Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-09
EXTENDING OUR TRADE.

With Persia our commercial relations
have always been of restricted, and, in
deed, of an unimportant character, COM
paratively But American commerce,
hampered as it is, is making Itself some
place even in that remote country, which
has been hedged in by barriers that have re-
pulsed our trade 1t is with qualification
that we learn facts relative to our trade
with that country, indicating far more than
the mere benefit to result from that trade.
They point to the approaching era when
our commerce will have touched palm with
many nations now but coldly responsive to
our products or industries. Thus, we learn
from Consul-General Benjamin at Tcheran
that the shipment of.silk from Persia to
the United States promises to become large,
because success has attended the effort to
have the Persian raisers reel it of the
length desired by American manufacturers.
He says that one of the largest of Persian
firms has resolved to order cotton stuffs
and prints and other goods direct from the
United States, and that the first orders have
already been sent on. The leading mer-
chants of Hamadan have also been urgent
at the Consulate for information regarding
American products and on that already
furnished will send out an agent to this
country to look into a question of direct
shipments of our goods to that market.
The Consul adds that recently the head of
a commercial syndicate, a man worth
several millions, who has agents in the
leading markets of Europe, called on him
and discussed for nearly three hours the
best methods for charging the commercial
relations of the two countries. The Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs, newly appointed,
and other prominent Persans, have also
repeatedly discussed with him the projected
road to Mohommrcak, at the mouth of the
Eaphrates, and hoped that our influence
might be added to that Of England to bring
about the completion Of the enterprise and
the opening to commerce of the most de-
sirable port in Persia.
THOMAS FOSTER, in an admirable article
on the morality of happiness, and which
appears in the Popular Science Moathiy, says:
While due care of self comes to each man,
and indeed to every creature having life,
as essentially FIRST, yet due care of others,
though second to due care of self, is abso-
lutely essential. The two are interdepend-
ent, and that to such degree that neither
can exist without the other" And, again
Those who neglect the consideration that,
they form part Of the social body, and re-
frain from the taking due part in main
tanning healthy social state suffer from
the defective arrangements which they per-
NIT to remain uncorrected." While Mr..
Foster did not formulate these truths with
them, nevertheless they are general truths,
applicable to all relations of men. Those
who take no care regarding the sanitary
conditions of the community, and who
have no regard for the effects of neglect
upon others, may very well ponder upon
the epigrams Of Mr.. Foster. They should
remember, also, that if men refuse to have
a care for others, those thus neglected have
the negligence of others. If A has Clearly
premises, and B beside him maintains foul
premises to the detriment Of AS health or
comfort the latter has the right under laws,
human and divine, to force B to observance
Of ordinary cleanliness, and in times of
great danger to extraordinary degrees of
care.