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of life — in a word, in the products of our manu- factures. That makes our population as con- sumers of products as compared with the English population 200,000,000. Their population is 37,000,000 as consumers of products which one century ago were pure luxuries, while our popu- lation is equivalent to 175,000,000.

If this is our comparison with England, what is the comparison with the rest of the world, whose markets our committee are so eager to have in exchange for our own? Mulhall gives certain statistics which will serve to make the comparison clear. On page 365 of his Diction- ary of Statistics he says the total yearly product of the manufacturers of the world are £4,474,- 000,000, of which the United States produces £1,443,000,000.

I do not vouch, nor can anybody vouch, for these figures, but the proportion of one-third to two-thirds nobody can fairly dispute. We pro- duce one-third, and the rest of the world, Eng- land included, two-thirds.

The population of the world is 1,500,000,000, of which we have 70,000,000 which leaves 1,430,- 000,000, for the rest of mankind. We use all our manufactures, or the equivalent of them. Hence we are equal to one-half the whole globe outside of ourselves, England included, and compared as a market with the rest of the world, our population is equal to about 700.000,000.

I repeat, as compared with England herself as a market our people are equivalent to 175 -- 180

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