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THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
OUR EXPORT TRADE. I
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Need of Steamship Transpor- (
tation to Latin-American 1
Countries. *
Editor HICKORY DEMOCRAT:
Referring to my letter of De
cember 14th, 1908, to editors of
Southern newspapers, on the in- j
terest of the South in the expan- j
sion of our export trade with the ,
Latin-American countries, I take ,
the liberty of addressing you on j
the great importance of direct j
and regular steamship communi- 
cation between the South Atlan- t
tic and Gulf ports and those j
countries. j
It is obvious, of course, that if }
the products of the Southern
States are to be sold in Mexico, {
Central and South America, and J
the West India Islands, they |
must be carried to those coun
tries. Mexico is the only one
with which we have rail- com
and to a great part of that ccun
try, esp2cially from our terri
,tory south of the C hio and Po- ]
tomac Rivers and east of Missis
sippi, traffic can be moved effi- j
elently by water as well as by (
rail. There ore direct and regu- j
lar lines from some of the South (
Atlantic and Gulf ports to some t
of the Mexican, Central Ameri- j
can, and West Indian ports, j
There are no such lines to any j
South American port. New ,
York is the only port on our At- .
lantic coast from which there
are regular steamship sailings to (
ports south of Venezuela. There j
are four regular steamers per j
month from New York to Brazil; j
seyen to the River Plata, and j
three or four to the West coast, s
making a total of seventeen or j
eighteen. From European ports ,
there are fourteen to Brazil; j
eighteen to the River Plata, and ]
three to the West coast, or v j
total of thirty-five. The infer- {
iority of the service from the (
United States is even greater ,
than is indicated by the compar- ]
ative number of sailings, as the i;
steamers from European ports j
are generally faster and have
superior passenger accomoda
tions. .. ;
From our South Atlantic and
Gulf ports there is occasional
communication by tramp steam
ers with ports south of Vene
zuela, but as a rule such of the
products of the Southern States
as find their way into the mar
kets of South America are sent
through Northern ports. In
fact, a considerable proportion of
the exports from the United
States to the east coast of South
America, south of Para, Brazil,
go from New York across the
Atlantic again to South America.
For instance, in a report on
; trade conditions in Brazil, by
I Special Agent Lincoln Hutchin
| son, published by the Bureau of
J Manufactures it is stated that at
I least fifty per cent of the Ameri
| can hams sold iti Brazil are ship
\ psd byway of England, and con
\ siderable proportions of other
I kinds of traffic move by the
] same route.
I It is sometimes argued that, if
 our merchants and manufactur
\ ers would devoted sufficient at
D tention to cultivating Latin
-5 American trade, and would de-
J velop a sufficient volume of traf
jj fic, there would be no difficulty
g about securing adequate trans
| portation facilities. To a certain
£ extent this is true, are
\ large numbers of so called tramp
g steamers constantly looking for
£ traffic wherever it is to be found
| and any shipper in any Ameri
s can p r rt, who had a full cargo
jp for South America, would doubt
s less have little difficulty in find
| ing a ship to carry it. The dif
t ficulty is that our merchants and
| manufacturers, in their tfforts
g to build up trade with the Latin
'% American countries, come into
| competition with European
j» rivals who are generally served
HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1909.
by regular lines of steamers' re
ceiving aid, either in the form
of subsidies or of liberal pay
ment for carrying the mails,
from the countries whose flags
they fly. from these
countries sail on regular sche
dules. The South American
merchant ordering goods in
Liverpool or Hamburg by mail
knows when his order will be
received, by what steamer it
will be shipped, and just when
he may expect it to arriye. If
he sent his order to the United
States, unless it was from one of
the comparatively few points
having regular sailings, he could
have no idea when it would be
received bv the American ship
per or when the goods would be
shipped. Therefore, while it is
true that, after trade has once
Lejn developed, there would
probably be no difficulty in ob
taining all the ships needed to
carry it, the difficulty of building
up such a trade is greatly in
creased By lack of direct and
regular steamers carrying the
mails and passengers as well as
freight. In the report on trade
conditions in Brazil, above re
ferred to, Mr. Hutchinson tells
)f instances in which it took
Lwice as long to get mail orders
from *he United States as from
Europe, and says: "In a very
arge part of our Brazil trade the
nails are an important factor,
ind there can be no doubt that
nany orders which might go to
>ur manufacturers, go to Europe
nstead." In a similar report on
rade conditions in Argentina,
Paraguay, and Uruguay Mr.
