The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-11-13
RECIPROCAL TRADE.

nLJI RUJi1u lh1UIst
This Is WHAT NEW ORLEANS NEED
AND MUST NAVE.
Inducements offered ny Citsap Freish
Lines to the north and west.
The trouble with New Orleans OF latter year
has been that The ocean tonnage brought here b
our immense export trade has been obliged Y
aome In ballast the result being that the car
0oas ahmed here have had TO bear the entir
EXPENSES Of the round voyage and compenaas'
for the lack OF return freights. With thos'
countries OF South and Central America from
which nearly all OF our imports come WI
have no direct exporting trade. while
the same lack OF reciprocity exists be
tween us and the countries TO which We
do export. in that from these we import almost
nothing. The landing here, then, the other dal
OF the English steamer st. Louis with cargo Of
general merchandise was an event of not less
Importance than would be the departure Of a
similar vessel and cargo direct for Laguayra OF
Rio. TO illustrate the results Of this singular
condition OF affairs the agent OF line OF British
steamers stated to us that he had offered TO fur
nish steamer direct for any South American
port whenever cargo was furnished that would
pay expenses thither, relying for his profits upon
the return trip but that his offer had never been
accepted. Weinquired how II was, then, that he
could afford to come here from
LIVERPOOL In BALLAST
II he could not go from here to Rio on the same
terms. His answer was that he did not come
from Liverpool to New Orleans direct. He took
cargo OF cotton from here to Liverpool, whence
he went to Bio with merchandise, and thence to
New Orleans with coffee, etc. Surely it is not ne
csssary to point out the incalculable benefits and
rich results to New Orleans that would be achieved
II she sent out steamers TO Rio loaded, and re-
oeived tlose from Liverpool with full freights.
These are the two results she has to achieve, and
when she has done this. then she will have solved
Tho problem of her distress and established the
solid foundation Of her,future commercial great.
ness.
Tire same circumstances have necessarily oper
atad To scarcely less extent upon our inland
commerce. the boats and barges that bring down
The produce OF the West going back empty, thus
increasing the freight rates to this city. Even
The cotton boats in the tributary streams from re-
Qfons that once traded exclusively with New Or
leans have found difficulty in securing enough
rUturn freight to pay expenses; and it was but
the other day that Mr.. Clark, speaking for the
New Orleans and Cbioago road, declared in q
public speech that as much as seventy per cent
81 the cars that came to this city went out of it
empty.
THERE Is BUT ONE REMEDY
for this condition of affairs: and that is, the
establishment OF something like q correlation be-
tween our export and import traders and until
this il done this one-sided commerce must bear
The full burdens OF a reciprocal trade.
More favorable opportunities, however, than
Aro now offered by these very circumstances for
the building up OF an immense import trade In
this city could not be conceived OF, and this fact
seems to be thoroughly appreciated by both our
ocean and river shipping Interests as well as by
the railroads. The mercantile and agricultural
interests OF the West have also had their atten-
ton directed TO New Orleans 90 port OF entry in
the most forcible way by the recent railroad
troubles Ia the East, the influence they have had
Ia destroying continuous freights between the in-
terror cities and Europe.
4 CERTAIN AMOUNT OF ToNaAaE
must come here to carry away the yearly accu-
mutation Of grain and cotton, and 1t can certain
" Afford TO bring cargoes at any price better than
70 come Ia ballast at dead loss While no ar |
rsDgemetlt upon this subject has taken any !
definite shape, still we feel assured that the ship
ping agents will readily appreciate the advan- |
tnR8s 70 be derived, and will make arrangements |
" but freight down here from abroad at the same
or even less rates than are paid to New York
rom the same ports. On the other hand, very
lively competition has sprung up among our in
land carriers, ell of which are Offering to carry
freight North and West at the most liberal and
Advantageous rates.
YESTERDAY WE HAD VISIT
|rom MIR. A. d. Baboook. representing the South
prn Dispatch Fast Freight Line Road, from
Evansville TO Terre Haute and on to Chicago,
With connections extended all through the West
srn states, who is in the city with view to estab-
4. hntun
New Orleans and that entire section. Mr. A. P.
Perkins 10 the agent Of this line at this point.
These gentlemen assure us that they can and
will put freight in Chicago from New Orleans at
ID cheap rates as 1t can be carried for from New
Fork, and even cheaper, IL necessary. This com.
pAny and ito connections
HAVE PERFECTED ARRANGEMENTS
With the regular Cincinnati and Louisville pack
"a 70 carry all freghts, on through bills OF lad
ng, from this point to Evansville. on the Ohio
Aver, about 150 miles above it's mouth, where
Ehev are distributed to all points in the North
nection with this line the II. M. Norton, Sam
Roberts and Raven with barges. BY utilizin the
sleven hundred miles of river between New Or
cans and Evansville, this combination, it ia
Manned, can put transportation down to figures
hat will render all competition, the part Of all
All routee. impossible. 1t is the purpose OF this
inc TO offer every inducement to buyers Of cot
on for the spinners In the interior, and even in
he Middle and Eastern States, to make ship
nsnts by their route.
THE SOLE PURPOSE OF THESE ExERTIoNs
. TO get return freights from New Orleans, which
viii ID measure lift the burden that now rests, in
he shape Of heavy freights on the trade coming to
his city. The opportunity is one that should
act be overlooked by the people of the West, and
W feel assured that it will not be. The forecast
! most propitious for New Orleans, and while we
would not Extensively intrude any suggestions of
upon our own good old fashioned COM
nunity. stillwe must take notes and print them