New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-18

naf Of orr general carsocs ale Agriculture
product, - i there anything sectional IN 'ha'
| j there any element OF partisan poh'lcS w I'll
effort TO sustain the feet we now nave ana u
increase It's proportions hereafter for the carr!
ing abroad of products which every American
citizen from Maine 10 Texas helps 10 DING
forth? Captain Lachlan. of the Brazilian Line
went further than Mr. Hughes in exhibiting
the general nature of his cargoes' lie sun
mitted his ships manifests. An average one,
I showing the cargo OF the Alllanca, Whlch Sdlle1
in August 1889, contains this eloquent exhibit
of the values of its contents by states hch-
lucky. So, 900; New York, S43.49o; Penn-
sylvania. S1I.167 New-Jcrscy Sl5.233 Mas
sachusctts. Sl5.Os7 Iowa, $4,000; WiScon-
sin S1o.3O7: Louisiana. 5000 Mary
~. or A: Georgia. -. O04 Connecticut, S7,l46
Minnesota. .59S % Indiana, Sc 400; ONO,
SG252; Illinois. 5.7I4; Missouri, S',l'9 ;
New Hampshire, Sl.765: Delaware. s3,2SS
Maine. S2.74l: Mississippi S2.73S: Texas
S2.447: Virginia. S2,4O1; South Carolina
$3.50: Rhode Island, S2.16l; Wyoming
- $50: Michigan. 81 O62 Tennessee, S2,OOO
! Alabama, SIs92 Vermont, sl,S5l; Kansas
ST 100: California. Sl,G3O; North Carolina,
81 453 Oregon. 81 1876: Dakota, 500 Flor
ida. S344: Nebraska. $40 total, S29", 81 80.
This was an average cargo 1t contained
everything as Captain Lachan expressed 1t,
| &" from a locomotive to a match" every KIND OF
manufacture and every kind OF agricultural
| product. In the face of such evidence n hum
drcd times repeated in the committees hear
| ingS what is the sense in pretending either
that we have not caIgOeS III plenty or that inc!
are not diversified in their nature or not drawn
from every State in the Union substantially
according to its population
Is there no way of inducing Congress TO take
a sensible, bipartisan view of this great qucS-
ton? All that the Democrats say about the
advantages of Free Trade in securing foreign
markets might be true without i'll the least al
fccting the situation. The foreign markets are
already open. We are exporting and import
ing to-day in degree immensely greater than
before the War. NJ we had ten million more
cargoes and if they could be sold for song,
there would be no way of getting them out
without ships. and no way of getting ships and
keeping them except by killing off the'competl-
ton of the subsidized foreigners. The two
lines 10 which we have just referred the Cuban
and brazilian, are to-day antagonlzcd by Eng
ish German and French lines lloatcd by heavy
subsidies The Cuban line has not paid divi-
dcnd in four years. The Brazilian never did.
but is kept going only through the generosity
of the Brazilian Government. Both must be
abandoned unless the people OF the United
States consider the thirty millions of trade they
now do. and the eighty millions they might
easily do. worth m annual investment of $500
900 spent in protecting them against the ships
of other countrc, sailed by subsidy. 1t Is not
for the lines already in existence. however. that
this invaluable measure is proposed. There
can be no more doubt than there is of the
multiplication table that if this bill becomes a
law. within ten year, we shall be Carrying in
our own ships not II but 30 per cent of our
cargocS. that our foreign trade will be double
what it now is, that the proceeds OF the foreign
postal service will fully pay the tonnage boun-
ties. and that we shall have a feet Of steel com
mcrcial ships which of itself will make our
naval strength respectable