Arizona republican., 1899-08-10
LANDS LYING SOUTH
Are Not Very Good Com
 merCidI NeIghbOrS.
Their Purchases From Us Growing Smaller Year by Year While Their Sales fo Us are Constantly on inc Increase.

south of the United States and the
 share Of the various nations therein
 are discussed in considerable detail in
 the June Summary of Commerce and
 Finance, just issued by the Treasury
 Bureau of Statistics. The commerce
 of the United States with tEe American
 countries lying south of her borders
 has long been an object of sclicitude
 to her statesmen, economists and
 business men. With the English
 speaking people of American territory
 lying upon the north her commercial
 relations have rapidly grown and
 proven mutually satisfactory. With
 those of another language, occupying
 contiguous territory at the south, the
 growth has been slower and less
 satisfactory, and as the distance in
 creases the growth decreases To
 British North America the United
 States supPliss g per cent. Of the total
 imports for consumption; to Mexico, equally adjacent but speaking another
 language than our C1n, 49 per cent; to
 the Central American states, next re- moved by distance, though readily reached by water and now being
 tapped by railways, 37 per cent; to Colombia, a trif1e farther removed,
 but equally accessible by direct water transportation, 8 pc cent; to Vene- zuela, equally accessibla, 27 per cent: to the West Indies, which lie in close proximity, but which have been, up to the present time controlled by com mercial nations whose policy in many cases has been to retain their com merce for their own people, 20 per cent; to the Guianas, also readily reached by water.25 per cert of the i'm ports into British Guiana, r per cent of these of Dutch Guiana, and but less than per cent of those of French Guiana. -
 Up to this point the study of the growth of commerce between the Uni ted States and other American is fairly satisfactory. Be- ginning with 59 per cent of the i'm port trade of Canada, 49 per cent of that Of Mexico, and ranging on down. ward along the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, a fairly satisfactory share of the commerce of these countries is enjoyed by the people of the United States; though it will be conceded that her people have right to expect larger share of the com merce of the countries lying so near at hand, especially in view of the fact that our purchases from them are much larger than our sales to them.
 Even this somewhat unsatisfactory condition of trade with the countries bordering upon the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea is, however, grati- flying when compared with the 9rade of the United States with the countries of South America bordering upon the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. 1 of the total imports of all South America, S7 per cent is taken by the 1 countries bortaring upon the two 1 oceans, and but 13 per cent by those 1 bordering upon the Caribbean. i Marching down the eastern coast of | porting, in 1897, goods to the value Of over $1G5, COG, GOO, of which the United | States supplied about 12 per cent; | Uruguay and Paraguay $22,00O GOO, of i which our share was less than per | :ent; and Argentina, $95, 900 ,OGO, of | which less than per cent was from
 he United States; while tour of i he Pacific coast shows importations i nto Chile of S24,OOO,OOO; Peru, sS- ,00,000; Bolivia, $11 500, ,000; and | 1quador, s7,OOO,O00, the proportion rom the United States averaging
 bout 10 per cent. Thus the northern cast of South America, fronting on he Caribbean Sea, imports goods tc he value of $36.O00.OO0 of which we upply an average of 25 per cent; the 'astern coast, fronting on the At antic, $222, 900 900, and the Pacific past, $51, ,OO0 900, of which our pTopor- ion is in each case about 10 per cent.
 Nor can it be urged that this con
 ition is temporary one. While xports from the United States to Iexico have grown rapidly, especially ince the opening of railway communi- ation, and have experienced a mod rate development in the case of the | ountries bordering upon the Carib- can Sea the total sales to the south of us have not grown Tith the rapidity which has character 9ed tht-e to the world at large. In { 86S our sales to the American cuntries at the south were 20 per ent of our total exports; in 1878
 title less than 10 per cent; in 1888, a
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