New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-02-11
EAST SHIPS E0R RRIZIL.

It ought not to take much argument to con-
vince a commercial people that in these days OF
combination and competition, If merchant
wants custom he must equip his establishment
with the facilities to sell and deliver goods
Suppose a great retail drygoods store in TINS
city, for instance, were to announce that 1t had
pcntv of goods to sell but didn't keep delivery
wagons Of its own and would be compelled to
depend hereafter on the delivery wagons OF IT'S
rivals in the same line of business. How much
trade would be left to that establishment a1
the end of six months? 1t might arrange with
its rivals to deliver its sales, but 1t Is hardly
necessary to argue that those rivals would give
every advantage to their own deliveries over
its. or that they would take measures to inform
It's customers that they could sell the same
GOODS at the same rates and deliver in hall the
time
Our situation with regard to foreign trade
is illustrated plainly and faithfully by this
paralel All that anybody can say about the
tariff and how is abolition would enable us
70 rroducc cheaply and sell acknowledgements
true and important it may be-doeS not deal
with the hard fact that the other nations have
the delivery wagons and have no mind to SUI
hordnate their interests to ours. a state or
tLincs has now been brought about more
aver. in which. tariff or NJ tariff, we can sell
orr goods in a ma llct with an annual purchaS-
ing power of $50, OO0. 900, at a vastly lower
pricc than can any other nation. Mr.. Blaine
Kcciprocity Treaty with Brazil puts us where
other nations cannot follow. We have the
stock : il is better than anybody elses; we can
sell il at rates which no rival en- afford the
tho IValip-t anxiety
70 huv and the question Shall we take that
vast trade or 90 without it? depends merely
on the addition to our stock of a few delivery
wagons
In another column we have printed to-day
some highly interesting and pertinent extracts
from recent reports to the state Department by
onr diplomatic and consular representatives, in
Brazil touching the question Of how we shall
90 about making the best possible use Of the
opportunity Mr.. Blaine has obtained for us. II
will he seen that Mr. Adams and Mr. Dockery
and tho merchants of Brazil entertain no doubt
as 10 the first and greatest step to be taken
We must have ships. They must make fast,
regular frequent voyages. Can anything be more
obvious than that this i, Of all the requisites
10 do business. the preliminary? Why should
we expect England to help us take trade from
her merchants? Or. even if she were disposed
TO place her shipping lines at our full service
for consideration, why should we spend mill
ions in supporting n foreign marine, when we
can get along with half the expense and earn it
back ton times over as well, by supplying our
selves with a marine of our own?
some persons talk about the "Goycrnmcnt
granting subsidies as if the Government were
thing above and beyond the people, inS cad
Of being identical with the people. \ continent
is developing below lis. II needs everything
that Il temperate zone supplies, in return for
the wealth of the tropics. It offers t. spend
millions in our markets if We will arrange 10
maze prompt and quick deliveries Of its pun
chaScs. and the question now pending in Con
cre.S is, not whether the public money shall
lie spent in sustaining Il private industry. hut
whether we, the people, all Of us, North and
South and West. for we are all the producers
Of the goods applied for. shall spend cent
apiece Tor ter years to supply ourselves with
tho facilities necessary to deliver oar sales. To
consider the Shipping bill in any other light
than this is 70 be narrow and short sighted.