Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-26
IGAN COMMITMENTS.

loan CONTINENT.
1t is becoming an imperative duty upon
the country to consider what il viii do with
the increased productive power it has at
tanned, which is in many instances filling
the demand there is for particular products,
and in several is on the point of going be-
you'd that demand, and in particular in
stances has already done SO. In the case of
railway bars, for instance, the productive
power of this country is twice the amount of
the demand. IA the public policy has for q
long time stimulated the creation of this in
crease OF productive power by artificial, hot
house culture, ii must now devise means for
dsposing Of the merchandise the additional
power manufacture, or room we will be
manufacturing beyond the wants of the
country. As the high prices caused
by our high tariff has a tendency
10 limit the home consumption while
its forces the home production, an outlet to
foreign markets becomes indispensable. In
considering the subject of foreign outlet,
we naturally look TO our neighbors, and ask
ourselves whether we cannot supply Mexico,
some of the West India islands, the Isthmu',
and portions OF South America, as we'll and
cheaply as they can be supplied from E1rope7
Let us establish trade with the countries
nearest us, let us acquire The liberty to buy
our shipping where We can buy il cheapest,
as other nations do, and we shall thus, by
easy degrees, extend that trade until, once
more, the stars and stripes of the Union are
hutering from the mast OF Ameriean.oWnsd
ships in every trading port in the world.
Taking eight American Sta,es-Mexico, Co.
lombis, Venezuela, Brszil, Uruguay, the
Argentine RspHblic, Chill aud Peru,
aud sdding Central America-ws find
from the quarterly returns of The
the Bureau Of Statistics that We bought from
them in 1881 merchandise to the amount OF
1854, 200, aud sold to them the smount Of
$35 953. 934 With all our intelligence, aP-
plisnces and skill, eau any reader believe that
this country ought to do no better with the
American nations thsn TO sell them S52 $780,
296 less than it buys from them? Cannot
any reader see there must be something
wrong somewhere, when the difference
OF Whist We sell ana Hhat we Duy CT
our neighbors is as great rs this? Now, let
look what Eosland is doing with these
neighbors of ours. England bought from
them 10 the amount of s76,S12,975, and sold
$92,1e0,4 97-a very different showing TO
ours. France, in The same way, is far ahead
of cur showing, though it is behind Eu.
gland. Its buying figures were $77, los, 4l9;
its selling S73,l75,0O9. From VensEuela
we import s6,6OO,OOO, but export to
her only $276s,OO0; we import
from Brill $52,7S2 600, and export
the pillsnce of S9.252,OO0. Excepting
Mexico, we buy much more from all
these countries than we cell to them. With
Mexico our import stood Ss,3lSO0o; our e1
port, Sll, III, 900. Comparing our resources
manufactures, and all ourskill and inventiv,
faculty, and look at the position Of Mexico
ouly just emerging from tbs long night q
Church oppression and the detective infu
ences of revolutions and pronuncismsntos, il
not this a discreditable showing? AZ sigr
of what may be done 10 these countries, vi
find Great Bfitain, out Cf S92,O60,000 sh,
sells to them, has a45,3l6,OO in cotton goods