New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-30
p1nEcr TRApE wIEH EuROPE.

commercial year, ana our season 1VA
is about to open, it becomes the merchants
and capitalists Of this city to consider serl-
ously the advantages they will reap by al
nroper announcement and sustenance Of
systen, Of direct trade with Europe through
the agency Of steamships plying between this
,,ort and the ports on the western coast of the
old world.
i The interests of the pubhc-the general
interests of our people as a civil community
are too apt, we know, to be postponed to the
private interests, or what are supposed to be
the private interests Of individual citizens.
Each one considers it his first duty to take
care of himself and provide for his own vel
fare This is proper enough in its legitimate
sense, for any other rule of action would dis
organize society. But when it can be shown
as we think it very clearly can be shown that
in the establishment and maintenance of direct
trade between New Orleans and Europe our
merchants will add not only to their individual
wealth, but to the general welfare and pros
perity Of the city then their duty and obIiga-
ton in the premises become clear and impera-
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4 And by direct trade we do not mean the
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so great an extent been the basis Of our ex-
porting system. We mean that New Orleans
with her own capital and on her own respon-
sibility, should not only assert herself the chief
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who live incities North If ~ When Wa Tnio,bf
lust as ven and great deal better have gaTad
all the money they have made out Of M for
our own people.
1t is quite tine. that chs sort of thing sbonld
stop. A radical Congress- has imposed an on
erous and most fagitious tariff upon us-but.
onerous and ubiquitous as It IS, the same
rates prevail elsewhere as here. New York
pays the same duties that New Orleans does
and the merchant Of this city who buys from
factor. in the former pays not only the du-
ties he would have paid if he had himself i'm
ported his goods, but the profits, commissions,
freights, insurance, and all the additional i'm
positions which the necessities Of the case, or
the greed Of the factor, may exact. Precisely
how many millions Of dollars year have been
lost to our city by this system cannot be de-
ternined- bat that single dollar has been
lost that could have been saved, is a repgoach
upon US and our enterprise as people, of
which interest, pride and necessity combine
in urging the immediate removal. d
Every single article of lforeiali merchandise
which is sold By New Orleans merchant
ought to be first laid down on our owf, leyee
in the original packages, shipped directly from
abroad, Ii New York fnds Mar nro6t in