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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Chinese-American reciprocity. (search)
hese circumstances, it is imperative for the farmers and manufacturers of the United States to seek an outlet for their products and goods in foreign markets. But whither shall they turn? At first sight, Europe presents perhaps the most inviting field. Both blood and association point in this direction. But here the cottons of Lowell would have to compete with the fabrics of Manchester. The silk manufacturers of Paterson would stand small chance of supplanting the finished products of Lyons. The sugar of Louisiana would encounter a formidable rival in the beet-sugar of Germany. England could probably better afford to sell her coal and iron cheaper than Pennsylvania, and Russia could supply European markets with wheat and petroleum as well as could Ohio and Indiana. Competition would be keen and destructive. Central and South America have as yet too sparse a population for the immense territory they cover to meet the conditions of a market for American goods. Some decad
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Law, James 1838- (search)
Law, James 1838- Veterinary surgeon; born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Feb. 13, 1838; was educated at the veterinary schools of Edinburgh, Paris, Lyons, and London; was Professor of Anatomy and Materia Medica in the Edinburgh New Veterinary College in 1860-65; Professor of Veterinary Science in Cornell University in 1868-96; and, later, became Director of the New York State Veterinary College and Professor of the Principles and Practice of Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Sanitary Science, and Veterinary Therapeutics at Cornell. His publications include General and descriptive Anatomy of domestic animals; Farmers' Veterinary adviser; Text-book of Veterinary medicine, etc.