New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-03
TRADE WITH BRAZIL.
LARGE INCREASE UNDER RECIPROCITY.
WHAT THE NEW AGREEMENT HAS DONE TO
STIMULATE EXPORTS.

STIMULATE EAPORIs'
fpr TELEGRAPH TO TIE TMIBUSEI
Washington, Nov. 1.-THE persons who, among
their other msforunes. compelled 10 chdufc '""'
OF reading the editorial page OF "The New fofH h.e
ing POST from day TO day. and have become hurco 10
it. are not startled when they encounter therci"' vs.
they so often do evidence OF feeblemindedness as wen
as of bold, unblushng mendncty occasiohaii,'
however, the editor gets hold of fact or truth anu
reckless of consequences he Immediately exercises all
his ingenuity 10 pcrvert II. An example Oh u's '''
be found In editorial paragraph about reclproc'' "
"The Evening POST OF october "a. Refefrihs W w.
Official report Of exports for the first eight months oil
1891, the editor says
For five of these eight months we have been VI ,nc
enjoyment OF reciprocity with Brazil unacr az anr
common goods It is therefore something Of an eye
opener find that our exports OF cotton mannas,ass
TO but s3iO2I6 as compared with 1922 4so In the
corresponding part Of 1880 II this Is the e N more y,
OF IT, or we shall lose the rest OF our trade
After writing that far, the editor proceeded 10
cackle In part rs follows:
But we have unfalteIins faith that Private sec
ratarv IIaord or some attache OF the state Depart
ment or the Bureau OF statistics, or The Trbune,s
Washington CORRESPONDENT Will now Una, we hai anr
how IL proves that we ought 10 Vo'c inc hep"on'""
ticket.
The paragraph is a fair sample OF fcebemindedness
and audacous Misrepresentation to use shorter
and mora appropriate word Now as to the facts IN
regard to the exports OF cotton goods from the United
States TO Brazil in the eight months ended August i
1891 as compared With the exports for the correspond
ing period of $780, and the bearing OF those facts upon
the reciprocity agreement:
According TO the same official authority cited by
aTbe Evening Post the total exports Of manufactures
OF cotton for the first three months OF 1891 before he
reciprocity agreement went into 0pcrauon amouhoou
TO $50 36j; the total export during the first three
months of 1890 amounted 10 $2l2,s10 decrease Tor
first three months of 1891, seo45f or an average Oh
S43I51 month. Total exports, five months
ended August 81 1891, under reciprocity, s2"6.soo
five months ended August 81, leoo, SSoo'-
col decrease for five months Sse.15i. or an average
OF $1,000 q month. In other words. the TOTAL &c
crease in three months before the reciprocity agree
ment became operative, was nearly s3o,ooo greater
and the monthly average two and ono half times as
great as the total decrease In the five months aiter
that agreement became operative Again, the total
exports for the Ave months ended August 81. 1891,
amounted to 1920, 335. compared with sl1o'43o
for the five months ended March ., 1871, the COT
responding period which preceded the reciprocity
agreement being an increase In five months Of 800
400.
The candid Editor Of "The Evening POST was care
full 10 select one of the three items OF export to Bra1
which showed decrease, and to say nothing about
the ten other Items given in the official report from
which he chose single Item TO float his absurd attack
upon reciprocity Every one Of the ten Items shows
a marked increase In the eight months ended August
81. 1891 as compared with the corresponding period
Of last year.
The official reports show steady and saus-
factory increase of trade between the united
states and Brazil, especially since the reciprocity
agreement became operative on hprl !, leoi'
The total value of the exports from the Unitco states
TO that country in the year ended June 80 io'o'
amounted to S11 0O2. 400 of this amount the tum OF
S. s25 7O5 or "a per cent, was accounted Tor oy eA
ports OF the following articles: Books, maps cnarS'
etc wheat -four, carriages and railway and morse
cars manufactures Of cotton, builders hardware saws
and tools, sewing machines. steam engines ana ma
chnery not elsewhere specified naval stores, spirits
of trpentne mineral oil, refined; bacon lard, lumber
and manufactures OF wood.
In the year ended June &c. 1884, the exports OF the
SHINE articles amounted in value 10 Sll 56390o on IN
crease OF 81, ,26o as compared with inc preccos
wear Those figures STOW total exports amounting 70
~ so6 o79 for the year ended June 80, 1891, an In
crease amounting TO 1924 ,453, or 3D. per cent as
compared with the year ended June 80, 1890 In the
eight months ended August 81, lS91-durnS the last
five months Of which period tie reciprocity agreement
was in force-the total exports OF the articles hanoo
above amounted to $s,101,51o ms compared Win
S6 7O3 for tho corresponding eight months Oh ieVo
an increase Of 81 ,972, 5l2 or 31.7 per cent These
figures show that the total expectations for tic year
ending December 81, 1891, Will probably amount TO al
least 422. and also that the ratio OF gain mas
Increased $40 of per cent in the short space OF eight
months, during tho last five months OF which period
the reciprocity agreement was in force.
Among tho items OF increase IN the eight months
ended August 81, 1891, were the following; Wheat
-four s46O 900 carriages and horse and steam rail-
way cars SAIL manufactures OF cotton, except
cotton cloth S11 535; builders hardware, saws ana
tools $50 1850; sewing machines $3,01o; steam ell
zines and machinery. not elsewhere specified Slab
5o1 naval Stores $50 704; spirits of turpentne, $i4
O55: mineral OIL refined, 81, os6; bacon, Sll3'oo'
boards lumber and other manufactures OF wood'
so07 $40. Three items only showed decrease us
follows: books, maps. ETC., $36,l36; cotton ciO'h'
1923 74O; lard, $44S,591 In regard 10 the decrease
I'm the exports OF cotton CLOTH IL should be noted That
Il was wholly due to n falling of In the first three
months OF the period before the reciprocity agreement
become lucrative In the last five months OF the
period the exports increased S3o,Oo4, as compared
with the corresponding period OF looo' Inc iarsc
decrease In the exports Of lard was Que IN the case VI
Rraz rs in the case of nearly every other country,
TO the fact that exportable surplus OF lard In TIE
United States was very much smaller than usual.
The brazilian tariff on the art clcs named above,
when produced in and exported from the United
States was affected as follows by the reciprocity
agreement Wheat -FOUR duty abolished; railway cars,
dutv abolished manufactures OF cotton, duty redgced
o. ner cent: builders hardfare saws and tools and
sowing machines duty reduced % per cent; steam
eno zines and machinery duty abolished; naval stores,
duty abolished spirits Of turpenne, duty reducei 70
ner cent bacon, duty abolished, lumber TIMBER,
manufactures Of wood of every kind, including furnl-
ture carts and carriages, duty reduced 20 per cent
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