The Republican journal., 1879-02-20
The Great Advantages of this Country a
an Exporter of Provisions

Low trelghts and rates OF transportation
generally. though working disadvantages
to ship owners and land carriers, are
signs favorable to the general prosperity
Of the race. They indicate that crops
have been good throughout the world,
and that those great destroyers, war, pes
thence and famine, have not prevailed.
Commerce to a certain limited extent
comes from the exchange of products pc
culiar to climates and localities; but the
extraordinary amounts and rates of trans
portation result from the sudden and IN
torseen eXigenCies Of war, or impending
starvation which draws supplies from dis
tant and more favored countries The
famine in Ireland, many years ago caused
sudden rise in freights. The Crimean
war, which followed, employed many
thousand tons Of American shipping at
high rates. Md to-day the British gov
eminent has chartered and is loading
twenty large steamships to carry troops
aNd supplies to the scat of war in south
Africa. In former DAYS this sudden de-
mand fer tonnage would have had per
cen,ible effect on rates, but such is now
the vast fleet Of business seeking ships,
ana ~0ch the ripidity with which steam
rr- aove that tld,cyr0r is scarcely mo-
tel in ary risc.
gG.r ..,.u..,.v. ,atas If trejgbt. vbIrb
r,.utt r~r tbe slfyhtn increased nrj,44
ot {a..,.r3r nrn,isions abroad o,.. an-
,nasti. nnotatious bou.var th,.,, MAY NJ
~, orI4,. interests aro anin,r., tin.. -hin,,
.nr INK, >mrrjcan farmer III rvtanlin..
rb,. market for Nj. snrnIns nrodncts A
Ina Same tine This state nt thin,,. an
cour3,rs and sustains the nrasent mann,
taJy no,.e, N nh, rayornmrn, L., H.. r.-
s9I,ipg irH,v of .n4ria
.rl, railroad G,1.-tu li.,n..ir., al.
,,,..,. M tr.i..,t, .ar.
Ta4 WIZ. of.r.... ..,r,,,..,.. ..-... IT,. .....
Ao@ IN tt,e tAA' 'no, articles Vt food produced ia
t,aI, yhcap In lv,r1o5l .a Iont,a. II %'.n
J OF WY r." triislgs Aaye more thaA th.f4
transportation Fun ration, Of f!our Aid bac,r t',r
,.'',,' I'i. m ,i' A.e -ow earned from Nr|
t4Il ra rates wm,4 arc the hishcstofthey car C.rI
i --l,. 81 .Ie Hti KILL. l'." 'on
these r,'.onS for year from Chicago TO New
FRI IN, En.,sb l,arrr ,r iar'. ~ ,,r ,''
n III food carried from Chicago 70 London. some
NAV he doing r,,r thclr owner, auI tlr [1Ieri,.ap
PIo%"rttS 5.ct "ie certainly making i much cas-
We4uw lly DOM IN Liverpool or London a work
..~ Mi .., i'.-l 'q't' oI d len[ -o[ ABOUT
Attle e.9e. ulN13 Tie same quantity would have
Ok, a6t c5l lrnrit,n ,-r. n w. '''.t. ,.'',
iFe certainty d'.HI tAeir part to make It easy 70
which, cJ,t uIue and ouc-trd cents YEAR aso. and
.rH l--l "lt -aH Genus slN years ago me same "a
and III. New York for us 3D. 1p1arrntT tn mrr
4'-.s ai'I tg ltaIlls between TAI ana
much +, the railroad and steamer charges between
yt1i- .'t Al 'I'e Prtfts ABOVE are
greatly increased before reaching the consumer,
ricrs. - :, " m Jug '1S '"'
The Chicago Inter ocean. in recording
these facts. comments anon the adyan-
tageous position which the nited States
holds in respect to the markets of the
world. 1t says there are several factors
which enter into the problem. Without
the extensive variety of Ia hOr 81 vinfr mo !
chinery which has been applied to our az
riculture since 1860, it would be imposs-
IDLE to raise grain at current prices, which
would then be less than the cost of pro
ductIon and thus fix narrow limit to
farming operations. The cost of raising
caItIe ana hogs IS also reduced by the
che'peheu cost OF raising the food which
IS leu TO lhein so mat the question OF ex-
porting o[e"d ana provisions depends
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