The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-12-04
ONE PHASE OF THE EXPOSE

TON.
The New York Herald, IN . recent
extended interview with Special Com
missioner Anderson, Who has devoted
much attention TO Spanish
subjects concerning the Worlds Exposi-
ton at New Orleans, gives prominence
to one important advantage TO be de-
rived from 1t, that will perhaps be of
more value than all other results Of this
enterprIse-that is the attention it will
call TO South and Central American
trade, topic which bids fair TO be the
commercial question OF the near future.
The Herald states the relation of the ex-
position to this question by say
ing that new foreign outlets
for surplus manufacturers is a question
of transcendant importance to New
York, New England, and other manu-
featuring states which are suffering
from so-called oVerproduetion, but IN
reality from under consumption. Mex
leo and the states Of Central and South
America are neighboEing, neutral and
unsupplIed markets which have been
too long neglected. II is the purpose of
the exposition to cure this serious de-
! feet in our commercial relations with
the outside world and to act IS q con
Meeting link between the sources OF sup
| ply and demand.
Mr.. Anderson then states the advant
age of location that 10 given by New
Orleans as the scene vi this great expo
sition:
"Now that the presidential campaign
| is over the public mind inslinctiyely
turns toward commerce, aud It will find
In the New Orleans ExpOsiJIon the most
| systematic, comprehensive and timely
advance upon new fields of trade that
has ever been inauguraIed upon this
continent. Located as it is at the mouth
OF the Mississip pi and lis iorty-tIO nav
| igable tributaries (oaVigable to the ex
tent of .I5,7lO mlles). which IuteTseci
twsntY-One states ami territories. and
then converge, I'm IT, aud terminate at the
Gulf Of Mexico, opposite the Various
Spanish-Amtrican countries, the Wes
India islands and the Interace9n routes
across the American isthmus. il Is &
natural gateway between internal ADD
external trade, particularly the foreign
outlets which We 50 greatly nsed."
What the exposition proposes to dc
for the promotion Of American manu-
features aad the development of new for
eign markets may perhaps best be seer
by The statement of few facts and fg
ures as gwen by Mr.. Anderson:
The annual export of msrchandls,
from the United States is, in direction
as follows III alue:-Eighty-On PEI
cent TO Europe aud adjacent countries
on the east; ten per cent to American
countries on the south five par cent Il
British America on the north, and tou
per cent 10 Pacific countries on the west
"If We subdiVide the exports to Amer
icAu counties on the south and confinl
the statistics 10 the fifteen sister repub
lies OF Spanish America Il will be seer
that only five per cent Ut our annual ex
ports 60 in that direction. Considered
az a whole these fifteen republics-viz
Mexico, i've in Central America anC
nine more in South America-are almost
totally deficient in manufactures. VIVA
little they buy comes chiefly from Eu.
rope. While united with US by land
they are not by rail highways of com.
merce, our railway system having thu
far advanced only half way through tint
length of the first Republic.
"The transcendent importance o
/
supplied but inviting markets is appa
rent when we consider the facts relatiY,
To the disposition of our annual man
ufGctures. During the census year end
ing June 1, 1880. they amounted to th,
enormous total of So, 1863 SIC, 101 in valu,
of which only two per cent find foreign
markets
"Iu other words. % per cent are uset
by the So 600 900 consumers at home ant
a l. n n
sumeTs in the markets of the world
Now, if any portion of those foreign con
sumers are under-supplied. or can b
supplied from our mills, it is idle To us
the word over production There ar
plenty OF such markets in Spaoi-h Amer
lea, upon our own continent und at on
very doors, and il Is the mission Of tn
New Orleans Exposition to develop
them"