Evening journal., 1898-06-20
RADE WITH SPAIN.
ticles of Commerce Between This
Country and That.
le Dons Are Not Dependent Upon
the United States TO Any Great
Extent for Supplies of
Any Kind.

Has it occurred to you to inquire just
pat we get from and send to Spain,
d, therefore, just how inconvenient
AZ would be in this respect? OF
ursc, one way to get at the matter
ould be to look up the statistics; an
her is to pay visit to our own great
philadelphia commercial museum
wn on South Fourth ST. eet and hunt
e matter out for ourselves. Once up
the room where are shown the goods
pain has TO dispose Of, it takes scant
me to decide that wG can manage to
orry along with non4 of her products
a pinch. First, thEre's tall fiber
llled ramio; we don't import a dol
RS worth. Then a kind of cress from
hich ropes and hammocks are made,
nd palm fiber which is converted into
ans. Sabots, too, and At sorts of wood,
ome for dyeing purposes, but the sort
lat counts most is cork oak, and the
art of the bark that makes the best
orks IS right here in full view. We
ave corls from Spain to the value of
13O,650 a year. Sounds convivial,
oesn't it,? Wines make pretty show
ng, there being any number of vintages.
With sherry and malaga, of course, lead
ng. Olive oil, too, in every sort of bot
le, and annis in every state.
Licorice is the star importation. We
re insatiate licorice consumers, it
GEMS, and here one sees licorice tied
Up in bundles Of faggots and also in
black pills of various shapes. There
ire nuts, too; almonds and hazel nuts
Df four varieties. The pine fruit looks
ike onions. There's St. Johns bread,
esame, garbanzos-these are to Spain
what beans are to Boston, though
hey're said to taste more like hard peas
not well cooked-maccaroni, corn and
iardlnes. We could get along without
these; it's only the cor'ys that would
bother us. The cork oak fourishes in
Catalania and Genoa, DIR. Wiederlein
says, though we could probably get
them in Morocco and Algiers. To come
down to figures, we import from the
land of Isabella about 100000 year;
fruits TO the amount of $1,4OO, 900;
wines, S5OO,OOO. and you'll be glad tc
know that a good part CT the Bordeaux
over which lips are smacked Is in reali-
ty Spanish wine; iron ore, 100000, and
chemicals, including drugs and licorice
S5OO,OOO.
AS for Spain. that far-away land in
which are situated the eastles of SC
many of us, she Is one Of the countrie,
not dependent on us for food products
Altogether these food products amounr
TO only about 100000. AS for stavel
and headings for those endless casks O.
wine, the lack of these might worrl
her; however. she could get them a
second hand from the other European
countries. If figures interest you
you'll like TO know that we export 4
Spain to the value of s11, 900, 900, an,
OF this $4,000 is breadstuffs, $500
chemicals, Ss,739, 900 manufactured cot
ton. $0ss,O00 tobacco, S664, 900 oil (min
eraD, and shocks, slaves and headings
S556,000, which leaves very little 70
the other exports. As Mr.. Macfarlan.
pointed out, Spain could get the cottol
from Egypt and India and the oil from
Russia.
The land of the youthful King al
fonso doesn't invite our trade, III
chief obstacle being the excessiy
freight rates and the lack of direc
steamship lines. The Spaniards hav
trade conventions with England
France and Germany, but not with Us
except as to Cuba, which puts US at
disadvantage. They only take direc
cotton, petroleum, slaves, lumber an
an occasional cargo of wheat in case O
a short harvest. Spanish merchant
know little of us. Our statesmen neve
visit them. and, though in many case
their goods are much inferior, they d
not let it annoy them. One of the cor
suls, in interviewing a hardware mel
chant Ga peculiarly broad and prs
gressive one), learned that he keI
American chisels, saws. files. hammer
locks and keys, which he bought
Hamburg. He kept them because the
were the best, though Sigh priced, an
even went so far as to say that, If th
conditions were the same, he woul
buy them here. So, you see, in ems
dread war should come, neither countr
boasts any product the other could II,
do Observation-Disclosures Record.
Delicious Strawberry DumpIineS.
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