The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-18

tive powes. of the Big Four, and r. A.
Laws, mechanical engineer, returned on
Saturday from schenectady. The locomo-
tive works expect to begin delivery of the
six new passenge engines by the middle of
Schenectady locomotive works are now I'M
questionably the most complete in the coun-
try; During the dull times the company
entirely remodeled the buildings and en-
larged the capacity of the plant.
England Our s.CurbstOne
To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
In an editorial on foreign trade a city
paper says:
T h Mckinley organs are much dis
ment in cur trade with Great Britain. When
it IS remembered that these critics are the
same that have condemned the new tariff,
because of its supposed unfavorable effect
upon our trade with Germany, France and
derstand the process of reasoning which
leads them to condemn the law because Of
its favorable effect upon orr British trade.
England is our best customer. She takes
more of our products than any other nation,
and it is, therefore, of the most vital inn
portance that our trade relations with her
should be satisfactory"
Now, as far as our trade with Great Brit
ain is concerned, no one can object, but
her methods in connection with France and
Germany in regard to the m of the
Western hemisphere is where the objection
comes in. We would like to trade with our
near neighbors and not be debarred from an
equal right with them in Spanish-American
countries. / would like the writer of the
article in question to inform us why our
vessels go for. coffee, sugar, hides, ETC.,
empty or in ballast. in order to return with
the products of those countries, making the
round trips pay but one way. Why is it
that our vessels, for, years. have paid port
dues exceeding by 400 per cent. those paid
by English, French, German or Spanish vesv
sells, If it was not to exclude our trade?
Why is it that American goods are loaded
at New York, for Liverpool, Glasgow, Ply
mouth and other places, under charter for
an American port south of US, and Ameri-
can goods, manifested from England as
English goods, and never landed there, but
returned among a full cargo made up in
that country and landed within one hun
dred miles of the United States under a diff
ferential duty in favor of that
country of 400 per cent? Why is
it that American shipping is driven
from the high seas, when at peace with all
the world and in competition only with
European nations? Why is it the products
of our mechanics and iron manufactures,
conceded to be equal to the best. are scarce
~ used In Spanish-American countries of
late years? Why is it that our wheat and
farm products are not allowed to enter on
an equality with European nations, they
being originally products of the United
kotdlCS ia ult d Inherent DdI-
ner, thus discriminating against direct
shipments in American bottoms as against
other nations? Why is it that our vessels
enter southern ports in ballast, while Brit
ish ships from English ports enter loaded
with American and British products?
The editor speaks as follows of Great
Britain: "She takes more OF our products
than any other nation, and it is therefore
relations with her should be satisfactory
ALI this may be true, for she stands on the
highway of nations as sole mistress; her
dues. She is the .curbstone broker of
foreign countries south of us. and her
agents, with those on the continent, have
exclusive control of the foreign markets
poses reciprocity with this country by for
eign nations, fearing competition with
her commercial interests, and there
wants Of her customers. Why should we
not desire to cultivate a wish to
modities? Do we wish to give Britain all
our carrying trade upon the high seas be-
n eauee sn eop pdgs us a to .. us? su she uses ees's her
energies to exclude us from trading with
them because her interests in the line of
a broker or trader might be injured. She
wishes us, as a nation, to do all our trad
ing through her brokerage department upon
her terms. Again. the editor says, ''Even
ers by the growing English trade. "Thi is
twaddle: and reminds me of the grand
MI tA-tN w w. a ia hAAC teA-t
sale of gold bonds to replenish a sinking
treasury, whereby the brokers of Wall
So stands England to-day; she is our brok-
err on commerce with other nations, to
the exclusion Of our merchant marine.
He says. I'VE have all the ADVANTAGES of
reciprocity and they cost us comparatively
nothing. Other nations may wage war on
American products, but Great Britain is
always .rh; ready to take all she can GET
(NarnQnv the three ia ynJn6 nations make
treaties that we, as Americans. do, not
enjoy. They make treaties that exclude US
them the sole purchasers and purveyors of
importations. placing a penalty upon those
refer the writer to Spanish and Cuban
firms who have paid heavy penalties to
Spanish customs after a vessel load of
stroyed, because shipped direct from the
United States. | have seen tons of -four
from Steelton, Pa, landed and sacks cut
open by the customs officer by running a
knife in with a blade about one and one
fourth inch wide, sharp on both edges. to
probe the center and have seen three car
loads of boxed cans of petroleum and burn
ing fluid broken open. not one box in the
the flour and goods. This was done BY the
Spanish customs officers in the port of
Carmanera. Cuba. The goods belonged to.
Cubans. whose names l can give. and they
We're so treated because they were landed
from the States off an American vessel
direct. Had it been English. French or
German no such acts of Vandalism would
have been committed. The Americans who
trade with these countries can verify what
is here written. These countries deal with
the European countries because of nation
ality in one sense of the word and because
Of the bad condition in which articles ar
rive from this country through the vandal-
ism of the customs officers. who are sub
sidized indirectly by European agents. We
should not make any nation our curb
stone broker" o POPCLI
Indianapolis. March Is.
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