, not mainly to the fact 

 that she is herself, in part, a free trade 

 country, but to the fact that she has our huge 

 free trade market in addition to her own to send 

 her products to. If she had not got that she 

 would not be as prosperous as she is, and if we 

 had a tariff and preferential trade with our 

 Colonies, she would undoubtedly do then as 

 other Continental nations already do, namely, feed 

 their own people and keep them going, both on 

 the land and in the factory — which would be both 

 a common-sense and wise policy to adopt. It 

 is what France does, and it is what Germany 

 does, with the result that both agriculturally and 

 industrially they are prospering more rapidly 