Hutchinson says: "There are
;ome direct mails to the River
Plata, but they are carried on
ilow freighters and the service
n general inferior to that from
Surope, both in dispatch and in
frequency. Constant annoyance
md delay results, and mer
chants who have no direct
American ties will, other things
aeing equal, place orders in
Europe rather than in the United
States."
There are differences of opin
ion as to the methods which
should be adopted for the im
provement of our steamship com
munication with the Latin-
American countries. I think we
can all agree, however, that if
we are to realize the full benefits
of our geographical relation to
those markets and of the demand
which exists in them for goods
wliich we produce, something
practical must be done to secure
the establishment of regular
steamship line 3. Whatever
policies may be adopted to this
end, it is so manifestly to the
interest of our section that all
Southern products shipped to
those countries should go
through Southern ports, that,
not only those in business at
those ports, but the Southern
people generally, should work
together in some practical way
to secure direct lines from the
South Atlantic and Gulf ports.
Those ports have the great ad
vantage of shorter distances, es
pecially to all points in . Mexico,
Central America, the West In
dies, the northern coast of South
America, and points on the West
coast reached byway of the
Tehuantepec and Panama Rail
ways. This advantage with res
pect to the West coast ports will
be greatly increased on the com
pletion of the Panama Canal,
and it is important that the peo
ple of cur section should be pre
pared to make the most effective
use of that waterway.
This is a matter which con
cei ns all the people of South so
vitally that I believe all those in
terested in Southern develop
ment should work together in an
effort to bring about an im
proyement in our steamship ser
vice to all the Latin-American
countries.
Yours very truly,
W. W. Finley,
President Southern Railway.
Washington, D. CT., July 8, 1909.
The New Dixie.
Away down South wlieali dey all spit
cotton,
Barroom's gone but not forgotten,
Took away, took away. Dixie Land;
In Dixie land wlieali Ah was bo'n in
No mo cocktails in de mawnin'
Took away, took away, took away,
Dixie Laud!
All's glad All's not in Dixie
| 100 ray! Hooray!
Dey's a powerful drouth ill Dixie
Land,
Iu Dixie land today,
Away, away, away down South in
Dixie!
Dey's hard times come fo' de ol' time
kunnel!
En de outlook's blacker dan de Hoosac
tunnel
Look away, etc.
Dis prohibition am a licly terrah.
It's made de South one great Sahara,
Look away, etc.
All's glad Ah moved from Dixie,
Away, away!
It's mighty dry in Dixie land,
In Dixie land today.
Away, etc.
Dey's all so dry wif de dust ea grit,
Dal key has to prime deiuselves to spit,
Look away, etc,
Dey all drink water, en 110 me' de kun
nel
Hunts for de keyhole wif a funnel.
Look away, etc.
I)t drys has captured Dixie
Hooray, hooray!
De Soda-pops are playin' hell
In Dixie land to.lay!
Away, etc,
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH
Building and Developing in
Many Directions.
The South is growing, and
growing rapidly. It is building
ilong many lines and is develop
ng consistently in many direc
;ions. It is not only a great agri
cultural section and produces a
arger number of crops than any
)ther section of 'country, but it
las a variety of resources which
re being utilized in the building
)f manufacturing interests which
ire commanding the widest at
tention, Generally, the South
s the more widely known for its
»normous production of cotton.
\ T ot only is it the great cotton
growing country, but it is a lead
ng cotton manufacturing section
md in its enormous factories and
mils converts the staple into the
iianv fabrics and the numerous
forms which are demanded by
the markets of the entire world.
The textile industries make up
the South's leading line of manu
facture, one in which it has in
vested practically $*500,000,000.
The industry is building con
stantly, and to the many enor
mous plants there are steadily
being added mills of large capaci
ty and much capital which give
the South greater prominence in
this important line of business.
