New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-01

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Total ~ ~ az &35o7+7l: $55ol aI7
Total pre'ioas gear ,I&3SS 80 19I 623 :0Jl j&3
; This shows an increase in the imports
| from these countries OF products to- the
! amount Of ri ,.OI, iJi. and in exports of our
/ own products il return OF SOB ,09! and 3
F.! decrease i'll the re-@Eports of 81 ,I99 ,666. vs.
| 0Ur trade now stands with these counties,
=. we import 10 the value Of SI5S, 1!i ,G33 and
! export bi1c $6! .J7G.j3l: leaving a balance
! against u. I'll 500, ga 402. This surely is a bad
! showing lRd, instead of improving, it
! grows worse. Last year .hg balance against
: 'le was s6,,52J -. While the increasing
! consumption for" o; the products Uf these
! eOuntrie. Ias compelled us 10 draw upon
! them to the amount of S2I ,20b, l5l more than
! in 1885, ~" have returned them $l.3IG.J13
! less ia 0u. own productions. We want their
: sugar. moIasSes, coffee etc, for our own con
! sumption. hlIt We 0DghG TO return them an
! equal am0unS Of our own productions, in
| Guiding their raw materials, converted by
! our superior skill and machinery into ferns
needed for their use. Take for instance the
| Island Of Cuba. The whole industry OF the
| people is given UP to the production Of SIT
| gar, m0lasseR. tobacco and fruits, while they
are dependent on other countries for large
share Of the necessities of life as well as for
it's IuxuTies. OF their sugar, molasses, to-
baCc0 and fruits, we take over $38,09O,0O0,
but return them less than $4,000, 900 OF
ilaL HG llpttlttt anu W i4tkG tILtS IttIultE
and call upon other countries for.
Our trade with Brazil is still more
uufayorable. Willie taking $50, JG0,G
of their productions. we return but
S6,0S9, i1l OF our own. Thus year by year
we continue 10 run in debt to these coun-
tries, while we are producing large sur
plus OF the very things they want and with
which they now supply themselves from
other and more distant countries. Even
the trade in refined sugars which our re
iners once had with the west coast Of
South America, has been destroyed bY the
manner in which the draw back is estimated
by our government. This trade, now
amounting to fully 100, 000,0 G0 pounds per
year, ia wholly diverted to England and
the continent, and yet New York refined
sugars, from the superior and more c0nye-
nicnt form in which they are packed, viii
command in those markets quarter Of
cent per pound more than European refined
sugars.
10 expand our commerce in this dircc-
ton. tEie government should sec to it that
our commercial treaties with these countries
arc revised and modified so a. to give our
merchants % footing Of equality with other
nations. Then our merchants will see that
q more efficient mercantile marine is e>tab-
lished, Other nations have. during the
past few years, turned their attention to
this trade, and lave obtained concessions
bT making others to offset them in the wav
Of free admission Of their goods into
European ports, which makes it an adyart-
tage for these countries TO trade with
Europe, rather than with the United States.
Also, by the establishment OF fast Steam.
ship lines to.alt the principal ports oil South
America, England has managed to carry off
the bulk Of this trade, and Is to all prac-
ticai purposes, nearer the South American
ports than We are ourselves. Our steam