Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-30
BRAZIL AND RECIPROCITY.
Figures showing That Republican
Claims or an Increase of Trade
Through Blaine's Diplomacy Are
UnfOunded.
From the National Democrat.


sailed from Brazil, and it discovers niue h
American merchandise therein, the pro-
duce of all parts of the country, and it
proceeds to sing the praises of reciprocity
which, So far as it goes, is tariff reform
the thing above al others that the Iris
bune detests.
Why, bless your soul, you poor old
Tribunel This export trade TO Brazil has
been going on for years. you had been
reading the National Democrat you would
have learned lot about it, Among
other things you would have learned that
one or two new lines of steamers star led
in to get a portion of this trade last year
before there was any reciprocity agrees
ment. and that the United States and Bra
iii Mail Steamship company wants a sub
sidy, not to enable it to beat its foreign
competitors. but 10 enable it to beat its
Philadelphia and Baltimore RIVALS, which
are cutting under its extortionate freight
charges.
Furthermore, if the Tribune had read
some recent numbers of this paper it
would have learned that the export trade
to Brazil was much larger than Mr. Blaine
told Mr.. Harrison, for Mr. Blaine's fig
ures, We have already shown, sre not an
average for three years, but are the fg>
ures Tor 1888, very poor year for eX>
ports compared with 1889 and 1890 the
figures for which were suppressed.
This is the Tribune's comment on a Ie-
cent cargo to Brazil:
1t will be matter of interest to the
western and southern people whose rep
resentatives among the democrats in the
last congress voted and worked aga nst
any measure for the building up of the
shipping industry, that more than half of
the first cargo taken out of Brazil since
the PRONUNCIATION of the reciprocity
treaty consisted of the products of those
states to the value of nearly $1,000 GOO.
Lard from Ohio, resin from North Caro-
lima. cottonseed oil from South Carolins.
wheat, wheat starch flour, petroleum aul
bacon from Michigan. Wisconsin, Hi p
nois, Minnesota and the far west are al
finding their way through the door re-
publican diplomacy has opened into
Brazil. This is the ans wer fact makes to
all the follies of the free traders.
Now what are the facts? Two years
ago Secretary Blaine's reciprocity expert,
William Eleroy Curtis, compiled book
about the South American trade, which
Steamship company in getting subsidy,
and this compilation was published by
Secretary Blaine's branch of the govern
ment. On page IS Of that book may be
found statement of the declared value
of the articles composing the cargo of the
steamer Alliance, which sailed from New
York to Brazil April 2, 1889 The total
value of the cargo was 1901 Az. The
value of the cargo shipped last week and
which the Tribune says is going to fad
its way through the door republican di-
plomacy has opened into Brazil, is stated
in the Tribune's own Washington dis
patch to be about $500. 900, so that. so
far as the total cargo goes. there is 10
evidence that republican diplomacy has
opened any door that was previously
shut.
In his book of two years ago Mr.. Curtis
showed that the west and south furnished
4.09 per cent of one cargo and 90 so per
cent of another cargo, and $50. S03 worth
of the cargo OF April 2, 1889, already men,
toned. The Tribune's correspondence
that the west and south furnished some~
thing like sc per cent of the cargo worth
$500, 900 shipped last week This would
suggest that if republican diplomacy hiss
not increased our exports as q whole il
may have increased the share of that whole
which directly concerns the west and
south. But this is not true, and the re-
futation of il has already been published
in this paper. The sample cargoes Mr..
Curtis analy ses were shipped in 1883 or in
the early part of 1899. We have already
shown that the exports of lard. wheat and
some other agricultural products were
very small in 1888, considerably larger in
1889. and far larger yet IN 1890. all of
which crest expansion of our trade in Bra
I'll. amounting TO $2,000,0)0 year in-
crease, was secured by simple commercial
means, without republican diplomacy and
without steamship subsidies.
Our export of wheat to Brazil was
$50, 900 in 1888. 1894, 337 in 1889 and
1916, 1853 in 1890. Besides. wheat WAS
on the Brazilian free list before the recip>
rocity scheme. Our export of wheat
-four to Brazil was $2,77S 353 in 1888,
1851. 90s in 1899. and SO ,304, 800 IN
1890. OF beans and peas our exports to
Brazil were 1878 in 1888. 1865 in
1889, and $43. 1S9 in 1890. Our pork
exports to Brazil we're S44, 500 in 1888
S104, 1929 in 1889. aud SAG. 1913 in 1879,
Our cottonseed export TO Brazil was 81
376 in 1888. 81 237 in 1889 and So, 794 ~
1890. Our coal export to Brazil WAS
nothing in 1888. Ss47 in 1889, and $40.
$50 in 1890 Our naval stores exports 10
Brszil were $5s. AS in 1888. $3.50, 361 10
1889, and $91, 1903 in 1890. Our lard
export to Brazil was 1859 067 in 1888.
$4S4 500 in 1889, and 81, 500 255 in 1890
Now in view of this extension OF our
Brazilian export trade in the past two
years it is singular that the west aui
south, which then furnished one third Of
a cargo, now furnish two-thirds of
cargo, and how does the republican di
plomacy of this spring account for an in
crease in trade that has been going on
since 1882 Our total exports to BraZ i
were worth $7.063. S92 in 1888. fsc
year, SO. .511 in 1889. and 81, 902 496
in 1890. In the same ratio the exports
ohauII avaaad GA OOO OQ0 o. A. a,.--