New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-26

AS YOU viii observe tha: o. the 100000 bushels
o. grain exported in the past two calendar months
from the ports named New-York furnished less
than two and quarter million OF bushels. and the
larger proportion OF the grain exported from your
city was delivered before the Joint Traffic Associa-
ton went into operation.
AS to the why the grain and other trafnc
Is leaving New-York. Ike lear.ng a sinking
ship, frey are be found IN the fact o. the out
rageous terminal exac,ions levied upon the grain
trade az the ports o. Buffalo and Newly rk
coupled with diferentia rail- rate OF full cent
bushel In other words the dirrerential rate COM
b.nei WITH the grain elevator charges az the before
mentioned ports amounts 10 $40 per thousand
bushels as against New Orleans transfer charge OF
only s25 per thousand bushels. This export tax
on the States grain trade. levied by The railroad
grain elevator combine. and their discrimination
against the State amounts 10 $4,000 or each NIL
hon Of bushels exported. as against Ncw-orleans's
charge for the service o. only S.25O on a
corresponding number OF bushels sen; abroad
At the same time the railroad docks at competing
seaports free the air we breathe TO snip
ping while the wharfage vessels OF New-York =
piracy Of the modern stripe OF which the piracy o..
the ancient days sinks into utter inflgni'cAnce ~,
s TO place roI 40 bp, sa f
north and sou;h Of us us resards terminal cHaTses
the State have been siaughiered by the Legislature
for more than quarter OF century ,.,, .v,,a
heaped upon the States commerce at New-York and
BurdlO | fully convinced thht IT the biIs re-
ferred to enacted into law az this session OF the
storing to New-York her lost trailc. and with the
nearby completion OF the proposed improvements Z"
our canals much larger volume OF business Viii be
poured into the lap Of New York than ever before
For the reason tina; II properly attended 20, no
route under the sky can furnish as cheap ana OK
peditious outlet from the West to the s"a0glrq ~
can be furnished By the State ana port Of New
awakened from their lethGrgy and put forth az
effort New York be made me cheapest ana
most available port on the Atlantic s~acoast to do
business AZ. When that time arrives. all business
and property interest Will be gwen boom meyer
dreamed Of before.
ders for New York bu; has done little or Moth
Ing assist II In perfecting the Stats far superior
commercial advantages. IL would be out % pace
for me say 10 you OF what avail! Il would p" Tor
New-York to spend t2ool1o or &lOHp,eu 20 con
struct new docks TO accommodate shipping oT 70
expend s. 5000 for canal Improvements. or 20 buf
sky-scraping edlfces costing untold millions o. do
falo ably assisted by New-York railroad magnates.
are to be permitted by the Legislature TO de3c'-
ately destroy NeW-YoTk's commercial supremacy.
Therefore ] eoiici; your earnest cooperation and
assistance in enactinc into law IN, aforesaid bills
10 the desirab Die end that the commercial tendency
Of the State and port OF Ncw-York be assured
for all time TO come; that. too. by a trnlng state
appropriation which will be returned TO the people
OF New-York many fold as business ana financial
investment
may add. what pity II s that NewYork. the
foremost city OF America made 50 by commerce ana
manufacture, with all It's wealth and grandeur. IL
minus OF an Official department OF commerce 70
Slipping upon which her prosperity and greatness so
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