San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-08-22
SOUTH AMERICAN TRADE.

recently held, the association INDUCED
in it's first annual banquet, and on
that occasion some very wise words
were spoken in behalf of American
commerce, particularly of United States
commerce with the South American
states. Hon. Warner Miller respond
ed to the toast, "rhe need of closer re-
lations between this country, Mexico,
and the central and south American
states" The following excerpts will
show the drift of Mr.. Miller's speech
and the tendency of the sentiment OF
the manufacturers who surrounded
him, as his speech was enthusiastical-
ly applauded from commencement to
close.
Lying south of us, including Mex
leo, the West Indies and South Amer
lea, th9re are in round numbers co.
100000 of people, and as l said before
they are largely dependent upon us
for their manufactured products.
They draw the great bulk of those
manufactured products to-day from
Europe, and they procure them
cial relations which those coun tries
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greater banking facilities given, and
chiefly because of the better mail
service and the more frequent and
rapid steam communication. With
out these comm cree cannot be car
ried on. Where there are to be eX-
tensive commercial relations there
must be regular and frequent mail
communication. We shall not be able
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business with Brazil, Argentine
mails must 90 by the way of Liver
pool and so long as our merchants
who are going to look up business i'm
of Liverpool. Only last week in New
York was talking with gentleman
who was going to look up business
in South America, and / asked him
how he expected to get there. II
have my passage engaged on the next
steamer for Liverpool" he said, "and
from Liverpool | shall take steamer
direct to Brazil"
This expression only voices a senti-
ment growing stronger every day.
The demand will be made and must
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steamship lines between this country
and South and Central America.
There is no alternative. Let the gov
eminent of this country subsidize
line of steamers that will carry a
weekly mail from New York or
any open gulf port of the gulf
coast to South American ports
and commerce will naturally grow.
To depend upon England for mail SER
vice with South America is ridiculous.
AT this same manufacturers meet
ing the secretary of the Spanish
American Commercial Union, showing
the condition of trade between this
country and the countries lying to the
south, said:
ut will be the duty of the Spanish
American commercial union to show
how deficient are our means of COM
municatiOns with Mexico Central and
South America, and to point out how
the current of trade flows to other
countries in proportion to the frequen-
cy and regularity of the steam COM
municatiOn which they possess. Of
this, ell PEASANT, [ will offer you
single instance. The import trade of
the Argentine republic amounts in
round numbers to 800, 900. 900. Our
share of it is about 7 81 per cent;
that of England, France, Germany
and Belgium combined about 20
per cent. We have no regular
steam communication, either good or
bad, with that republic, while about
sixty magnificent steamships freight
steamers not included) enter every
month the port of Buenos Ayres.
The same is exactly the case with
Brazil, of whose imports England
alone controls IS per cent and the
United States only about per cent.
1t seems to me that the relation of
cause and effect is very clearly dis
cernible in both cases."
There is no section of the country
more deeply interested in the opening
up of close commercial relations with
South America, Central America and
Mexico than is the South, just coming
into her inheritance of creative indus
try. The whole commerce of this
great west and southwest will natur-
ally seek its outlet through gulf ports
to the south countries. Every state is
interested in opening these trade
channels, and when the demand is
made in congress for subsidies to
place our mail service on a par with
that Of England that thereby we may
control the commerce of the Spanish
American states every congressman
in the South should stand ready to
support the measure regardless Of