Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-23
PHILADELPHIA
Its Business Aen Unaa;mOus fOl
Reciprocity,
AS a Suro Means of Increasing
Export Trade.

ous Interviews with business Men of
the Quaker City which Show That
They Heartily Support the Policy OF
Secretary Of state Blaine.
WASHINGTON. Sept 23.-The Philadel-
phia Press OF Sun lay presented exhaus-
tive interviews with the business me Of
that city in regard to reciprocity. NJ ost
of them are favorable to the proposition.
1t introduced them as follows:
Nearly three-ffths of th3 entire
foreign imports received at the port of
Philadelphia come from the southern
Countries and islands with which it is
proposed to enter into treaties of re-
ciprocity Last year 703 vessels, having
total Of All ,02l tons, brought cargoes
from these countries aud unloaded
them on the Philadelphia docks.
only 39l of these 'ves els little
more than half the total tonnage re-
loaded at this port aud returned TO the
South American countries. In other
words BIZ vess lis sailed aM NY iii ballast
or took cargt cs tor other American or
Enrol can ports instead of rcloading
with Philadelphia PRODUCTS and return
ing direct to the South American coun-
tries.
"The advocates of reciprocity believe
that an enormous direct commerce ana
new and a greater market cdl be So
curel by opening direct eGch lge Of
our products, which they cannos IN IKE
for theirs which we carnot produce.
They argue that reciprocity can easily
be had on app icatiou, with Cuba and
|, I
Of South and Central America. which
now subject agricultural products from
the United STATES to hiadeling duties.
With the sugar con ltrie3, for in TIA lce
farm produces cal be exohln red for
sugar, and with the Argentine Republic
our leather goods for hides, if the screws
The alalo4 against the United StatesiA il
1856 was in Cubl $4l,0)0.dOJ. Brazil
SOL, 900, ,0U0. Mexico $4,000. .000 other
South and Central American states $i0,-
coo, 600; total, $ti!.0oJ,0Jj.
Pennsylvania prod lcers are possibly
more deeply inte ested in the proposed
recipr5city treaties than any other
state.
Philadelphia and Reciprocity.
The Press thus treats the matter cd
itolially, ulder the caption, "Philadel-
phia and Recip ocity:'
Philadelphia was the first of the
American sedportS when trade with the
West Ildies and Spanish America was
dilect and reciprocal. Its decline as a
port began with the los OF that trade
No one can read the remarkable facts,
figures and interviews Published an
not conclude that the first step towards
renewing the &c mmercial prosperity Of
this port lies in adopting reciprocity
with our southern leighb)rs, whose
products we need and whose competi-
ti0n we need not fear.
To-day our trade with these regions
is utterly onesided We import much;
we export little. Cut off b. lack Of re.
ciprocal arrangements with the trade
toward which Delaware buy opens. this
of Philadelphia Cur foreign imports
in 1889 reached sl8 425. 1G0, the largest
in our history; l9,34.0l6 more than in
1879, and 1895, 1853 greater than in
1859. Our exports We're $91.i07 .437:
$40, ,30j, PA less than in 1870, although
still Sl3, 1905 more tha1 In 1869 The
cause for this oneoidcd trade rests
chiefly il the condition Of our traffic
with our natural market south Of us
Dividing the islands and the territory Of
the gulf and of the Spanish Americas
between North and South America, and
this is the showing for this port: North
America imports $l6, 1S3.Oti, exports
$l,4i3,912. South American imp
$i399. .5S3, exports S714.1l1. Total i'm
ports $2l, 1860, total exports $!,l5S,-
$50
"a single article which it is now pro-
posed to make free, sugar, is responsible
for this in 1899 this oltrecelved $iS,-
5lS, 800 of cane sugar from these coun-
tries. and the remaining $96jl .270 re-
ceived from the south is. nearly all of
it, frec-coifee, fruit, hides and otner
South American PRODUCTS More than
half our imports come from Cuba
which sent this port &t2.645 .025. one
quarter of cur imports and receives 81
OBS, ,6S9, or one twenty-scventh of our
total exports, which were $27, ,707, ,431.
To the British West Indies we sent
$l26, ORG, or 3.5 per cent. OF our exports
and we receive from there $50l,12i,
one-sixteenth Of our imports. Taking
these countries, all told, they sent US AZ
per cent. of all that came in; they took
only Z per cent. of our exports.
This is the record ut every turn-ves-
sells coming here full and leaving empty.
Imports by the million and trivial ex.
ports whose character we give III detail
The trade is in foreign hands. The diff
ference is paid with foreign goods,
shipped i'll foreign ports. carried by for
eign vessels to vast foreign profit. The
exchange on London, by which these
shipments are all paid, is really an ex-
port of foreign goods in payment when
ol1r goods should go / return. Instead,
our export is are pitiable and ludicrous.
If this trade were settled by direct ship
mcnts. it would add at a stroke Sl9.-
O00. .0U0 TO the exports Cf this port, and
a large sha Of this would he for arli-
cles made be1e in Philadelphia. Re
ciprocal trade with $4,000 persons on
6G,171 squale mics in the Hawaiian
islands in Ih.rtech years has advanced
the exports Of the United States from
1924, 2Gi to 81, ,336, ,040. and imports from
81. .3.6.GSt to $l2.sll, 74O. three-fourths
carried in American ships. We leave
to others the calculation of what like
trade would ID for our exports and inn
ports alone. an island with population
of .5:l ,C0J and an area Of l3, go square
miles.
mo wonder-with this showing from
a single experiment with the facts OF
our present trade daily before them and
the possibilities of the future offering
golden profits the merchants of tins
city favor reciprocity. With q single
exception every iniervie'y winch we
publish urges it. There is difference as
10 the means. but no question as 10
tLe !it--ri aud wisdom Of this new policy.
which is 10 crowd our wharyes with
shipping and empty our warehouses 10y
offering a new market % onr manufac-
turcrs. This great Republican city,
which has never faltered in it, saPPort