Arizona republican., 1899-09-03
Dealing With Central and South
 American Commerce.
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The Relation Of inc Trade of the Rest of inc World with inc Southern Countries of This Continent Is NOf Entirely SafIs- faforY 10 inc Unified SfaieS-Fiow 10 Improve If.

Washington, Sept. -(Special)-
 American Commerce, the Trade of South America, Central America,
 Mexico and the West Indies, and the
 Share of the United States and Other
 Leading Nations Therein, 1S21-9S," is
 the title of monograph just
 issued by the treasury bureau of sta
 tistics It discusses, as indicated by
 the title, the commerce Of South and Central America and the West Indies the trade methods, the popularity OF
 otherwise of manufactures and pro drHcts of the, United States, the trans portation and the lack of transporta- -tfcn between the United States and the south, the steamship routes from port to port and the distances, the railways Iuw built which must serve as part of a through line connecting the coHti- nents and countries the length Of rafl- way necessary tc be constructed and it's prospective route, and the share which the United States TOW has and which other nations have in the com Inerce of each of the countries of Central and South America
 The discussion is accompanied by a series Of tables which present the sta- tistics of each of the countries and islands south of the United States in very elaborate and complete form Many of the countries of Central ard South America have Roserganizaa sser- in -etrch cases their foreign commerce can only be determined by an elaborate and careful examination of the reports of countries having transactions with them A thorough study of the statistics of the worlds commerce with the purpose of determ- ming the share of each country with the South and Central American coun- tries which have nc statistics of their own has been made and by this pro- cess it has been possible to reach con clusiCns as to the share of each of the leading commercial countries of the world in supplying the imports of all of the countries Of South and Central America.
 This examination of the worlds commerce with relation to the coun- tries of America does not present an satisfactory picture of the share which the United States has in the commerce of the countries lying south of her borders. With the Eng lish-speaking people of American ter ritory lying upon the north her com mercial relations have rapidly grown, and proven mutually satisfactory. With those of another language, oc- cupying the contiguous territory at the south, the growth has been slower and less satisfactory, and as he distance increases the growth de- ereases. To British Month Amer ca the United States supplies 59 per cent of the total imports for consumption; to Mexico, equally but speaking another lan- guage than our own, 49 per cent; to he Central American states, next re- moved by distance, though readily cached by water and now being tap ped by railways, 37 per cent; to Co., ombia, a trifie farther removed, but ,quaIly accessible by direct water transportation, 33 per cent: to Vene- .uela, equally accessible, 27 per cent; 0 the West Indies, which lie in close but which have been up to he Ixy nercial nations whose policy in many ases has been to retain their com nerce for cheir own people. 20 per ent; to the Guianas, also readily imports of British Guiana, r per cent f these of Dutch Guiana and but less han per cent of those of French tuiana
 Even this somewhat unsatisfactory ondition of trade with the countries upon the Gulf of Mexico and he Caribbean Sea is however, gratify- ng when compared with the trade elations of the United States with the ountries of South America bordering pun lu0 AlIdutAC dSAAS ONCdAos f the total imports Of all South merica, ST per cent is taken by the Ountries bordering upon the two ceans and but 13 per cent by those upon the Caribbean. March lg down the eastern coast of South merica, we find Brazil importing in