Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-23
WHAT THEY WISH TO BUY.
MACHINES AND PRODUCTS NEEDED IN
THE SOUTHERN LANDS.
Mr.. Abel Tells What the Things Are In
Which He Believes the United States
Can Successfully Compete With the
Ia Of

Mr.. Abel Tells What the Things Are In
Which He Believes the United States
Can Successfully Compete With the
Manufacturers of Europe.
A most important part of Mr.. Abel's in
quiry was to learn with care what products,
and particularly manufactured products, of
the United States the people Of Spanish
America need. At present the principal
North American productions sold in South
America are lumber and petroleum. OF the
S11, 000, 900 worth of United States products
sold in Argentine In 1887, 55 per cent was
agricultural implements and hardware, and
per cent each drugs and cotton goods.
Concerning the peculiar needs of the Eastern
coast of South America, Mr.. Abel says:
"Our manufactured goods generally are
superior to those of Europe. They are
made more elegantly and are lighter, as a
rule, and for those reasons the South Amer
leans like them. In some of the heavier
kinds of machinery England excels us.
One branch of manufacture in which we
can successfully compete with the world is
agricultural Implements, reapers, mowers,
threshers, plows, drills and harrows.
Already our trade in such machines is be-
coming lucrative below the Equator, simply
American windmills are sold. In Brazil
their railway locomotives were nearly all
made in the United States, by the Baldwin
Works, believe. Such is not the case,
however, in the Argentine Republic. There
the railroads were built by Englishmen,
and the locomotives and cars are of English
manufacture. But in Buenos Aires the
street cars were made by the Stephenson
Company, of Philadelphia.
Field for PitIsburg Products.
"There is q great field in the La Plata
countries for American oil stoves. There
are few heating arrangements there, and the
the winter nights are cold. Wherever the
American stoves are introduced they are
bought with avidity.
"Our glassware can be sold at an advan-
tage. am satisfied that our glass manu-
tacturers can easily compete in the South
American markets with England and Bel
GUM. know that many Of our manufact-
urers believe that they have all the trade
they want, that they do not need to look for
foreign markets. They may have now, but
this condition will not continue long. Com
petition is becoming yearly more intense.
1t soon will be dog eat dog in this country,
and then the man who has created foreign
trade will reap immense advantages over
his rivals in the same line.
"In cotton goods there is rich field for
the products of our looms. We can make
cloth as cheaply as they can in Europe, and
of better design and texture. American
malt is already known and appreciated
across the line. This country, they tell me
down there, makes the best malt in the
world. I rather expect to see the time when
there will be shipload after shipload OF beer
sent from this country to South America.
There are many smaller articles which the
United States can sell in Spanish America
in competition with Europe, such as sewing
machines, fire arms, books, bicycles, surgi-
cal and dental tools, picks and shovels,
spikes, nails and so on. Further inland
there will soon be great field for American
mining machinery.
Reciprocal Trade the Order.
ct appreciate the fact that our tariff duties
interfere in our trade with the Southern re-
publics. They hesitate to buy from us
while we levy tax on their goods sent to
us. Hides and wool are now the chief ar
ticles sent from the Argentine Republic to
the United States. Their wool does not
compete with the fine grades produced in
this country. 1t is coarse wool used in the
manufacture Of carpet and we ought to
have it.
Reciprocal trade between North and
South America is the natural order of
things. am sure we will reach it, that the
nations eyes will open and that it will
throw wide its gates to its Southern neigh
bors and friends, as they, in their turn, will
throw wide their gates for us. 1 believe
all true Americans will be pleased
70 see the time when many lines OF
swift steamers shall split the oceans, on the
east and west going ceaselessly to and fro
from north to south and from south to north,
along the vital lines of the electric currents
that flow forever from pole to pole. They
will carry the million machines OF the North
and the rich natural products of the South
in constant interchange OF equal benefit to
all. and in every Southern port the starry
Gag will ripple in the light of the equatorial
sun, while the many colored ensigns of our
sister republics will make gay the busy
harhnrs oil our Northern cities"