Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-06-12


is for markets abroad. The whole
people are awaking to it, for the
interdependence of interests is
such that the legitimate profits Of
any industry add to the prosperity
of all. The question of foreign
markets has not hitherto appealed
to Ameican manufacturers gener-
ally, for the reason that they have
had at home, as they still have, an
unrivaled market for nearly every
conceivable product of industry.
10 no other quarter of the world
have the manufacturers and arti-
sans Of Europe turned more long
ingly than to the United States.
The development of our trans
Mississippian wastes into populous
and wealthy states, with immense
cities and great railways, has been
alone greater achievement than
the most extensive colonization
work of any European country. It
was natural that the intelligent,
progressive, prosperous classes in
the West should appeal more
strongly to New England manu-
facturers than half-clad tribes in
Africa, for instance-with wants
for manufactures yet to be created,
with language strange to US, liv-
ing in countries almost inaccessi-
ble. Neither England nor Ger
many to-day would be SO largely
interested in the dark continent
/ had North America continued to
depend upon foreign manufactur-
ers.
Development at home, serving
to make of the United States a
homogeneous nation, solidifying
their interests, or making them
interdependent, and accumulating
a reserve of capital in safe fields,
has strengthened the country and
fitted it now to enter the lists of
international trade as a competitor
worthy of respect. This new de.
psrture of trade, however, de.
mands a new course of training, as
il were. Too many of us do moi
even know where ''tbe markets OF
the world" are, apart from such
centers as New York, Chicago and
Denver. The character of foreign
peoples, their languages and their
peculiarities of taste or customs
are all sealed book to as, even
when they occupy portions of our
own continent. There is, perhaps
no maker of wooden shoes in the
remotest hamlet of Europe who
does not know tina. his wares are
not suited to the United States
but the shipment on a venture OF
refrigerators from this country tC
points on the equator, where ice
! is unknown, has been undertaken
as a piece OF good business. Th'
most amazing mistake of all is tn,
, idea that the Congress at Wash
! ington can legislate our product
) into the hands of buyers abronC
who may not even know that vi
have a congress, and without an!
! effort on the part of the producers
: The secret of the success o
England. France aud Germany il
selling goods abroad has been il
their study of the countries TO b
. supplied and IN establishing ant
9 maintaining close relations will
. them. The independent, assert
o i've, enterprising American charaC
ter cannot fail to make its impress
y upon foreign commerce, just as
d has succeeded IN wrestling th
o American markets from foreig
control, when it is once fully an
p derstood that the route to ne'
fields Of trade does not lie throug
the halls of congress at Washing
ton. 1t is a mistake to assun
v that because England, for instanc'
- leads in the export trade with an
,t part of the world, it is useless fl
others to venture into the cam
/, field. AS we'll might American
a once have hesitaied to build loco
n motives or war ships.
"a Our sale of surplus product
A. naturally, will be in newer an
n uudeveloped countries rather iha
f. in the countries of fEurope-whic
began before we did to suffer frol
overproduction-except in paten
's ed specialties, which will sell pur
80 ly on their merits, and such ra
materials as cannot be bougl
4 elsawbera Itisnot AZ their hom,