Daily globe., 1883-02-12

climate suitable to the cultivation of
sugar. This of itself will limit the pro
duction for good many years so that
while Mexico will receive benefit from the
tariff of dutiesuponimporteds sugars coming
i from other countries, she will not be able
to furnish enough sugar to US within
the limit of this treaty to
affect the price; or in other words,
she will get the benefit of our tariff in the
price obtained for sugar she does send US,
while our own producers of sugar will get
the price they would if we had no Mexi
can or Hawaiian commercial treaty. The
advantages to us consist in the large num-
| Der of our manufactured articles which
Mexico will receive free, not only from
import duties but from internal taxation
while in transit to the place OF
consum ption articles which Mexicans
very much require in the development of
their co2ntry, and on which the present
duties are SO high that they produce little
or no revenue to the Mexican government,
as these duties are prohibitOry The arti-
cles to be so admitted are under seventy
three heads. Under some of these heads,
you might enumerate q great nany-I
might say hundreds-of special articles.
L
head they admit machinery of all sorts,
class and descriptions for mining,
agricultural and other purposes. Under
another heading they admit agricultural
implements; under another wagons, coach
es, and all sorts of vehicles that are pulled
by animals; and under Che heading of tools
for practical, scientific and all other pur-
poses, they admit tools that are composed
of brass, iron, steel or wood, or combiua-
of these materials. Under another head,
they admit free all classes of rolling stock,
from a passenger car to steam engine
that are used upon railroads. Then there are
many other articles admitted under heads
which do not admit of such minute speci
fcations as the articles themselves but
among them are petroleum, crude and re-
fined; barbed wire for fencing with all its
fixtures; houses of wood or iron, built
ready to put up in that country; pumps for
mines, irrigating and all other purposes for
which pumps can be used; clocks, and
many other articles extensively manufac-
tured in this country are put
under the seventy-three heads.
It is believed these articles, being
relieved from all duty, will find very
large market in Mexico, and Mexico Will
find CORES ponding benefit in the rapid
development of her resources, AMI, to some
extent, by finding a market in our country
for her products, protected, as it Is, by
tariff upon similar articles that are brought
here from other countries than Mexico.
Now, that we have railroads penetrating
our country into Mexico, in the absence
of treaty, annoyances to trade and com
merce with that country will be illimita-
BILE. Goods, of course, will have to be
stopped on the frontier, and will have to
pay duties thereafter on examination,
packing and repacking. They will be
subjected then to inspection and to an
other tax in each state they pass through
in reaching their destination. While this
treaty will not cover all these
embarrassments, yet it is fair
to presume that with railroads and
with this treaty ratified, there will be lit
tie or no difficulty in making mutual ar
rangements between the two countries for
the passage of goods. This will free the
transportation companies and owners
from all these embarrassments. 1t does
take them away On all articles enumerated
and they are about all that we will be able
to send Mexico, as far as national
duties and state taxation are con-
cerned, simply requiring regulations
which can be made by Mexico herself on
her part, and by the United States treasury
on our part to relieve the transfer of goods
from these embarrassments.
There are very strong reasons why it
should be desirable for US to procure as far
as it is practicable or possible for Us to do
so, tropical and semi-tropical fruits and
products. In the first place we must con-
slider our contiguous position, similarity of
institutions and the fact that Mexico i'm
poses 10 tax whatever upon her exports.
They are all the product of free
labor, and Republican government. At
present such products as Mexico is capa-
BILE of producing are received from mon
archicaI COUNTRIES, where they are the
products of slave trade, and heavy export
duties are levied. Thus we are paying in
to the treasures of the countries produc-
ing these articles, duties which go to sus-
tain an institution that has cost as in this
country SO much blood and treasure to get
clear Of, and further, we are compelled
to make our payments in
foreign exchange almost exclusively, these
countries buying from US very litsle but
going to Europe with the money which
they receive from us to purchase their ar
ticles of import. Mexico will buy our
manufactures in payment of all she sends
US and for years to come great deal more
than she can pay for by her exports of the
products of the soil.
was very anxious to have embodied in
this treaty clause which would require
all goods transported by
water between the two countries to be
trans ported in ships built in the United
States or in Mexico, and owned in one OF
the other of these two countries, and run
under the laws of the country to which
the ships belong, to have the benefit Of
free trade established by treaty, but it was
matter which did not suggest itself to
my mind until the treaty was submitted to
the Mexican president and cabinet, and
when it occurred to no 1 communicated
my desire in the matter to the minister
for that country, who communicated
it at once to his own government. There
has been no reply as yet to have that in
serted as an article in the treaty, but
have sincere hopes,if this treaty is ratified,
a supplementary treaty embracing that
provision which would be SO advantageous
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