New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-07-04
Tho Feasibility of Direct Trade with
South America.

| s>tMo ptiSUDs, " utu spOkcU TO upon tlt
subject OF direct trade between ST. Louis anC
South America, are inclined 10 ridicule thu
idea OF st. Louis competing with Baltimore
| New York or Europe, aud assume that be
! cause this is An inland city we should be
content to let other and sea. board cities act
as factors or middle men and handle Oul
products. Possibly. this may be answered
| fairly by an extract from the .4msrico,,
| Manu- tacturer. which says. referring to the
! subjec. OF which we write: "a few months
ago PittsbUrg glassware manufacturer re.
ceived an order from Hamburg Germany
house for goods for South America"
! Now, this is bu. one instance of many
| that might be furnished. 1t can not, we
| believe, be doubted that St. Louis can fur
nish glassware as cheaply and of as good
4 quality as Pittsburg. Ii any of our read.
ers should disbelieve it, let them ask Mr..
| Cummings, of the st. Louis Glass Works
| 1.-THE pioneer in this industry, or President
| Burch, of the Great Western Glass Com.
pany, whether they do not compete success
fully with the Smoky City" This point
settled, it is readily understood that Ger.
| many sent the order for glass to go to South
America only tor the very simple reason
that Pittsburg can furnish that article more
cheaply than Edrope. 1t is well settled
fact that already there are many articles
which the United States can and does pro-
duce at a less cost than England or the con.
tinent: so much cheaper, in fact, that we are
now exporting to England very many arti-
Giles which but q few months since we OBJ.
tanned from the further side of the Atlantic
The tide which left Us stranded high and
dry at the close of the war, has turned in
our favor once more, and the United States
are again nearing the day that shall see our
people something more than mere tillers of
the soil for the enrichment of other nations.
The american Manufacturer strikes the
nail pretty fairly on the head when it
further remarks: Americans certainly
show a great lack Of enterprise in the m at
ter of cuitivating trade with other coun-
tries. Notwithstanding the manufactures
are idle in ali parts Of the country, and have
been for eighteen months, Ourmanufaetur.
. ers. with more patience than energy are
waiting for their old customers to commence
buying again. when, by fair degree of
effort. they might secure any number Of
new ones. 1t they don't feel like Carving
the war into Africa thew might make an
onslaught on the West Indies. Mexico and
South America
Manufacturers, not only here in the West.
but ali over the country. have been "wai,-
ing for something to turn up" while the
English and Dutch have sailed their vessels
past our very doors, as it were. gathering a
rich harvest and each year more firmly es.
tablishing their trade with the West Indies
and South America. Millions of dollars
worth OF the products of these countries are
annually brought to the United States in
foreign ships, and the merchants of the
Mississippi valley are supremacy content to
divide their profits with foreign trading
companies. solely because they have lacked
the energy to strike out for themselves,
Especially is this true of the Valley States.
The cities of the Atlantic seaboard know
the value OF the South American trade. and
az a result Baltimore and New York receive
and distribute nearly all the coffee and
other tropical products consumed in the
country east Of the Rocky Mountains. We
ask the attention of our readers to the FOL
lowing list OF articles exported from
Baltimore to the ports named dur.
ing the two weeks ending June II,
1875: TO Matan zas-Flour. 1000 barrels:
rice, l6l: bags lard. 1903 pounds: hams.
1879 pounds: shocks and handles. 1861;
empty casks. :67: hops. 1926 barrels. To |
Demarara-Fiour. 1905 barrels; meal, 100 |
barrels: crackers, 700 barrels: pork, 1872 bar
rels: tar. 25 barrels; pitch, % barrels: beef.
,: barrels; hams, sos pounds: lard. sOoo
pounds: kerosene, 5000 gallons: lard oil,
A. gallons: paper. 5000 reams; tobacco, s |
hogsbeads; tobacco manufacture. 3.47 |
pounds: leather, Il rolls: vinegar, 10 hogs.
heads; canned goods, 81 cases; corn. 5000 |
bushels; shocks, 1910: sheep. ITO: COW, |;
tun0rles, IS packages. 10 PerHambuco- I
Flour. Sis barrels. Mayagues-FIour, 500 |
barrels; pork. 50 barrels; lard, 4i4O pounds: |
soap, 100 boxes; coal oil, 1900 gallons; RIGS,
10 bage: paper, 800 -eams; lumber, 1897 !
eet. 10 Rio Janeiro-Lard, 2l9, $50 pounds. I
butter: 1902 pounds; bacon, coo pounds; |
Jour, 6l4o barrels; rosin, 200 barrels; coal; |
200 tons; canned goods, l35 cases; lumber,
81, 600 feet; sundries, % PACKAGE
and now, but word more at present. Il
las been customary to speak of this direct
rade with South America and the West |
ndies as st. Louis and New Orleans plan. |
prominent paper published in the latter
lily, with . spice of the same old spirit
vhlch has cost New Orleans very dearly in
he past, and which had best be submerged |
n the future, referred few days ago to
'lan how being developed in this CIT, as
omething into which New Orleans NAV,
IS usual, come in" The entire Mississippi |
alley is as much interested in this matter
IS either st. Louis or New Orleans, and if
he other Valley States and towns will lend !
, hand, they will be but assisting to develop
heir own tuture.-St. Louis Trade Journal. !