The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-11-06
TRADE OUTLETS.

NEW YORK BULLETIN.
The New Orleans Times OF November |
I'd says: In the New York Bulletin OF Oc- |
tober Goth we find an article on "Tradc !
Outlets" in reply to the Pittsburg Name
factn'er, which in its scope and general |
spirit and purpose is unworthy of that |
paperB Ordinarily the Bultetm is not
only "impartially LIBERAL" but candid.
This time it is neither, il we are TO Judge |
1t exclusively by the utterances it puts in
tprint. The Manufacturer, it appears,
demonstrated with the bulletin on ac-
count of its hasty conclusions
against the Southern route for the move
ment of the products OF the West, and in
that connection brought forward some
very pertinent facts in regard to actual
and possible freight charges ON the West
ern rivers, and urged the Balietm to sus
pend judgment "awhile before condemn
| ing the new route
| Ii reply the Bulletin says ut has no
sectional or other interests to propltiate,"
and imputes the alleged want of "impar-
| tial liberality" to miscOnstruction OF
its meaning. Yet on top OF these allcga>
| tons, and Others OF like import, it laun-
ches boldly and without stint OF words in-
to the purest sectionalism, endeavoring to
cover its display of malice by imputlng
to the people OF New Orleans views and
purposes which, whatever they may have
, said and thought in former years, they do
not entertain now. Frequently and re-
Gently we have explained the views en-
tertained here in regard to the grain
;, trade. We haye even gone so far as to
u say that it was neither practicable or de-
u sirable 10 turn the grain business Of the
extreme Northwestern States from its
present channel; that the great bulk of
= it would probably always flow along the
latitudlnal line, subject to the modiilca-
l., tons which the cheaper rates around the
lakes imposed upon it. But on the one
hand we have maintained that there are
grain producing regions OF the West
not so remotely North which
70 would in time find it as much to their adj
vantage to use the southern water route,
. as Wisconsin, Iowa, northern Missouri
" and Minnesota now find it to their adj
vantage to use the northern round about
- water way to escape the expenses OF rail
i carriage. This Notwithstanding to say
Z misrepresentation-of the question, on
III the part OF the Bulletin, we could afford
ie to forgive, because it would be compare
's lively harmless, ii it were not for its un.
IL worthy resort to oft retuted pretences
Is that the southern route is Objectionable
on the score CT climate and The perils OF
&C the Florida reefs. Says the BuLletu--
wheat and corn on shpboard are not
improved by the influences of tropical
Ls climate" and more of the same sort. Here
we have the vile and tetid breath of SLAM
Is, der adr0itly and cunningly uttered, but
n. without erena pretensc at DISBURSEMENT.
For shame Mr.. Bulletin, tor shame. Not
ID content with the business OF the North
an west, in which New York enjoys an un.
disputed monopoly, you would blight by a
foul SANDER the trade prospects OF New
Orleans in section of country naturally
al tributary to Ii, and which is not and new
of er can be tributary to New FORK. Is that
In generous: Is that "strlctly impartial lib
erality:" Is that your boosted freedom
III from sectional bias:
ly We can but feel that the Bulletin has
w done the South and New Orleans grev-
%, Gus wrong, and subjected itself to the
~, grave imputation OF having, against
'ai light and knowledge, given currency
i'll to an exploded theory and an exposed
SANDER. Has the Bulletin forgotten the
report Of the Windham Committee on
Transportation under which Congress
ce made the appropriation tor the improve.
ms ment Of the mouth of the Mississippi by
:, the jetty system at South Pass: Has il
~ forgotten the record made up by the St.
Louis Grain Association and published
q In its own columns-a long list of cargoes
n. OF Northern spring wheat forwarded
~, from New Orleans in sailing vessels in
A'' ls69?~llas it forgotten the instance OF
at the steamship Memphis. which, loaded
on with $1,000 bushels of corn In bulk, was
lar grounded at the mouth of the river In
=. June, 1873. laid there under a burning
Nc, summer sun for p days, with the Their.
nd mometer at 10 degrees; that finally GET
ere ting of to sea was compelled to return
on to this port to repair broken propeller,
wv discharged it's cargo which was found to
as be In as perfectly sound condition as
he when shipped in the first instance, and
finally reshipped the same grain and de
ro, livered it in Liverpool In perfectly sound
-" condition? Has 1t forgotten that millions
OF bushels Of corn that pass through this
port every year are now delivered In sat.
life isfactory condition at various European
ma ports! And finally, has the Bulletin for
=, gotten the long, uninterrupted and un
'S' questioned experience Of this port before
md the war, when the grain products oil
zee. the West were chiefly sent through this
me port-graln, flour and provisions of all
'"' kinds-t0 foreign markets, the same ar,
an, irving at New Orleans, not as now or
steamers and splendid barges, but on old
fashioned fatboats that floated down the
!, river with no other pr0pelling force thar
:" the natural current OF the riyerS
my And yet with all this before II the Bal.
md letn descends to the ungenerOus- Il
OK. use harsher word-insinuation tina
10. grain, flour and provisions cannot b,
''as safely sent through this port on account
hed Of onr climate! Surely some mex
. or perienced hand must have written tn
c,oI Bultetii's reply to the Maaufasturer, an,
its real editor will hasten to correct IN
II OIL hlundnr thot ha In t,na,l.