National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-01-29

cannot get the grim of the Northwest. The
West is tb-day capable of exporting thirty
millions Of tons Of produce the actual. ex.
port Is not ten millions of tons. What is
the loss on the remaining twenty millions
The United States can no longer compete
with Russia in supplying grain for the Brit,
ish markets. The cost of carrying wheat
from the Baltic provinces to Liverpool b
about IS cents, and from the Black sea
about 45 cents bushel 1t costs during
the months of September, October and No
vember, when the bulk of the Western crop
is seeking Market from IS to 40, and even
SO cents to get it from Chicago to New
York. The markets Of Western Europe
require about 500, 00o, 900 bushels Of cereals
per annum ovet and above the home pro,
duction, of which 2e5, 0OO, 900 bushels are
wheat. Of-ths England alone requires
$50, 000, 600 bushels of foreign wheat and
some 90, 1000, GEO. bushels of corn, barley,
oats, &c. The United States now furnish to
Great Britain only 5000, 0QQ bushels Of
wheat per annum the rest is obtained from
the Baltic and the Black sea. With the
markets of Europe opened to our grain, the
balance of trade would be reversed in our
favor in single year. - 8 ---- Cd.
Is this an object unworthy of the imme.
date consideration Of Congressf -
The East is as deeply concerned in the
question of cheap transportation as the West.
The West, as we have said, is burning its
grain for fuel; but the East wants cheap
food. The census of 1870 shows that New
England consumes oae hundred million
bushels of grain ovef and above her own
production. A saving of ten cents pei
bushel upon the transportation Of this grain
would benefit New England SO, 1000, 000
annually. This, as has been said, would
cheaper labor, and thereby give fresh vigor
to the manufacturing interests ofthe region
in question. .. -
In every aspect in which this matter can
be viewed, it looms up into proportions
which ouershadose every other question Of
the hour. It would quiet that rapidly.
spreading movement all over the co''utry,
now represented by the thousands Of visible
and invisible oranges" which have be-
come the terror of the politicians; it would
add UNNECESSARILY to the wealth of the
country; it would turn the balance Of trade
in our favor; 1t would pnng togetner IN
intimate business relations all the secnons
ofthe Union; it would make farming pront'
able on both sides of. the Mississippi, from
St. Paulto New Orleans; it would exchange
the grain and the meat and the nay OF the
North and Northwest for the manufactures
and coal and iron aqd cotton OF the East
and the South; it would give the United
States the command Of me giain trade Of
Western Europe. -
There Is no room for deiiberation On such
question, II any scheme ofreiie Is feasl-
Bile. Any amount o. money might ne spent
by any Governmsnt to accomplish results
like these.
And IS IT credbie thing that some
mode OF relief Will not be found IN Amer.
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