The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-10-08

By FRANK G. CARPENTER.

-, ,tgut the Trade of the Nile VAL
-" md Uncle Sans Part in it.
=. a National Customer. How
~ prosperity is Increasing Trade.
rnclc sam Should Do. Queer
,r,tar- Which Egypt Sells. Her Big
and Chicken Business. Egyp-
gigaretles-Chanccs for Amer
lam products-Pumps II Piow-
,r.uttion Machinery-The Watch
varset-Opcnings for Cottons.
Cairo.
r---.- sam ought to flood the valley
~. Nile with American drummers.
o. here is on the boom and
~adyancing at Geographic
...s The Egyptians are making
- arJ are buying more foreign
IAN ever before. For ages they
e ~ 50 grouAu Gown -, ,a~A-
-..- the skins of their stomachs
L...as.anped against their back bones.
~-..r they are fat, and the said skins
---.-.ncd like drum heads They
...s foreign food, buying cloth
g ding money on foreign knick-
- ne British government, which
Mas them has cut down the
.-a.arI is giving them a square deal.
I. f..Ls are crowding the native
--.f-.e- to the wall. It's new dams
uralsning perennial irrigation to
srr- part Of the valley and the
1r-,rg has become financially stable.
~r. E--tt Of today is q new land, and
lr the s.Tst time it's people are TAX
.r, tts POSITION nature intended them
~, lake II the markets of the world.
rr.. ...0 ,as OF Europe are awake to
+sr stJation, and are pushing after
trade .H every possible way. They are
asrab sn.aE banks, and are organic
.,e s.-ilcate5 and exploitation COM
par.es 10 exploit the Egyptians and
81 share OF their money
Iavpt as a National Customer.
Uncle sam should study Egypt as a
NATIONAL customer, and should have
his men on the ground to introduce
lis goods. Indeed, it is difficult to
know this country n people without
coming to see them. Since the begin
..s- II h!StUry the Me valley mas
been considered the garden spot Of
The Globe. It's soil is as black as jet.
as rich as guano, and the floods Of
-h- river annually coat it with a fer
tt.zer AS sustaining as the bonedust
sold by the American meat trust.
-... arts Of t as caa be lslIatly
irrigated viii grow two or three crops
Der auuum, yea in and year out, and
many regions viii produce 500 pounds
ur ..Uu.. Der are. Ot-e4 patLS are
equally rich as to sugar, and every
little farm pays q big interest on the
uulcE n work spent upon it. AS
it is now, The land is supporting more
people 10 the acre than any other on
tarla. Belgium, that hot ben Of indus
try. viii It's mines of iron and coal
and It's myriad factories, has only
about 500 people per quare mile; and
China. the laviathan of Asia, has less
.L- l-L T - T-~-y~4
almost 1000 per square mile, and the
bulk Of them are crowded down near
the Mediterranean, and are nowhere
more than three hours by rail from
the seapOrts. They are so situated
that they can be easily reached by
water, and. with a direct steamship
line from the United States, they can
be flooded with American goods at
the lowest freight cost. The North
German Lloyd is now sending goods
from New York to Egypt in eighteen
days. and these goods are transhipped
al Marseille. BY direct steamers the
tine might be cut down to two weeks.
Our Share OF Egypt's Trade.
Bat first let me tell yau what the
trade II Egypt amounts to. We are
spending much in pushing our
trade with China, and for a genera
ton or more u papers have beer
N"l VI liz SItlIiISt PoSSID4IltICS- AZ
Il is now the foreign trade of Egypt
Is more than one-third as large ais thai
Of all China It is over $500, 600, 900
a year, and Of this 500, 900, 900 is
brought in from abroad. As to the
exports, We take all n more than
get hardly q smell. In other words,
cur share. But of the imports we
buy Of Egypt from seven to ten
million dollars q year n sell her less
JAan one-tenth that amount. We do
not sell her l per cent of al that
she buys and we take form I to 10
Fer cent Of all that she sells.
Moreover. u tourists annually
go up the Nile by the thousands and
they cave il Egypt every winter as
much as $4,000, geo. Sixty per cent
OF all the profits Of the Egyptian ho-
tells come from Americans, and We
ought to get our share of the trade
in return.
What Encie Sam Should Do.
1t would seem that Uncle Sam
ought to wake up and put his men
on h ground. He ought to blish
Il more extensive consular service,
ought to build a Legation building at
Cairo, and urge some of his financial
nephews to open a bank or so, here,
With branches in New York and IL
other American ports. He should
send out a commission to study this
trade, ana should eStabl1Sn exposition
warehouses in Alexandria and Cairo,
tIled with the goods we make SO
we'll, but which the Egyptians are now
buying from England and othe- coun-
tries of Europe.
AS it is now, our consul general to
Cairo is acting as our diplomatic agent
as well. The duties should be divid-
ed. and d man who viii do nothinE
else but push American trade should
be added to the legation force. AS
this country nominally belongs to
turkey, we cannot send a minister
Ilenipotentiary to it, but our consul
general is given practically the same
lovers as an ambassador has else
Where, and this part of his work is
enough for one man TO handle.
Our Diplomatic Agent at Cairo.
Our present diplomatic agent at
Nrlr0, who bears the title of cons l
general, IS Lewis NJ. Iddings, who vas
lormerly one Of the editors of the New
York Times, and later N served as
hrSt secretary to our embassy at
Rome. He is by training and exper-
letce more a diplomatic than a con
s-iar officer. aIthoug he understands
t-e United States we'll and has had
y-rnalistiC training before he took
~ Diplomacy. AS diplomatic agent
n, IS the r6jan nf the rights of