New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-11-02

SouucLsS- YOUR DrOQuc cUuuluc iutn
with others, and an hundredth part OF the
| tonnage will send them abroad Already
you have attained from this source extra
ordinary progress III manufactures. Four
| cities OF the Mississippi valley and lake
basin last year produced S500,00O, 900 OF
manufactures. Condensation, then, assists
| transportation.
But shall be told that Won can not ex-
| pect TO compete with European skill and
capital III these manufactures. What not
when you have the skilled labor of Europe
herself? Can not the worker in iron or
cotton or wool or leather or wood do the
same work on this side Of the Atlantic as
the same workman has done OF the other
side! shall be told also that ycu can not
nope to find IL Europe market Tor those
vast productions Of competing ia bricS YOU
condenHe com, cotton and other material
INTO Ills is substantial argument. L
Will strengthen II BY saying that yun can
not ind at horne a sufficient market for
those commodities For this | am pre-
pared. There is d region capable a pres
ent OF consuming and giving i'll exchange
Tor the products and manufactures of
other countries a value of $500 600 900.
lie Is d commerce based on gold and
groceries; on the product OF the masses.
l will not bother you with the figures
to show the extent of territory or popula-
the ether double that Of your own. 1t is a
country whose millions OF people and acres
are within from tea 10 twenty DAYS of YOUR
own. The country to which | refer is the
American continent and It's islands. There
IS Mexico, Central America. the golden
coast OF Chill and Peru, and Venezuela; the
I,G0O,0O0 sacks Ct Brazilian coffee, the
hides and wool OF Buenos Ayres and the
Banda Oriental, the commerce of the Rio
lxf i T4p no
metals, sugar. copper, furniture and dye.
wooC, in which they abound. Within five
days OF Chicago or st. Louis is Cuba far
richer ii direct and immediate trade, as
Will be shown, than all vi them. You will
lind your commerce excluded from most OF
these countries by distance and indirect
ness. Your produce is excluded from Cula
by an excessive rate Of duties, as will be
shown. hese obstacles shut you from YOUR
own natural markets, and sends YOU past
their door 10 offer your cargoes in the glut-
ted markets of Europe. Suppose that a
farmer IN Minnesota wants a pound of cot
fee. Let u inquire what is the transaction
to procure It, The pound OF coffee costs in
Minnesota twenty-five cents. Four bushels
of corn is sent to England 1t brings foufr
pounds OF coffee, or ST. But The carr ier
takes three bushels for del~tring them.
Then the Minnesota farmer has given
bushel of corn at hoHeToEa polnd of coffee.
Now il this corn could 10 marketed in the
port OF Cuoa GA reciprocal terms, she tax
ing our corn tree, as We already take her
coLee Tree. IL would be delivered by the
mls,issiPp! route at twenty cents from st.
Paul to Havana. A bushel Of corn worth 81
III Luoa would net eighty cents, or three
ano a nlth pounds OF coffee. Your farmer
no" sVaggers 10 the depoe WITH sack OF
pa pounds on his shoulder-his little boy
brings home in his DDckpt the CON rnoaitv no
NC receives IA eAchahge.
COMMERCIAL TREATY
eh6f' lEls vase economy IN the eX-
change Vi Your Pioouctlons VIII REQ Inre the |
exercise OF diplomatic ability: Demand |
then that your government shall renew the |
treaty relations WIFE the powers which |
govern these continental countries. Declare |
q continental policy. iou need tIe Monroe |
doctrine a- greatly IN commerce as in poll
ucs. SPAIN now carries On her war for the |
OF slavery over white and |
HIach III Suoa' emery pE tax levied On
our piouuetl"ns' among these taxes are
~ cents oushel on corn; - - on cwt OF
'ard; % "a on hams; flour from - 10 to IS
per oarrei' goid. Ahese rates average more |
tnail eisnt1 pes beh. 'u '"loie H' "hlle the
ra 10 e., ou ooita Piouucts
nar ne o!1 susai'
=, Will, va ;,a,,,.n. anu e""acoo;
- -i0n No i"iPoio .o.n p"1"t!Feiy tinah
49, ~ ''''' w A"l-' JIG e'-ee ~ Nnoa
Aous consumption o. foreign sugar. ilu
ported chiehy from Cuba and Porto Rico,
V amount III round numbers TO more than
iaii the enure importation OF the United
,'atts, estimated at s'V,UU0.0Jc. OF this
he United States pays about So, 900, 900 IN
iomesfic productions. leaving balance of
nor. than soo,00o,00o 70 De hquidated in
pecle. these duties are not reciprocal
ohitF Ender winch th9 United States
guarantees the Integrity OF tie Spanish | I
oionlai possessions near this continent. |
our government. IA Submitting: to this
nsIual ana unnelshboriy imposition is, in
act. furnishing the means hy which Spain
as heretofore Malntalle! government
e'Po'ic IN us character and inimical in
'iheigie I" thaU "h'ch We nave sustained ,
pom TINS continent. Spain collects chiefly ,
rom the duties imposed OF American pro.
uctons, and The money paid by American
consumers ol tupan pfodnce. S@t,00O,o00 | {
er annum. anu VAIN This she sends armies .
sooJugate me WHITES and 10 pe:cetuate |
ne bondage OF the blacks. {
lou consume half million sack. q. c.tf,e. |
u which you pay in like manner " inGi /
ect expectation o; YOUR corn 10 Europe. !
here can be no reason why, with the Z
topical trade opened with Brazil. van !
lould not exchange the products Of yo.r Y
,rrns and OF your workshops directly with
nose X no con sumo them. Tou cross The r
flantic 20 cOmrete with Cu,one. why NO. a
lake Europe eros. the Atlantic 10 conIne,e ! .
it'll yourselves may include with tbis 3
70 trade YOU ought 10 enjoy with Mexico. s
here are &c, 000, 600 Of people within .hree n
avs rail 0f st. Louis and C,hicaoo MS
hole foreign trade is bat So 600 600 and q
thi. We have but s.. 00O. coo. WIN, CIV.
al America an! Venezuela cou ba~, 4
AIDE Of as much more, All M. ,,,;ni, ho / 6
,largete to greater proportions, ,onr GOV. Il
nm.nt should declsr.. a continental uolc, !,
reciprocal trade. Il ,hnul;: enr,uraoa \
,staI .erv;ca +n all H.. ,,r;,n;,.I 49,. ! :.