Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-20

proclaimed. / think, without disclosing any
executive secrets, may tell you that the ar
rangement with Brazil is not likely to abide
lonesomeness much longer
Other Treaties Will Be Made.
That others are to follow, and that as a result
of these trade arrangements the products of
the United States, our meats, our breadstuffs,
and certain lines of manufactured goods. are
to find free or favored access to the ports of
many of these South and Central American
States. All the States will share in these ben
fits. We have had some analyses made of the
manifests of some of our steamers now sailing
to South American ports. And in single
steamer it was found that 25 of our States con-
trbuted to the cargo, But we shall need some
thing more. We shall need American steam
ships to carry American goods to these ports.
The last Congress passed a bill appropriating
about 81 500. 900 and authorizing the Postmaster
General to contract with steamship companies
for period not exceeding ten years for the
carrying of the United States mail. The for
eign mail service is the only mail service out
of which the Government has been making
net profit We do not make profit out of our
land services. There is an annual deficiency
which my good friend, the Postmaster Gen
eral, has been trying very hard TO reduce or
wipe out
The theory of our mail service is that it is
for the people, that we are not to make profit
out of it, that we are to give them as cheap
postage as is possible. We are many of us
looking forward to a time when we shall have
i cent postage in this country. We have been
?" oioeo anu ponui VI No ~ uoN:,us -. ~ 80 ~ 49,
IN tne carrying Oh IoTelsn mans Snas nase
SceuSny maoe refenue ous ol tha. pus.Iess i
t ~. narins spens aol ~ W han th.t nn1icr
from It now we propose TO change ina. polieS
American lines, carrying American mail.
Su Soino ono uua! esy "I 49, noS p. w - t;.Js
BUSINESS tnat IL Is SUBSIDY. put. ny uiSuus,
every otner great nauon OF sne "orIa nas peen
oolnE % ano u aoing mn IL ao-Say.
lines hT Goverpmeot aid and If seems to me
onr atI,tnde with reference to thar is aptly pro-
tan,aS bH aU ;,imstr.,ion I men,;nnad the other
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New Lines and New Ships.
1t has been the careful study of the Post
master General. in preparing to execute the
4, 10 20 ,hicb boye refsrred m how mucb
increase in routes and ships we could secure py
it. We have said to the few existing American
lines: You must not treat this appropriation as
a plate of soup, to be divided and consumed by
yourselves. You must give US new lines new
sbins ipcreased tr,ns and nev norris of call
Aiready the Steamship lines are Iookino over
tha rony.s 70 &c ,vhat ,bay oar do win a vieyy
of incTeasine their Tonnage and in establisbing
new lines. The Postmaster General has invited
the attention and suggestion of ali the Boards
of Trade OF all our seaboard cities. undouDt-
p ~ he III. Sard 80 tha dai;haraye indg.
ment of the people. If during INV term Of
office they shall strike down law that believe
De Oenenc,a or Eesfrcy b. enegy bew p ths1r
will mt shall feel great dIsappointment if
we do not make TINS an era for The revival of
American commerce. do much want that the