The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-05-28
need Of a wise and powerful mediator.
Though exhausted by war, theya are unable

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to make peace, and unless they shall be
aided by tho intervention OF friend
political anarchy and social disorder vii
come to tho conquered, aud evils scarcely
less Eerlous 10 tho conqueror. Our OWL
Government cannot take the ground tina!
1t will not offer friendly intervention to
Bettle troubles between American coun
trieu, unless at tho same time Il freely con.
cedes to European governments TIT
right Of such Intervention, and thus con
senis to = practical. destruction Of the Mon
roe doctrine and an unlimited increase o.
European and monarchical influence on this
continent Z The late special envoy to Peru
and Chill, Mr.. Treacot, gives 1t as his de-
liberate and published conclusion that II
the instructions under which. ho set oni
upon his mission had not been revoked
peace between those angry bellisorenta
would hHvo been established Us the result
OF Ills labofs-necessarily to the great bene.
fit Of the United States. II our Govern.
ment docs not resume It's forts to secure
peace In South America, some European
government will be forced TO perform that
friendly oalce. The United States cannot
play between nations the part Of dog in the
manager. We must perform the duty Of
humane Intervention ourselves, or give
way to foreign governments that are will.
Ing to accept the responaibii!y.oi tho great
trust and secure the enhanced influence
and numberless advantages resulting from
such aphilanthropic aud benellcent course
A most significant and important result
would have followed tho assembling Of the
Peace Congress. A friendship and IN in.
timacy would have been established be.
tween heStates Of North and South Amer.
lea, which would have demanded aud en-.
forced closer commercial connection. A
movement In the near future, as the legit.
innate outgrowth OF assured peace would,
In all probability, have been q great com.
merclal conference at the City Of Mexico
or Rio Janeiro, whose deliberations would
be directed to better system OF trade on
thetwo continents. To such conference
the Dominion OF Canada could properly
be asked to aend representatives, Us that
government Is allowed by Great Britain Il
livery large liberty in regulatipgiiss CONNER.
cial relations. In tho Peace Congress, to
be composed Of Independent goyernmen,u,
the Dominion could not have taken any
part, and was consequently not in.
vited., From this trade conference
OF tho two continents the United
States could hardly have failed
to gain great advantage. At opresent the
commercial relations OF this country with
tho Spanish American cenntries, both con-
tinental and insular, are unsatisfactory and
unprolltable-indeed, those relations are
absolutely oppressive to the financial in.
terests Of the Government and people Of
the United State. In our current ex.
changes it requires abou. $4,000, 900 10
pay tbs balance which Spanish
brin9g against us every year. This amount
Ia 5O percent mere than the average an
nual product OF the gold and silver mines
OF the United States during tho past five
years, This vast sum does not Of courss
| so to Spanish America in coin, but II goes
across the ocean in coin Or ita equivalent,
to pay European countries for manuiac.
tured articles which they furnish to Span.
ish Americs-a large proportion OF which
should be furnished by the manufacturers
of tho United States. FT
THE TARIFF AND SOUTH AMERICAN TRADE
At this point OF the argument the freq
trader appears and declares tina. our pro-
tec'ive taril destroys our power Of compe.
tltlon with European countries, and that if
we Will abolish protection We ehall soon
have Ssuth American trade. The answer
IS not sufficient, for to-day there are many
articles which We can send to South Amer.
lea and sell as cheaply az European manu-.
tacturers can furnish them. It is idle. of
course, TO make this statement to the cen.
uine apostle Of free trade and the implo.
cable enemy OF protection, Tor the great
postulate OF his argument, tho foundation
OF bis creed, is that nothing can be made
as cheapy in America as in Ecrope.
Nevertheless facts are stubborn and
the hard figures OF arithmetic
cannot be satisfactorily answered by airy
figures Of speech. The truth remains that
the coarser descriptions Of cottons and cot
ton prints, boots and shoes, ordinary house.
hold furniture, harness for draft animals.
agricultural implements OF all kinds, doo,p'
sashes and blinds, locke, bolts and hinges,
silyerware, plated.ware, wooden.ware, oldi.
nary paper and paper hangings, common
vehicles, ordinary window glass and glass
ware, rubber goods, coal oils, lard oils,
kerosenes, white lead, lead pipe, and arti.
cles in which lead is chief component,
can be and are produced as cheaply in the
United States as in any other part of the
world. The list Of such articles might be
heightened by the addition OF those c!assed
as notions" but enough only are given to
show that this country would, with proper
commercial arrangementa, export much
more largely than it now does to Spanish
America, N
In the trade relations Of the world it does
not follow that mere ability TO produce as
cheaply as another nation insures division
OF an established market, or, indeed, any
participation in it. France manufactures
many articles as cheaply as England
articles at even less cost. Portups! |ios
nearer to France than to England, and the
expense Of transporting the French fabric
to tho Portuguese market ia therefore LEGS
than the transportation Of English fabric.
And yet Great Britain has amogt mono.
poly In the trade Of Portugal. The came
condition applies, though in less degree,
in the trade of Turkey, Syria and, Egypt,
which England holds to much greater ex.
tent than any OF the other European
nations that are able to produce the same
fabric as chesply. Ii it be said in answer
that England has special trade relations by
treaty with Portugal and special oblipa.
tons binding the other countries, the ready
answer as. that ehe has no more
favorable position with regard to those
countries than can be readily
and easily acquired by the United
States with respect to all tho countries Of
America. Tint end will be reached when.
ever the United States desires it, and Wills
it, and is ready to take tho steps necessary
to Rocpro It, At pre0ent the trade with
Spanish. Amer!ca runs 60 strengly in chan.
ne!s adverse to uu, that, besides cur il,
ability to furnish manufactured articles, we
do not get the profit on our own raw bro.
ducts that are shipped thcre.. Our pe,ro.
leum reaches most Of thespanish.Ameritan
ports after twice crossing the Atlantic, psy,
ing often better profit to the European
middle man, who handles It than it does to