The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-10-20
NEW ORLEANS BULLETIN
new ORLEANS, OCTOBER 20, 1876.
Direct Trade Through Southern Ports.

Direct Trade through SOuthefn IOTas'
Direct trade is subject of paramount I'M
portance to every material interest connected
with the prosperity OF the people OF the oouth
and West.
The tariff laws passed by Congress from the
very first have been SO arranged as TO make
the people of the South and West pay the
largest proportion of the expenses OF the Fed
eral Government, and a large bounty to the
Eastern and New England States. which mas
enriched them. The South and West nave SO
long submitted to this unjust discrimination
against them, and in favor OF the Eastern ana
New England States, that the benehted sec
tons have accumulated the greatest part OF
the wealth of all the States.
The neoule of one section have grown richer
and richer, while the people OF the South ana
West have grown poorer and poorer and the
financial dependence OF the one upon the
other section has increased year by year.
The mortgages upon Western and Southefn
real estate held by Eastern and New Engiaha
capitalists have multiplied to an extent which
il no less astounding than it is alarming
The people Of the South and West are Virtu-
ally under bonds to the capitalists OF the
Eastern and New England States Inns ad-
vantage TO the one section and disadvantage
to the other has resulted from the tariff laws
passed by Congress after Congress, supsl-
died by the wealth of the favored section.
The exports from the United States 10
foreign nations consist almost exclusively OF
the products of the Southern and western
States and these exports are made not drec
" from the South and Wesf, Du'
from New York and Boston. Inc
imports into the United States are chief
Iv consumed in the South and West, but
these imports come chiefly to New York and
Boston. As q result of this, New York and
Boston capitalists reap the great proportion
of the profits realized upon the exportatiohs
from and the importation into the United
States Thus it is, as stated, that the Z istern
and New England States are growing richer
and richer at the expense OF the Southern
and Western States.
That this lamentable condition of affairs is
the result of the cause we have indicate Is
fact which cannot be successfully controvert-
ed. Seeing and clearly apprehendipg the
true causes, and the true consequences OF
these causes, the most important inquiry
arises as to whether any remedy can be
devised by which these evils may be cor
rected or avoided. There is remedy-cer-
tain, sure, permanent-to be found In the
adoption of a system of direct trade between
the South and West with England and the Tor
eign nations. ),
Without direct importations to the South
ern ports, expectations cannot be made from
those ports of Southern or Western products,
although these produtcs can be taken to the
Southern ports at q cost much less than that
required to take the same products to New
York or Boston. In order to get vessel to
take cargo of exports from New Orleans
across the Atlantic the shipper is required to
pay double freight, as, because OF the absence
Of return freight or imports, the vessel would
have to return to New Orleans in ballast and
without any freight. But if the importations
consumed in the South and West were brought
directly to New Orleans, the vessel taking
away the exports would return with full
cargo of imports, and thus the cost OF ex-
portation would be lessened by one-half.
Ii the products of the South and West
were shipped from Southern ports across the
Atlantic in vessels which brought back i'm
ports, the South and West would get the
benefit of reduced freightage, both in ex
ports and imports. But this benefit, al
though very considerable, would be very
small compared with the benefits and advan'
tages which would result from direct trade,
which have already been outlined in these
columns. -Louisvale Ledger.