The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-30

Argentina lumber, iron and steel ana q
few other articles to the value of SIG, SOL
$50 The fall was even more sudden and
destructive than before, and In 1881 their
imports from US were but IS, 44o, 1874, and
they went On shrinking until they but
slightly exceeded g, 900, 600. In 1898 the
revival was marked, and DR.. Zeballos
thinks that within few years our trade
70 his country will greatS exceed the
maximum of 1889.
Our imports from them are far more
regular. Thus in 1878 we bought of them
to the value of So, 032, 9i5, and with small
variations this grew to 81, zee, 691, nor has
it much declined since. Thus it appears
that in spite Of our neglect. II there has
been such neglect as is charged, Argen-
tina is doing more for US than we are do
ing for ourselves. the balance OF trade be-
ing taken as an index 1t further appears
that our shipment TO that country consists
almost entirely of lumber, kerosene and
manufactures OF steel and iron, but there
have been years in which we sent them
large amounts of furniture, railroad ma
terial and clothing, and in 1875 we sent
1886, 935 worth of flour.
From the tremendous falling OF shown
in their statistics for that year l Judge
that their crops failed. Until very recent
IL hides constituted more than half of their
SHIPMENTS TO Us, wool coming next and
nearly all the rest consisting Of hOrsehair,
sheepskins ana byproducts Of the cattle
business, such as bones and bone dust. l
must say that the gentleman who does the
translating may be a very fine Spanish
scholar, but his English Will bear watch
ing Here is a specimen, from an account
OF a native author, which must have fol-
lowed the original Spanish no.
ridity: 1.-THE originality and attractiveness
of this ingenious epopee is due TO its To-
cal color and exactness of picture Of wild
life, and also to the noble eloquence of its
style, but, above all, to the worship Of the
native soil it expresses, and TO the viz
sinal perfume of the beloved country that
impregnates each page, flattering our
senses with fragrances like those that en-
anate from the plain refreshed by the first
drops Of summer rain.
Views of q Statistician.
was so much discouraged over our
farmers prospects by what heard at the
Argentine legation that / went TO the
agricultural department. for comfort and
had TO laugh at the first thing ! witnessed
{.
ent condition in congress and the country.
Secretary Morton and Statistician Robin
son were in a very animated, not TO say
heated, discussion of the gold basis and
free silver coinage and their comparative
advantages for the farmer. Secretary Nor
toms views are well known, and no Popu-
list or silver state senator is more pro-
nounced or emphatic in favor OF free coin
age than is Hon. Henry 4. Robinson, the
statistician. The secretary added little
more to my discouragment by giving the
latest information to the effect that Europe
is in a fair way to enter on general boy
colt against our meat products, but as he
was making ready to leave for few days
handed me over to the statistician. Tho
latter smiled at the figures given by DR..
Zeballos and said:
They always promise a much larger
export down there than they have, but the
main point is now plain to everybody
that the day Of high priced wheat is over
unless there should be worldwide fail
ure, which is almost an impossibility. n
bad season on the eastern continent is apt
to come with good one on the western,
and the same with the northern and south
ern hemispheres. Wheat sowing is going
Oh somewhere every working day in the
year, and if it were to appear that our
harvest was going TO be short they might
and probably would sow more at once in
the southern hemisphere, and so it looks
to me that the worlds wheat supply will
eoualize every year. Supply and demand
appear to have become automatic, so that
a very little advance in price will produce
q great increase in supply. But wheat is a
very small item, and there is really no rea-
son why it should be the most important
or even a very important item for the
United States In great many other lines
we have but just made beginning.
by the way, this recent item in the pa
pers that the surplus wheat is disposed of
is great mistake There are over So
600. 600 bushels in sight and probably as
much more in the barns. The farmers
ought not 10 he deceived III that particular.
Wheat will probably, almost certainly, in
fact, remain low in price, but many other
things will soon become highly profitable
that is, IL our lawmakers pursue any
kind of reasonable policy" And here
Mr.. Robinson INDUCED in some very point
cd remarks on recent events and silver
which need not be added to the enormous
mass OF that sort OF literature already in
stock. j. Il. PARKE-