People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1896 — RECIPROCITY. [ARTICLE]

RECIPROCITY.

Mexioo Swapping Her Oranges For Onr Com. The shortage in the orop of American oranges this year has opened np an opportunity to the orange growers of Mexico, who will send us supplies of that fruit The shortage in tbeoorn orop of Mexico this year has been met by the corn raisers of this oonntry, who have already shipped large quantities of that grain to the republic which lies next tp ours. In these exohangea there is a beautiful illustration of the operation of a principle advantageous to both countries. The yield of oranges in Florida, Louisiana and California has been inadequate, and so Mexioo offers ns hundreds of carloads of them. The yield of corn in the Mexioan states of Guanajuato, Aguas Calientee and Vera Cruz has been inadequate, and so the United States stands ready to furnish them as mnoh of it as they need. Load the ships with American corn for the Mexicans! Load the railroad oars with Mexican oranges for the Americans! It is a pleasing spectacle. On Wednesday we copied from the New Orleans Times-Democrat an interview with Mr. Joseph Ball, a New Orleans orange dealer, who said: “Mexico will famish about 650 oarloads of oranges, 800 boxes in eaoh oar, nearly its entire surplus orop. They are juioy and good oranges. ” All right; we need them. The exportation of American corn from Mobile and other southern ports to Tampico and Vera Cruz began about a month ago, and sinoe that time more than 2,000,000 bnshels have been shipped from Mobile alone. The Mexioan government had temporarily remitted the customs duty upon oorn importations and had made provisions for the sale of tho grain at a very cheap price. That was shrewdness.—New York Sun.