The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-05-05
SOUTH AMEpIcAN TRADE AGAIN.

In its edition of yesterday morning the Savannah
Morning News discusses length and in its usual able
fashion, subject in which long interested
viz: trade with the American states the West
Indies, Panama and Cuba.
Our esteemed contemporary points out very strongly
the fact that al Of this country to the us
is anxious~to do business with u.s. seriously han
dcapped by lack steamship lines and THAI
the trade which should the United States ports
generally and to the southern ports n specific,
goes to Europe, to Germany and to France.
1t may be generally known and yet is true that
all the South American combined are eight times
larger than the whole United States equally
that the States all the cities of South America
are modern in every fashion that the natural re-
sources equal to that the United States if not
SURPRISING them 1t boast of all the vari kinds
Of climate and it is developing rapidly immense bus
mess in the markets of the world - a,cg a. Esss
We said something few mornings ago about the
present volume trade of Central and South America
and the West Indies with the United States and The
point stressed that this business could be greatly
increased adequate steamship facilities eha1 ard
the southern ports would out and get this business
which properly belongs to them !
We are pleased to note that Savannah is giving some
serious thought to this subject.
Since the construction of the Panama canal the sub
ject has been of vast interest to us we all
along been of the fact that sooner the
southern ports would be forced to recognize the
value of this magnificent tradea far surprising
that of the far East trade our very doors Just
how are to secure portion of that is sub
ec depending largely upon what effort get
it; it will either come through steamers in operat
between New York, Boston, Baltimore Philadelphia and
southern ports it will have come by steamship
service from the southern ports to the ports OF
South America
In his last speech at Buffalo, President Mckinley
with prophetic eye, the coming of this vast trade
for in that speech he said The conditions Of things are
changing We becoming a great nation, creating
vast surplus each year. and to the culti-
walton at early day of larger trade with the coun
tries to the south of u.s." 's1
James j. Hill, chairman of the board Of directors of
the Great Northern railroad, who is himself a great
thinker, in speech delivered in 1908 before the rivers
and harbors congress in Washington emphasized the
thought that commerce with foreign nations which had
tended to concentrate at New York and other northern
ports rapidly seeking and would continue to seek
its outlet largely through southern ports thus TAX
ing advantage of low grades open transportation the
year round and the advantage the southern ports
in distance
In any event there is reason why Brunswick with
a magnificent waterfront available docks over which
to handle this business, channel of naVigabe depths
docks to of thirty feet every other advantage
of the modern seaport should try to capture her
share of this magnificent trade with this growing pro-
gressve country.