Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-12-20
DECORATED FRENCH cHlNA-GwlNe BROS.

and merchant must soon adopt such
lawful and vigorous measures in his
foreign relations and projects as Will
not only give us worldwide political
and natural powers, but commercial
and manufacturing credits strictly in
favor of this country and in accordance
with its wealth and commercial ability.
The exports of the republic OF Vene-
zuela are mostly coffee, cocoa, hides,
skins, drugs, guano, copper, dye-wood
and gold, all of use and demanded in
the consumption of this country, but
its import wants are mostly wheat,
flour, lead, cotton, iron, steel, oils, wire
and woolens and also manufactured to-
baccO and furnishing lines, and the
features of trade with that country
which must very soon receive greater
and more successful attention at the
hands Of Americas commercial inter-
ests to the end that the people and the
governments in the western world shall
receive the natural commercial returns
which belong to them, and in this re-
spect it cannot be doubted but what
the lawful profits in the commercial in
dustry of the Latin American republics
belong as of natural right to the people
of the United States.
This condition of trade is not alone
with the republic of Venezuela as COM
mercial industry is compared between
this country and England, but extends
throughout the whole of South and
Central America. This fact has re-
Gently dawned upon our country, and
a1
where as in this city, the near future
will see some sort OF business jealousy
exert itself in the interest of Americas
commercial industries to a greater de-
gree of practical results than ever be-
fore in the history of this country.
And, as remarked to a Register repre-
sentative by one of this city's leading
merchants: 1T is more probable that
the present controversy with England
Will result in the stimulation of greater
commercial activity by this country to
the south than war with that country"
as the more direct attention of the
American people will be diverted to-
wards those countries as the result of
the present Venezuelan question.
The business and commercial inter-
ests in Wheeling have a good many
different plans and ideas. more or less
completely thought of and suggested, as
a means for securing the country the
proper balance of trade However wise
they may be, it is noticeable that the
ideas and opinion held and measures
advocated are devoid of a political cast
and strictly in a business line. AS
general course of action, it is suggested
that the commercial and manufacture
ing interests of this country must enter
at once upon a conquest for the trade of
the western world by means of the most
vigorous and active measures known
or that can be deduced from business
experience and education. AS support
ing this line of action, the separate
classes of industries must for them
selves and by virtue of modern business
methods push their separate claims for
business in the countries of the south
and more fully study the wants Of the
people there and the use of their pro-
ducts in any form in this country.
The experiences of business the last
two years here in this country; the con-
ditions throughout the whole world,
which in some form seem to more di-
rectly come in view now with the COM
plications between this country and
England over Venezuela, are making the
business and manufacturing interests
of this city and country assert in louder
tOnues than before that what this coun-
try needs, if anything, is more extern
sive markets for its products. and more
extensive business. and manufacturing
conquests for the present, at least, in
South and Central America.