Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-11
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plement of the United States in climate, re-
 sources, supply and demand, they constitute natural and desirable markets No matter ! what our tariff Is to be, whether high or low l all admit, both pFoteotionists and free I traders, that we cannot longer ignore the \ laws of nature and sound principles of trade \ by keeping aloof from the unsupplied but iu- viting American markets at the south. THE PAoIFIo MARKETS. ! Of nearly equal importance are the foreign ! markets of the Pacific, which will soon be i'm I direct communication with the Mississippi valley by means of the interocean highways across Tehuantepec and Panama. The annual imports of merchandise by Australasia, and the various countries of Asia which rest upon the Pacific, and there fore face the United States, are as follows in value:
 Japan .. - = ~ s2a 2og oOO China -..........-...........-...-. 1126S2.00 Philippine Islands. ds................... 1s.0320OO Dutch Dutch India 5S, 4s5 S00 Australasia 1issoo,0OO Total. .$52s. .o5s OoO
 Of this total demand we now supply only $20, 497 900, 8 trihe less than four per cent. It is, then, another weak spot in our foreign trade which must be strengthened. There is no doubt that these countries will be soon in direct steamship communication
 
 means of the ship railway projected across the Isthmus of Tshuantepec At present in- tercommunication by water is around distant Cape Horn. The comparative distances in statute miles are as follows:
 New Orleans to Hong Kong: Miles
 Via Cape Horn. ......................... %, ,704
 Saving svin vi. vi. TshuantsDso Sone wayl d9SO2 O2 New Streams to Sydney. Australia:
 Via Isthmus Of Tehnanfenec " " '- S,SSS
 Saving via TshusBtepeo tone way. SYST Saving via Tehuantepec tround trip) Il, ,674 TIMELY PRoJKor.
 In anticipation of the important commer- oial advantages which must inevitably foI- low the present southward tendency of ma terial development, such as the improvement of the Mississippi river and it's practical pro- Iongation to the Pacific by the opening of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the advance of our railway system to the Mexican border, the extension of five trunk railways from the Rio Grande to the City of Mexico, the pro- jectlon of an intercontinental railway through southern Mexico and the fourteen other re- publics of Central and South America, the piercing of the Isthmus of Panama by tide level canal, the connection of our south western railway systems with the Pacific ports by the construction of transcontinen- tai railways acIoss Mexico, the proposed es- tablishment of new steamship lines from the mouth of the Mississippi to Spanish American ports, the other great works soon to be inaugurated, the exhibition at New Orleans is exceedingly timely. It is located where it will do the most good by helping to build up two weak sides of our present foreign commercs-thst of Spanish America and the nations and islands surrounding the South Pacific.
 THE DIRECTOR GENERALS VIEWS.
 Director General E. A. Burke, in 8 recent interview with your correspondent, said: ''The great popularity of the Worlds expo. sition is largely owing to the universal de- mRnd for new markets outlet for our surplus manufactures. The advocates of both high and low tarif-Republican aR well es Democrats-believe the time has now come when the comparatively unsupplied but inviting markets of Spanish and Portuguese America should be occupied by our mer- chants. In Mexico the days of wooden ploughs are not yet ended In Central and South America may be found a similar con- dition of affairs in brief, they constitute a natural outlet for our farming implements, iron manufactures, cotton and wooIen goods and the thousand and one products of our inventions and skill.
 s'New Orleans is the natural gateway to thoss countries, both by land and water. An exhibition heli there will create tidal wave of American trade which should have been started years ago. Our total exports ot do- mestic merchandise during the last fiscal year were $S04, ,000, 900 in value, of which eighty per cent went to Europe the east, and less than ten per cent. to American countries on the south. Such one-sided foreign com- meroe- is 8 discredt to our boasted enters prise"