The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-02-19
IEEEER MATTER.
BREAD TOR THE BREADLESS
What Blaine Reciprocity scheme
VIII Accomplish In South
America.

/ What Blaines Reciprocity Scheme
VIII Accomplish In South
/ America.
/ Especial Correspondence Of the Philadelphia
Iimes.l
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1O.-The carrying
out of Secretary's Blane's reciprocity
scheme for trade with South America
will literally supply With the staff of life
q hitherto hreadless continent
Forty millions of people south of
the Gulf of Mexico and the Rio GEande
produce no breadstutfs. Wheat cannot
be profitably grown in South America
outside Of Chill and the Argentine Re
public, because the climate is not suited
to it's cultivation. Thus 1t comes about
| that ordinary bread is regarded there as
the greatest and rarest Of Injuries, SO
that the prudent housewife, at the con-
clusion of repast, locks up the bread in
the cupboard and leaves the wine on the
| table
The heavy duties imposed by the South
American countries upon wheat and
other breadstuffs make bread so costly
that only the Weather classes can afford
to eat it, 1t is the same way with cod
fish, imported from New England, which,
under the name of "bacaloa,' is esteem
ed as great a luxury as is terrapin here.
At a recent state dinner given to the dl-
plomatic corps by the President of qua
temala, Goldfish was made to compose
| five of the nine courses, cooked in as
many different ways. Supplies of this
/ delicacy, which retails at 60 cents a
pound, are bought dried and sailed from
Boston.
BUTTER A RARITY.
Butter is as rare a luxury in South
America as bread. The sort one pays 80
cents pound for here, sells there for 81
a pound. For every pound of this COM
modify manufactured in that part Of the
world 1000 pounds are imported from
abroad Again it is the climate that is at
/ faiilt There are cows, plenty of them,
and the milk has the usual amount OF
cream, bat the cream will not rise. Be-
sides, there are no conveniences for re-
frigeration, such as cool spring houses,
etc.
All these things will suddenly be made
cheap for the people Of South America
when the reciprocity treaties have been
signed, rs has just been done with Brazil.
They will no longer be compelled to pay
70 cents pound for hams and cores
ponding price for bacon, as hitherto.
For they cannot raise hogs for lack OF
corn to feed them with, and anyway
these animals do not seem to thrive in
warm climates South of Mason and
Dixon's line in this country, they present
degenerated type, the unwieldly ane
corpulent porker of the North being
transformed into the razor back"
These and other agricultural products
the South American republics will buy
from the United States admitting then
duty free, SO that an enormous and mos
profitable market will at oncebe opened
to the farmers of this country. The same
market will also be thrown open to al
our manufactured goods, such as cottoI
goods, leather goods of all sorts, from
shoes to trunks, hardware, glassware
cutlery, and particularly machinery.
Brazil estimates its loss of revenue by
the removal of duties on imports from
the United States according to toe treaty
just signed, at $5,000,000 yearly. Th'
other republics will lose proportionatel.
when they come into the agreement
But they are willing to make the saeri
fee for the sake of finding an opel
market in this country, tariff removed
for their coffeef sugar, rubber, cochineal
woods, chocolate, and cinchona.
The taking off OF duties on these com
} motlit!es brought from South Ameflc'
at our ports will give the greatest posi-
BILE encouragement to planters, anu al
their agricultural industries will be enor
mously stimulated. Coffee is a grea
product of that part of the world, though
rubber, gathered all over 1T, save in Chill
and the Argentine, perhaps equals it il
value. The sugar of Brazil stands Will
these two. For the quality Of its fleece
the Argentine is celebrated, as well a
for the hard and beautiful woods SO use
full for veneerlng purposes, which are no
to be found anywhere else In the world
except in Central America. All thes
things ought to become much cheape
for us before very long.
DIFFERENCE IN LUXURIEs.
The guava jelly so priced as luxur