Morning journal and courier., 1880-12-04
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| promote our interests in parts of the South I Americas. Heretofore they have been politi- | cal hacks at home, to be pensioned on some | foreign post as consul, being totally unac- quainted with and unfit to perform their duties; often disgrace to the con- sular service of their country. What re- ! mains undone is not for want of attention of the present executive department
 Little has been done in the way of mail steam ocean lines for the South Americas The noble enterprise of MT. Roach, of Phil adelphia, in establishing his line to Rio De- Janeiro, Brazil, will, we trust, be rewsrded With commensurate success This with line to the Isthmus of Panama with it's railroad. are the only South American enterprises we can boast. We are now as a nation, as a people, as manufacturers and merchants, en- tirely dependent on English mail steamers
 for our foreign mail service Should our Portmaster General compile report of the
 amounts paid to European mail steam lines,
 believe the opposers of subsidizing our own
 lines would be surprised and withdraw their
 opposition. Is not the policy of England,
 with her mail steam lines to all commercial
 ports, ssthe true one She has adopted the
 principle of subsidizing these lines for imme-
 dlate and prospective repayment, we for
 immediate payment. England's government
 is satisfied with the results of its investments ln lines of mail steamers. There is no in-
 come surer than the postal dividends.
 Every steam mail ship landing
 on her shores contributes to the taxable
 wealth of her people, with increasing revenue from postal returns and customs When we consider the extent of England's mail steam lines traversing every ocean, connecting with her rich colonies visiting every important foreign port, furnishing mail facilities to all nations, making them her tributaries, we are impressed with the magnitude of her com mercial transactions. Her mail steam lines fnr ina Sonth m @o oE dreamed of by us showing the vast impor- tance of that trade to her.
 The supremacy of England in the com merce of the South Americas dates from the premiership of one of her most eminent and gifted statesmen, Canning He was the first to acknowledge the independence of the numerous South and Central American States, then in rebellion against Spain. She had excluded all other nations from the ports of her colonies and monopolized their entire trade. The wisdom of this action (if ques- toned at the time) proved the sagacity of that able minister. He secured at once large remuneratiye trade for English manu- factured products, which has been increasing to the present time, defying all European competitors. We need not be discouraged by this gigantic commercial power in our eff forts to divide this important traffic with her, of right belonging naturally to us by our contiguity to those rich fertile countries.
 We require all their tropical products. most of them material for our manufactories, and the remainder imported for the requirements of home interior trade. They need all our manufactured, mechanical and agricultural exports, and we need not fear comparison in the character of our manufactured goods with England or other European countries in the markets of the South Americas.
 We should know more, geographically and commercially, about the South Americas than can be contained in a newspaper paragraph like this We know little from intelligent travellers Our travellers are pleasure seek CTS, who spend their time and money in Eu- ropean capitals. We would not detract from the interest, instruction and value of Euro pean exportation but we should know more of the countries and their resources that be- long to our own continent DE G.