Report and Recommendations on Postal and Cable Communication
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Excerpt from Report and Recommendations on Postal and Cable Communication: With Central and South America The report of the Committee on Communication upon the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea presents a series of facts touching the existing means of transportation for submission to the early consideration of Congress. It shows that the Republic of Mexico and the Republics of Central America, although containing a population and wealth that are but a fraction of our own, and with public revenues that do not compare with those of the United States, are doing more than this Government to maintain a commerce that is of much greater importance and advantage to us than it is to them. They pay as subsidies to steam-ships carrying the United States flag the sum of $101,000 annually; while the Government of the United States paid the same vessels but $24,160 during the last fiscal year. The report states that while "the present lines of steamers between the ports of the United States and the countries bordering on the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea furnish a tolerable service, an objection is found in the length of time consumed in making the voyages. At present, a letter mailed on the first of the month in St. Louis will not arrive at Colon before the 15th. It requires two days to reach New York, and then, if the steamer sails immediately, the time is reduced to twelve days; but as the steamer sails but three times a month, it is oftener twenty days in making the passage. Freight requires a much longer time, in some cases thirty or thirty-five days. By the establishment of faster and more direct lines of steamers, the time could be shortened at least one-third, and the expense of freight transportation reduced in a corresponding degree." The report further shows that "trade is no longer done to any extent by correspondence. The buyer and seller must meet each other. Acquaintance fosters confidence, and confidence is the foundation of all trade. Wherever foreign merchants have obtained mastery in the markets of Latin America, it has been by sending agents to study the tastes and the wants of the buyers, and to lay before them samples of the merchandise they have to sell, and by furnishing prompt and cheap transportation facilities. Commercial travelers from the United States are seldom, if ever, seen in the mercantile cities of the Southern countries, and the buyers for those markets seldom visit the warehouses of the merchants of the United States. This is in a large part attributable to the lack of proper means of communication. The merchant of any of these countries can take his state room upon a swift steamer, and after a comfortable and restful voyage spend a month in examining the manufactures and show-rooms of European countries. He can make the acquaintance of those who are seeking his custom and establish his credit, and buy whatever he finds suitable for his customers." The report points out many other advantages that might be derived from more rapid and frequent means of communication, not only with the ports of Central America and the Spanish Main, but with those of the west coast of South America also, which has a foreign commerce exceeding $100,000,000 a year. "The distance from the ports of Chili to those of Europe through the Straits of Magellan is nearly 9,000 miles, and the voyage requires more than thirty days; while from Peru and Ecuador the distance and time are much greater. A line of fast steamers from the United States to Colon, in connection with a similar one down the west coast of South America, would bring Valparaiso within eighteen or twenty days of Chicago and St. Louis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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