People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1896 — RECIPROCITY. [ARTICLE]

RECIPROCITY.

Mexico Swapping Her Oranges For Oar Corn. The shortage in the crop of American oranges this year has opened up an opportunity to the orange growers of Mexico, who will send us supplies of that fruit The shortage in the corn crop of Mexico this year has been met by the corn raisers of this country, who have already shipped large quantities of that grain to the republic which lies next to ours. In these exchanges there is a beautiful illustration of the operation of a principle advantageous to both countries. The yield of manges in Florida, Louisiana and California has been inadequate, and so Mexico offers ns hundreds of carloads of them. The yield of corn in tbe Mexican states of Guanajuato, Aguas Calientes and Vera Crux has been inadequate, and so the United States stands ready to furnish them as much of it as they need. Load tbe ships with American corn for the Mexicans I Load the railroad oars with Mexican oranges for tbe Americans 1 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 furnish about 650 oarloads of oranges, 800 boxes in each oar, nearly its entire surplus crop. They are juicy and good oranges. ” All right; we need them. The exportation of American corn from Mobile and other southern ports to Tampico and Vera Crus began about a month ago, and since that time more than 8,000,000 bushels have been shipped from Mobile alone. The Mexican government had temporarily remitted the onstoms duty upon corn importations and had made provisions for tbe sale of tbe grain at a very cheap prioe. That was shrewdness.—New York Sun.