Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-01

10 now beng printed mere IN washington.

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10 now being prlnreu mere IN
A mere glance at the recently published
official document given mo by DR.. Zeballos
convinced me that tho panic in Argentina
was at least three times us bad MS that in
this country. In 1878 their imports frolu
the United States reached SIS, l67, GIG,
which caused great rejoicing in both coun-
tries and some very h-American
eulogies upon the fiscal policy of Argen-
tina. Suddenly, in less than three months
apparently, they fell one-half and in 1875
had sunk to 81, $50, no, nor did they again
pass the old figures till 1883. The rise was
phenomenal, and in 1889 we exported to
Argentina lumber, iron and steel and a
few other articles to the value Of SIG, SOL
$50. The fall was even more sudden and
destructive than before, and in 1891 their
imports from us were but SO, 445, 1914, and
they went on shrinking until they but
slightly exceeded SO, 600, OOO. In 1898 the
revival was marked, and DR.. Zeballos
thinks that within a few years our trade
to his country will greatly exceed the
maximum of 1889.
Our imports from them are far more
regular. Thus in 1878 we bought of them
to the value of 50, 032, 945, and with small
variations this grew to 81, 726, 691, nor has
it much declined since. Thus it appears
that in spite of our neglect, if there has
been such neglect as is charged, Argen-
tina is doing more for us thar VIC are do.
ing for ourselves, tho balance of trade be.
Ing taken as an index. 1t further appears
that OIL 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 wo sent
1886, 935 worth of flour.
From the tremendous falling off shown
In their statistics for that year I Judge
that their crops failed. Until very recent
~ hides constituted more than half of their
shipments to us, wool coming next and
nearly all the rest consisting OF horsehair,
shccpskins and byproducts of the cattle
business, such as bones and bono dust. l
must say that tho gentleman who does the
translating may be a very fine Spanish
scholar, but his English will bear watch.
ing. Here is q specimen, from an account
of n native author, which must awe fol-
lowed the original Spanish-American flo
ridity: "The originality II attractiveness
of this ingenious cpopee is due to it's To-
cal color and cxactness of picture of wild
life, and also to the noble cloqucnce of it's
style, but, above all, to tho worship of the
native soil it expresses, and to the vir-
ginal perfume of the beloved country that
i~mpregnates each page, factoring our
senses with f%ragrances like those that en-
anate from tho plain refreshed by the first
drops of q summer rain"
Views Of u Statistician.
l was so much discouraged over our
farmers prospects by what I heard at tho
Argentine legation that 1 went to the
agricultural department for comfort and
had to laugh at the first thing l witnessed
there. 1t was SO very typical Of the pres
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 A. Robinson, the
statistician. The secretary added a little
moro to my discouragment by giving tho
latest Information to the effect that Eurape
is in q fair way to enter OH a general boy
colt against our meat products, but as he
was making ready to leave for a few days
handed me over to the statistician. The
latter smiled ut the figures given by DR..
Zeballos and said:
"They always promise a much larger
export down there than they have, but tho
main point is now plain to everybody
that the day of high priced wheat is over
unless there should be a worldwide fail.
ure, which is almost III impossibility. A
bad season OH the eastern continent is apt
to come with a good n III the western,
and the same with the northern and south
ern hemispheres. Wheat sowing is going
on somewhere every working day in tho
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 hat the worlds wheat supply will
equalize every year. Supply and demand
appear to have become automatic, so that
a very little advance in price will produce
a 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 q very important item for the
United States. In a great many other lines
we have but just mado a beginning.
by the way, this recent item in the pa
pers that the surplus wheat is disposed OF
is u great mistake. There are over So.
900, 900 bushels in sight and probably as
much more in the barns. The farmers
ought not to be deceived in that particular
Wheat will probably, almost certainly, in
fact, remain low in price, but many other
things will soon become highly profitable
that is, if our lawmakers pursue any
kind of a reasonable policy" And hero
Mr.. Robinson INDUCED in some very point
ed remarks on recent events and silver
which need not be added to the enormous
mass Of that sort of literature already in
stock. j. B. PARKE.
He Held the Super's Hat.
Thew saw that Edwin R0oth conI6 ba