About 10,500.000 spindles are
now installed in the Southern
plants, against barely 670,000 in
1880, a gain in less than thirty
years of almost fifteen hundred
per cent. As illustrating the ex
tent to which cotton milling has
developed in the South, particu
larly in the territory of the Sou
thern Railway, it is only neces
sary to repeat the statement of
the American Textile Manufac
turer that "if all the cotton mills
between and including Charlotte,
North Carolina, and Greenville,
South Carolina, were strung out
in a line, there would be a mill
to every mile of track between
the towns. This would mean
that, including the mill villages,
the Southern would run through
a solid, compact line of cotton
mills from Charlotte to Green
ville—a street of cotton factories
one hundred and seven miles
long."
With the textile plants have
come many other lines of manu
iacture. Extensive iron and
coal deposits have created an in
dustry which has huge furnaces
making pig iron, and large
plants which roll into rails, or
make it into nails, stoves,
ranges, castings, and the numer
ous lines of goods which are
handled by the iron trade, and
the great bodies of standing
timber form the base of a wood
working trade which employs
thousands of men and millions
of capital. Some of the great
furniture centres of the country
are those in the South which
have been built within the last
twenty years, and have grown
so rapidly and substantially that
their fame is known wherever
household goods are sold or man
kind demands some of the con
veniences of living. Great
ledges of marble, limestone, and
other valuable building mater
ials, an infinite variety of kaolins
clays and many other minerals
of commercial importance, to
gether with other resources of
much value, including water
powers of which the future com
merfeial worth cannot be estimat
ed, are also leading factors in an
industrial development which is
building large cities and splendid
towns.
With all its other resources,
the South has large acreage of
cheap lands, which are known to
a greater extent than ever be
fore and are bring new residents
from all sections. These lands
combine many varieties of soil
and are adapted to the growing
of the widest range of crops and
the extension oI the stock and
dairy interests. In truck and
fruit growing there has been ex
tensive development. These are
very profitable lines of agricul
ture and frequently return hun
dreps of dollars per acre in a
single season to the individual
growers. The peach industry is
a very large one, and there are
ako great acreages in apples and
in other fruits. New trucking
districts are being continually
opened. Almost every variety
of vegetable is produced and the
product is shipped to all parts of
the country. There is increasing
interest in manj branches of the
fruit and truck industry.
There are the greatest of op
portunities in the South and it is
difficult to estimate the increases
which the growth of the future
will show, but they will be much
larger than those which are as
sociated with the remarkable
progress which has been made
in the past three decades. There
is no better or wider field for the
young man eager to cenvert en
terprise and active, intelligent
effort into the substantial things
only recognized as having tan
gible value, where to the capital
ist and investor the South is
prolific in its offerings which
turn to greater wealth. —South-
ern Field.
A Lazy Liver
May be only a tired liver, or a starved
liver. It would be a stupid as well as
savage thing to beat a weary or starved
man because he lagged in his work. So
In treating the lagging, torpid liver it is
a great mistake to lash it with strong
drastic drugs. A torpid liver is but an
indication of an ill-nourished, enfeebled
body whose organs are weary with over
work. Start with the stomach and allied
organs of digestion and nutrition. Put
them In working order and see how
quickly your liver will become-active.
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
has made many marvelous cures of "liver
trouble" by its wonderful control of the
> organs of digestion and nutrilaon. It re
stores the normal activity of the stomach,
Increases the secretions of the blood-mak
ing glands, cleanses the system from poi
; sonous accumulations, and so relieves tho
liver of the burdens imposed upon it by
the defection of other organs.
[ If you have bitter or bad taste in the mora
ine:. poor or/Variable appetite, coated tongue,
1 foul breath. coWipatedo* irregular bowels,
feel weak, easlli tired, aespondent, frequent
headaches, pain 4r distres>to "small of back."
I gnawing or distressed teeing in 6tomach.
, perhaps nausea,' "risings" in
throat after eating, and klnorai symptoms
- of weak stomach and torpid no medl
cine will relieve tou more promptly or cure
5 yon Wirft than Doctor
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A part' of the above symptoms will be present
at one time and yet point to torpid liver or
biliousness and weak stomach. Avoid all
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The "Discovery" is non-secret, non-alco
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' Don't accept a substitute of unknown
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