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Exhibition in London. 
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1° ° ur mm d,” says an American organ — not one of 
those dieadful parlour organs which make life not worth 
living in the two next houses — published in London, “ the 
most important section of this exhibition will be that devoted 
to showing the advantages of the newer states and terri- 
tories lor the investment of capital.” Again, “ through this 
presentation the attention of foreign capital will be attracted 
to the great railway and mining interests of this country.” 
Passages of similar nature might be multiplied indefinitely, 
all tending to show that a great, if not the great, obiecSt in 
view is the attraction of British capital. 
The thiid great object of the promoters is to increase the 
sale, not so much of American raw material as of American 
manufactures. Says one American authority, “ There can 
be no better way possible for American producers to intro- 
duce certain lines of g;oods to the British public than 
through a great exhibition devoted entirely to American 
products to be held in the metropolis of Great Britain.” 
One American paper writes, “ It would open up for us new 
and. piofitable markets. Another thinks “ the enterprise 
will have a tendency to open up markets for us in Europe.” 
A thiid consideis that “ it cannot fail to be of great advan- 
tage to oui industries and lead to an increase in our export 
trade.” 
An English paper which decidedly favours the scheme 
writes, “ The Americans have everything to gain from such 
an exhibition. This I shall not dispute ; but suppose that 
the intended demonstration should be successful, what have 
we to gain or to hope ? I shall, of course, be censured for 
thinking, at such a juncture, of so despised a matter as 
“ British interests.” But how will they be affeCted ? Can 
American manufacturers and merchants do more business 
in this country without depriving British manufacturers 
and merchants of some part of their business? and is this 
to be desired ? If the United States were a free-trade 
nation I might be told in reply that the more of their pro- 
duce the Americans can sell in Britain the more of our 
manufactures they will buy in return. But they are not 
free traders, and they are constantly seeking to still further 
lessen their imports of British goods. Hence I see but 
scanty hope that any increase of trade between Britain and 
the United States will be other than one-sided. 
I must now turn to the other two purposes of the Exhibi- 
tion, the attraction of British emigrants and of British 
capital to the American Union, and ask how far these aims 
are compatible with our national interests ? It must be 
