Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-04-25

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5S Il southern goods in exchange
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s-e about twsnty points on which we
Z-s: have information, regardless OF
a-v southern tariffs before We can
A:e.y export"
We pride ourselves with being the
NOS; euterprising nation on earth; but,
: far as the export trade TO South
America Is concerned. it is clear from
the facts stated by Mr.. Murphy that
American manufacturers and mer.
chants have not been awake TO their OPP
portunitieS They have, not studied
southern markets; they have not gath
cred information about the wants of
the southern peoples, about their tar
Ifs, their routes Of trade and methods
I Of transportation; and they have never
undertaken to manufacture the special
grades and varieties Of goods demanded
in the so-called Latin America
In confirmation Of all this a writer in
Hardware. a New York trade Journal
points ont how a New York merchant
lost an opportunity to build up a'trade
in south America for American made
shovels by refusing to pack them as or
dered The same writer contrasts with
this the way in which English manu-
facturers accommodate themselves to
the wants OF the people for whom goods
are intended. He says: For all parts
Of the world they manufacture goods
with reference to the local demand,
laying British preferences entirely
aside. 1t would he difficult to buy g
macintosh in England similar to the
greas-mas OF those sent for the narke'
; Of the United States. Every Chola
: woman in Eastern Peru wears apecul
> lar shawl knit in Manchester in exac'
) imitation of the 'old cotton shawl
which the Indians had for ages.preyi
! ously made with their own hands; anC
the trapiches, or sugar mills, for thu
. Amazon valley are designed after thos'
, formerly constructed by the natives GU
. of the hardwoods of their forests"
The trouble with our manufacturer
Is that they have learned under, thei
: protection schooling to look almost er
. tirely to the home market. Protectio
d has Slapped their enterprise and self-rC
I lance. Mr.. Murphy said liz his address:
= ut appears to me that u people ar
growing into a habit of leaning on tn
government for help, while our bushes
interests are becoming the foot ball
be tossed between the rival parties !
7 politics"
: In this address Mr.. Murphy expose
8 some of the false notions upon whic
y our protectionists defend McKinleyisn
. He rejected utterly the claim Of II
n proteetionists that we cannot compe'
with the cheap pa~uper-made goods
. Europe For years. he said, "v
g have raised in our imaginations obst
Is clcs in our way of doing this southei
y trade. First is, cannot compete wit
% the 'pauper labor of Europe. ha'
n sold crimping machines for twenty-f'
$ dollars to thirty dollars made by o.
n high priced labor, as you call'it, al
&c made a good thing. The pauper Grim
ing machine from Europe is not SO
IS for less than forty dollars. Boston le
n ter copying presses pay well, selliI
y them at five dollars each. Pauper maj
e. ones from England cannot be sold lie
IT. than seven dollars. Boston stationeI
Or is now sold where ! I'M as cheap at
e. tail as it is in Boston. The pauper st
u tionery from England costs 20 per Ger
is more"
~ 1t is often claimed hat English ma
ufacturers have the benefit of a mu,
ed lower rate of interest than our man
"a fa~cturers, and that they can, therefor
IS carry longer credits in South Americ
to and West Indian trade. This claim, n
o. Murphy said, he had found by his ov
CO observation to be false.
d Whenever 1t is pointed out that
u sell so little in these southern mark,
20 the protectionists are ready with tn,
stale assertions about slack of shippi
u and postal facilities" This was hea
to the point Of disgust during the rece
subsidy raid in the last session of &C
gress. The falsity of all this was poi
hn ed out by Mr.. Murphy. He said: "Wa
10. of steamship communication is Z
M other supposed obstac' to our dol
,e- southern trade. The fact has been
ID some years that to all the countri
IA say as far south as the mouth of
al Amazon, within that limit the stea
Sc, ship communication with the Uni
he States is six times greater than u
de with all the countries of Europe &C
ed bined. i shall venture to say Il
.ss three-ffths Of the mails for Great b
&c, ain from that territory now p
ID. through the New York post Office. l
re- yious to the first of January last D,
ca. age to the United States by uns
sidized steamship lines, going once
twice or three times a week, was
ma cents per ore-haif ounce. Postage
~ the contract mail lines OF Great b
hi ain, going 70 Great Britain every
days, was eight cents per obs
ounce"