New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-03-28
SOUTH AMERICAN COMMERCE
rPapr LOST By THE UNITED STATES.
NEGLECT or OrPOGTUNIuEs-ENG ENGLAND AND
FnANcn cArTrNING AL TIE MAENETs.

NEGLECT or OPPORTUNITIES ENGLAND AND
FRANCE CAPTURING ALL THE MARKETS.
W,IuyGrov, March 27.-Judgc lhachcr
and ~ +. Curtis Of the south American Commis'ioh
addressed a snrolnutco Of tito Senate Committee on
Foreign Relation, to-day in support OF senator ipo'
bill for a congress, Of American Republics. Mr '"''''
SAID that south tue Rio Grande and the cur ol 'Aco
there were about 10 900 people engaged III foreign
commerce amounting to SsoOoOOOJO yearaDout
equally divided between exports and Imports lHe eA
ports he said consist OF products ana always WILL
while the imports are OF manufactured merchandise Ia
the last twenty years the United states exported 10
Spanish American sites $ii2,ODOOoo worth Oh "'I'
chaudi,e purchased raw materials III YaIue eAcee"
g tnat sum by $3.50 900 geo. which excess was paid IN
cash. During al this time those countries ad been D"y
in in Europe tie very merchandise the United states
had tor sale.
NEARLY everything VIC buy from Spanish America
SAID Mr. Curtis. lis brought to rs by Englshnen' "hlo
nearly everything sell we carry ourselves Inc
most absurd spectacle in the commercial world Is inc
trade we carry Oh with Brazil We bay nearly all her
raw pro lncs 4ie she spends the money we pay Tor
tnemiu Englan and France. N,IrIy every ton Of TINS
commerce pays to English btnkors AM VesSel
owners. We removed the tax on imported co1ee II"
years ago, whercupOu Brazil Immediately pnt on an cA
port duty 50 attempt of to secure cheaper
breakfast for the worugnln simply resulted In divert
Ing several million dollars from the United states TO the
Brazilian Treasury. NaXco and tho countries wa'heu
by the caribbean produce better quality OF CONGO
than Brazil and II the UntoI states would consent 10
discriminate against Brazilian coffee raised by save
labor the Nations Of Central America ami tho panl'h
Main would rcclproclto by admitting free our honr.
lumber. provisions. lard dairy products ana other
articles winch are subject to an almost prohlDhoy
tariff Brazil in such condition financially ana COM
mercaly that II we DO not buy her coHae wouu IoU
on the trees Encsmru hold mortgages upon the Brazil
ian plantations and dictate their own terms IN trade
rift on he me
interest advances, third on tho Couee pehLsrl
and fourth rs interest on payments deferred VINO
they make three profits out OF first Oh the cohee
they eel US; second on transportation cAhIBeS' anu
tnird. In dIscOuutlus orr bills IN London.
We buy 30 per cent OF what the south American
countries produce, and furnish them only per cent o.
thor imports, The balance OF trade AGAINST Us Is nearly
SlUU,Ou0OOO year. The cause OF tins ASTONISHING
PHENOMENON Is our NEGLECT 10 luIhsh lo VIZ, III,
means OF commerce. WINE we nave oteh POM "'
pride al Internal development, Lugnu anu rance
have stealing markets away from us Iho prop
lem OF recovering tHcn Is cas- OF solut'oI' l"o
raj and south America Will Duy all we nave 20
sell II intelligent measures are usc 10 cultivate lHe t
kes and means provided for delivering tho goods
Those countries seeking poL'dl intimacy "tH INC
United States They recognize the superiority o. our
products offer AMI pay subsidies 70 or ships Bra
| ri is now paying SluOOOO annually 70 an American
steamship Inc. TIE Argentine Republic hoidS our "
ssSulnE onel III Iipe Icf,cccY Tueuos AVIS
| thdJ VIII cSlaol>u Il 'c .r','ot ,,-i'N., a.
the same time she has twentyOne lines SAILING from
oryye sixty steamships between Buenos ~ reS ana
| European ports to which II pays uothluS
'Iycn more surprising than orr neglect OF opp'rtn
min. - our Ioorce OF the condition aud progress Of
those countries. The development Of the southern ''
OF south America IS nearly IL rapid As our own lu'
migration is flooding 1t, intrrnal improvements are
opening new and fertile fields and wealth is increasing
in enjoyed by no other section OF tle Eooc i'
| aggregate Imports to Brazil Uruguay, Cull ana the
Argentine RcpabIc reaches the enormous sum OF
$3.50 900 900 annually OF which this country furnishes
about 100000, yet tho manufacturers Of the htel
states could supply nearly everything represented IN
the aggregate. HE consumption OF cotton goods aohe
amounts t. over SGOOOO,OO} annually, % per cent ot
/ which Il supplied by the mills OF Manchester, OlI
merchants send honest goods to compete with dShohcS
ones The Lugishmeu send carSOrs OF pipe clay ana
starch 70 the tropical countries, Inc ~ -,
American goods such that nearly every Oae OF bogus
fabric shipped Manchester bears the coat OF arms
OF the United States and is marked best American
/ drills Nfas.achusptts. United states OF America -
long aS the freight from Liverpool Hamburg ana bor
d,alx remains ri5 Il merchants cannot be luducel
to pay 10 ton bring merchandise from the Culed