The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-26
OUR TRADE WITH
 THE TROPICS
THE UNITED STATES GET s1oo.-
 ooo,o ,o00 OF SUGAR.
$eo, ,ooo, ,0o0 of Coffee, $50, ,ooo, 900 of India Rubber, $15, 900 ,ooo of Tea, and Woods, Game, Medical
 Barks and Other Articles.

Commerce is naturally between the peo. pies Of different climates and zones of attitude; that is. between the North and the South.
 People in the temperate zones produce articles that are not to be had in the tropic regions. while at the same time tropical products so much in request in temperate zones can only be procured by an exchange of merchandise
 Ordinarily. people living on the same lines of the earth's latitude and, there- fore. in general terms in the same cli- mate, produce the same sorts of arti- cies. and where, under ordinary circum- stances, the natural products are the l same. there would be little commercial | interchange.
 1 Thus it was that the earliest commerce was between the tropic regions of Asia and the temperate zones of Europe Af- | nous trade grew up between the trop- ical parts of the New World and the temperate zones of the Old.
 Ordinarily. the only considerable trade l between peoples in the same zones of | latitude would be in manufactured arti- cles. since the natural products of the | earth are the same, and this was the ex- | elusive character of the trade between | Europe and North America until it be-
 
 European countries that Save been titled for thousands of years will no longer, without excessive cost for manuring, feed their own people with the products ' of the soil.
 For long period the United States did not ship grain and meats to Euro1e be- cause the countries of that continent were able to feed their own people. but this is no longer the case. and the result is
  and meat are shipped to Europe to feed 1 the people of those countries. For long period also the people of | the United States were almost wholly .dependent upon Europe for manufactur- ed articles. All this is changed now for, with the aid of labor-saving machinery. we in America can manS facture about all we need of any article of common use, and as result our dependence on l Europe for such things Is steadily dimin- | ishing.
 But commerce between the North and | South in every part of the world must constantly increase, because each sec tion possesses products which the other must have, and which can only be got by the processes of exchange and inter- | change.
 The American Republic covers so vast an extent of the earth's surface that il I ly tropical, and up to those which ap- proach the North Pole. and as a result the country produces everything save some articles that are grown only in the equatorial regions. and thus it Is that there Is an immense exchange of these home products between the several sec. tions. But in addition to this an i'm. mense trade Is carried on with foreign tropical countries.
  merce and Labor through it's Bureau of Statistics, reports the value of the tropical and subtropical products brought into the United States in the past year as over $40O 100000. In 1895 the value of this class of merchandise imported was only $300, 100000; in 1875, $2O0, GOO 900. and in 1870 $40, 600. Thus. the value of the tropica products brought into the country in the year just ended was about three times as much as in 1870. twice as much as ir 1875 and one-third more than in 1895
 Even these figures do not show the real increase. because of the great re- ductioa in prices of many of the articles forming this huge total. The value of the sugar of tropical production brought into the country in the past year. for in- stance, was $104,0 ,000 as against $70,- 100000 in 1870; but the number of pounds brought in from the tropics last year I 1870. The total number of pounds of tropical sugar brought into the country last year was over five billions, including that from Hawaii and Porto Rico, while the number of pounds imported from the tropics in 1870 was less than a billion and quarter.
 The value of the coffee brought in last year was $60OOO.0O0, as against $24, 900. .OOC in 1870. yet the quantity last year was 923,- | pounds in 1870.
 The one-half million pounds of silk brought in in 1870 was valued at $30O0, 900 while the 15,000O00 pounds brought in last year were valued at about $50,000.0O0.
 The 900 pounds of rice brought ir in 1870 was valued at $1,OO0,0O0. while foui times that quantity brought in last year was valued at $3,0O0,0OO
 The 47, ,0OO,OOO pounds of tea brought ir in 1870 was valued at nearly $14.000.000 while the 1OS,0OOO0O pounds brought ir last year was valued at less than $16,- 100000.
 l The average cost per pound of the sugar brought into the country in 1S7C was about cents, while the average cost last year, including that brought from Hawaii and Porto Rico. was about'2 cents per pound. In India rubber, however, con- ditions are reversed. the average cost per | pound Of the l0,UOOOOO pounds brought III in 1870 being about 36 cents per pound while that of the 55.OOO,OOO pounds brought in last year was over 55 cents per pound
 The tropical islands Q the United States contributed nearly $500O0,0 900 worth of the $4OO C00.0C0 value of tropical pro ducts brought into the country last ySar. Over $260OO,0O0 of this was from Hawaii, more than $ll,OOOO00 worth from Porto Rico and more than $11 900 900 worth from the Philippines. In 1896 they contributed $19.0O0OO0 worth to the tropical require mentS of the country.
 What do we get from the tropics? The answer is: hundred million dollars worth of sugar, $6O,OOO,0C0 of India rubber, S15,OOOOOO of tea, besides flores for cord age. gums, cabinet woods, medicinal barks and roots Jye woods and innu@~ erable other articles. This is trade that will grow forever, because 1t is the only trade founded on imperative natural laws. For Loss of Appetite
 Take Horsford's Acid Phosphate.