The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

nal revenue stamps as now provided for origi-
nal packages placed in bond.
Resolped That we commend to the favorable
consideration of the wholesale liquor trade in
this State the proposition that they should
patronize local distiliers wherever it is estab-
fished that they are able to supply neutral
spirits and alcohol equal in quality and as low
in price as can be obtained from distillers out
side of the State, and that in the event the
local distillers may not be able to supply all
that is needed in this respect, then they should
exert their influence with the spirit-producing
combination in the Eastern States to open and
operate distilleries in this State for the supply
OF this Coast
Resolued, That the permanent organization
provided Tor by tins convention din be requested
duty shall be to Investigate fully the natural
resources of all sections, and especially those
in the vicinity OF manufacturing cities and
towns for the development of natural gas and
petroleum for fuel and lighting purposes.
Further, the committee on resolutions
reported having considered the communi-
cation of A. K. Coney, Consul-General
of Mexico, concerning the proposed Ex-
position of Industries>and Fine Arts to be
held in the City of Mexico in 1896, and it
reported as follows:
We are not sufficiently informed as to the pur-
poses and objects of the said exposition the
method OF Its management and its financial re-
sources to enable us to make any definite
recommendations 10 our manufacturers and
producers. We are informed that the Governor
has appointed commission of eight gentlemen
to represent the interests of this State in this
matter and also that the demands which they
have made upon the managers have not been
satisfactorily acted upon.
We therefore recommend that committee
of three members of this convention be ap-
pointed to confer with the commissioners APP
pointed by the Governor and to take such
action in making public the merits OF the pro-
posed enterprise as they may deem proper after
such conference through the officers of the
permanent organization provided for by this
convention.
The following directors were then chosen
to carry out the purpose of the convention
under permanent organization:
H. T. Scott, ship-building: F. D. Code. can
ming; Z. C. Williams, president Mendocino
Lumber Company; A. Mclaughlin, brewer;
John Hammond, car-builder; G. w. Snyder,
cigars; w. F. Bowers, rubber; J. P. Currier,
silk; Julian Sonntag, powder; NJ. McGlynn,
labor; r. S. Moore, iron; Louis Saroni candy;
James Sproule, seeds; A. sbarboro, wine; J.
Mills Dawes, publishing.
Another resolution which prevailed was
as follows:
Resolped. That the executive committee of
the association shall at once wait upon the
owners and architects of new buildings about
TO be erected throughout the city and State,
upon the owners OF street railways, upon the
Boards of Supervisors, upon the directors of
the new valley railroad and all others contem-
plating the purchase OF Eastern material and
endeavor as far as possible to have them pa
tronize home industry
Richard Lambert late Consul of the
United States at Mazatlan, Mexico, was
then introduced. He said:
have listened with much interest and great
profit to the different papers which have been
read before you by the members of your con-
vention, representing the different branches
of manufacture now successfully operated in
this State.
am also Californian, arriving here in May,
1850. l have continuously maintained legal
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nearly twenty years, consequently is it not
natural that should feel an earnest interest
in the commercial welfare and prosperity of my
adopted State?
While many of the papers read here complain
| or the lack of local patriotism in not buying
| exclusively our home manufactures, 1 ask
would it not be wiser and better to direct our
| energies toward the broader and more profit
i able field OF foreign trade?
The cheaper transportation from the East to
! the West by the Northern overland railroad
| combined with the cheaper labor of the East
| has diverted very large portion of the trade
of those sections which once belonged to u.s.
| namely, the Northeastern Territories the North
! ern States and Alaska.
The bountifnl subsidies granted by the Brit
ish Government TO her mail steamships have
! divided our China and Japan trade and is to-
| day seriously menacing that OF Honolulu and
| Australia. Consequently we are necessarily
compelled TO look southwark along the coast of
| Mexico and Central America as the only field
| we may reasonably call our vantage ground
through geographical position, water commu-
nication and long-sustained pleasant business
| relations. Mexico itself may be termed a sill
ver-producing country, although her exports
embrace hides, india-rubber, pearls, different
| woodsof commerce and some coffee.
/ Guatemala, Salvador, Honduras and Mica
ragua rely more largely on coffee cocoa and
| tropical fruits. The majority part of the former
article goes East or to Europe from ports on the
! Caribbean Sea. German line of steel steam
ships from Hamburg, via the Straits OF Magel-
! Ian, takes freight to Europe for only S21 per
ton from San Jose de Guatemala and Champe-
/ rico. The Germans, as rule, control the mar
| kets between our southern boundary line and
Patagonia. They have accomplished ii by
establishing branch houses in every town Of
any importance, including nearly every line of
! goods in their enormous stocks giving long
| credits on fabulous profit margins and Incl
dentally conducting sort OF banking business.
Their drafts on Europe are obtainable at from
3 to z per cent less than drafts on New York.
Another grave and solemn objection have
also heard raised by our merchants They say
they do not care to do business with countries
! that have so many revolutions Ordinarily
speaking that would be the prudent and con-
servative course topursue in any other country
and with most any other people, but it is differ
ent down there.
My advice to you, gentlemen, is this, and l
| say it after eight years experience: Whenever
you get an order first ascertain the financial
standing OF your client; that being satisfactory,
/ fill the order and ship at once. If a revolution
| is started duplicate 1t on your own account.
! Those so-called revolutions are trade harvests.
| Times are good and money is plenty.
In a majority OF instances they are gotten up
either directly or indirectly by the merchants
! themselves. Once under way they have no
| time to bother with them, being too much oc-
! cupied in selling goods. The military politi-
! clans attend to the balance; the fighting is all
done by Indians, and their battles are about as
! harmless as prize-fghts in this country.
A responsible merchant down there is as
| tenacious OF his commercial integrity as any
one of our merchants here. Our shipping and
commission houses in San Francisco doing
business with those countries can inform YOU
as accurately of the standing of those foreign
houses we can inform ourselves of the stand
| ing of our own people. ~
1t may be of interest for YOU to know
that we have no commercial treaty with Mex
leo. Germany has one, and by virtue of one of
its provisions German vessels pay harbor duties
according to their own register American
vessels are compelled to be measured, and in
some instances it greatly exceeds the American
register.
While all European countries devote large
portion of their powers and energies toward
building up their commerce and manufactures
our Government officials seem to limit their
| exertions to getting into Office and obstructing
our commerce. The late lamented Blaine
seems to have been the only one of our leading
statesmen who grasped this subject intelli-
gently.
Since the Rothschilds and the New York
bankers succeeded in destroying the CONNER
cial value of silver, and with it the Commerce
of silver producing countries, the general con-
censes of opinion among leading men of the
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