New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-02-07
NEW ORIkANs RzFUBIlCAN, SUNDAY, TEBRUARY Z. 1876

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mile. or sAirty days sell distant, and tina
perior to our own, supply about ive-sixth
; Of national consumption amounting +
900. 900 900 pounds. and at . cost of nearl,
$4O, 100000 annually, the importance O
this necessary article of American com
fort may be estimated. At the av
erage weight Of coffee consumed BY
each person the population tropically rribu
tary to New Orleans would require about
last year supplied GOO sa Sss or 1 aSon
$4,000, 900 pounds. From the difficulty o.
commanding an exchange commerce be
tween New Orleans and the present distan,
sources of supply, the importance Of devel
oping THIS staple, not only in Mexico, but in
the States of Central America, will be suffi
GENTLY apparent. This trade may be promot
ed BY the encouragement of emigrant capital
and industry to Mexican territory, not a
week distant from the gulf ports, and by
international rail, within even less time
OF the great interior States and cities of the
| Union
| There exists apparently no impeachment
to restoration, by similar means. of the
sugar culture. as this article was once pro-
duced in great abundance, and of superior
quality throughout the same country. In
deed, to the extent that we can, BY increased
facilities of intercourse and commercial
reciprocity, promote the payment for tropi.
cal necessaries in the product of our own
country we will diminish or even close q
drain of the precious metals, which can not
be estimated at less than $l3O, 00O, 900 an.
nually, almost all of which is immediately
paid out for articles Of European produc.
ton. If other nations conquer foreign
IN In
their commodities, it certainly becomes
republican government to favor a re-
clprocal Interchange Of products and cul.
tlvate the facilities of commercial and
travel intercourse when afforded by people
OF institutions kindred to its own and
upon terms OF amity and mutual advantage
RECIPROCAL TRADE TREATY.
From this exposition of the productions
and capacities of Mexico it would appear
reasonable chat the commerce between two
coterminOus nations at peace with each
other should be much larger, especially
when one of these countries furnishes pro-
ducts in peculiar demand by all civilized
people There are, however, certain Obsta-
Giles to . more enlarged trade, which it NAV
be Important to analyze in some detail.
Each OF these two countries has chosen to
derive its revenues chiefly from system of
indirect taxes on Ostensible capital Vested in
commerce. Each has adopted the policy of
giving these taxes such application as may
operate incidentally in the protection Of
certain domestic interests of manufactures
or of agriculture. These revenue systems.
however favorable to the development of
domestic industries, must, to some extent,
counteract the exchange of commodities
with other countries pursuing the same
policy. An opposite system adopted by
some nations. and especially by England.
favors the importation of all raw material
from foreign countries as an element of |
domestic manufacture.
The effect of these high rates of duty on |
the importations from the United States is
obvious. European goods can be manu-.
cheaper than American, and it |
would be impossible to import or lob |
European gOOds.fOr the Mexican market "a /
cheap as they could be purchased in Europe
and ordered direct and without interme.
date profit.
There are, however, certain articles of
manufacture. such as machinery
and agricultural implements, which, being
admitted duty free, may, according to the
and opinion of the gentleman
% whom the subject was referred, be intro.
1uced into Mexico in competition with sim
lar articles of European manufacture.
An examination into the market for that
.reat American industry, the manufacture
# cl0thing, satisfied the member to whom the
ubject had been referred, that duty pro-
ectiOn of the home manufacturer excluded
he American from any participation in a
rade which was in itself very limited.
very careful inquiry into the market
Or cotton goods enabled member to fur
ish important information to the American |
lerchant and manufacturer. 1t appears
hat the quantity of raw cotton manutac-
ured in Mexico is equal to about $50 900
ales. This supplies in great part the
Omestic demands for the common clothing
the people. 1t would seem that certain
'reign cottOns imported into Mexico do
OF compare with similar goods of American =.
either in quality or weight. A :
cries of examples given show that English
rOwn cotton and weighted drills will, when .
ashed, lose three out of every ten pounds !
account of the starch, glue and other ma
rial Incorporated with the goods. A piece :
American brown drills OF forty yards, +
eighiDg fourteen pounds, lost in washing y
1t three quarters Of a pound. These exam.
es taken from number of experiments, =
i'd confirmed BY the examinations of other y
mefican observers, induce the opinion that =
the English goods should be reduced to the =
merican standard of weight and quantity ..
o price of certain English cloths would :,
ii "a 100 cents, while American cloths of q q
9 same class could be offered at the price Il
S~'IUV C0utS poT ydTu. Ills Is U0Gmou | -,
important intimatiOn both to our own a. a.
eat cotton market and to the manufacture =,
cotton cloths throughout the United y
ates. 1t might be added that American ~ :,
rms might supersede domestic and foreign "
rms in the Mexican market. "a
These facts in the domestic policy of the VI
lited States and Mexico are stated in VI
PLANTATION and not in comment. 1t is
rified by an average rate of forty per cent
Inv In Nal Akok r. !
while that of the federal and ~
tie governments of Mexico is estimated Ii,
some of our consuls at from sixty to .o
y-three per cent, while the recent cir W
ars of the Mexican Treasury Department az
W an amount of consolidated charges | "a
N greater than these estimates. nr
he remedy proposed for this mutual m n,
'rier to trade erected by the concurrent ro
enue policy of the two governments NJ,
uld require review OF the principle =.
D, which the commercial treaties of the Al
iceG States with Mexico, and, indeed. r.
h Spain and all Spanish America, is f.,
nded. This principle is: That all CON- S.
ditles, the growth or products Of either an
ntry shall be admitted into the other on th,
same terms with those of the most W.;
ored nation. Apparently this is most otl
itable provision. When, however. it is ro.
,embered that one country may furnish NJ
mother certain productions, either pecu- fra
to itself or such as from vicinage or other M
Sc may be sent in larger or more 1mpOr trn
: quantities than is common to commerce, | na,
q that tax which is the same as to those "a,
ntries which do not send such peculiar an,
duct becomes in effect special tax upon No,
! country which does send them. AS al raj
mple OF this effect we may cite the cor
kican duties upon raw cotton. flour. lard snt
other hog products. other provisions, "a
ny ~ o.o. Aneso uuuoe are cieariy Sta
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