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Excess Exports, S!,fOU,UOO


This indicates the extent to which smuggling Is
carried on under the absurdly oppressive laws "to
protect her home industry The duties collected on
the imports were So 2S7 COZ, or about 40 per cent.
average. The corruption of the government officers
is proyerbial, and, consequently, large quantities Of
goods are entered even now, without paying duties,
even when carried the Praries from the United
States to Santa Fe Some details of this trade for the
last year will be found under the commercial head OF
Yesterdays paper. The consumption of cotton goods
is very extensive in Mexico and the import OF cotton
twist is prohibited by the Prorideni government, os
tensiby to encourage "home manufacture" " butreal-
ly to raise money by selling permits for its nroduc-
ton to English merchants There are in Mexico fifty
three factories, having 131 $50 spindes, which con-
sumo about 100000 pounds of cotton per annum
while the growth OF Mexico is about 600 900 pounds
only Taere are about FIVE Thousand hand looms in
Mexico which work up all the spun yarn into cotton
cloth, the price of which will average twenty-five
cents, for article worth ten cents In the United
States The benefits which the Mexicans derive from
paving the makers of this cloth the extra fifteen cents,
are s.untold" Now, the Mexican frontier adjoining
the State of Texas is about three thousand miles In
length, with no means if the officers had the will, to
prevent the smuggling of sufficient goods to supply
all Mexico. This process has hitherto been kept IN
check only by the barren waste of eight hundred miles
to be travelled before reaching her cities from the
United States and It's demoralizing influence Is the
legitimate result of the absurd notions OF ''pro.ec-
tion which, in Mexico, is more openly adopted than
In the United States, direct means of extortng
money from the people.


The irrational debt Of this oppressed race Is as
follows


Internal debt, Sle,9SO@O0o @


United States claims, 2,4cO,0C0
4 Other claims, S,Vo'oOo