Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-03

ance between buyer and seller. All this,
however, will be changed without much
trouble.
To-day only SIX transportation lines are
running between the United States and these
! southern ports. while 80 lines connect the
latter with Europe. According to Post
master General Wanamaker's plan the
| steamer service from San Francisco to
Panama is to be SO changed that the time
will he one-half what il is now, and Che line
will be extended to Valparaiso, connecting
with the New York and New Orleans steam.
ers at Panama. Thus the distance from San
Francisco to Panama will be reduced to 10
or II days; it is 3,254 miles. The distance
from New York to Valparaiso, 4 $40 miles,
the time for which is now 30 to 80 days. is to
be shortened to 10 to Is days. Inasmuch as
tine time on these trips is in great part oc-
cupied by unloading and loading at different
ports, it is suggested that separate lines of
steamers be run-one of fast boats for mail,
packages and through freights, stopping
only at the principal port in each country,
and the other making pauses at intermediate
points. New steamships of course will have
to be built for this service.
On the Other Side.
The boats plying between New York and
the Isthmus OF Panama are very slow; the
trip takes nine days A reorganized service
will accomplish the distance, 1000 miles in
five days. For the east coast a double sys-
tenn is likewise mplated-including a
New York and Buenos Ayres and an ac-
commodation line for stations between. Ai-
vertisenent. is to be made for bids for
through fast service to the Argentine, as
we'll as for a slow freight service to Brazil.
At all events this is the plan SO far as it has
been formed.
The reason wherefore the Southern Re-
publlcs are disposed to 90 into this reeip-
rocity agreement with the nited States is
chiefly that they nope to find in this coun-
try market for their agricultural prod
ucts. They have nothing else to sell be-
cause these Latin-Americans have NO
mechanical ingenuity whatever. But the
taking off of duties on their products at our
ports is expected to give the greatest possi-
Bile encouragement to their planters, who
will find here an open market for their
coffee, sugar, rubber, feeces, woods, choco-
late and chinchona. All these things ought
to be much cheaper in this country before
long.
Good Thing for South America.
On the other hand. in South America
many things which have heretofore been re-
garded as luxuries by the rich will be
brought by the removal Of tariff within easy
reach Of the poor. They will have wheaton
bread at moderate price. which, up TO the
present time, has cost 40 to 30 cents loaf,
and they will not be obliged to use as a
substitute corn in the highlands. where
alone it can be grown, or mixture of beans
and manioca jams in the lowlands. The
staff of life will be manufactured in every
kitchen, in Yankee ovens, instead of being
turned out by wholesale at fancy prices by
huge bakeries in the cities for distribution
in the towns and through the interior.
Even biscuits and crackers-unheard Of
delight!-wili be fed at small rates
to the INDECENT. Likewise New England
Goldfish, the market price of which has been
hitherto go cents a pound, will be reduced
to the level OF common comesrible, no
longer to be monopolzed by the gilded aris-
tocracy. Nay, more. these brethren of ours
in the Southland will even have butter to
spread on their bread-a dellcacy hitherto
almost unatraiDable by them, because, for
sooth cream will not rise in their climate
and there are no conveniences for refrigers-
ton, such as cool springhouses. To-day
l. ,00C pounds OF butter are imported into
these republics for every pound that they
manufacture, and thus the price has been
kept up to this time at 81 the cake with
COW brand. Similarly, they will no longer
be compelled TO pay 20 cents for ham or
bacon, merely because they are unable, for
lack of sufficient corn, to raise hogs.
RENE BACHE