New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-26
NEw.oRLEANs lain AMERICAN Trade.

What might otherwise be considered undue prom
OF same-of New Orleans trade with Latin America,
more especially with Central America and Colom-
Canal causes the isthmian states to occupy the
centre Of the stage at present in the regard OF the
entire world Of commerce; that the people OF the
United States are at last awakening to the fact
wrested from foreign competitors, this port must
Of the three Americas.
France Germany and England began developing
intimate trade relations with Latin America as
u E1,g- y AIM aboIf he Csnrra 4r5erica,
fact the first steamer bringing cargo of bananas
arrived in New-Orleans only in 1886, and the first
steamer sail from America for bananas went
from Mobile as late as 1870
had pre-empted the trade of the Central American
'LaleS oIle petofT inns co,-ll.Iy Hu Og5..l 70 ptg
20 there. he had 70 compete with their superior
and t5e5T 9I c iran frspagttia fas B
even a beginner he matches them in the
eyicountereG ar rst was tn. fact maj n1ost Of tb
merchants there were Europeans those OF the Ola
World having sent their kin TO live in those couu-
tries ard enter into their very life-a unique system
OF colonization that successfully got around the
Monroe Doctrine.
Pearl Wight a prominent merchant of New
Orleans says: When | was first acquainted with
Stau eltG .rousA SI'H-go t4tTt vas a SI[ons
many; but IN the last three five years the condi
chants though Foreigners prefer to trade with us
because they can get the goods quickly ana in re-
merchants build trade by catering TO the ideas and
tastes OF those peoples, though little by
little. compromising with them styles"
Gustave Lehman thinks the United States, par
ticularly New-Orleans. has taken trade from Eu-
ropean countries because OF quicker deliveries
two to three weeks from here against four to
six months from Europe.
II IS generally conceded that trade risks H. these
countries excellent and that failures
tremely rare The business men there have great
opportunities for making money, and. therefore
commercial reputation and good credit are the
New-Orleans merchant expressed II. debt payers"
&. II. Ellis. the able manager Of the New Orleans
ing on the American bugbear. Latin American
revolutions" says they only disturb their trade
comparatively suspending the movement Of goods;
that no pecuNiary loss 10 the commercial fraternity
is involved. Drug and drug sundry merchants 1t
is true complain that the United states domestic
duty on alcohol hampers trade Many OF the larger
ebtr,ars -, +lot NJ 0rIea riofd o,,1ro,7+ire
against Panama and Costa RiCa, between the
months of April and October, greatly binders the
that no fruit vessel ever brought fever into an
American port.
South American trade. but we cannot get II with
out proper transportation Pearl Wight who dd-
vanced the same proposition. said: The govern
ment ought 10 subsidiZe lines-traCe won't go until
transportation leads" He instHnced the case OF
the INSTRUMENTATION Steamship Company, which
was started bv the owners OF the Mexican Central
Railway and the other Mexican railroad COMPANIES
and which subsidized line. The first year
its losses were heavy the second not great, and
shows" said Mr.. Wight, that private parties
undertaking such tasks, must make up their minds
TO face heavy losses before the business can be
established. and that capital needs protection
He continued: we need transportation 10 every
Mexican port. and line OF steamers TO touch at
cost OF reshipment from the latter 20 other Cuban
ports makes charges from New-Orleans heavy
for trade. We do not need reciprocity. II adequate
Then he added: 1.-The United States Fruit Com
pany covers Central America adequately