The daily gazette., 1877-08-22
How to Increase our Trade with
1 our Neighbors.
From the N. Y. World.

From the N. Y. World. 3d.
We have published tables of our COM
merce with the Spanish anu British pos
sessions in the New World and with the
independent Spanish-American states
which abundantly illustrate the field now
open to Mr.. Evarts if he will but enter
upon it with energy. The HdWdiidn
Gazette describes the trade between the
United States and the Sand wich Islands
as virtually recreated even in this short
space of time by the operation of the new
treaty. "Everywhere throughout the
group" 1t tells us among other things,
+" new frame dwellings are going up,
" erected for natives as well as foreigners
+" out of American lumber and materials.
" Cargo after cargo is landed here and
" reshipped to rural districts. The old
" time thatch huts are fast disappearing,
+" replaced by neat white cottages which
=" insure to the humble occupants i'm
" creased comfort and health. Indeed,
j" if The treaty continues six years thatch
" hut in Hawaii will be as great curl
" osity as wigwam is east of the Missis-
" sippi in the United States" All this
but reflects the correlative benefits con-
ferred by the treaty on the industry of
our Pacific coast directly, and indirectly
on the industry of the whole republic
Yet beneficial as this treaty has proved
to both the negotiating parties it is en-
tirely certain that no legislation tending
TO such results could have been carried
through the late Congress. If it had been
necessary to introduce bill in Congress
to secure these results the rivalry of
different interests, the activities of the
lobby would have prevented the initia-
ton by committees of such bill and
made final favorable action impossible.
AS it was, even the legislation necessary
to carry the treaty into effect was nearly
defeated by the lobby. and nothing saved
it but the unwillingness of the two houses
to repudiate an agreement duly made by
treaty the making power. We are fully
convinced that in the immediate future all
measures looking t 0 such an extension of
our freedom of exchange with the rest of
the world as may be consistent with the
taxation necessary to meet our eXpendi-
lures must be in like manner initiated
BY the Executive, through treaties which
Immediately become the law OF the land,
excepting where further legislation, as in
the case of stipulations for the payment
Of money, is necessary TO give them
effect. We conceive it to be an extrava-
CANT expectation thaf congress will be
able so to reconcile conflicting interests
at its next session as to set on foot the
legislation Necessary to liberate our
abounding productions.
Inc Executive can do this and send
~ Ill fnd nfrna rni iol
prof .cts approved by the foreign con-
Lracting powers. In the Senate the
fight with tariff bounties can be made
with fair prospect of victory and
then there will be better chance than
can be otherwise secured for a real
and thor ugh overhauling by the
House of our existing fiscal ald reve-
nue. system. II is obvious that with
our existing system it is possible for
Cuba or British America or anish
America to take more of our products
than they now take. Thos countries
cannot buy from us literally unless
they can pay in kind as well as in coin
We cannot exchange our products
with them if our tariff rates are so
high as to prevent us from buying and
them from sending hitaer TO sell these
products. That if it were possible for
us to secure t, an absolute freedom of
exchanges with British /
and with Spanish America would be
beneficial to all concerned admits of
no reasonable doubt. If it is a good
thing for Massachusetts to be able to
as is part of the Union it certainly
would not be a bad thirg for Massa
chusetts to trade freely with Texas f
Texas were part of the Mexican
Union. If 1t would have been good
thing, ss Grant urged, to secure free
dom Of intercourse with Santo Domin
20 at the cost of political annex ,tion
how can it be bad thing to secure
such freedom of intercourse with Cuba
or Jamaica without the cost of pollti
cal annextion? Now that we have
saduled ourselves with the expenses of
a great debt and are obliged by the
of our dominion to con-
siderable public expenditure it may be
long before we can venture upon the
abolition of customs duties altogether,
but it is a positive calamity to us to be
lampered with the tariff bountIes
which lurk in our existing customs
" stem and strangle our commerce. If
Mr.. Evaits is in earnest in his talk
about "full trade"-the name he gives
/ does not matter-be can at oCce set
Ibout negotiating treaties which viii
lot diminish but on the contrary in
,rease our revenues; which Will eli
innate the nursery notion fIom our
iscal system and which, ike that in
orce now with Hawaii, will open up
markets for our products and secure to
'ur suffering workmen the reliet they
Ire blindly clamoring for on all sides.
1e has an efficient adjulant in the We {
ern Mr.. Hunter. Let him lose no
ime in taking up the great work
which lies ready to his hand!
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